Sameer Ahuja http://sameerahuja.com Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:34:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Research advice http://sameerahuja.com/blog/research-advice/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/research-advice/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:34:50 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/research-advice/
Find a way to do your research with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love! That is my advice, my friend.
Feynman to Wolfram, via lettersofnote.com

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/research-advice/feed/ 0 Sal Khan's Khan Academy http://sameerahuja.com/blog/sal-khans-khan-academy/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/sal-khans-khan-academy/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 02:04:06 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/sal-khans-khan-academy/ “When you read that, you’re like, okay, screw the hedge fund world.”

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/sal-khans-khan-academy/feed/ 0 Maria's Story http://sameerahuja.com/blog/marias-story/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/marias-story/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 01:24:28 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/marias-story/ In other words, the “default” body plan is female, and a fetus will go down this path unless diverted. It is as if the God of the Bible, in a departure from the usual story, actually made Eve first, then took one of her ribs, added some testosterone and other male hormones, and presto: Adam.

via medhelp.org

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/marias-story/feed/ 0 The Indian Premier Tamasha http://sameerahuja.com/blog/the-indian-premier-tamasha/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/the-indian-premier-tamasha/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:57:06 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/the-indian-premier-tamasha/
via photogallery.indiatimes.com

Apparently, cricketers making fools of themselves on stage with semi-talented Bollywood actresses…
…is a good idea.

I know so little.

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/the-indian-premier-tamasha/feed/ 0 The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov http://sameerahuja.com/blog/the-last-answer-by-isaac-asimov/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/the-last-answer-by-isaac-asimov/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:16:17 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/the-last-answer-by-isaac-asimov/ For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

via scritube.com

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/the-last-answer-by-isaac-asimov/feed/ 0 Movies and cultures http://sameerahuja.com/blog/movies-and-cultures/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/movies-and-cultures/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:52:00 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/movies-and-cultures/ Here’s the trailer for a movie about an overweight girl trying to find her soulmate:

And here’s the trailer for a movie about a girl whose love life gets muddled with a series of murders:

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/movies-and-cultures/feed/ 0 Embracing the digital book http://sameerahuja.com/blog/embracing-the-digital-book/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/embracing-the-digital-book/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:28:47 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/embracing-the-digital-book/ So consider this: 10,000 of us reading the same Kindle book, each of us highlighting and taking notes. Would the aggregate of this not be illuminating? If I want to publicly share my notes with fellow Kindle or iBooks readers, shouldn’t there be a system in place to do this?

via craigmod.com

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/embracing-the-digital-book/feed/ 0 FSJ on Gruber http://sameerahuja.com/blog/fsj-on-gruber/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/fsj-on-gruber/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:15:29 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/fsj-on-gruber/ I keep telling him, John, dude, I love you like a son, but you’re letting this get to you, it’s getting under your skin, you need to let it go

via fakesteve.net

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/fsj-on-gruber/feed/ 0 •••> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:44:00 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/blog/%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2/ The dots are permutations of system settings, and the ghosts are possible resolutions. Finish the dots before meeting the ghosts, and you get to eat them again on Level 2. IT Support is the perfect antithesis of PacMan.

]]> http://sameerahuja.com/blog/%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2/feed/ 0 My Windows 7 Themepack http://sameerahuja.com/blog/my-windows-7-themepack/ http://sameerahuja.com/blog/my-windows-7-themepack/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:15:56 +0000 sameer http://sameerahuja.com/?p=200 I just discovered that it takes one click in Windows 7 to pack all my wallpapers, sound scheme, and Aero color scheme into a single file, and another click to load it onto another Win7 PC. Given that information, I just had to create a pack of my own. Lo and behold, here’s a themepack with all my favorite wallpapers that I’ve acquired over months of idle time, along with my favorite Aero color scheme (Gray), and my favorite sound scheme (As few as possible). If it interests you, here’s the link:

SA.themepack

Be warned though, it’s huge (~89MB). It has several wallpapers, and they are as super-high-resolution as I could get. The wallpapers are all from publicly available sources, and I’ve been careful to not include any restricted content. However, remembering all the sources I’ve acquired them from is beyond my human capacity, so let’s just thank the Internets for them. If you own the rights to a wallpaper in the pack and would like me to remove it or to credit you in this post, please send me an email using the contact page, and I’ll do that in a jiffy.

Oh, and when you get to END wallpaper, please excuse me for it. You know I had to do it.

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