Happy New Year! Well, this year is already starting off pretty well because of: I wonder what this decade (alright, I know it technically starts in 2011, but still) is going to be like. I hope there’s better music for one. At any rate, a whole set of new experiences and new memories; the last…
Month: December 2009
Glenn Beck is an asshole
…within the span of a few minutes, Beck implied that there are no quality medical schools in India; implied that medical care in India is a shoddy imitation of real health care; implied that the entire nation is an undeveloped backwater without even so much as indoor plumbing; and compared the Ganges River, a holy…
She Said Yes
She said, “Yes”. Although I guess it was never in doubt that she would say anything else (being a semi-arranged marriage and all), it still feels nice :). The official engagement ceremony was today. It was a traditional Nair engagement ceremony (known as a nischayam – literally translated, “decision”) where both families express their consent…
bAdkOde is Turing Complete
In my previous post, I suggested that bAdkOde might be Turing Complete by writing a quine. One of the ways to actually prove Turing Completeness is to try and write an interpreter for another Turing-Complete language in bAdkOde. Another approach involves providing a direct translation from another Turing-Complete language into bAdkOde. Here, I prove the…
A bAdkOde quine (which suggests that bAdkOde is Turing Complete)
On the bAdkOde project page, I mentioned that I didn’t know whether bAdkOde is Turing Complete (although I suspected it). I also mentioned that if I was able to write a quine in bAdkOde, then it would probably mean that it is Turing Complete. I was able to write one after going through this excellent…
End of a Journey
December 19th, 2000 was a Tuesday. It was the day I enlisted into the Arizona Army National Guard. Today, 9 years later, I’m finishing up my service. From my very first days at C Btry, 1/180th FA, a tour in Iraq, and all the way to Eco 29th BSB, it’s been quite a ride. I…
The Sun’s not going to blow up
In any science fiction story I’ve read (or science fiction movie or TV show that I’ve seen) that talks about death of the Sun. I’ve always heard references to Earth’s sun “going nova”. I’ve read about this even in Asimov’s stories. In most cases, they’re talking about a supernova. But here’s the thing. The Sun…
if-else in bAdkOde
I was talking to my CSE 200 (my first CS class at ASU) professor Richard Whitehouse about bAdkOde and he (rightly) pointed out that it didn’t have an explicit selection statement. He also said that unless I wanted it to be really ugly I’d need to have a selection statement. However, since I was going…
bAdkOde: An Esoteric Language
I’ve added another project to the projects page. It’s called bAdkOde, an interpreter for an esoteric language that I designed. The very first incarnation of bAdkOde was written in Java and I actually posted it (or made a blog entry about it) over 8 years ago. For some reason I took it down. Probably because…
Telengana
I was reading the BBC on Thursday and was surprised to find that India is going to create a new southern state out of the existing state of Andra Pradesh. I knew that at least one new state had been created in the last decade (the actual number is 3: Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, and Jharkhand). I…