Devender

Education is means by which young minds try to accumulate knowledge, experiences, skills etc. learn t by society. Here I will first talk about High school education system and then at college level. High school, students in US are never burdened with facts and information. They do not learn much as compared to Indian students. But one good thing about this system is that students there are free to choose some courses. So, what it does is that it helps a dedicated student. Let us say some student is interested in Electrical Engineering, he/she can opt for some courses like basic electronics. In this way a US student is much more prepared than their Indian counterpart when they are about to enter college. In India, till high school, students are given basic knowledge of almost everything but not specifics and they are not allowed to choose subjects. What this leads to is confusion in their mind. They are good in almost all but not perfect in one. So, you can see a Indian student can perf...

This post has been copied from the report on experiences and lesson learnt, asked by my advisor. This intern has been full of learning and events. I am going to divide this report in two sections, in first I will describe what I have learned as a researcher, and in second, as a person. Research: I just love doing research. I mean it makes me feel good. I always have difficulty in cramming stuff but in research you try to understand principles rather than mugging them. I had a mindset, before coming, about research and how to do research. This internship has made me matured and experienced as a researcher. I always used to think research as a task; so, it is like any other competition. I think taking part in competitions invoked such attitude. It had been winning and loosing that competition for me, and research used to be no exception of that attitude. So, winning this competition would have been getting a paper published. All my efforts were focused on achieving that very goal. But af...

Tomorrow I was traveling back to Varanasi from Kanpur in a bus. There was a small girl in front of my seat. She was creating a lot of nuisance and as I have nothing to do in the bus so, I start observing her. She was moving here and there, sometimes even pushing her body out of window. One thing I noticed about her is that she was constantly asking questions like; when this bus is going to move?, why should not I budge my body out?, why I will get hurt if I am moving my body outside? She was asking whatever came in her mind and of whatever she was not sure. A few days back I attended the lecture of Dr. Amarnath Sen, a scientist from CG&CRI, he was constantly trying to give emphasis on asking question as that is the best way to learn. He said that one must have curiosity and nosiness in order to study. Then I started drawing a parallel between what Dr. Sen had said and actions of small girl. Girl was inquisitive about whatever she was seeing and wants answers of questions which ca...

What Is A Hacker?The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term `hacker', most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant.There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term `hacker'. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker.The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music -- actuall...