Posted by Ankit On October 24th, 2009
...it's the stuff Ph.D. dissertations are made of, as I am in the process of realizing :). How little our world would have made sense if Least Squares fit wasn't around? It's philosopher's stone, panacea, and elixir, all ground into one Euripidean 'deus ex machina' incarnate for grad students.
Posted by Ankit On October 22nd, 2009
...and it would be a crazy happy world. Truth would only be a matter of one's imagination. Fallacies would be the only consistencies and no professor would be smug. People would be generally confused and disoriented and no one would bat an eyelid when sold 5 oranges after paying for 6. It would be a chaotic world with its unsure zombie like citizens walking around on crazy Mobius strip shaped roads. The principle of mutually assured destruction would cease to exist because no one would be sure if 10,000 is greater than 1. Hence countries would stage preemptive nuclear strikes and finish off this stumbling, hobbling world and the rest of the universe wouldn't give a damn.
But there would be advantages, definitely. If somebody asks you what would you do if you had a million dollars, you can simply say that you don't even need a million dollars. And yes, quantum electrodynamics would probably have a believable premise.
Posted by Ankit On May 7th, 2009
Posted by Ankit On April 27th, 2009
'Oh my darling, Clementine' is an American folk song from the Gold Rush times. It's about a miner's daughter named Clementine who dies in a drowning accident while her lover couldn't save her. Hindi song 'Ae dil hai mushkil' was 'inspired' from it:
Posted by Ankit On April 24th, 2009
