Psychic thinking, technically of course

F22 - Raptor Front Shot Originally uploaded by P.Sachin.Nayak This bird is known as the F22, also nick named Raptor. It is one among the most stealthiest, and during it s time has been considered as the (whew!!!) plane... of course they are getting out the F34 now..... I had seen this and many other planes in action.. and i guess these are the real things which i do miss about the United States!!!! But in India the one plane which i feel would make my heart skip a beat would be the Tejas (prev known as LCA). This was one indian plane whose poster i roamed around with when i was a kid. ( Tejas (LCA) . I heard started last year. Neat!!!! Maybe i ll get a chance to se it in the next air show (which i feel should be done on a more regularly)

Guys, I have finally decided to quit Infy... Instead I have decided to do something really worthwile such as maybe stealing money from some financial union. And what made me take this drastic decision? This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgNEon7vG4k Man… This R15 sounds realllly good. And I don't have enough money to buy this beast… even if I manage to buy it I wont be able to pay it's maintenance and the police guys (who will be bugging me at every signal… am pretty sure) So do drop me a comment, in case there is a 50% discount sale going around somewhere.... Tags: Yamaha R15

Chilkot lake Originally uploaded by P.Sachin.Nayak This place reminded me of a fairy tale kind of land. You know... those which are shown in movies, to bring out the beauty of nature... Actually, the remaining part of this lake was pretty crowded with people. And you can see some other boats in the distance, but otherwise is nt this a nice calm, peaceful place.

One question: Which all movies did both George Clooney and Brad Pitt act in? Am sure you would be going to google. And what do you do after that? See all the links, and check each and every page, trying to find the common movies. Now why could the computer not do this? Why are you spending 5 minutes trying to find this out, when you should be able to request the computer to do this..... Enter Semantic search, a mechanism where you can query data for relationships which the human mind understands, and secondly the computer understands. There are many places where they are trying to build this semantic search. I build a small application which uses freebase . And built an application where you can provide the names of 2 actors/actresses and find the movies both worked on. Check the page http://www.nlighten.in/CommonMovies.html . Details about freebase: Freebase uses the databases provided by Wikipedia and multiple other providers, and provide all the data in OOP

An interesting updated by the twitter team about the scalability probs they are facing : http://dev.twitter.com/2008/05/twittering-about-architecture.html .   They say that twitter was not exactly architected as a messaging system but for a content management system. But users started using it to a messaging system. Another example of an application used differently from what it was initially designed. Previously there were social networking sites, which were intended initially to help people to connect, but then started being used to convey full blown information.   Anyway back to the topic. The twitter blog does mention some points worth considering. The queries they ran seem to be executing for too long. Ya, I know what they r talking about. The example they cite “consider 1000 persons following a user”, and the user updates her status multiple times. Whew…. Must be quite a challenge for the team at twitter.   So one thing I picked up is “stay away from relational data

Yup, had been planning on moving over to a domain of my own. And now I finally decided to get some my own domain. Am still hosting the blog with blogspot. So the blog does not eat my bandwidth J . Thank you advertisers on blogger!!!!! New blog at http://sachin.nlighten.in     Signing out permanently, Sachin