Archive for April, 2007

the past GEEKY days !!!

The quadratic equation seems to be having no solution , as the discriminant is less that 0 . Perhaps , then the question is wrong . And what about the 2oth Alkane , i think its Eicosane . So here goes the geeky discussion of the group . Ebullient guys , ready to make a history in the CBSE board examinations . Man , you must cram the refreshers of rescue , Lakhmir Singh and Manjit Kaur . The maths classes were awesome …. Bhopda (means 0 in marathi ) … the favorite keyword of the teacher. He will try to fit in every possible situation like the marks you get ….. etc etc .
Those were the geeky days , powered by intense passion for technology , and a profound quest to make into the best , thats IIT and make history . Perhaps , but you dont get what you really wish … or may be there is something called as predefined destiny being bundled with you during the time of your creation .

BIOINFORMATICS = BIO + INFO + What else do you want ? The hidden reality.

What is this MASALA MIX about ? Well dude , perhaps new jargon of hot spot for education .So what its actually about ? Here you are expected to know everything and i really mean everything . The domains of its definition range from IMMUNOLOGY to DATA MINING …….. RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY to CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS ……
And ultimately where do you land up …. ” Jack of all trades and master of none”. It may seem really fascinating field as it claims to ” decipher the code of life ” . But finally what you do is some garbage in and garbage out …. CONCLUSION – TOTAL NON SENSE.

Of late many universities and collges have started offering courses ranging from BSc. to MTech . But beware as this chimera branch can lead you nowhere . There are lot of myths and hoax associated with bioinformatics being the next hot spot of education but the real face of reality is exactly reverse. What actually is kind of work expected is more like a DATABASE ENTRY OPERATOR. And if you contradict with other aspects of Bioinformatics like moleular modelling etc , then you need to have solid foundations in Chemistry which a HYBRID bioinformatician fails to acquire .
The worst part of it is the extreme mix nature of accomodating people from two diiferent backgrounds of BIOLOGY and MATHS are mingled and taught . Hence , the maths guy gets frustrated as well as the BIOLOGY one. It can be called as BPO of life sciences where you are expected to input the data in already build software and generate the output without actaully analysing the data and knowing the ultimate essence of it.

However a deeper aspect of the subject would require you to have an exhaustive knowledge in one of the fields like Maths , Algorithm or Molecular Biology .

The blog is written with contributions from Mr Bhaskar Mangal .

The workplace of fanatics

Kamla : Is your system free ?
Champak : What Kamla , this is the eighth machine . What is your program about ? a demon .
Kamla : Champak Lal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pumba : Hey Kamla , are you running the program on my system , even the login screen is taking hours to pop up.
Timon & Vimla : [ giggle]
Hippo : Hey , i want to make this 30MB text file tab separated , replace those commas .
Champak : What you using ? Definitely windows . It would take hours even machine may hang . Use gedit , Linux dude .

[- UNFORTUNATELY LINUX ALSO GOT HUNG UP - ]

Kamla : Champak Lal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Champak : KTB , Kamla the Bai …………………………….
Timon : Mujhe bhook lagi hai , apan kabhi ko khane ko jayenge .
Pumba :Come lets go , food for thought . Where is mamu ? [ Locks his screen ]
Champak : Call the chat master also .

Banken Lal : Ae idhar aa . Ye linux main pen drive mount kar .
Ramu :
[As usual keeps the celphone in the place of mouse.]
Banken Lal : Kya be jaada masti soojh rahi hai tujhe . Chal lag jaa apni excel sheet main .

to be continued …. keep reading

Pleas Note: The blog is not meant to offend someone .