Parkinson's Law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account."

Douglas Deadlines: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

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Presyn likhne ki tammanna abb humare dil main hai
Dekhna hai jor kitna apni research work main hain
-- PhD lene ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai by Sushant Sharma


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It is amazing how much of a difference three hours of uninterrupted, concentrated thinking can make.

I visited Buenos Aires, Argentina from February 4-11, 2007 for presenting a research paper at WOSP 2007. This was my second trip outside India, the first one being to The NetherlandsI took off from Mumbai on the afternoon of Feb 3, 2007 and landed back here just as the date ticked over to Feb 13, 2007. The journey was via London, with British ( Read more... )

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.-- John Tukey, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 33 (1962).
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2007 is going to be an eventful year.

Happy New Year to everyone.

This past month, I have been running after a peculiar deadline. What is peculiar about this one is that it is running away from me rather than running towards me! So here is how it has gone:

• March 20: Abstract submission. Met.
• March 27: Paper submission. Postponed.
• April 03: Paper submission. Ditched for the better.
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solzaire finishes and moves on. Farewell dear friend. Live long and prosper!

You are an inspiration for all of us. Our paths will keep crossing, no doubt--Mumbai, Delhi, anywhere! I guess sigfood will be seeing much more of Delhi now ;-)

As someone put it so aptly--"it is the end of an era ( Read more... )