Are We...?

Are we too afraid to dream big?
Are we too arrogant to start small?
Are we too knowledgeable to really listen or learn?
Are we too self-centered to relinquish authorship or control?
Are we too cynical to trust people?
Are we too egotistical to admit error?
Are we too insecure to try really different things?
Are we too myopic to make history?

[Take from the slides presented at XLRI by Ingrid Srinath, CEO of CRY]

Kernel in full swing

I tried enabling all the options in the Linux kernel (make allyesconfig) and compiling it (make all)

Here is the result of the size's of the kenrel tree

Size of the kernel downloaded (tar.bz2): 44 MB
Size of Uncompiled (clean) kernel tree: 294 MB
Size of the compiled kernel tree: 4.5 GB
Size of vmlinux generated: 442 MB
Size of the bzImage: 16 MB

I ended up clearing most of the unwanted things in my home directory trying to make space for the compilation :-)

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What to learn from scientific/technical education

To quote George Forsythe,

"The most valuable acquisition in a scientific or technical education are the general-purpose mental tools which remain serviceable for a lifetime. I rate natural language and mathematics as the most important of these tools, and computer science as a third"


From the article, "What to do till the Computer Scientist comes", American Mathematical Monthly 75 (1968), 454-462

Source: "Selected papers on computer science - Donald Knuth"

I always believed that, if we teach a language and mathematics to students, then its as good as teaching him/her all other subjects. I was happy to see that there are other people in the world who also hold that opinion.

More info on this article may be got at
http://infolab.stanford.edu/TR/CS-TR-67-77.html

The complete article may be downloaded from
ftp://reports.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/67/77/CS-TR-67-77.pdf