Perhaps it is due to incapabilities of human mind in handling more than 5 or 6 details at a time that abstraction is born. Now there a tendency to glorify abstraction by which one squeeze details into a small representable quantity. No doubt abstraction is useful. It definitely make sense to write down eigen values …
What good is happiness if it cannot buy you money! – Attributed to Zsa Zsa Gabor In 2008, New Scientists, summarized the results of a survey covering 65 nations to show the largest proportion of happy people lived in, of all places, in Nigeria, followed by Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador and Puerto Rico. Last …
Following function split a string into a list of strings at a given string. For example split "dilawar raw war" "aw" returns ["dil", "ar r" " war"] split :: String -> String -> [String] split str pat = helper str pat [] [] where helper :: String -> String -> String -> String -> [String] …
P. Sainath on Western democracy. On ‘How planning commission measure poverty’. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/RaGZHBIWpU0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>On Economics of Food