chaos

and all places are alike to me…

The semester is ending and I am getting lots of emails from my students on how to get the most out of the summer break. So here’s a little list, in no particular order, (which I might keep on expanding later on) outlining some of the things that might make your summer productive. Make a study group: Find some fellow thetas, pick up a tough, interesting book (Knuth anyone?), distribute chapters/topics and teach each other....

There’s a traffic signal in front of Jinnah hospital at the crossing of Maulana Shuakat Ali Road and Usmani road. It’s either a very “happening” place or I’ve conditioned my self to observe interesting things whenever I stop there. The other day, I noticed an interesting looking thaila which bore a sign saying “Biryani on wheels”. I loved the idea and wanting to share it with the rest of the world (or whoever reads this blog), took my camera (or rather my wife’s camera) out to take a quick snap....

A bridge is a link whose removal disconnects a graph.

and I insist that 2.3 miles is not that long a distance….

So the State Bank of Pakistan has reduced the discount rate to 10.5%. My better half was commenting on how the media likes to air their opinions and interpretations about news related to economics, science or any such technical field while being rather clueless about it. Close to public holidays such as Eid and New year, unrelated events are declared to be gifts to the nation. One such example in Urdu is the phrase قوم کو عید کا تحفہ....