This week

Nothing new.....again. I was doing sreenus project through out Saturday and Sunday. Friday night went to movie "ranam" along with phani and venkat. Sunday night again to "Amavarathi" for dinner. Monday started the f***ing ** details again. You can have a look at the daily activities here. No research. Probably my research title would be "How to handle the things in a comples manner?" in general and in particular "Designing a complete web-based on-line authentiation system" and in so particular "Handling "*ate **ntract" Details at ***M. Let me seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee wht the future is with this past..................................

Love and Desire

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This is a talk given by Prof Krishna at IITM as part of reflections group talks on 15th march. He has explained love and desire in a decent way. Some of the excerpts that I have listened to (with some cat naps in between) are given below.

• Wishes are innocent.
• Desire = wish + ego
• Different meanings or kinds of love
• I love to have coffee in the evenings
• I love the way tendulkar plays sweep shots
• The soldier died in the borders because he loves his country
• Mother loves his children
• Boy/Girl loving Girl/Boy
• How to love your work without expecting anything from it?

I didnt remembered exactly the things, but his talk is well received by the students and the some of the faculty members attended. He replied well for the queries after the talk by students. "If you desire something that means you are narrowing your self" is one sentence quoted by Prof Krishna.

Wherever you go our network follows.....Guess It.............????

Guess.....Guess..........Its not bribibng again....this time it is politics ........ got it......................
Every where you need so called "political" influence to solve your problems. I will continue later

Critique a Research Paper

*  Part A. Briefly identify the key contributions of the paper.

• What research problem does it try to solve?
• Why is it an important problem?
• What's the proposed approach?

    * Part B. Try to find if there is any problem in the paper.

• Any problems in the assumptions?
• Any technical shortcomings, problems, or errors?
• Any problems in the experiments? Do the experimental results support the original claim?
  

    * Part C. Any idea for improvement?
           This can be the most challenging part.

M.S (by Research) in IITs - Part 1

This is for those who are keen in getting into the prestigious institute like IIT Madras for pursuing M.S (by research). First I will let you know recruitment process. First and the foremost thing is you should be a GATE qualified candidate. The cut-off percentile differs from year to year. Notification will be announced around starting of march every year. Applications can be downloaded from websites. Note that M.S (by research) is offered by only two IITs (IITMadras, IITDelhi). Application along with the DD of around Rs 250/- is to be submitted either personally or by post. The call for exam and/or interview varies every year for each department. They also look for the percentage of your undergraduate (B.Tech, B.E etc). They will intimate for exam/interview in the month April/may. Second and the most common thing is What is the pattern of Exam? What sort of difficulties in the questions?. Usually the exam pattern is multiple choice questions and the questions are as good as GATE questions. They may straight away give you some questions from OLD GATE Papers. Criteria for selecting for the interview is based on "exam score" as well as "B.Tech percentage". GATE score has nothing to do now. Usually this is they will select fifty percent of the total for the interview. The most tough part of M.S recruitment is the interview. Facing IIT Professors (for the first time) is like going for an adventurous voyage. The toughness of interview depends on the choice of research area you specify in the application form. If you are lucky enough (like me) you will be asked to choose yourself the subject that you prepared and they will ask questions only in that subject. Don't forget to go through your under graduate project one more time before coming to exam/interview. They will ask some questions from your project also. The more depth you go in answering the more impression you get and also bonus questions !!!!. If you are good enough in getting through the questions and also if the requirement for that particular Prof is there, there are more chances in getting into IIT. You will get the intimation letter in the month of July or so (but before August). thats it abt the recruitment process into IITs for M.S (by research).

PS: 1.The cut off GATE percentile varies from 90% to 99% again depending on the department.
2.The details furnished above are to the best of my knowledge ( as I got through the same recruitment process).
3. It is not compulsory that both IITs and all departments follow the same process.

This week........

Nothing new this week. Chalta...... I thought I could communicate my idea to ACM Sensys or Middleware 2006 conferences so that I can get good comments (event though I know comments!!!!). I am working hard (not much !!!) on this. Now a days the daily routines have been changed from this Monday (6/03/06). Waking up at 9am and going to bed at 12am, playing cricket from 4 pm to 6-30pm. We have inter hostel cricket tournament match this coming Sunday. Coming to paper that I am writing, I completed all the unnecessary part required for the paper (intro, related work, basic concepts, references) except the core idea. Now I am struggling for the "clarity" of core idea. I hope things will set right by this week end .... hoping so......Actually last Saturday (04/03/06) Appu came from hyderabad, we went to "hotel" in the night. Raj gave seminar on that Saturday. Actually last Saturday after the review meeting is over, he told we will meet and discuss next Monday (27/02/06), but he didn't. But he calls to enquire for other stupid things except for research work. Ok, any way we should not criticize him, but he has the responsibility isn't it.?? Bujji also started writing paper this week...............hope we will communicate for the forthcoming conferences................

IITs are short of money.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

continue later

Wherever you go our network follows...........Guess wht is it......????

Its bribing in India.

• The traffic police constable asking Rs. 300 for paying auto charges.
• Helper at Govt. Hospital asking for Rs. 50 for other reasons.
• Traffic polices asking for Rs. 1000 for withdrawing the complaint.
• 'X' asking for Rs. 500 for negotiation b/w us and polices.
• Sweeper asking Rs. 30 for giving bike key from the cinema theatre.
• ...................

All of them share many common things. One part of it is bribing, which has its roots in every aspect of everyones life. The second part is that they are taking this, they are also doing "some work", but when compared to bribing its too less. The other part is mine, who is encouraging corruption in the country. I cant do anything other than giving money to them to escape from that situations. Who is wrong?? The own who is giving or the one who is asking??? I think both of them are eligible for punishment.

Accident......to.....

A sad thing, but wanna express this. My (best) friend met with an accident yesterday afternoon around 1pm. The situation worst in the sense that the other guy and his relatives who dashed friend bike are saying my frnd went in a wrong way that's y this happened. When I went to the scene big crowd (mass tamilians) covering the entire road. I was in aggressive mood seeing the situation of my frnd (except the tears from his eyes), still then he is crying for bike. They took bike keys and lodged a complaint in the police station. We also lodged a complaint against them for rash driving. They (Police) took away both the bikes to station. After that we (ashok, phani and me) took him to hospital (IIT) and then for xeroxing (X-Ray) his ribs ( as he fell down from the bike facing his ribs towards the road) horrible!!!.It seems 7th rib on the right hand side is fractured and it takes 3 months to recover from it. After that it is mandatory to report in any one of the Govt. Hospitals for accidents, so we reported in royapettah hospital and went for an observation for about 5 hours. Here I should acknowledge the work of Dr. Sasi for his care and observation. Today the game started at 11am. We went to police station for getting bike along with elder men(who have power here locally). They settled it and we got the bike finally........:)

On the marriage day..........

As the whole night gone in vein doing nonsence things. Those things kept cribbing me even in the morning also. I was waiting for my brother-in-law to come from my village to Nandyala, as he is the one managed to do all the things for the marriage. He initially told that he will come at around 10pm on the other day evening (16th), but he came at 6am on 17th!!!!. We are waiting for him as we have to go get ready for the occasion (bathing..) in their house (Nandyal). After getting ready by bathing and all stuff.....I continued to do the remaining things. Receiving the guest, relatives, etc arranging for tiffins, lunch etc......maintaining at the cooking. I forgot to tell you that I got some snaps of the marriage with the digicam u can find them here.