Lamentations-ps {If Jeremiah had a blog...}

:::: What a world ::::

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:52:00 +0000

When you use the cute Windows Live Writer to directly publish to Google’s blogger, and you use Google’s amazingly sneaky new toolbar for starting Microsoft Word, you know how competitive life has become in the Technology world…..Just, don’t get caught in the cross-fire, if you know what I mean.

Sweet Home 3D/Layar

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:16:00 +0000

Looks nice – number of additional possibilities exist. And it is open source from sourceforge.

Sweet Home 3D

Layar is another very interesting app I saw yesterday.

Dilbert’ing

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:59:00 +0000

Geocities closing !

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:32:00 +0000

So copying some pictures from old page…(Herre, Soyeb, Stefan)

India’s Demographic Moment

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:51:00 +0000

“…Has arrived”, says Nilekani, in a follow up article to his book. If only now we can set tall targets and try to achieve them,…

India’s Demographic Moment

False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:42:00 +0000

Currently reading this book. Mixed with gems like

“…the way to make a nice profit is to buy an xxxn at the rate he is really worth, and sell him at the rate he thinks he is worth …” to make the point that some countries, including India, compare themselves with just themselves and take pride. Worth a read…

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World

Ideas behind China's success

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:14:00 +0000

On the 60th anniversary of PRC, taken from todays IHT -
1. Seek truth from facts - Neither communist model nor democracy can work in China
2. Primacy of People's livelihood - Poverty eradication is the most fundamental right
3. The importance of Holistic thinking - Prioritise and sequence difficult stages of reform, never short-term
4. Government as a necessary virtue
5. Good governance matters more than democratisation
6. Performance legitimacy - Used for promotion of officials
7. Selective learning and adaptation - Learn needed things from the West
8. Harmony in diversity - Emphasize commonality of different group interests

zao an, xie xie

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:51:00 +0000

SGXPERF released

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:13:00 +0000

sgxperf, a performance benchmarking tool for texturing operations with opengl, is now released.

https://gstreamer.ti.com/gf/project/gleslayer/news/?action=NewsThreadView&id=19

Pain with analytics

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:33:00 +0000

YSR is no more. May his soul rest in peace.
But that is not the subject of this post - I happened to see ways in which analytics can aid/mar when used with textual contexts. For example, the attached Web page in The Hindu's online paper, has an accompanying Jet Airways ad (served through G.Ads), that talks about "not cutting corners" and "to save with Jet". I am sure that there was some intelligence in the Ad engine that picked up the words "Crashed", "Survivors" etc, and took a different twist. Computers are yet to learn to feel pain...

The world is full of rich ideas...

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:48:00 +0000

What is required is, just follow-up and execution.

Thanks for enlightening me, you know who you are :)

IMG tech Stakeholders - Intel and Apple

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:06:00 +0000

Just last week while digesting the news that Intel has vastly increased their stake, comes the news today that Apple has increased their stake in IMG tech to 9.5%.

Interesting moves. Interesting times.

MJ no more !

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:20:00 +0000

The "..they dont really care about us..." man is no more..

.NET MF porting kit now open source !

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:35:00 +0000

The .NET Micro Framework is now "Open" !! This is the first time I am actually seeing MS opening up.

Note: Open==Porting kit itself is open with source code, not just the SDK, you can port to any platform in theory....

Natal, and DX11

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Two of the coolest stuff on earth I am dreaming of, got unveiled last week. Microsoft's Project Natal, and DirectX11 on ATI. Looks good.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18723

GL to GLES converter announced

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:27:00 +0000

http://code.google.com/p/gl-wes-v2/

Good for Pandora, the OMAP3 based gaming platform, Enjoy.

Multi-texturing with SGX

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:52:00 +0000

For really creating a captivating visual effect with opengl, you need good tools to work with that will spew out vertices of increasing number. However, without any mesh editor tool and only with a bitmap creator, opengl still can be used for creating great art.For really creating a captivating visual effect with opengl, you need good tools to work with that will spew out vertices of increasing number. However, without any mesh editor tool and only with a bitmap creator, opengl still can be used for creating great art.
Multi-texturing allows creating effects life the one attached here. Shader code for the button/spidra is below. The rest of the code is not posted here. Note the absence of any lighting related stuff !! Try it out on Beagleboard or OMAP3530 EVM.

// Fragment and vertex shaders code char* pszFragShader = "\ uniform sampler2D sTexture; \ uniform sampler2D sTexture1; \ varying mediump vec2 TexCoord; \ varying mediump vec2 TexCoord1; \ mediump vec4 colour1;\ mediump vec4 colour2;\ void main (void)\ {\ colour1 = texture2D(sTexture1, TexCoord1);\ colour2 = texture2D(sTexture, TexCoord);\ gl_FragColor = colour1 * colour2;\ }"; char* pszVertShader = "\ attribute highp vec4 inVertex;\ attribute mediump vec2 inTexCoord;\ uniform mediump mat4 chvMatrix;\ uniform float offset;\ uniform float offset1;\ varying mediump vec2 TexCoord;\ varying mediump vec2 TexCoord1; \ void main()\ {\ gl_Position = chvMatrix * inVertex;\ TexCoord = inTexCoord - vec2(offset,offset);\ TexCoord1 = inTexCoord - vec2(offset1,offset1);\ }";

On Math and Financial Theories, and the future of mankind, and others

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:39:00 +0000

From http://finance.yahoo.com/insurance/article/107029/Business-Musings-From-Woodstock-for-Capitalists
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Messrs. Buffett and Munger on Math and Theories
Messrs. Buffett and Munger made clear their complete disdain for the use of higher-order mathematics in finance.
"There is so much that's false and nutty in modern investing practice and modern investment banking, that if you just reduced the nonsense, that's a goal you should reasonably hope for," Mr. Buffett said. Regarding complex calculations used to value purchases, he said: "If you need to use a computer or a calculator to make the calculation, you shouldn't buy it."
Said Mr. Munger: "Some of the worst business decisions I've ever seen are those with future projections and discounts back. It seems like the higher mathematics with more false precision should help you, but it doesn't. They teach that in business schools because, well, they've got to do something."
Mr. Buffett said: "If you stand up in front of a business class and say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, you won't get tenure....Higher mathematics my be dangerous and lead you down pathways that are better left untrod."
Mr. Munger on the Future
"As I move close to the edge of death, I find myself getting more cheerful about the economic future," Mr. Munger said.
Mr. Munger sees "a final breakthrough that solves the main technical problem of man," he continued.
By harnessing the power of the sun, electrical power will become more available around the world. That will help humans turn sea water into fresh water and eliminate environmental problems, Mr. Munger explained. "If you have enough energy you can solve a lot of other problems."

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Solar Power makes more money

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:08:00 +0000

If you are an entrepreneur who can invest in Solar Energy for applications in rural markets, look at this.

http://oscar.iitb.ac.in/TEPP/UploadAnouncement/Requests%20for%20Partnership%20with%20Innovators.pdf

Nokia QT Roadmap

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:01:00 +0000

This is how Nokia wants QT to compete with Android ....
http://events.nokia.com/developersummit/assets/pdf/NDS09_2904_presentation_Rytkonen.pdf

Matlab acceleration on GPU

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:50:00 +0000

Ah, the joy of having a fast GPU ....
http://www.omatrix.com/jacket.html

GLESlayer announced

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:56:00 +0000

http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=47788#p328432

"With deep regret, and tremendous burden ..."

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:41:00 +0000

Very famous starting words spoken by a man today, that I would remember them for a lifetime. I think many people would.
In the meantime, I am dusting my accounting theory books. I can see a bright future ahead.

Artificial Intelligence to the field

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:32:00 +0000

Interesting company in Punjab. Not revealing much though.
http://www.artintell.org/

2009 !!

noreply@blogger.com (prabindh) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:57:00 +0000

Its here. And heres a toast to all my friends, within and without - may you be driven by conviction, and not by convenience or confusion ! Have a blessed year !