balaji

trying to do world class work

2009-08-22T08:05:00.000-07:00

we are trying to attract international participants for kruzade 09..which is in its 2nd edition now..and has got only national level participants..when I decided to host the contest on SPOJ,i mailed to Luskasz Kuszner the site incharge of SPOJ,to obtain the contest setting priviledges.and i tried to set up a contest.In order to get international participants we need to set original problems.so we are searching original ideas.[;)]

sad again!

2009-08-10T10:46:00.000-07:00

recently i attended the scholarship test conducted by TIME for GRE...i was listening to the guy talking there about the criteria for getting into univs in the US...he told that a GPA of 9.8 is required to get into MIT...i remembered the day during 1st sem...gowrisankar asks every1 to go in front of the class and tell what their aims were...i walked upfront and told them that i want to do an MS in CS from MIT...

but then coming back to reality..my cgpa is 8.95 and i havn't done much to get into any univs in the US...but somehow i hav a faint ray of hope that i'll make into some univ in the US...let's do soe karma... \m/

Dr.pujeri

2009-08-10T07:26:00.000-07:00

i told my friends how Pujeri inspired me to be a good student.that was in 1st year.he has left college to become the principal of KGISL .in 1st year i was kind of a cool student.i didnt really care much for marks(cgpa of 8.7 in 1st sem...low for PSG standards).what he did was that he told in the class that i was the worst student he has seen in PSG tech.that really made me to work hard and inprove myself.

and now, since my academics has gone to the dogs again,anish says this:

anish: i think i hav to act like Pujeri..you are the worst guy i've seen in PSG tech...

me: if my girl friend says that i'll probably start working..if u say it i'll probably become more lazy...

anish: !!!!!

java project

2009-08-10T06:19:00.000-07:00

we are doing "static face recognition" as a java project.we are using the paper "Eigenfaces for face recognition" by Turk & Pentland as the main source.we have tried to implement eigenface in java and it has come out successfuly.

Our project guide Mr.Ramesh says it is possible(not guaranteed) to publish a paper if we work for 1-2 years.im kinda underperforming in academics now-a-days so im worried im not at my best to work with my team-mates,who are doing good.

routine

2009-08-08T03:58:00.000-07:00

usually i work in terms of what is called "Manager's schedule" that is, split work time into hours, ur work is divided into hours.whether u work for 40 min or 20 min out of the 1hr,consistency is must.
but when i write code, i follow "Maker's schedule" that is,the work time is divided into chunks of time..say this evening or this night like that..

kruzade 09

2009-08-07T06:29:00.000-07:00

the department of CSE at PSG tech is getting itself ready for kruzade 09,the international techno management fest..
check out www.kruzade.org/2009/ for updates

A curious case of co-incidence

2009-07-25T19:56:00.000-07:00

im gonna explain a series of events
1.location: M^3 Quiz @ D block conf hall
question:
X was an Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers-a Broadway playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist.

X struggled with bipolar disorder for years; he contemplated suicide at 17 (talked out of it by his father, who discovered him).
identify X..
the answer was Sidney Sheldon.(which we didnt answer)

2.location:
the day after the quiz @ my house
im reading the hindu newspaper...there i read an article that explains in detail the symptoms and causes of manic depression, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood clinically referred to as mania or, if milder, hypomania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes in which features of both mania and depression are present at the same time.

3.location:
today @ my home
my mom reads to me a biographical stub from varamalar(Pg.28),a supplement to the vernacular newspaper,dinamalar.
the stub was about Steven Thomas, considered a security visionary for founding anti-spyware company Webroot,was found dead Sunday in Hawaii, some two weeks after he was reported missing.
The decomposing body of Thomas, who family members said began recently suffering from bipolar disorder and delusions that he was being tracked by aliens and the government, was discovered near the base of a 985-foot Oahu cliff, according to newspaper reports.

now,the link between the events...
is bipolar disorder..it keeps popping up in front of me..dont know why..lets see how many more events show up

quandum phon...its on roam

2009-07-01T08:23:00.000-07:00

recently ive been trying to link quantum physics and computer science...
to explore the feasibility of building a quantum computer..an idea actually proposed by Richard Feynmann..

network game project

2009-06-17T09:50:00.000-07:00

im trying to write a java network game...so u can expect me to talk about those stuff for a few days from now..i borrowed 3 books from library:
murach's java se 6
java network programming -harold
graphic java-geary

sad days!!!

2009-06-06T08:25:00.000-07:00

semester holidays are usually fun...they 're supposed to be fun..but this time the results ruined my hols and upset me..

i lay down and thought what was the problem:

it goes like this:

philosophy-->attitude-->actions-->results-->lifestyle.

i thought in reverse..

Potteriffic!!!!

2008-09-02T10:07:00.000-07:00

me and arun venkat attended the harry potter quiz @ our college.. the quiz was easier than i expected but it proved to be easier for many other participants as well(which is a diplomatic way of saying that we didnt qualify [:)])... the quiz was organised in an exemplary manner. The club involved, ASQ(association of serious quizzers) did a great job and hats off to all the members in it.
our team name was Topguns(the metal wands of the muggles)...They showed trailers of all the HP movies which was nice though the video quality was not plausible. Any way the quiz was conducted in a very professional way, for ASQ is only 2 or 3 quizzes old.

kruzade '08

2008-08-29T19:11:00.000-07:00

PSG tech is hosting kruzade a national level technical symposium...
http://www.kruzade.org/home.php

Audience dumbfounded!...what am i upto

2008-08-29T11:58:00.000-07:00

i was supposed to be talking about Decimation in time algorithm(a FFT technique).it all started well..(sorry for d blunt way of starting my blog)i mean i was talking sense but somewhere it all went wrong.i took up the time of the next person also only to walk down and hear from my friends that i was not making sense.except for ragavan whose reaction went like this:
raga:(extends hands)good speech macha
me:thnx da...did u understand??
raga: not even a word da...
me: ????
that was when i swore to myself the next talk wont be like this..(meanwhile the next talk is not so far its on friday next week)
let's see how this boy performs