Babu Srinivasan on January 20th, 2010

Video lectures of MIT course 6-00Fall-2008 “Introduction to Computer Science and Programming” are available as part of open courseware. One of the topics is “Dynamic Programming” where the knapsack problem is discussed. The programming language used in the course is Python. I wish however that scala or haskell was used instead.

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Babu Srinivasan on January 15th, 2010

In the US, MPAA assigns ratings like G, PG-13, R ratings to movies. In India, the censor board assigns ratings of U (Universal) and A (Adult).

In the US, when you go to a movie with a G

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Babu Srinivasan on January 10th, 2010

When learning a programming language, won’t it be nice if you can get some instant feedback on your code? Of course, you cannot expect feedback on bugs in your program. But each language has some built in functionality and idioms…

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Babu Srinivasan on October 21st, 2009

In today’s news:

While China continues to claim Arunachal Pradesh as its own, technology giant Google seems to have decided to take a line to please both Beijing and New Delhi. On the Google Maps site localised for users

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