<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858920</id><updated>2012-01-07T09:36:08.539+05:30</updated><category term='linux'/><category term='airtel'/><category term='poem'/><category term='sysadmin'/><category term='logic'/><category term='howto'/><category term='hindi'/><category term='programming'/><category term='interesting'/><category term='shayari'/><category term='incidents'/><category term='humour'/><category term='experience'/><category term='natgrid'/><category term='music'/><category term='self'/><category term='puzzle'/><category term='gujarati'/><category term='algorithms'/><category term='networking'/><category term='urdu'/><category term='techtips'/><category term='audio'/><category term='research technology'/><category term='indian railways'/><category term='theorems'/><category term='innovation'/><category term='thoughts'/><category term='script'/><category term='video'/><category term='mathematics'/><category term='link'/><category term='quotes'/><category term='article'/><category term='guitar'/><category term='review'/><category term='chess'/><category term='flashback'/><title type='text'>Saurabh Joshi's Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Please use &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/sbjoshi?format=xml"&gt; this feed URL &lt;/a&gt; to subscribe</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbjoshi.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9858920/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbjoshi.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9858920/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Saurabh Joshi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08461791061004256871</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos14.flickr.com/16098060_afc710c877.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>151</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858920.post-8785277541266818131</id><published>2011-12-07T22:17:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2011-12-07T22:23:41.038+05:30</updated><title type='text'>26th November</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;26th November 2008&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shootout rocks south Mumbai!! Pakistani terrorists on a shooting spree killing many innocent people.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26th November 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 Pakistani soldiers die due to NATO air strike!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I am wondering "Karma is a bi**h!!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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This is just like having cameras in your own house. Indian government silently implemented 'NatGrid'. What it essentially does is that a bunch of "intelligence" ( the quote is very well intended ) agencies will get access to your entire digital footprint. These government agent can access your records like bank details, credit card details, licence and motor vehicle related details, income tax database and financial transaction, criminal records ( if any ), gmail, facebook, twitter, blackberry database and I am sure other services like skype etc are either already under the surveillance or is coming under surveillance. And also, our IT act, mandates it for cyber cafes to maintain our entire surfing session. Rumours have it that it is mandatory for cyber cafes to have keyloggers as well. So please be careful entering into a cyber cafe and opening up your email/bank account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With very high probably, the only thing that will change now is that people will get extorted and blackmailed by so called "intelligence agencies" because almost all of us have some or the other secrets in lives which we do not want to be leaked. Not only that, these days people store really sensitive data on facebook/gmail and hence, these "intelligence" agencies can access it at a click of a button. And No, they do not require even a court order to monitor such details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a very famous quote by Benjamin Franklin :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I completely agree to this statement. I mean, c'mon. If someone is planning a terrorist attack they would obviously know that all these medium are monitored. They can easily use off-the-shelf encryption tools to communicate securely which can not be broken by the might of all the computation power available to Indian Government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And really? Do you expect that with such humongous data available at their disposal, they would be even able to mine useful information out of in time to prevent any kind of terror attacks? We are blindly following US footsteps and taking away liberty/privacy of people for some false sense of security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And with the great amount of cyber "expertise" that Indian Government has can they really protect all this information falling into a wrong hand? Even US is having hard time protecting their data once in a while, do you even think Indian government is even close to capable to protect this data from so many hackers out there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only time will tell, but as of now, we have given up our privacy. Entire nation is a huge big boss house, and every one is watched!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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Needless to say, they were&lt;br /&gt;complete kundis! Thought I'll share the madness with you guys as well.&lt;br /&gt;----------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P and NP walk into a bar and order the same cider each. The bartender&lt;br /&gt;prepares one of them and place it on the table. P looks at NP and&lt;br /&gt;asks, "Is this yours or mine?" and NP replies "Mine, I guess".&lt;br /&gt;------------- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People are sitting in a bar, and Balanced-Paranthesis walks in and&lt;br /&gt;shouts "Yabbadabbadooo". The bartender asks someone, "What's with that&lt;br /&gt;guy?". "Oh him... he's context free".&lt;br /&gt;---------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A prof is taking attendance and shouts, "Palindromes...... (no&lt;br /&gt;response) ... Palindromes ....(again nothing).... Can someone tell me&lt;br /&gt;why palindromes isn't here?" and some student replies "He is not&lt;br /&gt;regular sir".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------&lt;br /&gt;A prof asks a student "what is 6x6" and gets the answer "32" from him.&lt;br /&gt;And the prof still gives him some marks because he was only off by a&lt;br /&gt;bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------&lt;br /&gt;(this srikanth and I were talking about someday) Someone asks me whom&lt;br /&gt;I work under and I reply, "RP is in MA of course!" ( hint : Ramprasad works with Manindra Agrawal )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------&lt;br /&gt;(okay, a really horrible that I came up with while composing this&lt;br /&gt;mail) P is walking in an alley and some suspicious guys are following&lt;br /&gt;him. He starts running and those guys pursue. P gets very tense and&lt;br /&gt;suddenly discovers his new power and starts tossing coins at them. The&lt;br /&gt;robbers just run for those coins and P escapes. Someone who saw this&lt;br /&gt;asks him what happeend and how he got these powers. And P replies,&lt;br /&gt;"I'm P. But when I am tense, I become BPP"&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;-------------------&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;If a guy named Franklin Joe shows that graph isomorphism is in P, what&lt;br /&gt;would he be called? GI-Joe!&lt;br /&gt;---------------------- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A chemistry student was studying the acidity of some compound and he&lt;br /&gt;found it to be very alkaline. Meanwhile, some other CS grad student&lt;br /&gt;managed to show that NP \subseteq P/poly. Suddenly the chemistyr&lt;br /&gt;student foudn that his compound was very acidic. Why?&lt;br /&gt;Because pH collapsed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------&lt;br /&gt;An immortal SMS by Rahul Muthu:&lt;br /&gt;Hey, what did Manindra and co prove in 2002? I got an oxford&lt;br /&gt;dictionary which is a 1960 edition, and even there 'Primes' is in P!&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another one by Rahul Muthu:&lt;br /&gt;A bunch of mathematicians were going for a cycle race in a forest. All&lt;br /&gt;of them made it more or less on time but one of them finished the race&lt;br /&gt;VERY late. When asked why, he explained that he walked the course. He&lt;br /&gt;was a graph theorist, and thought cycles weren't allowed in forests.&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;P is late for class but has to head back for lunch. He rushes into the&lt;br /&gt;lab and shouts "hey, can someone lend me their cycle?". Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;offers his keys and P replies "No no, you keep yours. I can't find&lt;br /&gt;your goddamn cycle. I'll take Euler's"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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Anyways, let me get to the point real quickly. I have two laptops and one wired connection through which I connect to the internet. So yesterday I turned one of my laptop into a wifi router and got both the laptops connected to internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you search on google regarding 'turning your laptop into access point/router' you will find many ways to do it. Most of it describes it how to do it using command lines. Though, personally I am a big fan of command line, NetworkManager that comes with many linux distros makes it real easy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you do is the following. You can choose one laptop to be the mater ( which is going to be turned into a wifi router ) and another slave. At least these are the names I am going to use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Connect the master to the wired network. I am assuming that you know how to get wired network working on your linux box. Once you have done this, it is really a piece of cake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In master, click on NetworkManager symbol/applet ( usually sitting in the top-right corner ) and click on "Create New wireless network..". Choose an SSID(name) say "mynetwork". Choose a security mechanism ( say WEP 128bit ) and type in your key. You need to remember this key. That's it, your laptop is turned into a wifi router.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now on the slave, it should show the wifi connection available by name "mynetwork". If it does not, go to nm ( NetworkManager) and go to "Connect to hidden&amp;nbsp; wireless network.." and provide the name "mynetwork" and the key that you have entered for the network. You should be good to go now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happens behind the scene is as follows. Master acts as a bootstrap server, dns server, gateway for the client. Hence, providing the client with an IP address and masquerading it to provide it connection to the outside world. Enables packet forwarding in the kernel ( "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" should show "1"). Checkout "sudo iptables -vL" and "sudo iptables -vL -t nat" in the master for more details. It provides dns service to the client through multicast dns without having to run a full fledged dns server. Routes are added into the routing table ( "sudo route") appropriately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It does not matter if you do not understand the paragraph above. The good thing is that it has been made piece of cake for normal users and probably requires less amount of efforts than doing the same thing in windows. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thing to note that you can connect multiple slaves to this masters. 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font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: normal;"&gt;ગા લ ગા ગા ગા વગર ગાયા કરું તોયે ગઝલ&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: normal;"&gt;શબ્દ તું વરસે ને ભીંજાયા કરું તોયે ગઝલ&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #500050; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;શબ્દ છે બે-ચાર તેમાં, અર્થ પણ થોડા ઘણા&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; 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જુએ એમ,&lt;br /&gt;એમાં પડઘાતું પ્રતિબિંબ કોઈ અજાણ્યું પ્રાણી જેમ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;चढ़ रहा है ज़हर मेरे दिलोदिमाग में,&lt;br /&gt;मेरे अंतर को धीरे धीरे डसता है शहर&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(ભાવેશ ભાઈ ની ગઝલ ના પ્રતિભાવ માં )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;મેં એ જોયું, અમીરો ને અહી ક્યાં આંચ આવે છે,&lt;br /&gt;શું ઈશ્વર ની અદાલતમાંય કોઈ લાંચ માગે છે?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;(હેમલ ભાઈ ની ગઝલો ને પ્રતિભાવ તરીકે એમની ગઝલો ના જ બહરમાં) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;તારી આંખો ના શમણા વચ્ચે,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ક્યાંક તને હું મળ્યા કરું છું.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;મથે છે પામવા કાબુ આ માણસ જાત એ જોઈ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ઉપર બેઠો ખુદા મારો જુઓ કેવો તો મરકે છે.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;(પંકજ ભાઈ ની ગઝલ ના પ્રતિભાવ તરીકે એમની ગઝલ ના જ બહર માં ) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ગઝલો ઘણી છે મેં વાંચી ને એમાં,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;તમારી ગઝલ ની જમાવટ જુદી છે.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;(નિનાદ ભટ્ટ ની રચના ના પ્રતિભાવ માં )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;કલમ ને કાગળો થી ફક્ત તું લખતો નથી 'નિનાદ'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;વહે છે ભાવના જ્યારે, અરે! ત્યારે લખાય છે&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; (પંકજ ભટ્ટની ગઝલ ના પ્રતિભાવમાં)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;આમ 'પંકજ' કાં લખો ગઝલો તમે મક્તા વગર,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;જાણવું મારે છે કોનું રાજ આ કાગળ ઉપર&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(બંકિમ ભટ્ટ ના&amp;nbsp; પ્રતિકાવ્ય ના પ્રતિભાવમાં)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;ભગત લખવું બાજુ પર મૂકી ચા જલ્દી મુકો ને ભૈ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;ચાની ચૂસકી લીધા વગર તો બંકિમ ભૈ કઈ લખશે નૈ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; 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-- બેફામ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;IIT કાનપુર ના Computer Science વિભાગ નો lecture hall સંપૂર્ણ પણે ભરાઈ ગયો હતો. વિભાગ ની રજત જયંતી નિમિત્તે વિભાગ ના જુના નવા વિદ્યાર્થીઓ તથા પ્રાધ્યાપકો આવેલા હતા. ફક્ત IIT કાનપુર માં જ નહિ પણ સમગ્ર ભારત માં Computer Science નો પાયો નાખનાર પ્રો.રાજારામન અને પ્રો. મહાબાલા જેવા દિગ્ગજો પધાર્યા હતા.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;એક પછી એક જુના વિદ્યાર્થી ઓ અને પ્રાધ્યાપકો ખાટી મીઠી યાદો ને વાગોળી રહ્યા હતા. અને સાથે સાથ અમે અમારા વિભાગ ની ભૂતકાળ ની સફર માણી રહ્યા હતા. એક પછી એક વક્તા પોતાની યાદો નું પોટલું શ્રોતા ઓ સમક્ષ ખુલ્લું મુકે એટલે શ્રોતાઓ પણ એમાં મમરો મુકતા જાય.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;ત્યાં જ અચાનક શ્રોતા માં થી એક જાણે બોલવાનું શરુ કર્યું. આમ તો વાંધો બીજો કોઈ ના હતું, પણ મારા માટે તો કાશ્મીરી પુલાવ ખાતા હોઈએ એમાં વચ્ચે કાંકરો આવી જાય એવો અનુભવ થયો. બીજું બધું તો ઠીક, પણ એક વાક્ય માં બીજા શબ્દો ઓછા અને 'like' વધારે વાર હતું. પૂર્ણ વિરામ કે અલ્પ વિરામ ને તિલાંજલિ આપી અને એને સ્થાને એને 'like ' ને સ્થાપિત કરી દીધું.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"I was like sitting over here and like the teacher was like there and like we used to like ....."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;શ્રોતા ઓ માં થી એક વડીલે ઊભા થઇ ને એને સ્ટેજ પર આવી ને બોલવાનું કહ્યું. અને મોહને સ્ટેજ પર આવીને બોલવાનું શરુ કર્યું.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;નાનો હતો ત્યાર થી જ મોહન&amp;nbsp; ઘેંટા ચાલ માં જોતરાઈ ગયો. ફક્ત ભારત ની જ નહિ પરંતુ વિશ્વ માં સૌથી&amp;nbsp; કઠણ પરીક્ષાઓ માં જેની ગણના થાય છે, જ્યાં પરીક્ષાર્થીઓ લાખો માં અને નસીબવંતા ઓ ફક્ત સેંકડો માં હોય છે, એવી IIT ની પ્રવેશ પરીક્ષા JEE માં અવ્વલ દરજ્જે આવી ને જેના માટે ગળાકાપ સ્પર્ધા થાય છે એવા IIT કાનપુર ના Computer Science વિભાગ માં પ્રવેશ મેળવ્યો.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;IIT માં આવ્યા પછી એક નવી રેસ શરુ થઈ. પ્રેસિડેન્ટ ગોલ્ડ મેડલ માટે ની રેસ.&amp;nbsp; ચાર ચાર વર્ષ સુધી IIT ની અગ્નિ પરીક્ષાઓ માં દરેક દરેક વિષય માં જે પૂરે પુરા ૧૦/૧૦ ગુણ મેળવે તે મોરલા (વિરલા ) ના ગળા પર આ ગોલ્ડ મેડલ શોભતો.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"IIT મારા માટે સૌથી સારી વાત એ બની કે પહેલા જ સેમેસ્ટર માં મને ૯.૬/૧૦ મળ્યા અને હું ઘેંટા ચાલ માં થી અલગ થઈ ગયો."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; મોહને ખરા અર્થ માં એ પછી ગુણ દેવી ની નહિ પણ જ્ઞાન દેવી ની આરાધના શરુ કરી. પેલા ૩ idiot ના આમીર ખાન ને પણ પાછળ પાડે એવી. પરીક્ષા ની તૈયારી ફક્ત પાસ થવા પુરતું કરતો. બાકી ના સમય માં પ્રોજેક્ટ વગેરે કરી ને પ્રેક્ટીકલ જ્ઞાન&amp;nbsp; મેળવતો. દીકરો સોના ની ખાણ પર બેઠો હોય પછી કયો બાપ સપના ના સેવે? સરકારી નોકરી કરતા મોહન ના બાપે પોતાનું સપનું દીકરા પર થોપ્યું.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; "બેટા, તારે IAS&amp;nbsp; ઓફીસર બનવાનું છે."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"પણ પપ્પા મારે હજી આગળ ભણવું છે. હજી તો મારે નક્કી કરવાનું બાકી છે કે મારે શું કરવું છે. મારા જીવન નું ધ્યેય મને તો નક્કી કરવા દો?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; "આટલું તો ભણ્યો. હવે કેટલુંક ભણવું છે? IAS ઓફીસર થઈ જા એટલે રાજા ની જેમ જીવીશ."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;દીકરો બાપ સામે વધુ તો કઈ બોલી ના શક્યો. IAS ની પરીક્ષા આપવા માટે સંમત થઈ ગયો. ફક્ત મન માં એક ગાંઠ વાળી લીધી.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;IIT ચોથું વર્ષ. સૌ પોત પોતાની કારકિર્દી ને સજાવવા માં પડ્યા હતા. કોઈક ને મલ્ટીનેશનલ કંપની માં નોકરી મળી હતી તો કોઈ આગળ ભણવા જઈ રહ્યું હતું.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;ફોન પર મોહન પોતાના પપ્પા સાથે વાત કરી રહ્યો હતો.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"પપ્પા, મારે આગળ ભણ્યા જવું છે."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"બેટા, તારા ટેબલ પર IAS નો ઓફર લેટર પડ્યો છે. હવે બોલ, શું વિચાર છે તારો?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;મોહન થોડી વાર અટકી ગયો. પછી બોલ્યો, " પપ્પા, મારો હજી એ જ વિચાર છે. અમેરિકા ની Messachusetts Institute of Technology માં મને એડમીશન મળી ગયું છે." જેના દીકરા ને વિશ્વ ની સર્વોત્તમ સંસ્થા માં પ્રવેશ મળ્યો હોય, એ બાપ&amp;nbsp; શું બોલે?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;થોડા સમય પછી બીજો સંવાદ. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"પપ્પા, હું ભણવાનું છોડી રહ્યો છું. મને લાગે છે કે મારી મંઝીલ ક્યાંક બહાર છે. મારે દુનિયા નો અનુભવ લેવો છે. પોતાની કંપની શરુ કરવી છે."&amp;nbsp; ના મોહને બાપ પાસે પૈસા માગ્યા કે ના બાપે એને રોકવાની કોશિશ કરી.MIT&amp;nbsp; જેવી સંસ્થા ને લાત મારી ને જતો રહે એને કોણ સમજાવે?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"મારી પાસે IIT કાનપુર ની ડીગ્રી હતી. એટલે દિલ માં પૂરો વિશ્વાસ હતો કે છેલ્લે કઈ નહિ થાય તો મને ક્યાંક સારી નોકરી તો મળી જ જશે. ...." મોહને બોલવાનું ચાલુ રાખ્યું.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;મોહને જે કંપની ખોલી, એ ડૂબી ગઈ.&amp;nbsp; બીજી શરુ કરી, એના પણ એ જ હાલ. ત્રીજી પછી ચોથી ...છેલ્લે બદકિસ્મતી મોહન થી થાકી ગઈ. મોહન આજે ભારત ની એક પ્રખ્યાત કંપની નો પાયો નાખનાર અને ભાગીદાર છે.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;હું મન માં વિચારી રહ્યો કે જેને 'કાંકરો' સમજતા હોય એ ક્યારેક 'હીરો' પણ હોય છે.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;(સત્યઘટના પરથી )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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One of the main reason is that I have started posting mathematical post at my &lt;a href="http://sbjoshi.wordpress.com"&gt;wordpress&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, &lt;a href="http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/sameerag"&gt;Sameer&lt;/a&gt; and I were trying to get our hands dirty on &lt;a href="http://bellard.org/qemu/"&gt;Qemu&lt;/a&gt; networking. Although there is a fairly good description is given over &lt;a href="http://www.gnome.org/%7Emarkmc/qemu-networking.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I am trying to fill in here a few missing bits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, so here is the scenario we want to create.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On one machine ( say host-A ) we want to create many guest machines ( guestA1, guestA2 ) etc. Similarly, there is another machine ( host-B ) having many guest machines ( guestB1, guestB2 ). We want to make guestA* communicate with guestB*.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am assuming that readers are aware of how to install a guest OS on a guest machine created by qemu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First we need to configure a ipv4-over-ipv4 tunnel for the host machines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--host-A configuration is as follows&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;ip : 172.27.16.1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;netmask : 255.255.255.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;default gateway : 172.27.16.254&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;host-B configuration is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;ip : 172.27.16.2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;netmask and gateway is the same as above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--In host-A ( as root ) do the following&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# ip tunnel add tunl1 mode ipip remote 172.27.16.2 dev eth0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  -- this command essentially create one endpoint of the tunnel in host-A. It says that the other end of the tunnel lies at ip 172.27.16.2. Also, the tunnel device will use eth0 as its physical device.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# ip link set tunl1 up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- this command will bring up the tunnel interface&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA#ifconfig tunl1 10.0.1.1 pointopoint 172.27.16.2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- guestA network will be 10.0.1.0/24 network and tunnel device should be a part of it. This command gives the tunnel device an ip address and it says that other endpoint of the tunnel will be at 172.27.16.2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# route&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--this will show you the current configuration of routing table. There might be an entry in the routing table&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;172.27.16.2    *   255.255.255.255  U 0 0 tunl1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--you need to delete this entry using following command :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# route del -net 172.27.16.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev tunl1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Also you need to tell routing table that guestB network ( 10.0.2.0/24) should be routed through the tunnel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# route add -net 10.0.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev tunl1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--You need to repeat the same procedure for hostB with suitable ips ( use 10.0.1.* instead of  10.0.2.* and vice versa , replace 172.27.16.1 with 172.27.16.2 and vice versa )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--By now, your tunnel should be working. To check, try&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# ping 10.0.2.1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostB# ping 10.0.1.1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--If it does not ping, it might be the case that your firewall is coming into the way. If you are expert enough, modify your firewall rules with iptables. If not, lets first save your firewall rules&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# iptables-save | cat &gt; iptablebackup.bak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--flush the firewall rules now&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# iptables -F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# iptables -t nat -F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Now, that firewall is completely disabled, the tunnel should work. (Of course, you need to disable your firewall at hostB as well! ) If it still does not work, then there might be some other problem or you might not have done things right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- you can restore your firewall ( later ) with&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# cat iptablebackup.bak | iptables-restore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Okay, so the tunnel is working now!! Great news!! But what next??&lt;br /&gt;Next we create a tapping device - a virtual network interface - which will be visible to the guest OSes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# tunctl -u username&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- provide a username here. This user will be able to use this tapping device while initializing qemu process. This command would have created a tapping device (tap0) in your system&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--assign an ip address of guestA network to tapping device&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# ip addr add 10.0.1.2 dev tap0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- bring the tapping device up&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# ip link set tap0 up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Also create a file /etc/qemu-ifup which can look like following :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;#!/bin/bash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;#echo "bringing up interface $1"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Now start the first guestOS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;username@hostA$ qemu -net nic,macaddr=macaddr1 -net tap,ifname=tap0  -net socket,mcast=230.0.0.1:9999 ....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--second guestOS can be started with following&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;username@hostA$  qemu -net nic,macaddr=macaddr2 -net socket, mcast=230.0.0.1:9999 ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- multicast socket is needed for mchines in guestA network to talk to each other&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--In the guestA1 do the following :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@guestA1# ifconfig eth0 10.0.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@guestA1# route add default gw 10.0.1.2 dev eth0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Note that we have given the ip address of tapping device as the gateway fo guest OSes&lt;br /&gt;-- second, third etc guest machines can be configured with different ip addresses for their eth0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Repeat this procedure on host-B as well with appropriate ip addresses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Now, you should be able to ping machines from guestA network to guestB network and vice versa.  However, this does not yet allow you to connect to host network. To do that, you need to enable ip forwardng&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# echo "1" &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- perform source NAT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING 1 -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source 172.27.16.1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Now, from guestA network ( 10.0.1.0/24 ) you should be able to connect to ( 10.0.2.0/24 ) as well as host network ( 172.27.16.0/24 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- To delete the tunnel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# ip link set tunl1 down&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# ip tunnel del tunl1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--To delte the tapping device&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;root@hostA# tunctl -d tap0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Above mentioned setup is tested with host machines running fedora core 9 and guest machines running Arch Linux, Debian etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have any queries post it as comments, I will be willing to answer if I can.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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Lately I have been very lazy about writing down interesting things over here. The biggest pain that I face is that there is no support for &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;latex&lt;/span&gt; in blogspot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Anyways, coming down to the point. I am attending a few lectures by &lt;a href="http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/cis/parikh/"&gt;Rohit Parikh&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://home.iitk.ac.in/%7Emohua/school/school.htm"&gt;Logic School&lt;/a&gt;.  He is a very good orator, I must say.  As a part of his talk on "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Finite and Infinite Dialogues&lt;/span&gt;", he mentioned a very famous product-sum puzzle. I am writing it down here just for the sake of completeness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt; and Mr &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt; are told product and sum of two number a and b respectively, where 2&lt;= a,b &lt;= 99.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt; : I don't know the numbers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt; : I knew you did not know them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt; : Now, I know the numbers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;S &lt;/span&gt;: Now, I know them too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the solution can be found from &lt;a href="http://sbjoshi.googlepages.com/EWD666.pdf"&gt;dijkstra's paper&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; With this example, Prof. Rohit went on to describe interesting world of finite and infinite dialogs between two parties in order to determine certain information.  Yet another interesting example that he gave was as follows :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A randomly chosen positive integer &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt; is chosen. One of them is written on Ann's forehead and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;n+1&lt;/span&gt; is written on Bob's forehead. Now, each of them are asked to determine the numbers written on their forehead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If 1 is written on Ann ( called as A now on ) and 2 is written on Bob ( called as B from now on ). Bob can immediately deduce that his number is 2. If A has got 3 and Bob has got 2 then A have two possibilities 1 or 3. When Bob says I don't know, A can determine that number she has got is 3. It is easy to prove by induction how they can determine their numbers in linear time with respect to number &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One can devise a game where it would take infinite amount of time to determine one's number. &lt;a href="http://sbjoshi.googlepages.com/rparikh.ZIP"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the interesting lecture notes which covered these beautiful examples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS : Please note that lecture notes/papers may be copyrighted. Contact the authors in case one wish to use it for non-academic purpose.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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Well, it was a transition period for me from &lt;a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/irl"&gt;IRL&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.iitk.ac.in/"&gt;IITK&lt;/a&gt;. Yes, I have joined its &lt;a href="http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/"&gt;CSE department&lt;/a&gt; as a PhD student. Anyways, I know the title is somewhat misleading as many would think this post has something to do with einstein's theory of relativity and the four dimensional world. You are grossly mistaken if you think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, as part of my coursework here I am attending a course by &lt;a href="http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/%7Emanindra"&gt;Prof Manindra Aggarwal&lt;/a&gt;. Well, it is a big mistake on my side that I have not registered for this course. Even the bigger mistake is that I have registered for a course named "Computational Number Theory and Algebra" by &lt;a href="http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/%7Eppk"&gt;Prof Piyush Kurur&lt;/a&gt;. The content itself may be interesting but  the way that guy teaches the course, makes it difficult. The worst part is that all the exams of this course are "take home" exams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, let's get back to the point. It is indeed an honour to sit in Prof Manindra's class and see him deliver some of the toughest content of the course with a flair. All the people with computer science background are aware of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;P not equals NP &lt;/span&gt; conjecture. This decade old conjecture has still remain unbeaten. In other words, this conjecture states that the set of problems that can be solved by a deterministic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine"&gt;turing machine&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_time"&gt;polynomial time&lt;/a&gt; and the set of problems that can be solved by a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-deterministic_Turing_machine"&gt;non-deterministic turing machine&lt;/a&gt; in polynomial time are equal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is another notion called Space Complexity in computer science. Space complexity is a measure of the space required to solve any problem by an algorithm. One wonders, whether there is any difference between the set of problems which can be solved by a deterministic turing machine in polynomial space , and the set of problems which can be solved by a non-deterministic turing machine in polynomial space. It actually turns out that non-determinism does not give any more power over deterministic mechanism when space is the criterion. Due to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitch%27s_theorem"&gt;Savitch's theorem&lt;/a&gt; it is proven that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PSPACE equals NPSPACE&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One may wonder why the similar version in time complexity is yet unbeaten? Non-determinism gives the power to explore exponentially many threads of computation simultaneously. If a deterministic turing machine tries to mimic the behaviour of a non-deterministic one, it has to explore all the paths one by one. It costs time to go through all the paths one by one. One has to add up all the time that has been spend. But does one really have to add up the space as well??? I felt really stupid when I come to know that the reason why power of deterministic and non-deterministic turing machine comes out to be same, is that space can be reused!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a wild thought, may be if a deterministic turing machine can go back in time to explore the alternate future, thus, reusing the time we may as well have &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;P = NP&lt;/span&gt; :D.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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It depends on how you view it or how you use it. Orkut may be a nuisance to some but I could find a few gujarati gems from a community.&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------&lt;br /&gt;  પ્યાલો લૈ જ્યાં હું પહોંચ્યો તરસ છીપાવા માટે,&lt;br /&gt;કમનશીબ મારું કે મને જોઈ કીનારા જ સુકાઈ ગયા.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;પતઝડ ની કશ્મ્કશ તો જીરવી ગયા અમે પરંતુ,&lt;br /&gt;જીંદગી ના બાગ તો ભરવસંત માં જ ઉજડી ગયા.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;તૂફાન માંથી કશ્તી બચાવી લાવનારા એવા ધણા,&lt;br /&gt;છે જેમના વહાણ કીનારે આવી જ ડૂબી ગયા.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;મોસમ ની મહેર હોય તો હેલી આવી ચઢે છે ઘરમાં,&lt;br /&gt;અમારા જેવા તો કૈં કીન્તુ ભર વરસાદે પણ કોરા રહી ગયાં.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;હજારો લાશો ને મ્ંઝીલ સુધી પહોંચાડી હતી 'મક્કુ' પરંતુ,&lt;br /&gt;ખુદ અમારાં જનાજા ચાર કાંધા ના મહોતાજ રૈ ગયા.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----ભાવેશ 'મક્કુ'&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;  દુઃખમાં રડી લેવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે,&lt;br /&gt;હારેલી જીંદગી જીવવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;કીનારા પર વહાણ હંકારનારાઓ તમને શું ખબર,&lt;br /&gt;તૂફાન માં કશ્તી ગુમાવવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;તમામ ઉમર જેને પામવાની તડપ હોય પરંતુ,&lt;br /&gt;તેને મેળવીને ગુમાવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;બે હાથ વડે ઝીંદગી ઉલેચનારાઓ એટલું પણ જાણો કે,&lt;br /&gt;છેલ્લા શ્વાસે હથેળી ખાલી જોવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;એક વાટ પકડી ને ચાલનારાઓ મંઝીલ જરુર પામે છે,&lt;br /&gt;કીન્તુ માર્ગ માં ભટકી જવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;દુનીયા જીતનારા ઘણાં સીકંદરો ભૂલાઈ ગયાં 'મક્કુ',&lt;br /&gt;એક-બે ના દીલ જીતી ચાલી જવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે...................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--ભાવેશ 'મક્કુ'&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;  પાંદડું કેવી રીતે પીળું થયું કોને ખબર ?&lt;br /&gt;એટલે કે ઝાડમાંથી શું ગયું કોને ખબર ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;શહેર પર ખાંગી થઈ વરસી પડી આખી વસંત,&lt;br /&gt;એક જણ નખશીખ ઉજ્જડ રહી ગયું કોને ખબર ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;શાહીમાંથી આમ કાં ઢોળાય છે તારાં સ્મ્રણ્ ?&lt;br /&gt;એને મારું એક મન ઓછું પડ્યું ? કોને ખબર ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;સ્વપ્નમાં વહેતી'તી નહેરો તારા ચહેરાની સત્ત,&lt;br /&gt;ને સવારે આંખમાંથી શું વહ્યું ? કોને ખબર ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;માછલીએ એકદા જળને પૂછ્યું ઃ તું કોણ છે ?&lt;br /&gt;એનો ઉત્ર શોધવા જળ ક્યાં ગયું, કોને ખબર ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;મેં અરીસાને અમ્સ્તો ઉપલક જોયો, 'રમેશ',&lt;br /&gt;કોણ એમાંથી મને જોતું રહ્યું, કોને ખબર ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---રમેશ પારેખ&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; font-size: 92%; padding-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img1.orkut.com/img/b.gif" alt="" height="1" width="3" /&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;ચૂમી છે તને -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ગીતના ઘેઘૂર ગરમાળામાં ચૂમી છે તને,&lt;br /&gt;બે ગઝલની વચ્ચેના ગાળામાં ચૂમી છે તને.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;પર્વતો પાછળ સવારે, ને બપોરે ઝીલમાં,&lt;br /&gt;સાંજ ટાણે પંખીના માળામાં ચૂમી છે તને.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;સાચું કહું તો આ ગણિત અમથું નથી પાકું,&lt;br /&gt;બે ને બે હોઠોના સરવાળામાં ચૂમી છે તને.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;કાળી રાતોમાં છુપાઈને ગઝલની આડમાં,&lt;br /&gt;પાંચ દસ પંક્તિના અજવાળામાં ચૂમી છે તને.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;લોકોએ જેમાં ન પગ મુકવાની ચેતવણી દીધી,&lt;br /&gt;પગ મૂકીને એ જ કુંડાળામાં ચૂમી છે તને.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;પાંપણો મીંચાય ને ઉઘડે એ પલકારો થતાં,&lt;br /&gt;વાર બહુ લાગી તો વચગાળામાં ચૂમી છે તને.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-મુકુલ ચોકસી&lt;br /&gt;---------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   નદીની રેતમાં રમ્તું નગર મળે ન મળે,&lt;br /&gt;ફરી અ દશ્ય સ્મ્રુતી પટ ઉપર મળે ન મળે,&lt;br /&gt;ભરી લો સ્વાસમાં એની સુગંધનો દરીયો,&lt;br /&gt;પછી આ માટીની ભીની અસર મળે ન મળે,&lt;br /&gt;પરીચીતોને ધરાઈને જોઈ લેવા દો,&lt;br /&gt;આ હસતા ચહેરા; આ મીઠી નજર મળે ન મળે,&lt;br /&gt;ભરીલો આંખમાં રસ્તાઓ, બારીઓ, ભીંતો,&lt;br /&gt;પછી આ શહેર, આ ગલીઓ, આ ઘર મળે ન મળે,&lt;br /&gt;વતનની ધૂળથી માથું ભરી લઉં આજ અહીં,&lt;br /&gt;અરે આ ધૂળ પછી ઉમ્રભર મળે ન મળે,&lt;br /&gt;વળાવા આવ્યા છે એ ચ્હેરા ફરશે આંખમાં,&lt;br /&gt;ભલે સફરમાં કોઇ હમસફર મળે ન મળે,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;રડી લો આજ સંબંધોને વીંટળાઈ અહીં,&lt;br /&gt;પછી કોઇને કોઇની કબર મળે ન મળે,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--આદીલ મન્સૂરી&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------&lt;br /&gt;  ઘણાં વરસો પછી આવ્યા છો એનો એ પુરાવો છે,&lt;br /&gt;જે મહેંદી હાથ ને પગ પર હતી એ કેશ પર લાગી છે..............&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------&lt;br /&gt;માછલી સાથે જ દરીયો નીકળ્યો,&lt;br /&gt;લ્યો ઋણાનુબંધ પાછો નીકળ્યો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;હુંજ મારા ભાર થી થાકી ગયો,&lt;br /&gt;હું હતો એ 'હું' જ ખોટો નીકળ્યો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ચાંદની સમજી અમે મુઠ્ઠી ભરી,&lt;br /&gt;મૂઠ ખોલી ત્યાંજ તડકો નીકળ્યો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;સાંજ પડતાંયે ફર્યુ ના એટલે,&lt;br /&gt;શોધવા પંખીને માળો નીકળ્યો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;આશરો કેવળ નદીને જ હતો,&lt;br /&gt;એક સાગર એય ખારો નીકળ્યો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;આગીયાઓ ઉજળા છેકે પછી-,&lt;br /&gt;વેશ બદલી સૂર્જ ઊડતો નીકળ્યો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;થોભવાનો થાક વસમો હોય છે,&lt;br /&gt;માર્ગ સમજ્યો એ ઉતારો નીકળ્યો............................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----ધૂની માંડલીય&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;  લીધો છે જન્મ પ્રેમ મેં કરવા બધાંની સાથ,&lt;br /&gt;એમાં જરાક આપ વધારે ગમી ગયાં........&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;  આવ મારી જાત ઓઢાળુ તને...&lt;br /&gt;સાહેબા, શી રીતે સંતાડુ તને...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ઘર સુધી તુ આવવાની જીદ ના કર...&lt;br /&gt;ઘર નથી, નહીતર હું ના પાડુ તને?&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------  &lt;br /&gt;મને એ જ સમજાતું નથી કે આવું શાને થાય છે.&lt;br /&gt;ફૂલડાં ડૂબી જતાં ને પથ્થરો તરી જાય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ટળવળે તરશર્યાં તારાં જે વાદળી વેરણ બને.&lt;br /&gt;તે જ રણમાં ઘૂમ મુસળધાર વરસી જાય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ઘર-હીણાં ઘૂમે હજારો ઠોકરાતાં ઠેર ઠેર&lt;br /&gt;ને ગગન-ચુમ્બી મહાલો જનસૂનાં રહી જાય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;દેવડીએ દંડ પામે ચોર મૂઠી જારના:&lt;br /&gt;લાખ ખાંડી લૂંટનારા મહેફિલે મંડાય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;કામધેનુને જડે ના એક સૂકું તણખલું&lt;br /&gt;ને લીલાંછમ ખેતરો સૌ આખલા ચરી જાય છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;છે ગરીબોના કુબામાં તેલ ટીપુંય દોહ્યલું ?&lt;br /&gt;ને શ્રીમંતોની કબર પર ઘીના દીવા થાય છે.&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;  સમય જાતાં બધું સહેવા હૃદય ટેવાઇ જાયે છે&lt;br /&gt;ગમે તેવું દુઃખી હો, પણ જીવન જીવાઇ જાયે છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;હૃદયના દર્દની વાતો કદી છાની નથી રહેતી&lt;br /&gt;હૃદય ગભરાય છે ત્યારે નયન ભીંજાઇ જાયે છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;સમય બદલે તો બદલે, પણ પ્રણય રંગો નહીં બદલે&lt;br /&gt;હૃદય રંગાઇ જાયે છે તો બસ રંગાઇ જાયે છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;મુસીબતના દહાડા એ કસોટીના દહાડા છે.&lt;br /&gt;છે પાણી કેટલું કોના મહીં જોવાઇ જાયે છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;જીવન સારું જીગરની આહ થી ફૂંકી દઉં ‘ઘાયલ’&lt;br /&gt;કદીક મારા ઉપર મને ય એવી ખાઇ જાયે છે.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- અમૃત ઘાયલ&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;  સારું છેે એની સાથે કશી ગુફતગુ નથી,&lt;br /&gt;નહીંતર હું કંઈક ભુલ કરત બોલચાલમાં.&lt;br /&gt;કરતો હતો જે પહેલાં તે પર્સતાવના ગઈ,&lt;br /&gt;લઈ લઉં છું એનું નામ હવે બોલ્ચાલમાં.&lt;br /&gt;એ 'ના' કહીને સહેજમાં છુટી ગયા 'મરીઝ્',&lt;br /&gt;કરવી ન જોઈતી'તી ઉતાવળ સવાલમાં...........&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;  લેવા ગયો જો પ્રેમ તો વહેવાર પણ ગયો,&lt;br /&gt;દર્શનની ઝંખના હતી, અણસાર પણ ગયો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;એની બહુ નજીક જવાની સજા છે એ,&lt;br /&gt;મળતો હતો જે દૂરથી સહકાર પણ ગયો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;રહેતો હતો કદી કદી ઝુલ્ફોની છાંયમાં,&lt;br /&gt;મારા નસીબમાંથી એ અંધકાર પણ ગયો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;સંગતમાં જેની સ્વર્ગનો આભાસ હો ખુદા,&lt;br /&gt;દોઝખમાં કોઈ એવો ગુનેગાર પણ ગયો ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;એ ખુશનસીબ પ્રેમીને મારી સલામ હો,&lt;br /&gt;જેનો સમયની સાથે હ્રદયભાર પણ ગયો ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;એ પણ છે સત્ય એની ઉપર હક નથી હવે,&lt;br /&gt;એવુંય કંઈ નથી કે અધિકાર પણ ગયો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;સાકી છે સ્તબ્ધ જોઈ નશાની અગાઢ ઊંઘ,&lt;br /&gt;પીનારા સાથે કામથી પાનાર પણ ગયો.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;કેવી મજાની પ્રેમની દીવાનગી હશે !&lt;br /&gt;કે જ્યાં ‘મરીઝ’ જેવો સમજદાર પણ ગયો.&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;િલ મા કોઇની યાદ ના પગલાં રહી ગયા,&lt;br /&gt;ઝાંકળ ઊડી ગયું અને ડાઘાં રહી ગયા.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;એને મળ્યા છતાંય કોઇ વાત ના થઇ,&lt;br /&gt;ગંગા સુધી ગયા અને પ્યાસા રહી ગયા.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ફૂલો લઇને બાગથી હું નીકળી ગયો,&lt;br /&gt;ને પાનખરના હાથમાં કાંટા રહી ગયા.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;વરસ્યા વિના જંતી રહી શિર પરથી વાદળી,&lt;br /&gt;‘આદિલ’ નજર ઉઠાવીને જોતા રહી ગયા.&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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Thanks to my friends Sanjeet, Pranjal, Ashok ... with whom I discuss interesting problems. Just like my previous post, this post is also regarding a technical interview question asked in some company. Anyways, coming directly to the point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problem&lt;br /&gt;-----------&lt;br /&gt;There are five thieves T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5. They robbed 100 gold bars from a bank. For dividing the gold bars they came up with following idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Starting from T5 to T1, a thief T_i will come up with a scheme to divide the gold bars amongst the thieves.&lt;br /&gt;- Voting will happen in favour or against this scheme. If Majority ( Strictly greater than 50 % ) votes in favour then the division will happen according to the scheme. If not, then T_i will be killed and it will be T_i-1's turn to come up with a scheme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please keep in mind that&lt;br /&gt;1) All thieves are intelligent.&lt;br /&gt;2) All are very greedy, so they would try to get as much wealth as possible.&lt;br /&gt;3) They all would like to kill as many thieves as possible. Of course, this motive stands at a lower priority level as compared to their greed for the gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are T5, what scheme would you come up with? Obviously, your motive would be to survive but try to come up with a scheme where you will get away with as much gold as possible.&lt;br /&gt;PS:- Smallest unit of division is a gold bar. A bar can not be further divided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----&lt;br /&gt;Solution&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;The answer is that if you are T5, you can get away with as much as 97 gold bars and still survive!!! Puzzled!! Read further to discover how.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's try to situation one by one from thieves perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If T1 is the only person left, he will take all the gold bars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If T1 and T2 are the only persons alive, no matter what scheme T2 comes up with, he is going to be killed and T1 would take everything. Because T2 can not get the majority ( &gt; 50% ). Obviously, T2 would do anything to keep T3 alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;T3 knows that T2 is going to support him no matter what scheme he comes up with. T3 can take away all 100 gold bars as he will have the majority no matter what. ( T3+T2 = 66% votes ). Obviously, T3 would like T4 to get killed so that he can take everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;T4 knows that T3 would want him to be killed. If T4 is killed, T1 and T2 would not get anything. So T4 would give one gold bar to T1 and T2 each. Now, T4 will get the majority ( T1 + T2 + T4 = 75%) and he can take as much as 98 gold bars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are T5. If you get killed, you know that T3 would not get anything. So to take T3 into confidence you will give him a gold bar. If you get killed, T1 and T2 each get a gold bar. As you want to optimize the amount that you can get away with, you would give one of T1 or T2 2-gold bars. You can get away with as much as 97 gold bars!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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One of the question that was asked to someone in google was about finding out a specific element in an &lt;span&gt;n x n&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;Young Tableau&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me first define, what a &lt;span&gt;young tableau&lt;/span&gt; is. It is an &lt;span&gt;m x n&lt;/span&gt; array with the following property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;f&lt;span&gt;or all j = 1 to n-1, A[p][i] &lt;= A[p][i+1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;and for all , i = 1 to m-1 , A[i][q] &lt;= A[i+1][q]  &lt;/span&gt;It is easy to see that following statement holds for a young tableau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt; For any sub-matrix of a young tableau, the top-left element is the smallest element within that sub-matrix.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For any sub-matrix of a young tableau, the bottom-right element is the largest element within that sub-matrix.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; Now, the problem is to find out a given element within an &lt;span&gt;n x n young tableau&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;Method -1&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Start with the top-right element of the tableau. Compare this element &lt;span&gt;e &lt;/span&gt;with the element to be found&lt;span&gt; x.&lt;br /&gt;if e &gt; x then&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;discard the column in which&lt;span&gt; e &lt;/span&gt;appears. ( Because e is the first(smallest ) element of that column.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;else&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;discard the row in which &lt;span&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; appears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;end if&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Repeat this exercise until the element is found or the tableau is exhausted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is easy to see that time complexity of Method-1 is &lt;span&gt;O(n)&lt;/span&gt;.  As at every step we will discard either row or column which will take at most &lt;span&gt;2n&lt;/span&gt; steps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------&lt;br /&gt;Method - 2&lt;br /&gt;---------&lt;br /&gt;Do a binary search over the diagonal of the tableau. If we find the desired element x then we are done. If not, we will have two element &lt;span&gt;u&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;v&lt;/span&gt; where u &lt;&gt; &lt;span&gt;u&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;is the bottom-right element and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;v&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; is the top-left element. The elements that we will discard at each step would be at least half of the elements in the original matrix.&lt;br /&gt;Here is why,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;i^2 + (n-i)^2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;function is minimum where&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;i=n/2&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;With&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;i=n/2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the value of the function is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;(n^2)/2&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Now, if we do the analysis with respect to number of elements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;T(n^2) = 2T((n^2)/4) + logn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;T(m) = 2T(m/4) + 0.5 logm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Solution of this recurrence, turns out to be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;O(m^(0.5)) = O(n)&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;So, there is no improvement over the  complexity as compared to the first method.  Besides, this  second method fails when the  sub-matrices that were discarded were not  square.  In which case, the remaining two sub-matrices  will not be square either.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;Method 3&lt;br /&gt;------&lt;br /&gt;Compare the central  element&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;span&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;with the desired element&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;if &lt;span&gt;e &gt; x&lt;/span&gt; then &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;discard the bottom-right quadrant of the  tableau.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;else &lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;discard the top-left quadrant of the tableau.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Now ,  we are left with three sub-matrices of the size&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;n/2 x n/2&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;The recurrence would be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;T(n) =  3T(n/2) + O(1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Solving it would give us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  n^(log_2 3) =  n^1.585. 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This post will describe the solutions to the two puzzle that I posed as part of my prequel post "&lt;a href="http://sbjoshi.blogspot.com/2007/05/necklace-theorem.html"&gt;Necklace Theorem&lt;/a&gt;". For the sake of clarity I am copying the puzzles again over here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Given a point set of size n in 2D, prove that there would exist a pair of orthogonal lines which would divide the point set in such a way that in each quadrant number of points are at most &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;n/4&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZbAWX63ph64/Rm-IyqfqwXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/XhFQ2hGgHHw/s1600-h/nby4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZbAWX63ph64/Rm-IyqfqwXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/XhFQ2hGgHHw/s320/nby4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075425709051789682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    As shown in the figure on the left, let us consider a baseline &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;B&lt;/span&gt;. The circle represent the point set we are interested in. Refer to the prequel of this post and convince yourself that it is possible to have a line in any given direction which divides the point set into two equal half. Hence, it is also possible to have two orthogonal lines both of which will divide the point set into two equal half. ( When I say, two equal half, I mean that division in two portion satisfying the constraint "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;less or equals n/2&lt;/span&gt;" ). As both &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;q&lt;/span&gt; divides the point set into two equal half, the region which is captured on top-left and bottom-right will be equal ( &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;call it x, or to be more precise "less or equal x"&lt;/span&gt; ). Similarly, tom-right and bottom-left would be equal ( &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;call it y&lt;/span&gt;). Let us have a function &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;f(x,y) = (x-y) = v&lt;/span&gt;. By rotating &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;q&lt;/span&gt; , &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;90&lt;/span&gt; degrees we will have function value exactly negative, as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt; would swap their places. From intermediate value theorem we can argue that there will be a configuration where &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;x = y = n/4&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Given a point set of size n in 2D, prove that there would exist 3 concurrent lines which would divide the point set in such a way that in each segment the number of points are at most &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;n/6&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZbAWX63ph64/Rm-KtKfqwYI/AAAAAAAAAAU/2urz9qNgZEQ/s1600-h/nby6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZbAWX63ph64/Rm-KtKfqwYI/AAAAAAAAAAU/2urz9qNgZEQ/s320/nby6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075427813585764738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With respect to the baseline &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;B&lt;/span&gt;, we can have two lines &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;q&lt;/span&gt;, each dividing the point set into equal half and region trapped as shown in figure would be equal to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;n/6&lt;/span&gt;  on each side. ( n/6 is written outside the circle to make it readable ). Now, as shown in the prequel post, we can have a line &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;r &lt;/span&gt;which will divide the two point sets ( each of size &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;n/3&lt;/span&gt; ) into two equal half. This line &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt; need not be concurrent with &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;q&lt;/span&gt;. Let the triangle trapped between these three lines is equal to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;. As we rotate this configuration &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;180 degree&lt;/span&gt; the area will become &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;-A&lt;/span&gt;. Again, from intermediate value theorem we can state that area will be &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;0 &lt;/span&gt;at some configuration making &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt; concurrent to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;q&lt;/span&gt;. Thus, each segment will have size &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;n/6&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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I am copying his mail verbatim below followed by the solution that I have in mind.&lt;br /&gt;---------- Puzzle ------&lt;br /&gt;NECKLACE PUZZLE #2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two circular necklaces with same number of three types of  gemstones,&lt;br /&gt;but the gemstones may be strung in different order along the necklace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the two necklaces are placed on one top of the other so that the&lt;br /&gt;gems are aligned&lt;br /&gt;one above the other. Count the number of locations where the pair of&lt;br /&gt;gems (one from&lt;br /&gt;the lower necklace, one from the upper) is of the same type.&lt;br /&gt;Since one necklace can be rotated relatively to the other, there are&lt;br /&gt;many orientations&lt;br /&gt;in which the count of matching gems can be taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prove that there is at least one orientation where the number of&lt;br /&gt;matches is at least&lt;br /&gt;a certain number v.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the special case of equal numbers of each kind of gem, v = N/3,&lt;br /&gt;where N = total number of gems in one necklace (and 3 kinds of gems).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. prove this for the special case.&lt;br /&gt;2. find, with proof, value of v in the general case (with m kinds of&lt;br /&gt;gems not necessarily equal in number).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some clarifications:&lt;br /&gt;1. the necklace is circular i.e. its a simple closed loop. so given&lt;br /&gt;two necklaces RGB and RBG,&lt;br /&gt;the second can be rotated wrt first to give three orientations (but&lt;br /&gt;this small example&lt;br /&gt;is unusual because the number of matches is same in all 3 orientations):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RGB&lt;br /&gt;RBG    1 matches&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RGB&lt;br /&gt;GRB    1 matches&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RGB&lt;br /&gt;BGR    1 matches&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so v = 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. "there is at least one orientation where the number of matches is&lt;br /&gt;at least v"&lt;br /&gt;label the orientations from 1 to N. denote the number of matches for&lt;br /&gt;orientation i as m[i].&lt;br /&gt;then " there exists an i such that m[i] &gt;= v" is the more formal way&lt;br /&gt;of saying this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Vaibhav.&lt;br /&gt;------------------&lt;br /&gt;Well, indeed an interesting puzzle. Intially for a few minutes I thought whether it can be proved by contradiction or not. I tried to see whether I am able to hit a contradiction by imagining that "v is always less than N/3". Within a few minutes I realized that this is not going to work. As I remembered the lessons from &lt;a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/%7Esundar"&gt;Prof Sundar Vishvanathan&lt;/a&gt; , I thought of trying to  prove it by induction. Prof Sundar always used to say that most of the proofs can be given by the principle of mathematical induction. This time I did not bank too much on this options as I learnt it from my earlier experience as I mentioned in my previous post. The solution of this proof also along the line which was taught to me by Prof Sundar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proof here makes use of the fact that if expected value of some random variable is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; then there exist a possibility where the random variables has a values at least &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;a.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Let us assume that first necklace is fixed and the second necklace is rotated with respect to the first one. Let us define a random variable &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;X &lt;/span&gt;such that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;X_i = 1 ( if ith gem of first necklace matches with the second one )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;X_i = 0 Otherwise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ordering in the second necklace can be anything so assuming a uniform distribution there.&lt;br /&gt;Calculating the expected value,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E(X_i) = Pr(X_i).X_i = (Number of gems having the same colour as ith gem/Total number of gems)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;For 3 different kind of gems&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E(X) = Sum(i=1 to N) ( E(X_i) ) =  R^2/N + B^2 /N + G^2/N.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the special case where &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;R = B = G = N/3 &lt;/span&gt;we will have&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E(X) = N/3&lt;/span&gt;. As the expected value is N/3 we can say that there is at least one configuration of second necklace which would make the number of matching gems at least &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;N/3&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When there are &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt; kinds of gems, not necessarily equal in number, let &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;C[i]&lt;/span&gt; denote the number of gems of the same kind as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;, where &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; varies from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, for general case the expected value is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E(X) = Sum (i = 1 to n ) ( C[i]^2/N )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Well&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;a nice puzzle indeed. 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Describing a yet another fruitful chat with my friend Sambuddha Roy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day he gave me an interesting problem to think about, which is formerly known as, as he told me, necklace theorem. Two thieves have stolen queen's very precious necklace. There are three kinds of gems in the necklace called R, G and B. All are even. The problem is to divide the necklace in such a way that both the thieves get equal amount of gems of each kind. The necklace can have any interleaving of the gems. ( e.g. RRGBGGRBBBG..... ) &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Prove that it is always sufficient to divide the necklace in equal share by at most 3 cuts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The proof makes use of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ham Sandwich Theorem.&lt;/span&gt; For brevity, I will quote it as HST now on. HST for 2-dimension says that given any two point sets in a plane, there always exist a line which will cut both these point sets simultaneously into half. To say it more formally, call the point sets R and B. Then one side of line will contain at most |R|/2 points and at most |B|/2 points. The same  constraints will be followed on the other side too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; If there is only 1 point set R. For a given direction we can always have a line which will divide R in two. The proof is based on intermediate value theorem. It says that for a continuous function if &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;f(x1) = 0&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;f(x2)=1&lt;/span&gt; then there exist a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;z \in (x1,x2)&lt;/span&gt; such that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;f(z) = 1/2&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that we have two point sets. What we can do is we get a line for point set R. Now we evaluate how this line L behaves with respect to B. Let us define diff(L) = number of blue gems on the left of L - number of blue gems on the right of L. For initial line L, let the value of diff(L) be b. What we can do is rotate this line a bit. We know that for any given direction, we have a corresponding line L which will divide R equally. We will again evaluate wrt B. We keep on doing this until we have rotated the line for 180 degree. At this point value of diff(L) would be -b. From intermediate value theorem, we can state that there will be a line where diff(L) will be 0.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; How about, Ham Sandwich theorem in 3-dimension?? Well, my friend has given me the proof as an exercise. The statement is that given 3 point sets R, G, B in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;R^3 &lt;/span&gt;( or 3-dim space ) there always exist a plane which will divide all 3 point sets simultaneously into equal portion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Now, we need to reduce Necklace Theorem to HST in 3D. Starting from left to right, assign every gem an index i. Plot a parametric curve ( t, t^2, t^3 ) using these indices. HST assures us that we will have a plane &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ax+by+cz+d=0&lt;/span&gt; which will divide R, G, B equally. This plane will divide the parametric curve at , at most 3 points as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;at + bt^2 + ct^3 + d = 0&lt;/span&gt; will have at most 3 roots. Now, it is easy to map these 3 intersection points on the curve to 3 cuts on the necklace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Phew!!! It never occurred to me that this proof will use such weird things. Induction based method was too tempting for me to let me think in some different direction. But the story is not over yet. The proof given above is not constructive. So if we were to find an algorithm to find these 3 cuts we might have to explore all possibilities taking &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;O(n^3)&lt;/span&gt; time. So another exercise would be to try to find more efficient algorithm to find these cuts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The generalization of HST is that given k point sets in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;R^k&lt;/span&gt; there would be always be a hyperplane which would cut all these &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;k&lt;/span&gt; point sets simultaneously into equal portion. Yet another generalization one can think of is that, what if there are more thieves??? Given &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;q&lt;/span&gt; number of thieves and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;k&lt;/span&gt; kind of gems, what would be the upper bound on the number of cuts required?? The answer is due to dold's theorem ( Neither sambuddha nor I have read the proof ). It say that for such situation at most &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;k(q-1)&lt;/span&gt; cuts would be necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; What if there are 3-point sets in two dimension?? Definitely a line would not suffice. An exercise would be to prove that two rays originating from an apex would be sufficient. Give an algorithm for finding them out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Two more puzzles are :&lt;br /&gt;1) Given a point set of size n in 2D, prove that there would exist a pair of orthogonal lines which would divide the point set in such a way that in each quadrant number of points are at most n/4.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Given a point set of size n in 2D, prove that there would exist 3 concurrent lines which would divide the point set in such a way that in each segment the number of points are at most n/6.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; That's enough to tease our brain for a while :D.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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It was the day of &lt;a href="http://www.bitwise.iitkgp.ernet.in"&gt; Bitwise 2007 &lt;/a&gt;. I participated in this contest with Pranjal as my team mate. I had really high hopes and a bit of arrogance as I could claim 26th rank in this prestigious contest last time amongst 2700 participating teams. Bitwise 2006 was my first official participation in a programming contest. Having done so well in my debut, I was dreaming to climb further up the ladder with Pranjal ( who secured 8th rank in Bitwise 2006 ) along the side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The arrogance had fogged the part of the brain which does rational thinking, and I ended up starting  my day without any kind of warm up practice for the contest. I had not even revised any relevant material.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Bitwise 2k7 started a little late than the announced time of 1300hrs. And as usual, I thought to attempt the "easier" problems ( 100 points ) first. It was based on graph theory where one was required to find out the vertice(s) having the minimum distance to all other vertices in a given tree. Initially, I started with an O(n^3) implementation and when I found the response of the system to be "Time Limit Exceeded" ( which was kind of obvious with such a naive approach to the problem ), I improved it to O(n^2). Even though, I tried harder I could neither change the complexity nor the response of the system. After 2-3 failed attempts I decided to concentrate on some other problem and come back to this one at a later time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problem 4, had two parts, the initial part was to decide whether a certain door k out of n will be open or closed having gone through a certain toggling scheme. It was kind of easy. The next part was a variation of the classical Tower of Hanoi problem. No matter how hard I tried, my algorithm was not matching the given sample input/output. I asked the admins to look at the problem again for any possible mistake in the statement or sample input/output. But this time they were not as quick in response as they were for the last event. After around 10-15 questions fired by different teams, they answered only one. The overall contest also had attained height of mismanagement with problem statements being updated several times after the contest timer was started. Having tried for 2-3 hours on Problem 4, to my utter surprise, I found out that many other teams were cribbing about the correctness of its problem statement. I checked the rankings and was shocked to see that none of the teams ( not even those who were sitting at Top 10 ) could solve that problem. So I gave up on this problem too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Then, I started yet another problem having to do with dynamic programming, coins and denominations. It was a variation of the classic denomination problem. Not that it was too hard to do it, I was kind of getting low because of failures and hunger. We went out to have a dinner at a small restaurant just opposite to IIT where we discussed yet another problem involving prime number and modular arithmetic. I thought to give it a shot after coming back, but that damn "Time Limit Exceeded" was not getting out of my sight. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, we decided to give up as we were still sitting at zero where other Top 50 teams begged more than 800 points. I had never been so dejected in a long time. I was literally ashamed of myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today morning I read a couple of articles on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic" &gt; Modular Arithmetic &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_little_theorem"&gt; Fermat's little theorem &lt;/a&gt; and realized why my implementation was not fast enough to defeat that "Time Limit Exceeded" demon. For Problem 1 ( The one with the vertices ) I learned that the middle vertice(s) of the longest path in the tree always have minimum sum of distance to all other vertices. How to find the longest path in a tree? Well, start from any vertex A and find out the furthest vertex B from it. Now start with B and find out the furthest vertex C from B. Path B to C is the longest path and its middle vertice(s) are the ones that we needed to find out. Running time?? O(n)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom line is that I have got rusty. My programming skills and algorithm designing skills have fallen down. It seems I have not been doing much brain stimulating work for a long time. May be this failure is an indication for me to start honing my skills and in addition to giving exercise to my body I should give enough exercise to my brain as well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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Life is going on as routine and events happening not worth mentioning. But something happened that forced me to write today, something that evoked memories of gujarat riots. Yes, I am referring to movie "Parzania".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Last sunday evening me and pranjal went to see a movie at PVR Saket. Though the movie has been praised by critics, I did not like it much. It seems to be a fashion to make movies on "sensitive" issues and show that you ( producer / director and the whole league ) are "concerned" about those who suffered those horrific series of events. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The thing I did not like most about the movie is that they depicted the police force as an evil spectator and accomplice. I am not saying that police was acting like an angel during the events and may be some incidents might have happened which caused the notoriety the police has gained. Bollywood keeps on depicting our police force as a demon and then we all yell that police does not perform its duties very well. If someone who has done good deeds is always been criticized for his/her wrongdoing, will there be any motivation to keep on doing good? Isn't it the case that lack of appreciation cultivates a tendency not to take pain in doing something right ( because no body would care/mention/appreciate )?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I had been there in gujarat. I am born and brought up in gujarat itself. And I must say that the biggest villain was media. Stating baseless rumors as facts, presenting events in a sensitized form, showing provoking clips/statements this is all media has done. Should not they act responsibly? But who is to blame, after all, we like things presented in this manner. We always try to hide our irresponsible behavior by criticizing someone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; So called "Top class" reporter barkha dutt was standing on a lonely highway and screaming there is no security force there? What should I say about that asinine woman? Gujarat has thousands of kilometers of highway, what did she want? A policeman at every 50 meter on the highway and leave the burning cities unattended?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Army batallions were air lifted from Jodhpur to get them as fast to gujarat as possible. Those army men did not took a rest. But did we appreciate? My friends were stuck in vidyanagar because of curfew. No mess, no shops and no food. It was the police who came to the rescue, searching for  such caged souls and escorting them to Anand railway station. They did not ask whether the students that they are helping is hindu or muslim, the just performed their duties. Alas! it all goes unnoticed. When the mob came to our place and burned shops at the ground floor, police did came. What do you think a group of four people, three carrying a lathi each and one carrying a vintage pistol could have done against a mob of 3000 people? I have seen police officers begging the mob to keep cool. And the way they depict in the movie is that police watched the entire scene taking satanic pleasure in whatever was happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Is it police' fault that we do not have enough policemen? Is it police' fault that it is not well equipped and poorly paid? At the time of riots, they were staying in tents in a sensitive areas so that people could feel safe, but no body cared asking them even for a glass of drinking water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Well, may be I had a lot to write but my anger towards the movie was subdued because of the delay in this writing. And even from a movie point of view, having english as a language while you are filming on a lower class background???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Besides, I still don't understand what was the point of making this movie after years of those horrific past. Did they want to revive the wounds of victims? It is such kind of distorted and exaggerated representation which had damaged gujarat's reputation irrevocably. Gujarat was pushed to a sixth place in industrial investment, because they say gujarat is an "unsafe" place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  For me, gujarat is much much safer than any other place in india where girls can stroll at almost midnight without worries. May the peace prevail!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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Writing below some details of the first talk. Though, there were many talks in the workshop. I am able to recall only a few so wont be able to write about all the talks in my posts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unique Role of Java in Programming Language Innovation&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr Bob Blainey of IBM Software group being a distinguished engineer and chief java technologist was no doubt the right person to talk about role of java in driving next generation programming languages and environments. He said that at least three mejor extension of java coming up to aid different programming need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X10&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X10 is a java extension which is designed to address the need for&lt;br /&gt;concurent programming. One can not ignore the major shift towards&lt;br /&gt;exploiting parallelism as much as possible. Next generation&lt;br /&gt;programming languages can not ignore this shift and they have to&lt;br /&gt;provide programmers construct which make use of underlying&lt;br /&gt;parallelism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; There are a few constructs added in java, some of which I am listing&lt;br /&gt;below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Place :- This is a logical construct which can be mapped to physical&lt;br /&gt;place in a sense that a place could be mapped to different processor&lt;br /&gt;or a different machine altogether. The X10 framework assumes&lt;br /&gt;distributed memory model and gives control to program in a GALS (&lt;br /&gt;Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous ) environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Activity :- Activity resembles classical java threads. An activity can&lt;br /&gt;access or modify only those objects which resides in the local place (&lt;br /&gt;place in which the activity is residing ). So if an activity wants to&lt;br /&gt;access a remote object, it has to first create an activity at the&lt;br /&gt;remote place and then have to communicate with that newly created&lt;br /&gt;activity to get the desired result. BadPlaceException is thrown in&lt;br /&gt;case an activity tries to access a remote object.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clock :- Those who are familiar with typical multi threading/multi&lt;br /&gt;programming environments would say that this object acts as a barrier.&lt;br /&gt;Different activities can register themselves with clocks and use it&lt;br /&gt;for the purpose of synchronization. A place can have multiple clocks&lt;br /&gt;and different activities can register for more than one clocks as&lt;br /&gt;well. There is no global clock in the framework which makes it&lt;br /&gt;globally asynchronous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; A container (e.g. array ) can be distributed across places. For&lt;br /&gt;example programmer can decide to distribute array in such a way so&lt;br /&gt;that an array of size 10 ( 0..9) its elements  A[0] A[5] A[6] belong to place1&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;A[2] A[8] A[9] belong to place2. This distribution makes it difficult&lt;br /&gt;to construct a simple for loop which will go through all the array&lt;br /&gt;elements and update it because there is a possibility of a&lt;br /&gt;BadPlaceException. To take care of this situation a projection&lt;br /&gt;operator is introduced. For example,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for( point [i] : A | here )&lt;br /&gt;where "here" refers to the place associated with the given scope just&lt;br /&gt;like "this" refers to the object. This way one can iterate through all&lt;br /&gt;the points ( elements ) of array A only residing within current place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;async( place ) { //some code } - This construct allows programmer to&lt;br /&gt;execute a certain task at a remote place. It is not like a remote&lt;br /&gt;procedure call in a sense that the calling module will not be blocked.&lt;br /&gt;In fact, the code will run as an independent thread which may or may&lt;br /&gt;not communicate back to the calling module after the invocation. In&lt;br /&gt;other words, an asynchronous thread of execution is created at a&lt;br /&gt;remote place to execute certain piece of code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many more constructs were described but unfortunately I am not able&lt;br /&gt;to remember other details :-(.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XJ&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XJ is an augmentation of Java is designed to address need for XML &amp;&lt;br /&gt;Web services. It extends Java syntax as well as semantics. One example&lt;br /&gt;may look like :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Article A = new ( &lt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;&gt; getTitle() &lt; /article_title &gt; &lt;article_body&gt;&lt;br /&gt;getArticleBody() &lt;/article_body&gt; &lt; /article &gt; );&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I am not able to recall the exact syntax but it looked much like the&lt;br /&gt;code I mentioned above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Metronome&lt;br /&gt;--------&lt;br /&gt; Java with a real-time flavour. Major feature is handling garbage&lt;br /&gt;collection with real-time constraints. I really wonder what kind of&lt;br /&gt;algorithms would it take to perform garbage collection with such&lt;br /&gt;constraints. What happens when the GC is halfway through marking the&lt;br /&gt;live nodes and it has to relinquish control to another thread to&lt;br /&gt;satisfy the constraints? Or what is GC is halfway through the&lt;br /&gt;compaction ? I would really like to know the underlying details which&lt;br /&gt;handles these intricacies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like to end this post by a quote which Dr Bob Blainey&lt;br /&gt;mentioned during his talk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Claiming that Java is easier than C++ is like saying that K2 is&lt;br /&gt;shorter than everest" -- Larry O' Brian&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;var sc_project=2062770;
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