education – Karthik Shashidhar

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Numbers and management

July 9, 2013

I learnt Opeations Research thrice. The first was when I had just finished school and was about to go to IIT. My father had just started on a part-time MBA, and his method of making sure he had learnt something properly was to try and teach it to me. And so, using some old textbook…

business, contract bridge, economics, education, IIT, randomness, science, sport, work

In search of uncertainty

July 12, 2011

Back when I was in school, I was a math stud. At least people around me thought so. I knew I wanted to pursue a career in science, and that in part led me to taking science in class XI, and subsequently writing JEE which led to the path I ultimately took. Around the same…

business, education, work academia, academics, centimeter, delta, epsilon, getting tenure, impro, improvements, least count, money every time, phd, pole vault, pole vaulter sergei, predecessor, proxy, soviet government, stint, sum of money, world record, writing papers

Sergei Bubka and Academia

March 21, 2011

There is this famous story that says that the Soviet government promised pole vaulter Sergei Bubka some huge sum of money “every time he broke the world record”. Being rather smart, Bubka would break the world record each time by one centimeter (the least count for pole vault measurement), utilizing the fact that the nature…

computer science, education, personal, work algos, bitwise, brick breaker, computer science, constraints, contests, cool stuff, cricket scoring, excel vba, fundamental level, game brick, instinct, logic, madras, mojo, occasions, pong game, relationship, seven years, turboc

Coding

January 6, 2011

Back when I was in school (11th/12th) I think I was an awesome coder. I think I was especially good at what they called as “logic coding”, i.e. coming up with algos. I used to experiment quite a bit (as much was possible with TurboC) and had a lot of fun too. I remember doing…

education, IIM, work accounting, campus recruitment, cv, disservice, fair share, few days, finance, football team, headache, hostel, iimb, job, pertinent observations, priorities, resume, shortlist, summer internship, wing football

A View From the Other Side

November 4, 2009

For the first time ever, a few days bck, I was involved in looking at resumes for campus recruitment, and helping people in coming up with a shortlist. These were resumes from IIMB and we were looking to recruit for the summer internship. Feeling slightly jobless, I ended up taking more than my fair share…

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The Eighty-Twenty Rule

June 3, 2009

I first got this idea during some assignment submission at IIT. One guy in our class, known to be a perfectionist is supposed to have put in 250 hours of effort into a certain course project. He is known to have got 20 out of 20 in this project. I put in about 25 hours…

economics, education, randomness, Uncategorized

Now it’s the turn of the economists

April 14, 2008

To fear the engineers that is. It seems like TCA Srinivasa Raghavan had an extremely tight deadline with respect to his analysis of the Raghuram Rajan Report. So, instead of taking on the report, he decides to go after the chief author instead. And he doesn’t even do a good job of this. He goes…

economics, education, fundaes, Uncategorized

Teaching Economics: Part Two

January 9, 2008

Madman Aadisht has extended my earlier post to talk about why Economics toppers from DU don’t necessarily need to clear in their concepts. He talks about the admission process and the internal examination process and the course content to arrive at this particular conclusion. So what could be done to fix it? There is no…

economics, education, fundaes

Teaching Economics: Part One

December 30, 2007

Ok I thought this conversation merits a post. Given my writer’s block, I’ll just copy paste it here. And i’m adding some links to the conversation now. The counterparty to this conversation is of course sw_aadisht . You can find his blog here .