Interesting Things

.. Nay I got nothing to ramble but still some things looked interesting. First the [relevant .. to me] tech stuff : i) MotionDSP takes its first step ii) Nokia hitting the car navigation market iii) Grameen Bank bagging the Nobel [An year back or so I talked to Vidit about this. It took sometime for him to realize that I wasnt kidding.]

… a rather different Towers of Hanoi problem

..So here is another good variant of it : [I am not going to give the answer this time though] Say we have the same traditional three towers but the discs are in random order on one of the towers. Now the question is to determine if the order [i.e. no disk is above a smaller one] can be restored while sticking to the orignal rule [that no disk shall be on the top of a smaller one].. If possible give an algorithm to do that too. You are given the orignal order of the disks on the tower… [I first tried by mapping to sorting with some constraints on the temporary space.]

Blogging — 3rd Innings

So, nearly after a month’s break.. I am back to blogging editing this post. A good number of events passed and all of themwere good in some or the other sense for me. And then, after another happy weekend I was returning from MacD and the ‘M’ there somehow looked like wordpress’s ‘W’ and it occured to me that I had stopped these ramblings for so long. Meanwhile, guys like DP have put excellent stuff here and a good collection elementary mathematical physics and Geometry is here. It is too funny.. while I was at IIIT, I had umpteen number of things to ramble about and now all I can think is projective geometry, joint distributions, food at subway/McD and a good sleep in my room. Today’s corporate environment [even a liberal one like that of Sarnoff] seems to be affecting the creative prowess of indivduals… sure work at IIIT used to go at much lower pace than what I am doing right now.. but there is also a fear of that ‘mechanical‘ word. So to keep myself away from that I started reading blogs again and ocassionally have a shot the problems in  my old Dorofeev/Gardiner  [if you dunno these books.. go and jump in the nearest well ]. Hope it works.. and then I am also letting my addiction to the blast billiards grow. Apart, its the same as IIIT here..the thing that I am really missing is the multiplayer AOC games that I used to play regularly.

A silly question.. [junior srujan first gave it to me.. quite a simple one though].

Find the next number of this sequence : 1, 20, 33, 400, 505, 660, 777, ?