Saturday, December 27, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
The Ladder: How to get to the TOP (Ethically)
Build your own ladder to get to the top,
Shape and bolster each individual rung,
For if the foundation is weak, the floor will greet your drop
Use the finest quality wood to hand craft it neat and plumb!
Ensure appropriate spacing between each step,
Under the 'expert carpenter's prep',
You will learn that:
“The ladder should be high enough but not higher than the support on which it leans”
That:
“It should be strong enough to support many like a concrete beam”
Only then should you take the next step of creation,
When you enliven this true feeling of innermost satisfaction.
- Ashish Joglekar
Shape and bolster each individual rung,
For if the foundation is weak, the floor will greet your drop
Use the finest quality wood to hand craft it neat and plumb!
Ensure appropriate spacing between each step,
Under the 'expert carpenter's prep',
You will learn that:
“The ladder should be high enough but not higher than the support on which it leans”
That:
“It should be strong enough to support many like a concrete beam”
Only then should you take the next step of creation,
When you enliven this true feeling of innermost satisfaction.
- Ashish Joglekar
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
My Second Life - Real Life Interface
It is thrilling to know that anybody logged into Second Life can now control an LED in my room by toggling a virtual switch in SL. Check out this video demonstration wherein I have created a virtual switch in SL that switches an LED (symbolic of any real life appliance) in my room.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Our Mini Project
MCQ EVALUATOR AND BARCODE SCANNER
Team: Ashish, Shaunak, Chaitanya, Sameer
In today’s competitive world our skill sets are put to test in every sphere of life, right from the educational sphere as a student to the professional sphere as a compatible human resource (HR). This ‘fast track’ world demands ‘fast track’ gadgets. Online examinations are catching up to cater to the ever-increasing evaluation needs but they are not always feasible mainly due to the lack of resources. Yet time is at a premium, which necessitates minimization of the evaluation time overhead.
Our gadget bridges this gap by allowing on the spot (handheld) evaluation of MCQ type objective tests. Thus any MCQ examination sheet can be appended with our custom made objective sheet sticker that will be scanned by our device for evaluation. Dedicated answer sheet prototypes can also be provided; low cost mass production of such sheets is possible and convenient to be used for evaluation along with our product. Each sheet will be provided with a unique barcode carrying the Roll No. which can be decoded using the same hardware as that of the MCQ evaluator.
The complete product features a user-friendly computer based GUI that will allow the evaluator to enter the master correct answer record and then display all statistics pertaining to the current papers being scanned. Also, each sheet will be identified by a special bar code based system for easier authorization.
Graphical user interface was created in Visual Basic 6. We started from learning VB from books and implementing simple tools and functions.
Following is a video demonstration of our Project's GUI.
(Commentary by Shaunak)
Team: Ashish, Shaunak, Chaitanya, Sameer
In today’s competitive world our skill sets are put to test in every sphere of life, right from the educational sphere as a student to the professional sphere as a compatible human resource (HR). This ‘fast track’ world demands ‘fast track’ gadgets. Online examinations are catching up to cater to the ever-increasing evaluation needs but they are not always feasible mainly due to the lack of resources. Yet time is at a premium, which necessitates minimization of the evaluation time overhead.
Our gadget bridges this gap by allowing on the spot (handheld) evaluation of MCQ type objective tests. Thus any MCQ examination sheet can be appended with our custom made objective sheet sticker that will be scanned by our device for evaluation. Dedicated answer sheet prototypes can also be provided; low cost mass production of such sheets is possible and convenient to be used for evaluation along with our product. Each sheet will be provided with a unique barcode carrying the Roll No. which can be decoded using the same hardware as that of the MCQ evaluator.
The complete product features a user-friendly computer based GUI that will allow the evaluator to enter the master correct answer record and then display all statistics pertaining to the current papers being scanned. Also, each sheet will be identified by a special bar code based system for easier authorization.
Graphical user interface was created in Visual Basic 6. We started from learning VB from books and implementing simple tools and functions.
Following is a video demonstration of our Project's GUI.
(Commentary by Shaunak)
Vedic boosters for speedy programming
Publication: Times Of India Pune; Date: Apr 21, 2008; Section: Times City; Page: 4
-Laxmi Birajdar
Applying the simple calculation tricks of Vedic mathematics to computer coding is a novel attempt at smart number crunching. That’s what Ashish Joglekar, Ajinkya Kale and Shaunak Vaidya — undergraduate students from College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) — did to come up with an algorithm for implementation of effective coding commands on the computer.
Using the Paravartya Sutra from Vedic mathematics, the trio put across these calculations in their research paper, ‘A Novel Binary Division Algorithm Based on Vedic Mathematics and Applications to Polynomial Division’.
“We’ve used Vedic mathematics to decrease the time taken to execute programming commands on a computer,” explains Ashish.
This particular paper has been taken from their very first research effort at calculations through Vedic maths — “An Efficient Binary Multiplication Algorithm Based on Vedic Mathematics,” — a research paper they presented this March at NCTCT ’08 — a conference on the latest trends in computing technology in Chennai. Apparently, Shaunak and Ashish were the only undergraduate engineering students to have participated in this event, which comprised M Techs.
Vedic maths facilitates quick and easy mental calculations. But what mattered to these students was adapting the mathematical derivations to the computer language of binary system —comprising only two numbers, 0 and 1. “We’ve used Vedic maths to devise a dividend and a divisor, using constants and variables, to arrive upon quotients and remainders that further elucidate the algorithm for quicker computing,” says Ajinkya.
It is not surprising that the mathematical geniuses will show their research during a presentation at ‘The 2008 International Conference on Applied Computing’, which is a part of Worldcomp’ 08 — the World Congress on Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing — that will be held in Las Vegas, USA, from July 14 to 17 this year.
Judged on a scale of one to 10 at Worldcomp’s screening, the paper has scored exceptionally well on originality, technical quality, readability and presentation. It has even been recommended as a publishable paper in journals.
Their 20-min presentation has also been included in the prestigious Regular Research Paper (RPR) category, usually meant for papers by PhDs. They were guided by their faculty, Professor A.A. Sawant, head of department of computer science at COEP and Professor Vinayak Joshi in finetuning this research paper.
The students’ exceptional command over mathematics should not come as a surprise. Having educated themselves in Vedic mathematics since childhood, these students value its benefits, especially for calculations in modern gadgetry. “Vedic mathematics calculations for certain programming commands are less complex and don’t require tables of numbers used,” says Ajinkya.
In future,they see themselves making a career in engineering research. “We want to come up with algorithms based on Vedic mathematics for dedicated chips,” Ashish says.
(L to R) Ashish, Shaunak, Ajinkya
-Laxmi Birajdar
Applying the simple calculation tricks of Vedic mathematics to computer coding is a novel attempt at smart number crunching. That’s what Ashish Joglekar, Ajinkya Kale and Shaunak Vaidya — undergraduate students from College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) — did to come up with an algorithm for implementation of effective coding commands on the computer.
Using the Paravartya Sutra from Vedic mathematics, the trio put across these calculations in their research paper, ‘A Novel Binary Division Algorithm Based on Vedic Mathematics and Applications to Polynomial Division’.
“We’ve used Vedic mathematics to decrease the time taken to execute programming commands on a computer,” explains Ashish.
This particular paper has been taken from their very first research effort at calculations through Vedic maths — “An Efficient Binary Multiplication Algorithm Based on Vedic Mathematics,” — a research paper they presented this March at NCTCT ’08 — a conference on the latest trends in computing technology in Chennai. Apparently, Shaunak and Ashish were the only undergraduate engineering students to have participated in this event, which comprised M Techs.
Vedic maths facilitates quick and easy mental calculations. But what mattered to these students was adapting the mathematical derivations to the computer language of binary system —comprising only two numbers, 0 and 1. “We’ve used Vedic maths to devise a dividend and a divisor, using constants and variables, to arrive upon quotients and remainders that further elucidate the algorithm for quicker computing,” says Ajinkya.
It is not surprising that the mathematical geniuses will show their research during a presentation at ‘The 2008 International Conference on Applied Computing’, which is a part of Worldcomp’ 08 — the World Congress on Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing — that will be held in Las Vegas, USA, from July 14 to 17 this year.
Judged on a scale of one to 10 at Worldcomp’s screening, the paper has scored exceptionally well on originality, technical quality, readability and presentation. It has even been recommended as a publishable paper in journals.
Their 20-min presentation has also been included in the prestigious Regular Research Paper (RPR) category, usually meant for papers by PhDs. They were guided by their faculty, Professor A.A. Sawant, head of department of computer science at COEP and Professor Vinayak Joshi in finetuning this research paper.
The students’ exceptional command over mathematics should not come as a surprise. Having educated themselves in Vedic mathematics since childhood, these students value its benefits, especially for calculations in modern gadgetry. “Vedic mathematics calculations for certain programming commands are less complex and don’t require tables of numbers used,” says Ajinkya.
In future,they see themselves making a career in engineering research. “We want to come up with algorithms based on Vedic mathematics for dedicated chips,” Ashish says.
(L to R) Ashish, Shaunak, Ajinkya
Saturday, February 9, 2008
One Day...
As a hobby I write poems. I have published my very own poetry collection
titled 'Euphoria'
This is my latest poem...
One Day…
When strength meets the weak,
As a tide that meets the beach,
When help meets the helpless,
Like the seamless heaven – horizon embrace,
When humanity meets humans,
As the moon that meets an eclipsed sun,
When knowledge meets illiteracy,
As the sparkling river that meets the sea.
When perseverance meets a goal,
As God gifts a blessed soul.
One day when my dream meets reality
That’s the day when I will rewrite my destiny…
titled 'Euphoria'
This is my latest poem...
One Day…
Ashish Joglekar
When strength meets the weak,
As a tide that meets the beach,
When help meets the helpless,
Like the seamless heaven – horizon embrace,
When humanity meets humans,
As the moon that meets an eclipsed sun,
When knowledge meets illiteracy,
As the sparkling river that meets the sea.
When perseverance meets a goal,
As God gifts a blessed soul.
One day when my dream meets reality
That’s the day when I will rewrite my destiny…
Blogging...Here Goes...
I finally know how to create, edit and manage the contents of a blog. (Better late than never :)) I find the code and technology driving the internet blogosphere appealing.
As a software enthusiast I had attended a course on Web designing
and HTML in my school days.
Today the internet is using new tools and platforms like WEB2.0.
Even 3D internet and virtual worlds like Second Life are catching up.
In India, internet penetration is improving helping people realize
the power and expanse of the net.
Long Live the Internet!
As a software enthusiast I had attended a course on Web designing
and HTML in my school days.
Today the internet is using new tools and platforms like WEB2.0.
Even 3D internet and virtual worlds like Second Life are catching up.
In India, internet penetration is improving helping people realize
the power and expanse of the net.
Long Live the Internet!
A New Day, A New Beginning
Every day we are gifted with 86400, 1440 minutes, 24 hrs..
Of these the most precious moments are the ones that bring in
a feeling of "Eureka" or "I have learnt something new today".
This blog is an account of all such moments in my life in real time. It will feature all the new things I learnt 'today'.
Of these the most precious moments are the ones that bring in
a feeling of "Eureka" or "I have learnt something new today".
This blog is an account of all such moments in my life in real time. It will feature all the new things I learnt 'today'.
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