Over some years ago, I had learned great deal of assembly, essentially the 8086 instruction set.
Part of the reason was, that I used in in my undergrad project.
Now,after like 4-5 yrs I am again trying to see the assembly code(thanks gcc for providing conversion) ,and MAN! that code I do not recognize, movl, movd, movq ,movzbl there are like a thousand variations of mov itself ...
although feels good to see at something you did long ago...
:)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
My genetic journy (ripoff by natgeo)
It is said, since ancient times, that all brahmins belonging to our subcast are decendants of ancient vedic rishis. These rishis have gotras in their honor. I belong to Gotra of Vatsa (sometimes called Srivatsa).
Now, I had this idea when I saw that natgeo is doing this genographic thing that could trace back my ancestors to a group, defined primarily by some thing called genetic marker. A marker is as they put it, a small mutation that occurs in this case, in the Y chromosome,and because this marker is passed unchanged from a man to his son, its perfect way to form trees such that the person at root is great ancestor of everyone of the leaves.
They lived in between pakistan afganistan border, between rivers of saraswati and sindhu(indus).
Ok, so after shelling out 110$ ,and after waiting for like 3/4 th of a year(ARRGH!) they finally posted my result. So, was it interesting ? Totally. Was it a rip off ? YES TOTALLY.
The thing is, the items that they promise on their webfront ,arent all delivered instead I got only one "online" page, that documented my dna as R1b1 p25(snp present) . And told me that these markers are found in abundance in Western europe and iberian region.I am supposed to be direct decendant of cromagnon.
But what i know : I am direct decendant of great rishis ?
Might it therefore be that cromagnons = great rishis ? [they are btw, always dipicted in coarse clothing and unshaved head tied into a knot, and unshaved beard].
THere is also some classification based on the way they tie the knot, (front,left,right,back).
So, finally I have decided to go further and get classified into one of the possible sub-clads of r1b1.(shelled out another 85$ ).
A quick search reveals that the tribe of Hazara and some people in iran seem to have this varity of r1b1, now I am hoping to be tested as one of them.
If at all, I belong to any other region , then it would for sure mean , that someone got scandalous...damn them whoever that is.
Now, I had this idea when I saw that natgeo is doing this genographic thing that could trace back my ancestors to a group, defined primarily by some thing called genetic marker. A marker is as they put it, a small mutation that occurs in this case, in the Y chromosome,and because this marker is passed unchanged from a man to his son, its perfect way to form trees such that the person at root is great ancestor of everyone of the leaves.
They lived in between pakistan afganistan border, between rivers of saraswati and sindhu(indus).
Ok, so after shelling out 110$ ,and after waiting for like 3/4 th of a year(ARRGH!) they finally posted my result. So, was it interesting ? Totally. Was it a rip off ? YES TOTALLY.
The thing is, the items that they promise on their webfront ,arent all delivered instead I got only one "online" page, that documented my dna as R1b1 p25(snp present) . And told me that these markers are found in abundance in Western europe and iberian region.I am supposed to be direct decendant of cromagnon.
But what i know : I am direct decendant of great rishis ?
Might it therefore be that cromagnons = great rishis ? [they are btw, always dipicted in coarse clothing and unshaved head tied into a knot, and unshaved beard].
THere is also some classification based on the way they tie the knot, (front,left,right,back).
So, finally I have decided to go further and get classified into one of the possible sub-clads of r1b1.(shelled out another 85$ ).
A quick search reveals that the tribe of Hazara and some people in iran seem to have this varity of r1b1, now I am hoping to be tested as one of them.
If at all, I belong to any other region , then it would for sure mean , that someone got scandalous...damn them whoever that is.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
New Scientific language ?
I have been reading quite a lot of journal papers now a days, and I seem to waste most of my time in reading,and understanding what the author is trying to say. Once you understand it, the concept seems very simple. So simple that you are amazed at the time you wasted in trying to figure it out.
I believe this happens due to lack of current languages to "crisply" describe an idea. Languages that describe ideas are either way to bloated (background,premises etc,and finally the new concept), or way to short to intuitively understand stuff (eg. mathematical equations that describe principle. it could be as simple as ohms law , or as complicated as eg. maxwell's equations).
When I try to compare this with what happens in computers, it essentially reminds me of i/o transfer rates. Far far ago, there was a processor 8088 which had 16bit processor but 8bit data bus.
As a result of this, its processing speed would be handicapped by the transfer rate.
Human brain is a much more complicated structure,from my personal experiences, when this happens, ie. theres not enough input from matter at hand to brain, brain tends to occupy itself in other thoughts, which then will slowly kill your original thought, because its the new thought is already in process and does not need any new input from outside world.
If only there werent so many layers on human communication, we could have achieved some sort of efficiency in reading stuff.
I once had read that our ancestors separated from our primordial ape-races due to a mutated gene that caused the muscles of jaw to reduce, giving more space for brain to grow, and this made us capable of producing speech* or a scheme of conveying ideas/events.
Essentially the "overhead" as we call it in computer jargon , is far too much for current languages.
We cannot really distribute 6billion ideas of 6 billion people very quickly unless we try and get some mechanism like this in place.
In other words, we waste most of our capabilities due to a simple limitation that the languages put on us.
I believe this happens due to lack of current languages to "crisply" describe an idea. Languages that describe ideas are either way to bloated (background,premises etc,and finally the new concept), or way to short to intuitively understand stuff (eg. mathematical equations that describe principle. it could be as simple as ohms law , or as complicated as eg. maxwell's equations).
When I try to compare this with what happens in computers, it essentially reminds me of i/o transfer rates. Far far ago, there was a processor 8088 which had 16bit processor but 8bit data bus.
As a result of this, its processing speed would be handicapped by the transfer rate.
Human brain is a much more complicated structure,from my personal experiences, when this happens, ie. theres not enough input from matter at hand to brain, brain tends to occupy itself in other thoughts, which then will slowly kill your original thought, because its the new thought is already in process and does not need any new input from outside world.
If only there werent so many layers on human communication, we could have achieved some sort of efficiency in reading stuff.
I once had read that our ancestors separated from our primordial ape-races due to a mutated gene that caused the muscles of jaw to reduce, giving more space for brain to grow, and this made us capable of producing speech* or a scheme of conveying ideas/events.
Essentially the "overhead" as we call it in computer jargon , is far too much for current languages.
We cannot really distribute 6billion ideas of 6 billion people very quickly unless we try and get some mechanism like this in place.
In other words, we waste most of our capabilities due to a simple limitation that the languages put on us.
Progress iptables, mangling and all
As described in my last post, i have been trying to get a fully working twice-nat with dns-alg setup.
I finally chose lubuntu (LXDE ubuntu ) as the operating system. puppy is b.s ,so is dsl. both have major problems during installation and package updates.
So, finally after wasting like 2 days on getting the right distro, was on track. Then I shifted my focus to selecting the real platform which the experiments should be carried out on. I mailed two profs, and both of them seem to be more leaning towards the DETER testbed , it supports dynamic configuration of network ,measurements etc.
It appears to be a better lead then eg.planet lab.
Lets see, right now, this iptable,netfilter stuff seems incredibly vast, lets see if i get lucky and find a simple tut.
meanwhile ima already hittin on server fault and stackchange websites.
Lets see how it goes, I am planning to complete everything by April mid. So, if I get to defend by say eg. June, then Ima all set damit!.
Only two major things of my life remain ,and they choose where I go, lets see if given a choice as dire as this, am I able to propel myself to achieve it.
Dash!
I finally chose lubuntu (LXDE ubuntu ) as the operating system. puppy is b.s ,so is dsl. both have major problems during installation and package updates.
So, finally after wasting like 2 days on getting the right distro, was on track. Then I shifted my focus to selecting the real platform which the experiments should be carried out on. I mailed two profs, and both of them seem to be more leaning towards the DETER testbed , it supports dynamic configuration of network ,measurements etc.
It appears to be a better lead then eg.planet lab.
Lets see, right now, this iptable,netfilter stuff seems incredibly vast, lets see if i get lucky and find a simple tut.
meanwhile ima already hittin on server fault and stackchange websites.
Lets see how it goes, I am planning to complete everything by April mid. So, if I get to defend by say eg. June, then Ima all set damit!.
Only two major things of my life remain ,and they choose where I go, lets see if given a choice as dire as this, am I able to propel myself to achieve it.
Dash!
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