A weird Google-search bug

Last month, it was asked on quora โ€“ What does [-4^(1/4)"] mean and why is it connected to porn? Still today, if you search for that equation on Google, it returns results with xxx titles. Some more contradictory search equations which return same type of results are " " 1 1 2 2 " " - - 1 2 The explanation of the equation -4^(1/4)" is given as โ€“ we are asking Google to return pages containing a 1 next to a 4, but which do not contain a 4. ...

2013-Feb-13 ยท 1 min

A Quick Recap

Back here, writing after a long time! Let me point down some of the major incidents during that time โ€“ Attended the High Performance Computing workshop by CDAC-ACTS The workshop on High Performance Computing was really a nice arrangement by CDAC for the students to learn and be familiar with the parallel processing. They offered the supercomputer access to perform the OpenMP and MPI programs, along with nice practical teaching from the HPC experts. ...

2013-Jan-02 ยท 3 min

Android App Inventor Hosting Project

Do you know about the Android App Inventor service by Google? (Yes, it was developed by Google, but they took back the support last month, and is now in the hands of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) It allows anyone, including people unfamiliar with computer programming, to create software applications for the Android operating system (OS). It uses a graphical interface, very similar to Scratch and the StarLogo TNG user interface, that allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application that can run on the Android system, which runs on many mobile devices. ...

2012-Jan-26 ยท 2 min