Allegory of Bug Fixing
With the project entering the alpha testing phase, yours truly
De-Bugger is busy doing something metaphorically similar to the following ...
Calvin is to Programming what Sun Tzu is to Management !
Problematized !!
The product I'm working on has its beta release somewhere in November. Design, Development, Testing & Debugging everything is going hand in hand in my module(having just two guys). Under such a hectic scene, my plan to goto Delhi has made the matters worse. Have been working late and during the weekend too :( trying to wrap things up before I leave.
In the middle of all this, I found myself killing a lot of time in some mathematical problems which came through Sundar last week. One of them was a fundoo programming excercise...
Let S = {1, 2, 3, …, 3n}. We define a sum-3-partition of S to be a collection of n disjoint 3-subsets of S, Ai = {ai, bi, ci}; i = 1, …, n such that the union :
A1 U A2 U…An = S. Within each triple Ai, some element is the sum of the other two.
For example: {1, 5, 6}, {2, 9, 11}, {3, 7, 10}, {4, 8, 12} is a sum-3- partition of {1, 2, 3, …, 12}.
(a) Find a sum-3-partition for {1, 2, 3, …, 15}.
(b) Prove that there exists no sum-3-partition for n = 1998.
Thanks Sundar,
**Its impossible to thoroghly enjoy solving such problems unless one has plenty of work to do.
Mockery ...
If there's anybody who looks forwards to Saurav Ganguly's Press Conference after India's loss its none other than press itself.
But he never fails to piss cricket fans off with these cliched statements:
1. "We are one of the Best Teams ON PAPER".
2. "FORM is temporary, CLASS is permanent".
First one really makes me wonder
if he's talking about Cricket or TIC TAC TOE.
The other begs an obvious question :
"Jusy how far can we strech `temporary` before it becomes `perpetual` ?"
ON PITCH, Indian Cricket Team is a bunch of
NON PERFORMING CHOKERS, surely in an
Exclusive CLASS of their own.
A Combinatorial Explosion Puzzle ...
This problem (
again) came thru roomie. It took some unsuccessful scramblings on paper & I succumbed to the desire of solving it empirically i.e. by making a C - program. Apart from proving how stupid I am, the program did give some insights but NO SOLUTION AS YET :(
Right now I'm thinking about some more/better set of constraints for the program or preferrably a theoretical solution.
The problem `
looks` "
interestingly simple"; want to put here while its still fresh in my head...
There are two positive integers x & y (both greater than 1).
And there are two guys A & B.
A knows the sum of x & y and B knows their product.
They have this conversation ...
A says "You dont know the numbers"
B says "Now I know the numbers"
A replies "Now I also know the numbers"
Find x & y.
My Transitive Acquaintance
My collegue Prady showed me
Kalyan Varma's website today. Kalyan, like Prady is one of the first few members of
B'lore Linux User Group. Nandi had told me long back about he being
root @ PESIT network & how he was literally handpicked by Yahoo!
Sundar told me he was the recepient of the
Superstar in Y! award. Also, his father Prof Alluri is a part of IIIT-B faculty. However, its NOT
`Linux` or
`Hacking` why I'm ranting about him, but Photography.
Check this out and get bowled over. Now thats what I call
"THE WOW!! PHOTOGRAPHY".
FWD:
Two stupid forwards can ruin your entire day...
This addictive "penguin game" killed more than 2 hours of mine today.
By the way my top score till now is 320.6 ;-)
Evening, I get this irritating forward ...
Hi All,
Go to this link, and if u r interested, donate your eyes and give life to two persons. The link is www.sankaranethralaya.org/patientcare/form.html
If you have already donated, then pass this on to your friends, I hope you also forward this to the maximum memebers that you can.
Lets do the best and hope for the best....
Keep Smiling n Mailing,
Now what does "
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY `DONATED`" mean !!!
"
Lets do the best and hope for the best...". Screw yourself !
And "
Keep Smiling n Mailing" ??? Who am I ? A mailer daemon ?
I abhor these forwards ...
