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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Sam, can you sing?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Company X (logo below) which started selling noodles has now grown into one of the world’s most powerful companies. Identify X.

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Samsung


2011: What Odyssey?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect

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Samsung Cited Kubrick’s ‘2001’ Film as Prior Art Defense Against Apple’s Injunction Request. Weird, the world of patents is.


Thursday, September 22, 2011

Bye bye Dawn?

—srikanth @ 21:24

Simple - connect.

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The “real” identities of all the superheroes in that list are the codenames for Nvidia’s Tegra series of chips. The graph was the slide that Nvidia showed off.


Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Was this question first asked by devadutta?

—srikanth @ 23:59

The Univ. of Chicago statistics prof (1) came up with this ’law’ applicable to the world of science. Keeping in accordance with the law itself, he did two things:

  • He said that he was definitely not the first one to come up with this law. He just named it after himself.
  • He said that it was, in fact, (2), an american sociologist, who actually came up with it.

The law itself is very ‘meta’ in nature. All the more so because it has been ‘proven’ right by so many self references.

OK, enough meta. Question is simple: Name the law!

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Stigler’s law, proposed by Stephen Stigler, states that “no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer” and has many corollaries. The wikipedia article is quite interesting :)


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

...and the rest, as they say, is history - part 2

—srikanth @ 23:59

The name D is, keeping in tune with the recursive nature of things, a reference to a feature of D itself - message passing. Message passing was by no means something invented by C or in D. It was from an older language E, created in Oslo.

E is considered the first true language that implemented the concept “F”. F is one of the most commonly used paradigms today, having outlasted/outpopularized almost every other paradigm. Interestingly enough, the first thoughts of F came up in the development of A!

Having completed that loop - the question is simple. Identify D through **F **for 1 point.

Laaate post is not that late ;) Almost made it on time.

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Quoting Logik


Monday, September 19, 2011

...and the rest, as they say, is history - part 1

—srikanth @ 23:59

Loooong question with much editorializing shall ensue:

A was invented by B at MIT in 1958. One interesting, almost core, feature of A, is its intensely recursive nature. This recursion was to such an extreme that a complete interpreter for A was written in A in “about a page” of code!

Fast forward to 1972. The setting is, of course, Xerox PARC. C and ‘Dan’ were in discussion about powerful programming languages. C, inspired by the one-page nature of A, claimed that he could define the “most powerful language in the world” in a page of code. ‘Dan’ bet him on it, and C eventually did come up with the language D.

Laaate post is continued in the next one.

Identify A, B and C for 1 point.

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Quoting Logik


Sunday, September 18, 2011

That last one? I pretend it never happened.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What/who connects?

Laaaate post is less late than the previous one. More to follow.

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Dr. Susan Calvin


Saturday, September 17, 2011

Biotech is Godzilla?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Two images below describe the ‘core’ of a famous service. Name the service/project please.

Apologies for the laaaaate posts. I’ll be posting more to catch up soon.

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The Music Genome Project - Pandora


Friday, September 16, 2011

Pixel Worth

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

Late question is sooooper late. Will stay up longer.

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Million Dollar Homepage - Check this http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com


Thursday, September 15, 2011

As long as it is blue..

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

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BSOD on Win8