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How to refute Creationist

January 5, 2008

I frequently get into this sort of argument over lunch table. Best illustrated in the pic here. Source Similar links: That’s what is Science, Why am I no-believer ? If you liked the cartoon, watch this :

Pirates of Silicon Valley

July 20, 2007

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I was watching this movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, last weekend. Hugely entertaining and informative at the same time. Purely made for geeks. Sorta spoof but not far from the real story.All about the historical battle between Microsoft and Apple over the War of PCs and OS.You get to watch younger nerdy Bill Gates, Design [...]

TCP split into TCP and IP

March 4, 2007

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We all know about IPv4 and IPv6. But that doesn’t lead us to think about previous versions. There were versions likeTCPv1TCPv2Later it was split into TCP and IP in 1978 as TCPv3 and IPv3Finally we arrived at TCP v4 and IPv4

1 Mbps connection = 1,000 Kbps

February 14, 2007

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I saw another post about this confusion of bits and bytes, and was not convinced with the representation. So trying to illustrating here my way. The Internet connection speed is measured in bits.Megabits (Mb) or Kilobits (Kb). 1 Mbps connection = 1,000 Kbps It is not the same as Megabytes (MB) or Kilobytes (KB) that [...]

Chidmbara Rahasya, directed by Prakash Belawadi

February 13, 2007

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My Second visit to Ranga Shankara in a span of just one month. This time around with my parents over the weekend.Play : Chidmbara Rahasya, directed by Prakash Belawadi The story is sourced from KP Poorna Chandra Tejaswi’s novel by the same name.Initial part of the play is intriguing with a mix of street politics, [...]

Strength of Electric Current

January 31, 2007

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I never had a good feel or the measure of the strength of electric current. Had questions like what’s the power of a current when they say 1A, 100 A or say 200 mA and so on. You don’t get a picture I was reading Floyd’s Electrical Fundamentals this morning. Very well illustrated book for [...]

That’s what is Science.

January 16, 2007

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Any ball tossed up on earth’s surface returns with an acceleration of 9.6 m/sec2.Throw it any number of times. I mean ANY.It returns with the same acceleration.That is consistency.And it is measurable. That’s what is Science all about. Consistently measurable with the same accuracy. Anything which is immeasurable, or not yet understood is still a [...]

Historica

January 15, 2007

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This is what it read in Businessline’s supplement this morning.I quote two lines. Every job on this planet is boring and monotonous, if you don’t understand the science behind it.So very true. But let me take some time to talk about history than science.Be it Iraq crisis, India’s Satelite Program, New book of Richard Dawkins,Cricket [...]

On buying a Notebook

January 8, 2007

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Saturday I was there at Koramangala ezone and Jayanagar with my friend Aju, who was buying his notebook. What one should look for buying a notebook.Here’s list of things from top of my head- Core Duo processor( Intel or AMD, choice is yours. AMD powered ones are little cheaper.64 bit processors are the new age [...]

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

January 5, 2007

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I read the review of this book couple of days back.The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I faintly remember the exact words which appealed me in the review. I did a look up on the net.This is what sums up the theme of the book in Dawkin’s words. “I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because [...]

Communication Satelites are mirrors

January 3, 2007

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Communication Satelites are nothing but mirrors at very high altitude.You send out the signal from the earth station all the way to the satelites.( Uplink)Satelites ( transponders) in turn pick up the weak signal which travelled long distances,boost them and retransmit back ( downlink) to many earth stations. Tata Sky DTH provider has leased 12 [...]

Why GSLV is more special

December 29, 2006

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Visited HAL Aerospace museum with a School from Coorg yesterday.If you want to understand the Indian Aviation program, this is the place. Pictures of early days of HAL, Models of MIG,SUKHOI and LCA, Engines of the flyers,etc Well putup.My second visit. There is one picture in the first floor of the museum. It is a [...]

Scientific American Indian Edition

December 22, 2006

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I hit a new shop at church street y’day evening. Magazines. For a moment you’ll wonder if the world is really so very crazy about the magazines.I never knew that Scientific American is available in Indian edition now.But their online India edition is a letdown.Grabbed Dec 2006 copy. Costs you 100 Rs. Sadly we do [...]

Distance between Earth and Moon

December 17, 2006

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I was reading Frontline magazine this morning. It carries an interview with ISRO chief. Madhavan Nair. It talks about India’s Chandrayana Mission of 2008.Picked up few facts.Distance between Earth and moon : 4 Lakh Kms.Our geostationary satelites revolve at 36000 Kms…( roughly half a lakh) In the picture, the observer is 350,000 miles away from [...]

Sun and Earth side by side

December 5, 2006

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Look at sun and earth side by side….How amazingly tiny this planet is. The Sun’s mass is about 333,000 times Earth’s mass!!! Even more amazing is…how is that we still haven’t found another ‘dot’ similar to planet earth which houses any living creatures!

BarCamp Bangalore Day 1 Impressions

December 3, 2006

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Before the things gets erased from my head, let me have my take onsome of the sessions I picked to attend at the barcamp today. We had this introduction of the presenters in the morning. This was good because, everyone could decide,based on the few seconds of pitch the speaker going to give, especiallywhen there [...]

Operation of a Transistor

November 7, 2006

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I tried very hard in my second year of engineering days to understand the operation of a transistor. It just did not create any picture in my head. When semester exam dates pressed on, I learnt that thing ‘mechanically’ and moved on. Let those text books take most of the blame and part of it on [...]