Comments for I POWER INFINITY http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com Is infinity even or odd? Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:55:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Fun with GTalk/Pidgin: Changing your status messages programatically by Ravi http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/fun-with-gtalkpidgin-changing-your-status-messages-programatically/#comment-113 Ravi Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:55:45 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-113 can u give me the exact program.plzz..instead of the rough program...i am new to java...and i need to know what packages should i import.... can u give me the exact program.plzz..instead of the rough program…i am new to java…and i need to know what packages should i import….

]]> Comment on Should I ask her out? It’s all about Maths! by Sameer Agarwal http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/should-i-ask-her-out-its-all-about-maths/#comment-112 Sameer Agarwal Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:39:52 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-112 Same here :-) Same here :-)

]]> Comment on Should I ask her out? It’s all about Maths! by Vikram http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/should-i-ask-her-out-its-all-about-maths/#comment-111 Vikram Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:37:57 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-111 Ha ha. Nice getting to know you anyway! Vikram Ha ha. Nice getting to know you anyway!

Vikram

]]> Comment on Should I ask her out? It’s all about Maths! by Sameer Agarwal http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/should-i-ask-her-out-its-all-about-maths/#comment-110 Sameer Agarwal Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:31:16 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-110 Haha sure, here is my take on it, do let me know if I am wrong: Given p1 is the probability of you landing at Mosharaf's website and p2 be the probability of you googling me, and N being the average number of websites you visit everyday, and assuming the power laws in the Internet still hold true, and further taking into account the standard heavy-tail probability distribution behavior of how humans access web, the final probability of you landing on this blog should be WHY THE HELL SHOULD WE CARE :-D Haha sure, here is my take on it, do let me know if I am wrong:

Given p1 is the probability of you landing at Mosharaf’s website and p2 be the probability of you googling me, and N being the average number of websites you visit everyday, and assuming the power laws in the Internet still hold true, and further taking into account the standard heavy-tail probability distribution behavior of how humans access web, the final probability of you landing on this blog should be WHY THE HELL SHOULD WE CARE :-D

]]> Comment on Should I ask her out? It’s all about Maths! by Vikram Subramanya http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/should-i-ask-her-out-its-all-about-maths/#comment-108 Vikram Subramanya Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:23:57 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-108 Hey Sameer, thanks for the elaborating. Yes, the equation makes sense for conditional probability. By the way, am glad that you took time to read our PortLand paper. In fact, I should mention that I landed on your blog not entirely randomly. I read your comment on http://www.mosharaf.com/blog/2009/09/22/portland-a-scalable-fault-tolerant-layer-2-data-center-network-fabric/, and then followed you with a Google search! Now, would you like to take a stab at calculating the probability of my landing at your blog, given that I have landed at Mosharaf's post? ;) -Vikram Hey Sameer, thanks for the elaborating. Yes, the equation makes sense for conditional probability.

By the way, am glad that you took time to read our PortLand paper. In fact, I should mention that I landed on your blog not entirely randomly. I read your comment on http://www.mosharaf.com/blog/2009/09/22/portland-a-scalable-fault-tolerant-layer-2-data-center-network-fabric/, and then followed you with a Google search!

Now, would you like to take a stab at calculating the probability of my landing at your blog, given that I have landed at Mosharaf’s post? ;)

-Vikram

]]> Comment on Fun with GTalk/Pidgin: Changing your status messages programatically by Sameer Agarwal http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/fun-with-gtalkpidgin-changing-your-status-messages-programatically/#comment-107 Sameer Agarwal Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:18:35 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-107 @Sniper: I agree that this is a problem. I think that it has got to do something with the fact that gtalk/pidgin has more priority over Smack/libpurple. But frankly speaking, I couldn't find a way. Please do let me know if you come across something to solve this. Thanks! @Sniper: I agree that this is a problem. I think that it has got to do something with the fact that gtalk/pidgin has more priority over Smack/libpurple. But frankly speaking, I couldn’t find a way. Please do let me know if you come across something to solve this. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Fun with GTalk/Pidgin: Changing your status messages programatically by Sameer Agarwal http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/fun-with-gtalkpidgin-changing-your-status-messages-programatically/#comment-106 Sameer Agarwal Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:16:26 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-106 Hey Vinod, Are you using your complete username: abc@gmail.com along with the password? Hey Vinod,
Are you using your complete username: abc@gmail.com along with the password?

]]> Comment on Should I ask her out? It’s all about Maths! by Sameer Agarwal http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/should-i-ask-her-out-its-all-about-maths/#comment-105 Sameer Agarwal Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:14:20 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-105 Hey Vikram, thanks for reading through the blog entry and 'daring' to question my (non-existent) mathematical skills :-P These days most of my time is spent in writing reviews research papers in networks and systems (including the awesome Portland paper written by your group) but I hope to write a couple more posts during December :) Regarding you question, I think the intention here is of taking into account the conditional probability in calculating the expectation value of the reward. Think of it more like P(none of the other guys approached carol | our friend approached her) which is a.p.(1-p)^(N-1)/p = a.(1-p)^(N-1). I agree that I did a pretty lame job at explaining things above but then I thought that the purpose of this post is mainly to serve as a confidence booster for geeks! Hey Vikram, thanks for reading through the blog entry and ‘daring’ to question my (non-existent) mathematical skills :-P These days most of my time is spent in writing reviews research papers in networks and systems (including the awesome Portland paper written by your group) but I hope to write a couple more posts during December :)

Regarding you question, I think the intention here is of taking into account the conditional probability in calculating the expectation value of the reward. Think of it more like P(none of the other guys approached carol | our friend approached her) which is a.p.(1-p)^(N-1)/p = a.(1-p)^(N-1). I agree that I did a pretty lame job at explaining things above but then I thought that the purpose of this post is mainly to serve as a confidence booster for geeks!

]]> Comment on Fun with GTalk/Pidgin: Changing your status messages programatically by Sniper http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/fun-with-gtalkpidgin-changing-your-status-messages-programatically/#comment-104 Sniper Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:04:54 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-104 Remember to enter the full email address including the @gmail.com part. connection.login("username", "password"); Also, the status message reverts back to the original one once the program terminates. Any way to get around this? Remember to enter the full email address including the @gmail.com part.
connection.login(“username”, “password”);

Also, the status message reverts back to the original one once the program terminates. Any way to get around this?

]]> Comment on Should I ask her out? It’s all about Maths! by Vikram http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/should-i-ask-her-out-its-all-about-maths/#comment-103 Vikram Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:29:12 +0000 http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-103 Sameer, I landed on your blog while randomly browsing. One quick glance confirmed that the owner of the keyboard that was used to type this post is a guy with interesting tastes. And I couldn't resist commenting! At the risk of being accused of point (4), I am unable to make sense of the expression a.(1-p)^(N-1). It does not sufficiently capture the probability of our poor guy actually proposing to Carol (which is 'p'). Shouldn't it go like a.p.(1-p)^(N-1)? Wonderful post otherwise. Are you still an active blogger? Sameer, I landed on your blog while randomly browsing. One quick glance confirmed that the owner of the keyboard that was used to type this post is a guy with interesting tastes. And I couldn’t resist commenting!

At the risk of being accused of point (4), I am unable to make sense of the expression a.(1-p)^(N-1). It does not sufficiently capture the probability of our poor guy actually proposing to Carol (which is ‘p’). Shouldn’t it go like a.p.(1-p)^(N-1)?

Wonderful post otherwise. Are you still an active blogger?

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