Category Archives: Personal
Reading List – 1
A post about how Yahoo! uses the behavioural data got from their toolbar towards improving crawling. Its pretty amazing how many previously uncrawled pages are identified using this method. http://glinden.blogspot.com/2011/11/browsing-behavior-for-web-crawling.html . A review of Koyaanisqatsi which I watched with the GUPS. Its a very artsy documentary, showing some amazing bits of photographic excellence. http://enthusiasms.org/post/13850656021 . […]
(lack of) Online Debate about Academia
Over the last few months I’ve been reading a lot. Mostly academic papers, blogs of researchers, downloaded text-books and Wikipedia (as usual) related to IR. I can’t help but notice that there is very little open debate about academic papers and research conclusions. Where are the normal under-grads interested in the subject? I have to […]
Thinking about a Break from Blogging.
I am considering taking a break from this blog to focus on getting my basics back in shape. The progress I’m making on my Fundamentals is very poor so far. My days are getting shorter, it would seem. Its 0230hrs right now and I’m going to start reading up on something. Work is not helping. […]
Academic papers should be Free
I feel the main difference between the year 1800 and 2000+ is the ability to compete on equal terms whoever you might be. Wherever you may be from. In just over 200 years, I think the free access to information has been our biggest step ahead in terms of civilization. And in this respect we’ve […]
If Introverts Ruled the World
I am an introvert. Most of the time, anyway. Over time I have become more and more comfortable being alone. I’ve started feeling awkward in groups and parties which demand my interactive contributions. But I am not a bad communicator. I am very interested in (and fairly good at, if I say so myself) one-on-one […]
