Find me a rock
April 28, 2010 // No Comments
This is an excerpt from the article “The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell” at http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
The classic “find me a rock” story is as follows: A manager goes to his engineer one day and asks for a rock. “A rock?” asks the engineer. “Yes, a rock. That isn’t going to be a problem, is it?” replies the manager. The engineer laughs and tells the manager he’ll go pick one up during his lunch break and it will be no problem. After lunch, the manager visits the engineer again and the engineer shows him the rock. The manager looks at it for a moment before telling the engineer, “No, that one won’t work at all. I need a rock.”
“Find me a rock” problems sound dead simple, but in actuality have requirements that are poorly stated or unknown. You never know what you’re looking for; you only know that you’ll know it when you see it.
The concept of Black holes
June 19, 2008 // No Comments
Astronomically, Black Holes are heavenly bodies with mass so high, that they are capable of creating a gravitational field so strong that even light cannot escape it. Thus it is very difficult to observe black holes coz anything that goes towards them, is sucked into them forever.
In my life, I have seen a lot of black holes. They are not rare, but abundantly present all around. Well that’s coz I have a little different definition of black holes from NASA or wikipedia. I refer those people as black holes who somehow have the habit of borrowing stuff, but somehow seem to forget to return it. Anything that goes to these ‘black holes’ have little or approximately zero probability of coming back to the mother ship.
Due to some weird reason (the research is going on), these black holes assume that anything that’s coming their way should not be returned to their home planet. Every object i.e. matter that is directed towards these black holes is sucked into them by an unknown type of force. The only known characteristics of the force are as follows
The origin of the force is need.
The force is attractive in nature to every kind of material known to mankind.
The force makes the black hole system ‘memoryless’ i.e. the whole black hole system has no record of the instances when the force is on its peak.
Hello world!
December 30, 2007 // 1 Comment
This is the creation of a new world, a world where the only the things that I care about exist.