Archive for the ‘Dileep's’ Category
Woodworm Metamorphosis - A “Coming of Age” Story
GROSS-ALERT: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS IMAGES AND VIDEOS CONSIDERED TOO GROSS FOR YOUNG AND SENSITIVE VIEWERS. DISCRETION ADVISED.
So my parents bought a new cot made of a variety of jungle hardwood that has proven notoriously difficult to identify. A few months into the purchase, strange periodic noises emanating from within the cot began to [...]
Random Climate Change Musings
Somewhat out of character, this will be a pseudo-meta-post with near-zero original content. Let us begin with what I read in the papers today:
(Ahem) Even economics majors reacted with a face-palm (>>).
Humour aside, what really got me into writing about something this clichéd and media-hijacked is humanity’s blatant amnesia at display everyday on TV and [...]
Analyticity Matters
Ever since KVM posted his dissection of Rubel’s UDE paper, I’ve been wanting to address this issue he raised:
I’m still amazed and can’t quite fully digest the fact that a perfectly smooth function can be non-analytic. I mean, consider the exp(-1/x) function. If you stand at the origin, you have no clue what happens as [...]
Classical Fun with Polarisation
Look what Dad brought back from his trip to Germany!
Apollo Optik. An expensive, and an unknown brand to me. But to my delight, I discovered that they were polarized!!
For the uninitiated, light is a self-propagating electromagnetic field disturbance. I’m tempted to call it sourceless, but fact is, that all light is generated by charges in [...]
On Free-Energies and “Higher-Learning”
This tiny post was originally conceived to appear in “Really Cool Derivations“, the working title for an unpublished study companion meant to pain young upper middle-class students from semi-orthodox Indian families who weren’t romantic enough to indulge in the arts and were consequently conscripted into training for entrance exams conducted by elite institutions of “higher-learning”. [...]
Hivemind - A Case Study
(On humanity’s first Internet collective conscience)
The following text has been composed in drab and condensed deep-voice-narrative and will seem boring to some due to lack of voice or background score. Use the hyperlinks to keep yourselves immersed. Be advised, this makes for one heck of a long read if done right.
Those of us who dwell [...]
Speaker of Aether
So I’m sitting at my computer, immersed in a literature survey for my term project, listening to TOOL at full volume, when all of a sudden I hear a loud “dit-dit-dit-dit-deeeeet–ditditdit-dit—–dit——dit——dit”. Took me about three seconds to realize it’s coming from my speakers. So then I went, “ET!!! WOOHOOO- I KNEW IT!!!”
But, as some wise [...]