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PRE Kaleidoscope

By On April 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A figure in my 2D turbulence paper went to the PRE Kaleidoscope. It was chosen on aesthetic merit.

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Bloomberg Interview Question

By On February 12, 2012 · 1 Comment

One of my primary schoolmates posted a Bloomberg interview question on Facebook.  I found it pretty interesting so let me restate it here:

2 eggs will break if you drop them above a particular height H. You are asked to find out H to its closet integer multiple of 1ft. It is known that 1ft

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Dropbox on QNAP NAS

By On December 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Dropbox is an amazing service. It syncs your files across many different devices (phones, PCs, Macs) in a very efficient way. However, the basic service provides only 2GB of storage. Instead of putting all my documents in Dropbox, I am trying to use it together with my NAS — I put my active [...]

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Stresses in Stellar Boundary Layers

By On November 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I put up a new paper “On Hydromagnetic Stresses in Weakly Magnetized Stellar Boundary Layers” on arXiv. Here is the abstract:

We examine the generation of hydromagnetic stresses and energy density in the boundary layer around a weakly magnetized star in the shearing-sheet approximation. This region, where the angular frequency is expected [...]

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Thompson, Ritchie, and Clinton

Dennis M. Ritchie 1941-2011

By On October 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

October 2011 is a bad month in computer history. After Steve Jobs, another computer giant, Dennis Ritchie, passed away. Dennis created the C programming language and, with Ken Thompson, created the UNIX operating system. He is the person who [...]

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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

By On October 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Steve Jobs 1955-2011 : Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he [...]

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