Search for Snakes...! :)

Hi pa,


Thanks to my friends Hemanth, Gundeep, Anand & Amit, me got to know recently that 2011, apart from being a prime, is also the sum of 11 consecutive primes..!


Here's the problem formulation I managed to somehow type...which i have tried to make as generic as possible...
(except for the operation being Summation...!! It could be Product, or anything you can think of ! Feel Free to play around, explore & note down any beautiful patterns u may stumble upon...! :) )


Please click on the below picture to read the text better..it's just my silly analogies..but hope it's clear enough..?! :)

I decided to scribble some code to do this...& I discussed with many of my dear friends like Pavan, Prasidhya, et al., about my intuition as to how to go about it...I am Always indebted to them, fer NEVER EVER getting irritated with me-moron, but always smilingly listening to what I had to say ( or scribble & doodle, as always..! :) )...!


But somehow, i could never bring myself to actually write any piece of code---i was in that 'stuck' state...of utter emptiness, like always..! :)


I would struggle to articulate & explain one approach to my dears, & my MIND would soon fill up with counter-arguments for it, & soo much noise that I soon decided to shut-up & stop disturbing them with my stupid blabberings, and instead, leave the problem...(to simmer...! :))...


Post-Lunch....alone....and a hunch...!! ;) :)


And one fine day...(not so fine...since i was all lonely fer lunch...!), I was walking back from lunch, looking up @ the lovely clouds floating in the azure skies....& ...YES..! :)


i suddenly felt the ideas rushing into me...!! :)


i hurried up to my floor...took a cup of Tea...& feverishly typed a baby Java program...(not meant to be a model of coding..no ways..but, instead, just a transliteration of what i 'heard/felt' ...should/can be done...to discover this LONG, coiled, camouflaged SNAKE...nestled in the infinite ROPE of Numbers...!!


And except for an initial "ArrayIndexOfOutOfBoundsException" once, my baby program ran without any hassles...& showed me exactly what i wanted to see !  Phew !! :)


Have decided to share the complete code fer YOU, if you are interested, so that you can improve/modify it & do your own experiments...! :)


Please visit the below link to see the source-code (scantily/crazily documented...on the 'spur of the moment' :) )...u can hv a good laugh @ HOW it is JUST a plain translation of my childish idea...! :)
http://pastie.org/private/9aeq40yg5d6deflhxddata


Click on the below image to see a sample run... :)

Hope you too begin 'seeing' some snakes & worms & patterns in numbers then...!


Take care...and keep L(i/o)ving...!! :-O :)

Lots of Love & Best wishes,

The moron in 'rags'

Planet Earth

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One of my all-time inspiring quotes...(yet again..!!)

Computers are useless; they can ONLY give you answers.

:- Pablo Picasso

(Hope the lit'l child below makes you smile..?? Courtesy  of dear Mr.Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts) :) My state was/is JUSST Like this...Hmmm...!!)

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Women & the Universe -- sequel..! :)

Parallels between Women and the Universe...!?!

Today my dear friend Pavan was asking me about my views on Parallel Universes...! I shrugged my shoulders & said it's not a good scientific theory, since nothing about it can be easily proved/disproved by means of simple experiments--the hallmarks of a sound scientific theory. 

But thanks to his questions...i-Moron (That, would be the title of my auto-bio-graphy!! :P) suddenly remembered about my idea of writing a sequel to my previous article...& this time...list out the "parallels" of our Universe w.r.t. Women..!! :))

Without much ado...here we go..! :)

• Both are structures of incredible, infinite complexity...! 
• Both are the very source(s) of ALL Life...& have captured the imagination (& lives too..!! :( :) ) of we-men..!! ;) :)
• Both are immensely mysterious; with nobody yet able to fathom the secrets they harbour...from Einstein to Freud..! Nobody ever will too..! :)
• If provided the right kind of conditions, both are capable of giving birth/rise to bright new stars...!! :)
• Despite their external appearance of great serenity & stability, both are..in fact, seething cauldrons of chaos & confusion within..! In deed, it is a miracle that despite such complexity inside, they appear to be pretty order-ly outside!
• Both seem to be beyond the grasp of scientific study/analysis! Only mystics, poets & mad-men seem to be able to "see" their true-nature. As fer normal sane men, if/when they try to do it, they too end up as mystics, poets or made-men..! :)

Again no offence meant ...please..!! :) 

Hope you liked it..& it evokes more parallels between the two..?!?
I welcome you to share them then. Hmmm... :)

Anyway, it is easier to observe women than to study we-men. Because then I would be observing frem  the outside.

Of-course, it is an altogether different challenge/exercise to meditate on our own selves....to glance within..! That experience...is...simply Beyond All Wor(l)ds ...!! :)

Hmmmm...Take care then...& please keep smiling!

Love & Best Wishes,

The moRon in rags,

Planet Earth

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And here's something frem Schulz's Peanuts to make you Smile...;) :)

[Click on the pic to be able to read properly]

What constitutes a truly Scientific attitude..?? :)

Hmmmmm..!!

Well, I think it is the ability of a person to *truly* Keep an "Open Mind" (or a "No-Mind" ..? :))...ready to question the things that we take for granted......ready to be questioned... & if needed, accept that his/her beliefs were/are WRONG, or need to be modified,
or even
or even *un-Learned* in light of clear/better insights..! :)
Anyway, I feel this point really comes out so effectively in the following pithy observation :


"In science it often happens that scientists say,
'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.


They really do it.


It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful.

But it happens every day.

I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."

-- Carl Sagan, in a keynote address
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Love & Cheers....













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The boy in "rags",
Planet (H)eart(h)
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{See the Beautiful Comic strip below...!(Click to see a bigger image if u like..!)Courtesy : Peanuts by the great/late Mr. Charles "Sparky" Schulz}