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I'm a devout google fan! I use it to search even within MSDN and weblogs.asp.net but lately I had an incident which made me think that google is missing out results.

I was searching for Dr. Altamash's MIT thesis on Google with the following query.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mit+altamash+kamal
To my marvel, it returned me no pertaining results. However the simillar yahoo search
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=mit+altamash+kamal&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt
which not only displayed link to his thesis but also the theses.mit.edu Digital Library Index Page.

It made me wonder if google is dropping ranking in quest of being sophisticated and context sensetive?

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6/28/2004 2:34:18 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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La Tierra Giró para Acercarnos

La tierra giró para acercarnos,
giró sobre sí misma y en nosotros,
hasta juntarnos por fin en este sueño,
como fue escrito en el Simposio.
Pasaron noches, nieves y solsticios;
pasó el tiempo en minutos y milenios.
Una carreta que iba para Nínive
llegó a Nebraska.
Un gallo cantó lejos del mundo,
en la previda a menos mil de nuestros padres.
La tierra giró musicalmente
llevándonos a bordo;
no cesó de girar un solo instante,
como si tanto amor, tanto milagro
sólo fuera un adagio hace mucho ya escrito
entre las partituras del Simposio.

The earth turned to bring us closer,
it spun on itself and within us,
and finally joined us together in this dream
as written in the Symposium.
Nights passed by, snowfalls and solstices;
time passed in minutes and millennia.
An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveh
arrived in Nebraska.
A rooster was singing some distance from the world,
in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.
The earth was spinning with its music
carrying us on board;
it didn't stop turning a single moment
as if so much love, so much that's miraculous
was only an adagio written long ago
in the Symposium's score.

By Venezuela’s leading poet Eugenio Montejo (Attributed in 21 Grams)

.Poetry

6/26/2004 1:29:35 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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Quantum Teleportation and Speed of Gravity (Yes, not the acceleration due to Gravity) rants

If the sun disappears creating a gravitational void, it will create one of those cool 3D graphs as seen in Stephen Hawking's Universe in a Nutshell and earth will go tangent after x minutes? The value of x is undetermined, some predicted it to be 0.95c and some in neighborhood of c. Some good links for this study are as follows

And after 1998’s Caltech physicists achieve first bona fide quantum teleportation experiment, recent news Scientists teleport information between atoms looks very bright towards future of quantum teleportation.

Caltech Quantum Teleportation Center.

Saul Teukolsky: Warping Space and Time 5/11/2004
[56k modem] [broadband] [cable/DSL] 83 minutes
Guest lecturer Saul Teukolsky, professor of physics, Cornell University, discussed how the numerical simulations on supercomputers have probed naked singularities in spacetime and discovered toroidal black holes. With an introduction by Caltech's Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics.

(Courtesy Caltech)

IBM Research: Quantum Teleportation

Research & Development

6/21/2004 1:59:14 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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.NET languages - Paroli Esperanto

On my quest to extend CLISP compiler for .NET, I came across couple of good links. One of them is Brian Ritchie's .NET languages. This page is a an excellent resource on .NET language compilers and supporting languages.

Also, in support of precious LISP, I found Jeff saying in Robert Mclaws blog

“IMHO, besides powerful string processing facilities, LISP's main advantage are:

- Fast development cycles (as it's an interpreted language like JAVA and C#/.NET, so no lengthy linking-compiling stuff. Further, each function or method can be modified/loaded/tested separately at runtime. By experience, much faster to write than JAVA and of course C++)

- Incredible flexibility (any algorithm, structure, concept can be programmed in a very natural way. What other language easily allows you to create functions that create functions? BTW, unlike JAVA, LISP also supports multiple inheritance)

- Short learning curve for programmers as one can program LISP in any style (functional, OO) and make the code look like your favourite language (might it be C, JAVA, Pascal, Fortran, VB...). This might also be a disadvantage, especially in big projects (> 1 man!) because it doesn't force one to use a particuliar structure. If this annoys you, you can still use the very LISP-like Smalltalk, which is 100% OO and ortogonal and thus enforces a bit more disciplin.

Research & Development

6/1/2004 9:57:20 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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