Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
"Don't you know the first law of physics? Anything that's fun costs at least eight dollars." - Eric Cartman "Lorry, are you upset at Asians for buying out your $5 matinee theatre because that would be anti-Semitic" -Adnan Masood Interestingly enough, thanks to our media, Semitic nowadays is a word made highly specific however in reality Σημ…
One of my new year's resolution is to finish a book a week. This includes fiction, non fiction and audio books. My January 2006 list is as follows. Creepers by David Morrell Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L.…
Awesome game, nerve wrecking and close; Even though USC lost, Longhorns really deserved to win. Vince was unstoppable; he "passes for 269 yards and runs for 199". Even two Heisman trophy winners couldn't bring trophy home. Didn't get to see the USC performance as it was in Trojans vs. Bruins but then again, this one was with UT.…
Gmail Mobile works really well on BlackBerry. Like Google asserts, it "Automatically optimizes the interface for the phone you're using". This statement is very much true since gmail preserves it's claim-for-fame conversation style on the mobile devices making it very easy to navigate and browse. Check it out for yourself. Point your phone's web browser to…
The Tournament of Roses Parade is over now. It was 55°F outside, heavy rain and chilling wind SE at 20 mph and I've just come back from the 117th Rose parade "It's Magical". It was awesome! kudos to all the participants and spectators who performed, stood and cheered as the parade continued it's journey. My…
Just drove back from Colorado St; despite of pouring rain and bone chilling cold, spectators are hanging in there. Not even as half as last year but so isn't the weather. For those who don't know "The Tournament of Roses Parade is the 116-year-old traditional parade generally held on New Year's Day in Pasadena, California,…
Let’s say you have a customer base spreaded across several time zones i.e. from Hawaii to Alaska, all the way across mainland US and even some remote parts of Europe. You want a service to deliver a particular message at certain time via email, in that time zone. How would you do that? This problem…
Adi Oltean reported an interesting problem in his blog. Say that you have an array of N boolean values, with all values initially set to FALSE. At each iteration step, you arbitrary pick an element in the array and set it to TRUE. What is the average number of elements set to TRUE after K iteration…
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I just finished seeing Don Box and Chris Anderson's MSDN TV Special Holiday Episode III - Connecting People, Programs and Devices Using WinFX which gave the term CGI Joe completely new meanings. Their Holiday song which was sung with notes produced by XBOX Controller sending SOAP Messages to piano is as follows. code they told mepa-rum-pu-pum-puma new…