Thank God!! Westeros Got No Internet

In a general slang, we use FBme ,Google or tweet quite instinctively, and it makes an amazing turf for what you want to know.  

You express, You share, You comment, you discuss... 

It is just marvellous, and a wonder that we can do so many things, from anyplace in this world. It is like we all have power of telepathy. In fact, a long time back I read a story, where a guy from earth goes to certain planet X, and there people have power to read other people's thoughts. So this guy, basically wants to rob them, because they leave their shops open, and for the fact that all men there, are honest. So he dared and eventually got caught. He probably deserved it. 

Now consider this, if all men of that planet are not honest, some of them are corrupt officials, government agencies dedicated to their missions, psychotic oglers, and most common people with common vices. In that world, nothing is secure, I have to guard about everything that I say. Its OK, if we are meaning to say "LOL, or What's up". But world is far bigger and has its bunch of issues,  people for example, want to condemn the government, they want to share their pain, and the only platform that they think, they can be heard is these Social Networks. But all of these people are insecure in some sense, and these insecurities are well documented, even backup-ed, and many people use it in some good sense, but this is a sword without a hilt, and hence can be used to harm us, or people we love.

Another concern that I have, is about the notion of my individuality. Hey! I openly  assert that I  want to privy my thoughts. But there are these data-miners and statisticians, that generates model, to what I like, how I feel, and even where I poop. As a human, the notion of being  a sample point of their monstrous data sets, and being averaged to some mixed individual, is quite disturbing. Though they are giving us favourable services in return, but when they say that, they can predict my behaviour, they make me obnoxious and unhealthy.

It is just a thought, and may be I'm over thinking, but the notion that I live in a free country, and can have any free thoughts, doesn't exist anymore. I'm being monitored, analyzed and probably they have already plans for how to tackle me.
Hey!! Watchers, don't bother doing that, I won't pull up any fiasco :P. I have no intention to give you pain. And data miners and statisticians, if you are analyzing me then give me something really good.  

Say, surprise me!!

  

I'm a free soul, a wildling at heart, and  will seek the notion of freedom in these times.

RiXoR 

P.s: All Mr Statisticians and Data-miners, don't take me bad, you are averaging me, and so did I, but if we meet, then say just "Hi"  and not some #tags

A Computer Engineer's Symphony!!

#Geeky #tweaky #freaky
that is my way, O Brother!!
Yo!! I'm an engineer to BOOT
Entered Research in my blackBlue Suit!!

I got nothn, but hey!!
What's up, What's up
 like a while(1) endless loop.

Ooooh!! a hot chick, a ht chik

words fail, like crumbles of BREAD

So I go and say

#me #you #a hot date

And only warmth I felt,

when she slapped my just face

I just mulled over, with copious of code

Hey!! What do u know,

I think I made something rash,

That slap just gave me pockets full of cash!

Life goes, ON and ON

Still I got my three tags

#Geeky, #tweaky, #freaky

RiXoR

Where three roads meet!!

Its been 5 years 11 days, since I first came to IIIT Hyderabad, and now I'm almost done with my journey here, and a new journey awaits for me, although what it is, I have got no clue. I'm interested in pursuing Research via enrollment in PHD program,  get involved in some idea which might become next Google. Or a developer, where salary is good, work range is diverse, from system deployment to operations management, from front end developer to low level optimization. Plus you have weekends all to yourself, go read, trek, or play Casanova. My point is whenever these three roads meet, we must give a moment to ourselves and think.

I'm at this juncture, and although there are three roads, but there is always proxy road. For eg. you can do IAS, MBA or join some business venture. But for now, lets talk about development, say you join some company, you commit yourself to its goals, and get involved in various stages like testing, tool-making or interface development. The product gets released, and you enjoy it over Snacks and Booze with colleagues. In fact, every Friday you have #TGIF moment. However your product is actually out there, helping someone directly or indirectly. For example, today I found a startup named Soluto, and it offers a solution from which you can manage and repair the PC's located at your home, or your uncle's home. It is useful utility that one might want to have if your parents are not geek themselves. On the other hand, I have many bleak examples of people, whose contribution never saw the light of the day, or saw but were unable to survive. Another thing that I find amusing about the development, is that sometimes you keep developing stuff, that is already out there, like cloud storage service, which Dropbox first offered, is now offered by Microsoft, Amazon too. And even when you are done with development, other party has already gained some momentum in market. There is a little fun in that, at least to me. I'm also well aware about the history of big punks like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook etc, and what I can gather is that all of them came up with one original product, which were all awesome, and then they kept exploiting their product to extend in the ways, that lead to development of Google+(Facebook), GoogleDrive(Dropbox)  and much more.
And I think most of the people have grown into this practice, and our Software Engineering science has grown into managing these kind of things.

And now let's talk about "research", the word is cool in itself, to find things that we were unable to see till now, although they were there. And when I talk about research, I mean to put invention, discovery and adventure all in the same context. It is what I thought the research was, when I first joined, but gradually I learned that Research is more like years of Jazz and Blues with one night of Rock or Karaoke night. You don't always get expected results, you need to pick right problem at right time. In research your valuation depends on what you deliver, and what you deliver has nothing to give to present generation, than you must become Professor or something, because world moves most part of Research, and at some point of time you might wanna ride on it. But there are guys, who rides their passion like a Dothraki stallion, and their research might shake the world. In research, you must have a clear notion of what satisfies you, you may get satisfied if you are making tools that make it easier for people to work in certain domains. There can be thousand things that you can expect from research, for example Richard Feynman used to teach when he was not working on some problem, and we all know that he was one of the greatest teacher. Same goes for David Hilbert, he used to do research and touch the boundaries of his subjects and when he got enough hang of that subject, he would  shift his focus on another subject and pursue it like a newbie, and finishes it like a master, by giving something valuable to the subject.And as for Paul Erdos, it was always to meet new minds at new places, and collaborating with almost everyone who has a good problem in his hands.

All these are very crude examples, cause I'm just a simpleton, yet the process to research is that tad simple. I hope I've made a quite distinction between these two roads, and it might help me to sort out some of the hidden notions involved.

Ronak  

#Wednesday

My morning started early, and I don't  know why, but I was moody. May be it was weather, or the thought of having Biryani at lunch, or may be the sudden appearance of our wing Ninja, Akhil. There is an upcoming marathon in Hyderabad, so I thought why not jog, but as I stepped out of bed, I felt a twitch near my ankle. So there goes my grand dream of winning "Half-Marathon".

Yet, it was damn Wednesday, so I thought why not give research a #Wednesday start. So I went, and saw lab all to myself. In the lone galley, I thought I could do some nasty things, so I configured a ssh tunnel, which linked all of PCs in my lab, such that I could use their speakers at a time. And when it was done, I played "Duaa" of Shanghai, and as awesome it was, it did some more wonders to my mood.

By the time, I finished reading my mails, I began to patch few papers into my thesis material. As easy it sounds, it takes a lot of time to figure out what to pick and what not to. And today is official release of Shounen manga, so I'll have fun reading manga and mangaspoilers.

It is still early, so I cannot account for what goes next on this F***ing fine day, although one thing is sure, Pulkit will come nagging, no matter what day. I think that is constant thing in my life, these days, and I don't know why I'm saying this, but it gives the sense of life, with things moving and unmoving.

To conclude, I would say "Jaag Jao!!, this is #Wednesday"
        

My Thoughts on Biographies!!

We all aspire to be somebody, somebody we have respect for, somebody we love, and somebody we cannot be without. This is how we progress from our childhood to adulthood. That being said, I want to share a few thoughts about biographies.
   
Well, these days, almost all legends, be it musicians, be it scientists or Steve Jobs, have biographies apart from their awesome work, as their legacy. I, myself did read a few biographies, like that of Paul Erdos, Richard P. Feynman and Hitler, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading those. I mean they were all awesome people, some genius and some really bad-ass and if nothing, I like knowing what kind of friends they had.

Then again, one of my friend prefers to meet people rather than reading about people, he thinks that it is not worth his time. He also raises a fair issue, why to peek into others life, when we have our life to make. It may seem as kind of conservative statement, but it also has a sense of freedom which tells us to be a man like none before.
 
Sometimes, when I'm reading about some famous guy, and I find that few of his habits matches few of mine, and here I began thinking, I can also be that guy. And based on the proposition that, I can be that guy, I began to build a new world based on that. Later, of course, I realize that such world is not real and I come back to being Ronak Kogta. I know most of time, imagining such worlds are futile, but there might be a world, that can raise adrenaline in your blood, and you feel so exhilarated, that make you feel like DON!!  I'm not kidding, this happened to me, in summer of 2010, I was bored by the research perspective of IIIT-H, and I went home and read about Paul Erdos, "The Man Who Loved  Only Numbers", and again this heat of research began building up in me. I then decided that I want to become a researcher like Paul Erdos. I wanted to have his attitude, and luckily I got a chance to volunteer at ICM 2010 (International Congress Of Mathematicians), which was luckily happening in India for first time at Hyderabad. I originally volunteered because money and incentives were good, but what I didn't know was the scale of this conference. In this conference, I talked to many professors, and I shared my ambition with some of them, and I made one professor my uncle. I got a tiny role in documentary, in which I was discussing about Gauss with Cédric Villani, the Fields Medallist. And I got an interview in E-Nadu, a telugu newspaper. But these were flashy parts, really when I attended talks, I couldn't understand a thing they were saying, I tried to understand but it was beyond my limits. I was happy, but I also realized that this was not like Paul Erdos's life.
I think, the thing I got after reading the book, was that Mathematics is cool, but really it takes something else from "cool" to understand what really mathematics is. After this, I stopped reading biographies, because they really make a little sense in our lives. We can read about person, but I think we can never really understand what a person is like, what kind of friends he had from reading biographies.                  
Although reading those was not futile, as I finally decided to hang up on research, though it is not at all like Paul Erdos's method of research, it lead me to a certain way of thinking, and that is what I look for when I read.
Different people have different opinions, and different way of doing things, some may seem to touch you, while others will lame you out. And that is what interesting, and I think every man's biography can be interesting, it is just that we prefer to read only about people that influence us.

P.S: Sorry, for being so philosophical, but I love being philosophical :D