Codechef first top 10

Woah!!!

Achieved my first top 10 in Codechef competition.

The competition was Clash Credenz 2013 http://www.codechef.com/CLASH13/

The three problems solved by me were 

1.BALANCE IT OUT(just a case of precomputation)

http://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/2583474

2.THE AMAZING RACE (more of a logical question than much hard). You have to recognize the numbers closest to the middle. 

http://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/2586155

3.SNYDER MAN (A pure maths application). Though seriously speaking the logic I developed was taken to be wrong by both me and my roommate, but surprisingly it worked. Just make a equation of the final height, and you are done. 

http://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/2588026

4. Sadly though missed on MUSIC MAN by a single error in my logic. :-(

Well the next two competitions fast approaching are:

1. codathon.manipalglobal.com

2. http://www.codechef.com/SEPT13/

Both start on 6th September 2013

Best of luck to all who participate :-) \m/

Google Is Life

The dependence on Google came to light on 16th August. The service from Google was disrupted for 5 min from 4:22 AM to 4:27 AM. Many couldn't believe it, and first tried to check their internet connection, rather than thinking that, Google may be down. Twitter reported a flurry of activity in just those 5 mins, concerning the disruption of service. The report from GoSquared's real-time tracking recorded a huge dip of 40% in global page views. The estimated time for continuation of service was 10:37. However Google with its awesome engineers came back in just 5 mins. Now that's what's called fast-service.

Some of the outrageous tweets can be seen on: http://www.zdnet.com/google-services-go-down-internet-panics-7000019516/

Foundation Day

Whew!!! What an amazing event. The start was a little slow and redundant with the scholarships being distributed. Therefore, most of us owing to the air-conditioned auditorium and sofa seats, just plain fell off asleep. Well our black hard invigorating coffee wasn't that far away. Thank you Shiva and Shishir for making the awesome video that lightened us up like a light bulb: Effervescence Video. However, what was really sad, was replacement of NFS MW with Split Second. The hall was brimming to the top and pretty hot(if you know what I mean), and all of us enjoyed it. Then came the drama of the Second Year, and did they rock it. They totally blew our minds away with their performance. The most special mention goes out to Gaurav. Buddy, never knew you were such an awesome actor. You deserve a commendation for it.