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xii.tex
\let~\catcode~`76~`A13~`F1~`j00~`P2jdefA71F~`7113jdefPALLF ( Read more... ) -
Do you know where your towel is?
Happy Towel Day everyone! :-) -
Python easter eggs
I just found out the following.
Open the Python interpreter, and type the following:
>>> import thisIt responds with:
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters ( Read more... ) -
LaTeX
Most, if not all, astronomers use LaTeX to write their papers and other stuff. Recently I have been looking at various things that LaTeX and various packages can do ( Read more... ) -
chaos
Nike cricket commercial (because 2007 Cricket World Cup is starting in less than a month).
If there are any cricket players in the ad, I couldn't recognize them. Maybe it's because it's been ages since I followed cricket actively. I hope there's an India-Pakistan match in the World Cup, which I will definitely see ( Read more... ) -
SETI@Home found something!
SETI Finally Finds Something (from slashdot). -
S(0) = e; S(k) = V(k)S(k-1), k >= 1
Some random ‘computer science-related’ stuff:- The Complexity of Songs (pdf) by Donald Knuth the creator of TeX, and the author of The Art of Computer Programming
- Steganography is the art and science of hiding messages. I read about it on slashdot (and can't find the article now). steghide is a program to hide secret messages in image and audio ( Read more... )
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My AAS post
Since everyone is doing it, here's my post about the AAS meeting.
One of the goodies I found at this meeting is called Tricky Dick. Never mind the name, the puzzle is hard. I haven't really solved it, because my ‘solution’ involved the disk going through the loop, and if you read the description in the link above, that is not allowed.
