Saturday, April 25, 2009

What a coincidence!!!

Off late my blog has become stagnant. I was searching for proper topic to blog about. Found an interesting article.

I normally don't believe in astrology, numerology. I don't even have a reason to believe.

Journos in ELM break their head predicting and discussing who will be next PM. But,
Nostradamus who is best known for his prophecies has his own take on Indian General Election.

Click here to read what are his predictions.

Somewhere in the second half of the article, he mentions that if Advani declares NaMo as deputy PM, NDA will get 50 seats more.

And what a coincidence. Some BJP leaders proposed NaMo's name for deputy PM portfolio.
(Note: Its just personal view of certain party members.)

Click here to read the full article.

So who will be next PM??? Million $ question... hmmmmmmmmmmm.... Can't waste time now. Exams from Monday. Please pray for me.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Jai Ho versus Bhay Ho








The "creativity" of our politicians and party workers is at all time high particularly when elections are round the corner. Congress bought the copyrights for ARR's Jai ho, and BJP in its counter video Bhay ho takes a dig at UPA.

Which is better?

Theory of Computation Viva.

This happened, maybe a month and half ago during Theory of Computation lab internals.
I don't know which side I woke up on that day. The day before I totally ignored viva.
Entered lab at 8:30 am. I happily finished constructing NFA for a* and suffix and proper suffix in 30 minutes.
Was expecting Mr.SS to take viva (He always asks 2 questions: What is De Morgan's law and Kleene's Theorem?).

Unfortunately Ms.DP entered the lab (Ohhh my god!!! I am screwed). By that time Mr.SS had started viva for other students according to roll nos. Unfortunately my roll no is last. I think one of my friends called DP to verify output. Phew, I got some time to recollect some theory.

After verifying outputs, she saw me sitting idle and called me for viva. I knew that I will be banged up and down.

Made up my mind Seedhi Baat, No Bakwas. Answer only if you know.

Ms.DP: How much portions are covered till now?

Me: Ma'am ambiguous grammar.

Ms.DP: OK. What is ambigous grammar?

Me: A grammar for which there are two or more parse trees.

Ms.DP: OK. What is inherently ambiguous grammar?

Me: I don't know.

Ms.DP: You don't know!!! What are limitations of finite automata? Why do you use CFG?

Me: There can be only one terminal on RHS. But in a CFG there is no such restriction.

Ms.DP: You are telling me general limitation. Be more specific.

Me: (Don't know what to say. Kept staring at her).

Ms.DP: Which machine accepts CFG?

Me: (Aiyyo. Doosra and googly at same time). Ma'am I forgot.

Ms.DP: What is simple grammar?

Me: A simple grammar is of the form A->à... Ma'am I forgot.

Ms.DP: Where is CFG used?

Me: Compilers???

Ms.DP: Compilers use PDA. What are the steps of compilation?

Me: (4th sem System Programming) Ma'am Lexical analysis, Semantic analysis, Intermediate code generation, Object code generation, Linking and Loading.

Ms.DP: Tell me in general.

Me: (What??? Waiting for her to tell).

Ms.DP: Syntax analysis, blah blah blah.........

Meanwhile Mr.SS called Nevermind and Topper and started asking them same old questions. Lucky buggers.
But Ms.DP interrupted in between and started asking them same questions which she asked me earlier.
Good good good. I am not the unlucky one ;). There were more bakras waiting to be slayed by her.
She told me to take the record and leave the lab. Phew, the ordeal was over.
One of my friends told I got 3/5. Not bad.

Burude Bhavishya Part 2

Anchor: Dodda viramada nanthara vikshakarige swagatha. Mundhina kare yaardhu antha nodona.

Caller4: Hello sir, naanu Kumara Kanteerava. Nanna DOB 8/12/76.

OLU: Kumar, nimdhu jaathaka chennagidhe. Nimge Shukradeshe idhe. Swalpa friends hathra hushaaragiri.
Neevu innu mundhe barli antha naanu ondhu stone helthini. Andhra Pradeshnalli Rayalseema taluk hogi.
Alli bande hodiri. Ondhu sanna kallanna platinum ring haaki. Neevu nimma right middle finger ge ring
haaki. Yaaradhru shatru bandhre ring torsi, avru allindha escape aagthaare.
Haage nimma hesarannu Kumara Kanteerava indha Kumara Idlirava antha change maadi.

Caller4: Thumba thanks sir.

Anchor: Mundhina caller yaaru antha nodona.

Caller5: Hello, naanu Neha antha. DOB 16/4/90.

OLU: Amma Neha. Jaathaka parvagilla. Nimge Rahu dosha idhe.
Neevu college hogovaaga poli hudugaru kaata kodthaaralva?

Caller5: Howdhu sir.

OLU: Adhu yaakandre nimma hesaru matthe DOB match aagolla. Nimma hesaru... (starts calculating using his fingers)
Naagarudramma antha itkolli. Hudugaru hathra baralla.

Caller5: Thanks sir.

Caller6: Namskara sir, nanna magalu Kumudha antha. DOB 5/6/78. Marriage aagilla. Yaavaga marriage
aagatthe antha heli.

OLU: Nodi amma. Nimma magala jaataka chennagilla. Nanna officege banni, nimma magala jaataka yenu,
DOBne change maadkodthini. Olle chinnadantha huduga sigthaane.

Caller6: Aaythu sir.

Anchor: Gurugale, vikshakare ee sanchikeya samaya mugitha banthu. Mundhina vaara idhe samaya,
idhe channelnalli matthe bheti aagona. Dhanvaadagalu.

Disclaimer: The above characters are fictitious. Any resemblance, if at all, is purely figment of your imagination. This post is not meant to hurt anyone's belief in astrology.