Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Comment on India 10 - quicky by Manoj

Cool, to think that now you have been to some places in Kerala I have never visited. How was it?

Thanks for all the cool photos. Btw, this one would explain how much I had to adapt to the traffic rules after coming here.

Talking about photos, you seem to have some dust in your sensor or lens (appears as a smudge towards the top left of the frame), but most of the time barely visible.

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Monday, December 18, 2006

[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "India 6 - A plumbing breakthrough"

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HAHA! that is about the funniest thing I have read in a long time!

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Saturday, December 9, 2006

[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "India 6 - A plumbing breakthrough"

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Author : deepu (IP: 203.200.95.130 , delhi-203.200.95-130.static.vsnl.net.in)
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say u r so impecunious to pay for a better place in India...

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Friday, December 8, 2006

[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "India 6 - A plumbing breakthrough"

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Author : Sariel Har-Peled (IP: 202.141.70.18 , 202.141.70.18)
Comment:
Thank you for your kind comment. I am completely grateful for it.

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Comment on India 6 - A plumbing breakthrough by dvs

u seem to be an outspoken, ungrateful asshole

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "India 4 - Glory made"

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Author : Rafi (IP: 89.1.250.113 , 89.1.250.113.dynamic.barak-online.net)
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Regardless of the quality of math education in the US and bananananana, about which you may be right, I never saw the point of teaching kids long division or other elaborate computational procedures (and I recently read an interesting article of a non-mathematician programmer who realized how math could be very useful, gives tips on how to learn it and claims that most of what they teach in school is useless. He gave long division as an example. I agree).

Long division doesn't help anyone do anything. They once taught kids how to approximate logarithms with logarithm tables. I'm sure you're not used to that, and there's no reason you should be, even though they might still teach it in some places where they teach long division. All these useless procedures are also responsible for making people think math is just about numbers and algebra, when in fact the merit in a mathematician who knows how to compute cubic roots quickly without a calculator is null.

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