Kun Zum La, Spiti, India

Kun Zum La pass, topmost point in valley of spiti.

Chandratal Lake, HP, India

Nature is playing with symmetry at chandertal lake above 4500m.

Kye Monestry - Spiti, India

A view from top of Kye Monestry. These heads are for healing bad powers and keep them away.

Fraud Search Engines

Invention of search engines ease our life. Personally, I use internet search probably 100-200 times a day. Since, Altavista start indexing dynamic pages creating an accurate result start blossing. Two stanford guys did an intense search on this and came out with a most trusted company ever in the history of WWW. Google became the king in just 2 year of its launch. Companies motto "Dont get evil" really appease net surfers. While Google were launching new service and all in free, others were worring about reveneue cost. It was like a master idea to advertise in a open manner without being evil, and soon Google turned to billions.

Many people inspired from google and start working on similar project, another successful project and inktomi search and Gigablast. Some people took a short cut using new technology. In India I found couple of companies which claims that they have built their own search engines, but my skeptism always turn on my head on these claim. Being a computer science student, I know its not a night game to produce accurate searching system.

Dhoondho.com a venture of Dhoondho Labs, claim that they've build a "VIKI" and "COSMOS" (Content OrganiSer for Meaning Oriented Search). I just hopped some quaries and found that this systems is using "RSS" feeds from another engines like MSN and YAHOO. On further investitage I found their cached system senseless and that shows that they are not even crawling a single page. When i contacted this company and talked about what I've found, they said everything is true and they have patents. I investigated further and found that they dont have any patents or virtually they just boasted things without bolstering their comments. In an another incident a famous News channel showed a news about "INDIAN GOOGLE" a new search engine which search pages only from India, on my investigation I found that this search engine is using GOOGLE API with result localization.

Some people work hard to bring something revolutry and in keeping this they spend their whole life, while other just use shortcuts and claim falliciously. Every legit search system should have control on its RSS and Search APIs.

Love fails drug test ... uh oh

Courtney Love is in trouble with authorities in Los Angeles, who say she has failed a drug test and violated her probation.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin issued a bench warrant for Courtney, ordering her to return to court Aug. 19 for a review of her rehab reports.

The judge threatened her attorney to "do something to solve Love's problem, or we're going to give her a year in prison."

Love attended Sunday night's Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson and announced that she's "clean and sober." Courtney could possibly lose custody of Frances Bean Cobain, her 12-year-old daughter with late husband Kurt Cobain.

AP

Just Launched - My Travel Blog

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** ITS MY TRAVEL BLOG. THATS IT **

Python Web IDE

Python Web IDE [Preview Mode]
Originally uploaded by iapain.

I submitted an idea to Google Summer of Code 2006 that to develop a web based IDE for Python and unfortunatly it was rejected by most of the mentors, may be i couldnt explain my idea to them properly. I knew my concept is correct and i start working on it. After 1 month of intense coding and security layer design, I've done something innovative, I search google and didnt find any webide for python. Its still unsecure, I'm working on it and soon it'll be open for Beta testing .

You cant compare a web based application to normal GUI based application, few disadvantages of Web Based Applications.
1. Need high level of security design.
2. They'r slower.
3. Lack of features.
4. Cant be use for intense work.

Why to go Live Web Based Applications?
1. Platform independent.
2. They'r good for leanrning languages and no need to install anything on your PC.
3. Live World like Live run for python tutorials or live documents etc.

Full Size Screenshots:
1. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=185526243&size=o
2. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=185526242&size=o

Pak Spirit

Spirit
Originally uploaded by iapain.

I just crossed Wagha Border and I saw a small boy waving Pakistan national flag in enthusitic manner. Small kids never give fallicious expressions, He probably nourished by great patriots.

Pepsi XXX Coke

Googleidol - Barbie Girl

Google Idol .. really crazy but nice :)

Cambrian Code PwnIt

It was fun to solve cambrian code challange, here are some hints or better answers ;)

LEVEL 1 - CLUE: "/INWARD"
Try to make anagrams using "INDWARD" answer contain a name of scientist

LEVEL 2 - CLUE: "UAFARSMOSDFFOSBRI&WANSPOR"
Click on Ceaser's box

UAFAR
SMOSD
FFOSB
RI&WA
NSPOR

Find metasyantatical words :) like FOOBAR?


LEVEL 3 - CLUE: "0 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
9 A B"

"0 I 0
I I I
I 0 I
0 I 0"

NAME: John Conway Enter the above binary box into the "game of life"

results: "I I I
I 0 I
I 0 I
0 I 0"

now guess answer its easy ;-)

LEVEL 4 - clue: "answer=
"riddle answer here" <---put "egg" here
total = 0
for i in 0...
answer.
length
total = total
+ answer
[i]
end
puts total -
265 # here
is your key "

a box without hinges. key or lid yet golden treasure inside is hid = egg

Ruby ring = Ruby languge complier

Guess answer!

LEVEL 5 - Clue: 4154N1227E

Check out map coordinates 41.54N, 12.27E.

LEVEL 6 - Clue: use the hebrew leters given to spell "love"

Answer: Place the letters in the mouth of the left head
"TH_ GOL__N R_T_O L_SS _ _HOL_"
"THE GOLDEN RATIO LESS A wHOLE

Golden ratio is 1.618

LEVEL 7 - Clue: " 01110000
01110010
01100101
01110011
01110011
00100000
01111001 "


Answer: Turn on the following taps, from left to right: 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 11 12 14 15 16 19 21
Then use 8-bit binary to decode
01110000 = p
01110010 = r
01100101 = e
01110011 = s
01110011 = s
00100000 =
01111001 = y

Completion level - type in all the letters you got from each of the levels you solved

Happy New Year!

2005 past faster than my expectation ... lots of thing remain un touched ... Happy New Year friends! :) I wish, your all wildest dream come true in 2006.

AIM - PowerPC

Recently, i was reading a note on powerpc, yeah right we have it in computer system architecture. I'm really surprised with Apple IBM and Motorola RISC development by this alliance. In 1990s Motorola came up with its first RISC processor, it was doing poor in market. Soon they got combined with IBM and Apple. These vendors came up with PowerPC like G3, G4 and in 2003 IBM came up most powerful G5-64 bit powerPC. Motorola exited with chip market in 2004 by giving birth to FreeScale semiconductor, soon IBM announced to hand over its computer market to a chinese company Lenovo to get back on PowerPC development for Sony Playstation 3 (Cell processor), Nintendo and Xbox 360. In 2005 Apple announced they'd no longer use PowerPC in Macintosh. Apple collebrated with Intel for its computer production. Thats how a era of onr of the great computer architecture turns to game consoles.

Programing with AJAX

Now a days web programing is getting more and more intractive Beside Macromedia developers are using something which dont require 3rd party s/w and if you're a web programmer you always keen to learn about these technology. Recently i was trying to understand Gmail, I was wondering how a new page is coming with actually refreshing the page, at the very next moment i thought its Google they might have written new webserver or something. But today when i saved that page using IE/FireFox i couldnt because i didnt really imagine these things. When i didnt understand what is happening, i start exploring Paul's Blog. He is gmail first official engineer, I was trying to understand the technical words. Suddenly i focused on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and when i explore this work at wiki, i thought thats it!! Google is using AJAX for its variouos applications like Gmail, orkut, Google Map ..etc! I played with it for few hours and i found it auit useful!

What is Ajax?
Ajax applications look almost as if they reside on the user's machine, rather than across the Internet on a server. The reason: pages get updated, not entirely refreshed.

“Every user action that normally would generate an HTTP request takes the form of a JavaScript call to the Ajax engine instead”, wrote Jesse James Garrett, in the essay that first defined the term. “Any response to a user action that doesn’t require a trip back to the server — such as simple data validation, editing data in memory, and even some navigation — the engine handles on its own. If the engine needs something from the server in order to respond — if it’s submitting data for processing, loading additional interface code, or retrieving new data — the engine makes those requests asynchronously, usually using XML, without stalling a user’s interaction with the application.”

Traditional web applications essentially submit forms, completed by a user, to a web server. The web server responds back by sending a new web page. Because the server must submit a new page each time, applications run more slowly and awkwardly than their native counterparts.

Ajax applications, on the other hand, can send requests to the web server to retrieve only the data that is needed, usually using SOAP or some other XML-based web services dialect. On the client, JavaScript processes the web server response. The result is a more responsive interface, since the amount of data interchanged between the web browser and web server is vastly reduced. Web server processing time is also saved, since much of it is done on the client.

If you want to explore more, visit : Visit here

If you dont know what we're talking about, visit:
http://niecdelhi.com/~deepak/newhome/ ( try to save this page and then view offline)

If you're quit interested in development using AJAX then have a look at various tools for various platoform.

Perl
-------
Catalyst A Perl-based framework with AJAX support
CGI::Ajax A Perl-specific system for writing AJAX or DHTML-based web applications

PHP
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HTML_Ajax PHP and JavaScript Ajax
XOAD (formerly NAJAX) PHP based AJAX/XAP object oriented framework.
xajax PHP Ajax toolkit
sajax Simple Ajax Toolkit by ModernMethod
pajax Pajax toolkit
flxajax Flexible Ajax (OOP available in PHP4 and PHP5 versions)

Python
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Myghty Myghty Ajax Toolkit
TurboGears TurboGears Framework

Ruby
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Og/Nitro
Ruby on Rails

Inside you

Stars shining near me,
wind blowing around me.
still missing something without you,
My world is empty without "Loving you"

Trees telling me beautiful stroy,
Peaks telling me tales of glory.
River is making its own way,
My world is looking far away.

Wow! these beautiful landscapes,
no one would like to escape.
Oh! my pictures are without you,
My world is inside you.

Four hikes above numinous Lahaul Valley

Prologue
I am always fascinate toward mountains, since Aditya told me about Lahaul and Spiti valley; i was kinda crazy about it. I was making some plan with my peer Shaurya to travel Lahaul and Spiti Valley but unfortunately again we got some hitches, being an engineer student in India, you don't have time to travel. One day my junior Vibhu wrote me an email showing his interest in travel, we started to work on it but no one agreed on Lahaul and Spiti. After my brief presentation and emails everyone finally agreed to travel to there. True fully, i didnt know that everyone is damm serious about it. I thought its paper plan. On 26th Sept 2005 finally we bought tickets of HRTC Volvo bus to Manali which cost us 810 INR. On the very next day we shoppe some medical stuff from CP, New Delhi for this laborious journey. Shuarya was still in dreams, while others Vinay, Vibhu and me thought its almost done.

Peoples: Me, Vinay, Vibhu, Shaurya Places: Delhi-->Manali-->Rohtang-->Kyelang-->Jispa-->Darcha (Lahaul and Spiti valley) Budget: 3000 INR (include travel expenses) Travel Expenses: 1610 (Delhi-->Manali-->Delhi: Volvo HRTC Bus) + 174 (Manali-->Kyelang-->Manali HRTC Bus) + 80 (Kyelang-->Jispa-->Darcha--> Kyelang HRTC Bus): Total = 1864 INR Machines: HRTC Buses, TATA Truck 501, Army Ashok Leyland, Volvo Buses.

The Travel Night

I was waiting for Shaurya at Metro station, i had imagined him with his bag only, and I didnt know that my imagination is too fallacious. He came with his family in a dashing car. I thought we're going to airport or something and then to Switzerland. Soon i realized its natural. Vibhu the most punctual guy in our group was also late to this tryst. Soon we left to ISBT and fortunately we were there on time. We're trying to find dashing VOLVO bus at creepy ISBT and we found them, they were quite different. I was expecting some young girls near me but unfortunately i was stuck in honeymoon couples.

The Travel Day: Day 1

We were in Manali after a comfortable journey in Volvo, tasty dinner at Haveli and rubbish movies shows. We poked around Manali Bus Terminal, it was same as ISBT but quit small. At 1330 Hrs we had a bus to Kyelang so everyone rushed to a paid locoweed put our stuff in a mini bus named "Hibachi Roadways Transport Corp. Keylong". I was seated with a young man from Kyelang, i start talking about that place. He told me about life and lifelines, BSNL Cellone service and winter stories. As soon as bus started Vibhu shout on me "We dont have water for this 6 hrs journey". 115 kms in 6 hrs it was beyond my imagination. I took myself over the bulky bags, accidental i crushed one eye of a banal old man, it wasnt too hard but i was sorry for it. I bought 3L "Neer" mineral water. Our bus had started and i was surprising, "is this is a Manali-Leh Highway? My town streets are wider than them". I should call that driver a highly trained driver, who roamed us over narrow roads. Within 2 hrs of our journey to Kyelang our bus had stopped for a Tea and Lunch at Marhi, it was very beautiful and quite town. Shaurya was hungry; he bought some cigarettes from Manali and was burning them in that innocent bus. We bought 2 roasted corns which cost us 10 INR, i couldnt eat them because of false teeth, but i guess others had enjoyed a lot. We were again in the bus and passing 13500 Feets Rohatang Pass, i just said "WOW!" i dont know how it came, but it was from inside. It was chilling; wind was string icy rocks and passing our bus. Suddenly i realized that Id die in this single T-shirt. Vibhu was quite bliss with Rohatang Pass and started to take pictures from running bus. "So, we are here" said Kyeland man who was seated with me. It was very dark and only few huts over there, it was Kyelang. Vibhu and I got a warm welcome in that cold night while Shaurya and Vinay jumped over that burning dump. I was scanning the village into my mind and trying to find some resources. We tried cheapest feasible room for a night. That room was quit decent but it was small, its designed for visitors from outside and loaded with all modern facilities like HOT WATER. Soon we took our Dinner from owner which was "Chicken and Veg Chowmin", Shaurya was pretty delightful and waiting for his dinner. As its served by a pink cheek boy his stomach was unplaced with acidity. He took pepfiz(antacid) and slept on a 2-bed set couch with us.

Searching for Adventure: Day-2

We all were fed up of traveling so long in distant places, according to our plan we should visited to Kyelang and nearby places but we headed to Jispa. We took an early brunch which was served by pink cheeks boy. Vibhu was paying the bill and i was asking some man about Jispa. He wears Army clothes and he was drunk. I just show my interest in traveling with him, he agreed to take us to Jispa. Vinay and I were with a new man, he was a nice man and knew many things about this valley. He suggested us to drop Spiti plan as it highly risky. This BRO truck driver knew many things about Leh too. We had a great time with me. While we were enjoying, Shaurya and Vibhu had worst time of there life. We reached to Jispa earlier than them, it was quite strange because we waited for someone about 30 mins during our journey. Jispa was simple and surrounded by big mountains. Bhaga River was passing though its heart. This village was very small and quite. I saw a truck coming toward us and then i saw Vibhu and Shaurya getting off from it. "Thats retarded man" Shaurya shouted, "He was drinking alcohol and driving" Vibhu added. Its quite hilarious for me to imagine that condition. Both vibhu and Shaurya took a deep breath and thanking god that they were safe. We hiked to Advance mountaineering and trekking institution in Jispa, its quite small and limited. As soon as we were into out room, Vibhu started to explore Jispa; he found beautiful river and small sandy beach. Everyone eked creativity and start exploring that beautiful town. We were at river bank after some awesome pictures Vibhu got an idea to cross the speedy river but Shuarya wasnt interested in it. Vibhu and Vinay crossed that river, somehow i convinced Shaurya its quite easy. As i stepped into the water; i realized how wrong I was, it wasnt easy to cross it with shaky Shaurya. I slipped 4-5 times into icy water. Hot stones were something best for our feets, Vibhu was kind of crazy about river i guess he crossed it 6 times while i was happy with twice. We played some other games too, junior was impressive in all adventurous games. We came back and were really hungry, we called home and shopkeeper was Delhi Return and pretty good in English. He told us to head toward Darcha, there were many small Dhabas. Darcha is 6 kms from Jispa, its hardly took 15 mins for us by HRTC bus. We were in Darcha, natural beauty is directly proportional to the distance covered on Manali Leh Highway; so you can imagine how beautiful place was it. We headed to very local food centre, an old man offered us "Thupa, Momos and Maggie" i was thanking god, i had something vegetarian to eat. We ordered 2 Thupa and 16 momos with a veggie maggi. I was happy with Maggie but others were not happy with their non-veg dishes. After very light lunch we made plan to trek 6 kms to Jispa; but Vibhu he wanted to explore it further. It was evening, we were into our room and deciding the Spiti valley. Everyone was garrulous about Spiti valley; Vinay and Shaurya had some problems with funds and Spiti was quite expensive. We played a game. There was only one bus from Rohatang Pass to Spiti and it reached there at 1100 Hrs. It was almost impossible but we were going to try it hard. Soon we took our delicious dinner and went to sleep.

Catching the time: Day-3

We wake up very early this morning, there was a bus at 0645 Hrs from Jispa to Rohatang. Bus stopped in front of us, it was full of local peoples, and we hardly fitted our self inside this small bus. Bus stopped at Kyelang, we couldnt travel anyone in that airtight bus, and so we decided to travel in next bus from Kyelang but it wasnt too easy. We waited for a bus and it was 1030 Hrs in my clock, we almost skipped Spiti exploration. I wasnt sure how'd we travel, but i realized everyone has reservation so i went to bus station and talking to officer. "These fucking bus and people pissed off me" i heard a mid-age lady shouting behind me. She came upright to me and starts shouting further. Few peoples understand English over there but she was angry. I tried to take her in stable state by talking. She was waiting for a bus with her husband since early morning but she didnt know how to catch these airtight buses. I explained the procedure, which i understood few mins ago to her. She was sorry for her cacophonous words. I reached to Rohtang after a comfortable and sleepy journey at 1530 Hrs, it was cold and windy. It simply implied we were late for a trek, therefore we made plan to stay at Marhi. We trekked almost 16 Kms downhill and reached to Marhi at 1745 Hrs. It was chilling, we ate Paranthas at Chamba Dhaba and planned to stay at guesthouse over there. "Hey, we have a wine shop" Shaurya said; "Yes, we should drink Vodka" Vinay and Vibhu added. I was quite shocked because i am an alcohol hatter person, but we were chilling. Shaurya and I bought 250ml Vodka and we had started it as soon as Shaurya put his creepy cigarettes down. Vinay and Shaurya had lost their control after 2 glass or pack whatever. Vibhu was thinking "why the hell we wasted our 200 bucks for this creepy spirit like chemical" and he was right. I was enjoying the show, someone should be in control; so i was the rescue man. It was quite funny to see laughing Shaurya and crazy Vinay in drunken roles while Vibhu was in full control after a small amount. Shuarya puked once into the bathroom and then we slept after a funny evening.

Most Adventurous Day of my life: Day-4

Shaurya and Vibhu planned to trek back to Rohatang uphill. I knew it wasnt easy at 13000 Feets so i was searching for an alternative. An Army trial vehicle was standing in front to our Dhaba; i found some army person eating some food and talked with them. They were from FireBrooke-3 posted at Leh. After 15 mins of open talk they agreed to take us to Rohatang pass in their trial vehicle. It was running slow but it was quite decent. Were at Rohtang in 70 mins. We thought that we were late but again i was wrong. Vinay and I waited for others for 60 mins, so we were early. Shaurya was breathing promptly but very bulky. He decided to cancel the trek. But Vibhu wasnt, we stared our 5 Kms trek on straight mountain, its called "the point". Its at 15000 feets and i didnt know that it'd be too painy for me because breathing was barely possible. I decided to stop before 100 feets to "the top" it was 1000 feets above "the point". But Vibhu and Vinay were still breathing high, they reached to the top, believe me it was very dangerous. My head was paining hard, i read in some book about high altitude diseases; so i started to walk downward. Trekking downward is most difficult thing on the straight hills. I slipped over ice, wacky stones and small plants. But in the end we all were safe to the base. Suddenly weather became worse and cold, wind was too strong and virtually we were into clouds. We took a bus very fast and returned to Marhi. Everyone was bypassing the loo one by one. It was vinays turn, after thirty mins in loo he came out with a big relief. Shaurya and me needed something hot but Vibhu was wrecked he needed some sleep. We came out and ordered black tea and coffee. Vinay came out and said "did you see my money bag" we said no. Soon the story cleared into our mind. Vinay had left his money bag in the loo. "How he can be so stupid, how anyone can be so stupid" i thought in my mind. We tried to find it but we couldnt found it. He had lost his 1700 bucks and driving license. He was feeling sad, we tried to cheer him by a delicious food and somehow it helped him. I made calls to my home and friends as we decided to go home tomorrow.

Returning to Hell: Day-5

We caught the first bus to Manali and we were back to Manali at 1200 Hrs with some hitches due to landslide. We reserved our tickets and went to eat something. Shaurya is a Chinese lover so he took us to a Chinese restaurant. It was quite and best place to tease some girls. We ordered "Tuna Sushi, some chicken, Vanilla Milk-shake, Pancakes and Noodles" Food wasnt very nice for me. Again i took small portion of it and surrendered. Then we went to the ice-cream parlor and enjoyed a big ice-cone. We still had 2 hrs, so we visited to Nature Park in Manali. After nature refreshment, its time for the books. Shuarya found that shop interesting and its was somewhat quiet different. It again shopped necessary stuff for our travel and departs to Manali. We were seated back this time. Two young girls from Sweden and United states came inside in the running bus, they were near us and waving here and there. I helped them with their big bags. Shaurya was quite attracted toward the States girl and he put some cigarettes and acted like a Hollywood hero but he was acting very stupid. Night was quite impossible for me and in the morning we were back to New Delhi. We stated thinking about School and study. It was like we were back to hell.

Travel Article: http://www.worldisround.com/articles/225290/
Photo Albums: http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2119470790&code=18646399&mode=invite&DCMP=isc-email-AlbumInvite
Vibhu's Album: http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2119243584&code=18693605&mode=invite&DCMP=isc-email-AlbumInvite

Leaving to wonder

In four hours, i am leaving to Lahaul and Spiti valley. Its one of the nature nourish valley in India. We'll begain our journey from New Delhi (ISBT) at 8:26 PM IST. Our first stop will be Manali (570 Kms from New Delhi), hopefully we'll be there in 10-12 Hrs. Manali is a famous hill station in India, we dont have any plan to stay overthere. With in 2 hrs we'll depart for Rohatang pass and then Kyelang followed by Gondla. Its the famous check point for a journey to Leh, so we'll get all facilites there. On the very day, we'll leave to Jispa and Suraj Taal. Our next step would be Spiti valley, if everything run smooth, no hectics no landslides no illness then we'd be in Spiti valley. We'll end our journey to Kaza.

Team: Me, Vinay, Shaurya, Vibhu
Machines: Bus(Volvo), Bus(Roadways), Car
Time Span: 1 Oct - 7th Oct.

Indexing Friends!

It'snt any technical entry, my friends please dont close this window."Friends" the most beautiful thing god has gifted us. I just wants to index some of my close friends .. infact not only close ones but also wide ones. Since i stepped into this planet, i've been always around some good peoples ..they lionize me. In terms of computing ..they just helped me to bug free!

Dharm, he is the one .. who dwindle me out from lottsa troubles. [1,1986,2005+]<-- whats it? [1 Key, 1986 When we met, 2005+ we are still friends]

Ashish, Amorous.. i dont know how many time .. he gonna tell me the story of his hearbreaks. [2, 1991, 2005+]

Shiva, he used to kiss my cheeks uaaa .. i cant forget that beautiful time with him. [3, 1991, 2000]

Sushil, Stupid but committed. [4, 1992, 2000]

Rachna and Harpreet .. i guess they were my friends in school [5, 1991, 2000]

Daisy, the most beautiful girl i've seen in my school! [6, 1997, 1999]

Adiya Gupta .."scratch and skimp" .. realtime friend! [7, 2000, 2005+]

Aditya Kedia .. done in clandustine? Aditya [8, 2000, 2005+]

Vipul .. good with me, little bit selfish! [9, 2000, 2003]

Vinay ..lol lol lol nothing to say ..he already kicked my ass for "meeting the girl" post. [10, 2003, 2005+]

Tamanna & Ashi .. dont know how she knows me :D [11, 2004, 2005+]

Anubha, Escapist Chatterbox .. hey Anubha ..i am still waiting for "escapist" test. [12, 2005, 2005+]

Sangeeta, Typical girl [13, 2005, 2005+]

Diksha, see and do [14, 2005, 2005+]

xyz ..some friends whose name arent mentioned here ...they are my friends forever :)

The Billboard

So perhaps it's no great surprise that Google utilizes unusually mathematically oriented recruitment techniques. In fact, these practices have received widespread coverage in the last few weeks and months following the erection of a mathematical billboard in Silicon Valley on southbound Highway 101 near Ralston, California in July 2004. The billboard poses the question of finding the first 10-digit prime number occurring in consecutive digits (i.e., the decimal expansion) of the mathematical constant known as e, which is a transcendental number whose first few digits are 2.7182818284.... The unusal nature of the billboard prompted coverage through numerous mainstream media outlets such as National Public Radio, The Boston Globe, and the Oakland Tribune, as well as (of course) on the internet.




Ed mentioned the puzzle on his MathPuzzle website on July 13, 2004. Minutes after its posting, Wolfram Research CEO and A New Kind of Science author Stephen Wolfram sent the solution as a single line of Mathematica code:

Select[FromDigits/@Partition[First[RealDigits[E,10,1000]],10,1],PrimeQ,1]

{7427466391}

The Billboard, Level 2
Upon determining this value and typing the corresponding URL http://7427466391.com into a web browser, a potential Google employee (or curious MathWorld news story reader) is taken to a web page congratulating him (or her) and providing instructions for the second level of the puzzle, which involves finding the next term of the following sequence:

f(1)= 7182818284
f(2)= 8182845904
f(3)= 8747135266
f(4)= 7427466391
f(5)= __________


If the first two terms look familiar, that's because they are 10-digit portions of the decimal expansion of e given above. In fact, a little extra analysis shows that they are precisely those 10-digit portions summing to 49. After having determined that, it is easy to find the next number, again using Mathematica:

FromDigits/@Select[Partition[First[RealDigits[E,10,1000]],10,1],Total[#]==49&,5]

{7182818284,8182845904,8747135266,7427466391,5966290435}
This is sequence A095926 in Neil Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

While we could likely continue this discussion at least a little further, we prefer at this juncture to leave additional levels of the billboard puzzle to the enterprising reader.

Son of Billboard: The Google Labs Aptitude Test
On September 30, Google concocted an even more challenging recruitment device: the Google Labs Aptitude Test. Hardcopies of this test were also distributed to University of Illinois students in the October 12 edition of The Daily Illini. While some of the questions on the test relate more to computer knowledge and general creativity, many of them are highly mathematical. And for the these problems, Mathematica clearly shows its extremely high mathematical aptitude by solving them easily, especially when guided by a little research on MathWorld and other online resources such as the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Sangeeta's birthday - II

That was the turning point of the day and i wanted to eat some more stuff, but i really didnt want sangeeta to spend her parent's hardearned money. "We should leave now" i said .."Yes sure" she replied in dumpy vocals .. "so, what to do now?" i asked her, as i imagied that she'd like to attend some more seminars .."we should leave" she replied very softly. Soon we headed to the main road of IITD campus and preparning to exit from there. "Wait Deepak!" sangeeta said ..some girls were coming from upright. i guessed that they were her friends and it was well guessed.

No introduction with the girls .. it was pretty obscure for me, i mean it was a manifest! Girls were saunter .. i mean walking in a lazy manner .. and i common thing bt sangeet and me was that we both walk quite fast. We came out from the back exit. 3 girls left us, one joined us .. she was Soumya, I talked with her and i found that she is quite intelligent and serious girl .. really nice.

We came back to ISBT, sangeeta offered me to eat the leftover, its like i was helping her to finish the delicious cake. But her intentions wasnt wrong. I was near to main hall of IGIT. "Deepak, wait here, i'll be right back" she said ... "sure, come back soon" i replied ..you know waiting outside a girls hostel is quite dangerous thing to do atleast for me. Few girls crossed me and saw me very strangly .. i wanted to describe, why the hell i was there .. but i couldnt. Again running Sangeeta came with a big box in her hand, she opened the box and it was a chocolate cake .. girls fav. "Please deepak have it" she said .. i took small piece .. and she wondered that a leap boy just taking the small piece. she joined me .. it was a tasty cake!

"where is my party?" i said after the cake .. "okay you want party, Mc'D?" she asked miserably .."Yes whynt" i replied promtly ..Again i waited for her ... and she came quit fast this time. We enterned in the Mc'D and talked, watched the photos of her childhood... didnt odered anything ..and leaft the Mc'D .. "why you didnt order anything" she asked me ... "surely i'll.. but later its late" i replied .. she thanked me(i saw the emotions on her face) for spending my half of the day with her ..and i guess .. it was the best preasent for a sad friend.