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Kaarthik's Blog: Why not me ?
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~ Thursday, March 30, 2006
At the Five-Year Mark, Agile Manifesto Still Stands: "Five years after the Agile Manifesto was inked, the jury is out on its impact. On the one hand, there is evidence that the ideas put forth by its backers have taken hold, influencing how teams think about software development today. On the other hand, adoption of agile methodologies is only now beginning to get off the ground. " The World's Largest Matrix Computation - Google's PageRank : "The World's Largest Matrix Computation Google's PageRank is an eigenvector of a matrix of order 2.7 billion. One of the reasons why Google is such an effective search engine is the PageRank algorithm, developed by Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, when they were graduate students at Stanford University. PageRank is determined entirely by the link structure of the Web. It is recomputed about once a month and does not involve any of the actual content of Web pages or of any individual query. Then, for any particular query, Google finds the pages on the Web that match that query and lists those pages in the order of their PageRank." ~ Sunday, March 19, 2006
Srinivasa Ramanujan: "Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (December 22, 1887 - April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician and one of the most esoteric mathematical geniuses in the twentieth century. Nicknamed as 'the man who knew infinity,' he had uncanny mathematical manipulative abilities. He excelled in number theory and modular functions. He also made significant contributions to the development of partition functions and summation formulas involving constants such as p. A child prodigy, he was largely self-taught in mathematics and had compiled over 3,000 theorems by the year 1914 when he moved to Cambridge. Often, his formulas were stated without proof and were only later proven to be true. His results have inspired a large amount of research and mathematical papers. In 1997 the Ramanujan Journal was launched to publish work 'in areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan'." ~ Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Dept. of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances - Online Public Grievance Lodging And Monitoring System: "The Public Grievance Lodging And Monitoring System, is an online computerised system over NICNET which has been developed with an objective of speedy redress and effective monitoring of grievances by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances(DARPG) besides providing a faster access to the public." | |