This brings back memories: I got a collectors edition of the DVD back when the film was released, and I also remember being particularly keen that it would the film we showed at an academic conference I was volunteering for in grad school. For a fun throwback, here’s a reaction video with Darsheel Safary.
Manu compares a top rated Chinese University (Tsinghua) and top rated Indian University (IISc), prompting an interesting discussion on X.
My experiences with the switch.
Update: This is fixed by unchecking “use groups” CMD+ALT+O. Phew!
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In Finder, some folders have a list view that can be expanded without actually going deeper into any of the folders, like so:
And quite arbitrarily, I cannot do this on some other folders:
Notice how the > is missing on the left: selecting all folders and pressing the right or left arrow key has no effect here, while it does expand/collapse the folder list (which is the expected behavior) on the other folder shown on top.
I can’t figure out what’s going on!
I wonder why landscape is not a more common format for textbooks: I’d imagine that’s a nicer for screens, and gives more room for things like sidenotes.
Context: I’m thinking of converting a bunch of scattered lecture notes into a more structured book format, and want to know if there’s a good reason to avoid a landscape layout.
It’s a wrap on the workshops at Paradox 2024, the convocation event for the IIT Madras Data Science program! Shout out to all the organizers for a flawless experience and trusting me with two unusual somewhat themes (games and tricks) :)
Also 👋🏽 to the awesome folks in the audience! FWIW, here are pointers to notes/slides from the talks:
Unrelated: some thoughts on using Craft for slides.
At a guest house at the moment, and couldn’t help wondering about the Samsung HDTV flat screen mounted on the wall. Most hotel rooms have these too. I wonder if anyone uses them — I’ve never so much as turned one on. I’m not sure if this facility was relevant even when cable was a thing.
Especially at academic institutes (can’t say about hotels), seems like a totally avoidable expense. In the unlikely event that someone needs a screen for, say, an external monitor setup, I figure having a few that can be brought in on request would be a fairly reasonable workaround…
Had a lot of fun talking about combinatorial games at Paradox today. We played Domineering, Impartial Chess, and Nim. Slides here.
Was also lovely meeting folks from the IITM BS program in Data Science, a few among whom are tuned into my attempts at teaching linear algebraic methods in combinatorics and advanced algorithms.
I brought a 2x2 cube with me to help with staying awake on my AMD-MAA flight yesterday morning (I was heading to Paradox). I also got a cheatsheet for a basic algorithm for solving the cube, since I was confident that I’d get nowhere on my own :)
It was initially frustrating that I was seemingly incompetent at even following instructions. Eventually, after several hits and misses (more misses and hits), the cube did start to restore itself, and it was surprisingly addictive to keep at it.
There were a couple of solves that worked out in under half a minute and most solves were under a minute in the last twenty minutes of the flight. I am not sure if I’m hooked enough to look up faster algorithms: the basic one has the advantage of being easier to memorise (fewer cases), but I figure the trade off is a suboptimal number of moves — indeed, many solves did feel redundant, but I knew no better :)
This is Convex Combinations.