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ഉണ്ടയില്ലാത്ത വെടികള്‍ : December 2011
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ഉണ്ടയില്ലാത്ത വെടികള്‍. Wednesday, December 14, 2011. ഒരു പുലിയും മൂന്നു പാമ്പുകളും. ബാംഗ്ലൂര്‍ അഥവാ ബംഗളൂരു " എന്നു പറയുന്ന സ്ഥലം ഒരിക്കല്‍ "പെന്‍ഷന്‍കാരുടെ പറുദീസ" ആയിരുന്നു പോലും! ചിലര്‍ ബാംഗ്ലൂരിനെ ഉദ്യാനനഗരിയെന്നും സിലിക്കന്‍വാലിയെന്നും വിളിച്ചിരുന്നത്രെ. വൈറ്റ് വാഷ് ചെയ്തതു പോലെയുള്ള മുഖവും "മാറി നിന്നോ ഞാനിപ്പം പൊട്ടും. ഇങ്ങനെയൊക്കെയുള്ള "ബംഗളൂരു" ഒന്നു നേരില്‍ കണ്ടില്ലെങ്ക...കമ്പനി വക വണ്ടിയില്‍ ഞങ്ങള്‍ ഇന്ദിരാനഗറി...അയ്യോ.ഹോട്ടല്‍ മാറിപ...എന്നിട്ട് അഭിമœ...അയ്യോ സാര...ഞങ്ങള!...
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Simple programs for teaching integers and overflow | In Quest of the Right Questions
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In Quest of the Right Questions. Current without a ‘closed circuit’? Holding on to radical questions. Simple programs for teaching integers and overflow. August 6, 2012. Click here to download. While the students where running the programs they obviously had questions about the the dot-slash. That was a good opportunity to tell them that all the commands they run, ls. Or anything for that matter, are all executable files residing somewhere in the file system. I made them type which ls. And find that ls.
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In Quest of the Right Questions | Page 2
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In Quest of the Right Questions. Life, the Universe and Nearly Everything. April 8, 2012. Articulating one’s thoughts in a form meant to communicate something to someone else helps me get clearer about my own thoughts. There are very few people to whom I talk about my thoughts at a level where I feel- “Ah, we are communicating! Desires and frustrations and abilities and shortcomings. I’m not sure what happened after that- perhaps it was just fatigue, but I think it was something deeper too- I felt ...
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Current without a ‘closed circuit’? | In Quest of the Right Questions
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In Quest of the Right Questions. Teaching Computer Science Bottom-Up. Simple programs for teaching integers and overflow. Current without a ‘closed circuit’? August 3, 2012. Not brightly, but that’s understandable, since my body has a large resistance. Here’s a photograph of the LED glowing when I touch its negative terminal. The second picture shows the LED when it’s off, so that you can see the difference. Aug 03, 2012. Also, for the operation of circuits, KIL dictates that unbroken paths are a must.
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Random Thoughts | In Quest of the Right Questions
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In Quest of the Right Questions. Life, the Universe and Nearly Everything. Rewriting ‘About me’. June 29, 2012. John Holt calls education “the ugly business of people-shaping”. The third year in teaching feels different. I feel like I have in my mind a richer map of the landscape of living and working in a school, just by having been in different kinds of situations with children, both inside and outside the classroom. What does this nourishment feel like? There seems to be a complex understanding of one...
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Charge on a battery’s terminals | In Quest of the Right Questions
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In Quest of the Right Questions. Holding on to radical questions. Charge on a battery’s terminals. August 11, 2012. Recently when I was studying electrochemical cells, I was thinking about the fact that for a cell to drive current through an external circuit, the two electrodes must be at different potentials, and surely this means that there is a static charge on one or both of them. Otherwise how would they be at different potentials to begin with? I wanted to try and detect this charge. You are commen...
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Life, the Universe and Nearly Everything | In Quest of the Right Questions
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In Quest of the Right Questions. Life, the Universe and Nearly Everything. April 8, 2012. Articulating one’s thoughts in a form meant to communicate something to someone else helps me get clearer about my own thoughts. There are very few people to whom I talk about my thoughts at a level where I feel- “Ah, we are communicating! Desires and frustrations and abilities and shortcomings. I’m not sure what happened after that- perhaps it was just fatigue, but I think it was something deeper too- I felt ...
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Holding on to radical questions | In Quest of the Right Questions
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In Quest of the Right Questions. Simple programs for teaching integers and overflow. Charge on a battery’s terminals. Holding on to radical questions. August 10, 2012. What is a radical question? Why do I get drawn to them? Why do they frustrate me? This state of affairs pains me, since it pulls my energies in other directions rather than focusing them on work I believe in, work that I believe is best for myself and the people I’m working with. It’s not just the. Aug 11, 2012. I remember reading somewher...
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Teaching Computer Science Bottom-Up | In Quest of the Right Questions
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In Quest of the Right Questions. Rewriting ‘About me’. Current without a ‘closed circuit’? Teaching Computer Science Bottom-Up. July 29, 2012. And to actually show them this, I used the Hack CPU emulator developed by the authors of the book/course “The Elements of Computing Systems”. Jul 30, 2012. Quite an interesting and innovative approach. I’m sure I would have been super interested in the subject after this. Then again, I got interested in computers after learning that they were ”...Would be interest...
