Friday, May 16, 2008

A sine wave ? is it a sinc wave? No it's Superwave !!

It seems that the fact that life has it's ups and downs is common knowledge, what isn't I guess is whether is high low structure is continuous like a since wave ? or sudden - discrete if you will, like a square wave. Do the highs or lows follow a pattern ? would the amplitude said highs and lows decrease over time ? will it increase will it oscillate rapidly varying with some random parameter ?(is it a stable ? decaying? or increasing ? wave). What is the Fourrier Transform of said wave form.

These and many other thoughts are going through my head now, now that I've left, now that I realise that my BTP was not as trivial as I thought as it was (designing a co-processor in a super computer - as an undergrad, not half bad is it ? - well I wasn't alone, but still a team of two.) - this being the high of the day. The fact that our design was not radically different from the one we were trying to beat, which came to light when I asked the guys who had come over to understand our design, a couple of questions and it becomes painfully clear that people can publish whatever they feel like, explanations don't matter, and that the work we had done, which seemed to be so revolutionary as compared to the others was in fact very similar to the work we were set out to beat.

Ahh .. sweet irony. Well not so sweet any ways, I heard a pretty interesting comment the other day, I'm talking about how the change in the electric field affects the magnetic field and vice versa in the case of Electro Magnetic Waves, and a guy says - "But damn it why does it move?", actually a very interesting question I know an electro magnetic wave has its E vectors, H vectors and Z vectors orthonormal to each other - but why must it have a Z vector at all ? I thought this has something to do with the equations of the wave when combined with whatever relativity Einstein cooked up - they only give a traveling wave equation. May be some one who is interested can model what a stationary (standing wave) version of an EM-wave would look like.

Let's see what else I left college - not tearful at all, I thought I may be but I wasn't. Some guys did come to see me off - that felt nice, I would have been much more worse off had no one come to see me off, I guess. Also I heard this song with respect to Delft's computer engineering department's unofficial video - it is a sad song but evokes a nice feeling, maybe because I have heard it in Harsha's room so often that I automatically associate it with that.

Honestly what will become of me
don't like reality
It's way too clear to me
But really life is daily
We are what we don't see
Missed everything daydreaming

[Chorus:]
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Traveling I only stop at exits
Wondering if I'll stay
Young and restless
Living this way I stress less
I want to pull away when the dream dies
The pain sets it and I don't cry
I only feel gravity and I wonder why

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Well the dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon so that they could
Dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon so that they could
Die die die die die

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Well the dogs were barking at a new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon
And the sun was wondering if it should stay away for a day 'til the feeling went away
And the sky was falling on the clouds were dropping and
the rain forgot how to bring salvation
the dogs were barking at the new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon so that they could die.


Incidentally for those interested I have realised that method of visualising numbers that I use, it seems I hear them as compared to seeing them in my head, although I can see them and count if I try (without hearing them) - but that is strenuous, interesting to know though.