My total earning from tutoring Statistics is 100 pounds now :) The topics that I have taught are:-
1) Regression
2) Hypothesis testing
3) Non - Parametric tests
I am glad that I graduated from ISI and no matter how much I have hated Statistics (and, I still do), the course-work at ISI made me learn some basics of the topic. I have the confidence to read up on stuff and manually calculate everything for my students (and I am being paid 20 pounds an hour :D And, the number of my students is rising exponentially :D :D)!
Come to think of it, who would have thought I would actually tutor Statistics and be paid for it!
Moral:- Money is a good motivation to learn Statistics :P
Friday, February 22, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
fuck-wit-excellente
Here is a piece of conversation between me and a batch-mate of mine. This chap has been in UK since 1993. Lets just call him X for the time being.
X:- So, you are from India?
Me:- Yup [smile]!
X:- I like India.
Me:- Oh! Cool! Have you been there?
X:- Nope. Not yet.
[Pause]
X:- There are lots of Maharajas in India, no? Maharajas and Princes?
ME:- Not any more. That was before independence.
X:- [Pause] [Ponder] Do you have elephants in India?
Me:- Yeah. Loads.
X:- You guys use it as a taxi, right?
Me:- (!!??!?) errr... NO!
X:- [puzzled disbelief] But, I saw it in James Bond movie!
Me:- Thats a Goddamn movie mate! We have the same Taxis as you guys do.
X:- Oh [slightly disappointed]! Do you have snakes in India?
Me:- Yeah. In jungles.
X:- But, there are a lot of them in cities, no? They can come like-this-like-this [makes a slithering movement with hands] to the cities. And, they bite!!!
Me:- Dude! How often do you get to see snakes on the streets of London?
X:- Never seen 'em.
Me:- Precisely! Snakes hardly come to the city.
X:- But this is UK! And, THAT is India.
Me:- Oh yeah?
[I must say, I was getting amused by this guy's hopeless general knowledge. I had no idea that such exhibits managed to survive this world for 23 years and come to LSE as well]
[Awkward silence for a minute]
X:- Do you have loads of crocodiles in India?
Me:- Dude! Now you are pushing it.
X:- No! I want to go to India and swim in Ganges but I am scared of crocodiles.
I ran out of patience by then and told him I will see him later in class.
Another chick. She is British-Bangladeshi. She loves wearing loads of kajal so that she could look like Bipasha Basu (who, as she puts it, is a Bengal-tigress). Exhibit B here has also joined a facebook group titled Bangladeshi doesn't mean Bengali-Muslim, you dumb bitch!!! (note the extra exclamation marks). Fair enough. She is probably disappointed with other people's ignorance.
BUT,
she thinks that all Indians who have come to UK for the first time are "Fresh From Oven". And, everytime she looks at a male Indian postgrad or first year Indian undergrad (even those who were born and brought up in Malaysia/Australia/NZ/Hongkong) she gets a totally romantic feeling of them being village-boys. The other day she casually enquired whether the brands like Vogue and Nike existed in India. After being told that they pretty much do, she said, "But, in India, everyone is so poor!!! How do they manage?"
Well... yup. LSE is quite an interesting place to meet people.
X:- So, you are from India?
Me:- Yup [smile]!
X:- I like India.
Me:- Oh! Cool! Have you been there?
X:- Nope. Not yet.
[Pause]
X:- There are lots of Maharajas in India, no? Maharajas and Princes?
ME:- Not any more. That was before independence.
X:- [Pause] [Ponder] Do you have elephants in India?
Me:- Yeah. Loads.
X:- You guys use it as a taxi, right?
Me:- (!!??!?) errr... NO!
X:- [puzzled disbelief] But, I saw it in James Bond movie!
Me:- Thats a Goddamn movie mate! We have the same Taxis as you guys do.
X:- Oh [slightly disappointed]! Do you have snakes in India?
Me:- Yeah. In jungles.
X:- But, there are a lot of them in cities, no? They can come like-this-like-this [makes a slithering movement with hands] to the cities. And, they bite!!!
Me:- Dude! How often do you get to see snakes on the streets of London?
X:- Never seen 'em.
Me:- Precisely! Snakes hardly come to the city.
X:- But this is UK! And, THAT is India.
Me:- Oh yeah?
[I must say, I was getting amused by this guy's hopeless general knowledge. I had no idea that such exhibits managed to survive this world for 23 years and come to LSE as well]
[Awkward silence for a minute]
X:- Do you have loads of crocodiles in India?
Me:- Dude! Now you are pushing it.
X:- No! I want to go to India and swim in Ganges but I am scared of crocodiles.
I ran out of patience by then and told him I will see him later in class.
Another chick. She is British-Bangladeshi. She loves wearing loads of kajal so that she could look like Bipasha Basu (who, as she puts it, is a Bengal-tigress). Exhibit B here has also joined a facebook group titled Bangladeshi doesn't mean Bengali-Muslim, you dumb bitch!!! (note the extra exclamation marks). Fair enough. She is probably disappointed with other people's ignorance.
BUT,
she thinks that all Indians who have come to UK for the first time are "Fresh From Oven". And, everytime she looks at a male Indian postgrad or first year Indian undergrad (even those who were born and brought up in Malaysia/Australia/NZ/Hongkong) she gets a totally romantic feeling of them being village-boys. The other day she casually enquired whether the brands like Vogue and Nike existed in India. After being told that they pretty much do, she said, "But, in India, everyone is so poor!!! How do they manage?"
Well... yup. LSE is quite an interesting place to meet people.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Mission:- How to make ISI better?
An evil plan, I say! Here is an outline (Kindly drop-in your suggestions) :-
1) I make loads of money.
2) Mathew and Sid also make loads of money. So do others who wish to move to jobs.
3) 10 years down the line, pool in cash and start a separate institute. Same entrance procedure. Start with only undergrad.
4) Provide better salary to lecturers. And, MUCH BETTER stipends to students.
5) Offer more flexibility to students in choosing their specialization viz pure/app maths, comp sc, stat, physics.
6) Arrange for them to receive excellent tutoring from other colleges as well , if needed.
7) Work along CMI lines and have an industry sponsored comp sc and applied maths departments (which will also ensure students have places to consider once they finish undergrad)
8) Use our contacts and encourage students to take up internships and gain work-experience.
9) Again pulling strings to place students with the best of the firms here or abroad (By that time, we probably be in a decent position in some firm ourselves - maybe partners :P)
10) It will be hard to implement it for first couple of years but once people start getting placed, the rest will fall in place. The entire motive is to provide a suitable environment to both - the ones who wish to be researchers and the once who wish to move to industry. And, a very suitable one as well!
11) I believe that our batch-mates/seniors/juniors/their contacts would be willing to join the place for we will ensure an environment conducive to fruitful research :)
11) But then we put money in it! What do we get out of it? :) It will be a totally dumb-ass move not to have a way to make more cash out of our cash. I have a plan. Somewhat. But not a good idea to put it on the blog.
So yeah! Thats a sort-of vague plan. I am sure, things will change over time. We will be able to improve on it. Maybe change a few things here and there. But this is the basic skeleton. And, I am not being altruistic. Its just a way to give students a better platform AND make money for ourselves.
1) I make loads of money.
2) Mathew and Sid also make loads of money. So do others who wish to move to jobs.
3) 10 years down the line, pool in cash and start a separate institute. Same entrance procedure. Start with only undergrad.
4) Provide better salary to lecturers. And, MUCH BETTER stipends to students.
5) Offer more flexibility to students in choosing their specialization viz pure/app maths, comp sc, stat, physics.
6) Arrange for them to receive excellent tutoring from other colleges as well , if needed.
7) Work along CMI lines and have an industry sponsored comp sc and applied maths departments (which will also ensure students have places to consider once they finish undergrad)
8) Use our contacts and encourage students to take up internships and gain work-experience.
9) Again pulling strings to place students with the best of the firms here or abroad (By that time, we probably be in a decent position in some firm ourselves - maybe partners :P)
10) It will be hard to implement it for first couple of years but once people start getting placed, the rest will fall in place. The entire motive is to provide a suitable environment to both - the ones who wish to be researchers and the once who wish to move to industry. And, a very suitable one as well!
11) I believe that our batch-mates/seniors/juniors/their contacts would be willing to join the place for we will ensure an environment conducive to fruitful research :)
11) But then we put money in it! What do we get out of it? :) It will be a totally dumb-ass move not to have a way to make more cash out of our cash. I have a plan. Somewhat. But not a good idea to put it on the blog.
So yeah! Thats a sort-of vague plan. I am sure, things will change over time. We will be able to improve on it. Maybe change a few things here and there. But this is the basic skeleton. And, I am not being altruistic. Its just a way to give students a better platform AND make money for ourselves.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
3 incentives to visit Chicago!
Hey Guys I give you three reasons to visit my place.
1) Food cooked by me.
2) Awesome tandoori dishes at Gareeb Nawaz starting from $3 a plate.
3) Cricket in a Basketball court.
The last point is reason enough to come here. We actually played this week and it's soooo fun. Occasionally there were some deranged people asking us when we would be over so they can play "Basketball". But it's fun to show them that for once their court is being used for a better reason! Huh.
1) Food cooked by me.
2) Awesome tandoori dishes at Gareeb Nawaz starting from $3 a plate.
3) Cricket in a Basketball court.
The last point is reason enough to come here. We actually played this week and it's soooo fun. Occasionally there were some deranged people asking us when we would be over so they can play "Basketball". But it's fun to show them that for once their court is being used for a better reason! Huh.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Perfect Set!
With the joining of Tunna, every single* BMath 04 - 07 student is now on the team of contributors to the blog. Now, all we need to do is start writing :P
Dada, kammo, Pranav:- Europe news please!
Mayank:- क्या कर रहा है बे ?
Deepak:- Stat news etc?
Deepro:- Yo bro!
Tunna:- किधर हो? ISI - D? Post stuff!
Miyan:- Opinion on quantum-mechanics-chicks in US? Hmm?
Hoping to see more posts!
Cheers!
Shivam
* - technically!
Dada, kammo, Pranav:- Europe news please!
Mayank:- क्या कर रहा है बे ?
Deepak:- Stat news etc?
Deepro:- Yo bro!
Tunna:- किधर हो? ISI - D? Post stuff!
Miyan:- Opinion on quantum-mechanics-chicks in US? Hmm?
Hoping to see more posts!
Cheers!
Shivam
* - technically!
Terry Pratchett diagnosed with Alzheimer's
Click here for a report.In response, The man said:-
"I Aten't Dead Yet!"
"I shall very soon be on medication that in theory should blow some of the cobwebs away and I hope my typing speed and accuracy will improve. Meanwhile, we are in contact with various organization and researchers and keeping in touch with developments in the field, which is something of a Cinderella compared with other major illnesses."
Terry added a few extra dimension to humour and fantasy. Hail Pratchett!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Unmaad - fashion show
During Unmaad ( refer previous post by me ) I was doing a sponsored round in the fashion show where we had to walk around with L.G. phones....very gay yes...but one of my friends managed a halfway decent photograph.
However I want to keep on record that I still think my best ever snap is the one with the towels and bucket. hehe
Another Intruder!!!
What we could never do in ISI, this snake did, it enjoyed its food! Here are two videos guys, one with background(expert) comments of my favourite teacher Mr. GM, for whom everything was fundamental theorem of calculus(which I am realizing only now!).
PS: Another video in next post.
PS: Another video in next post.
Unmaad
Unmaad is the IIM Bangalore cultural fest. Happens once a year and this year it was arguably the biggest in India. Its been happening over the last weekend. Started Friday morning and ended at around 5:00 on Monday morning. Kept me totally busy from start to finish. There were events all day, concerts every evening and parties every night from midnight to six AM.
I tried getting our juniors to come from ISI for the fest. Chand and Suranjan said they would but, as expected, neither turned up. There we're however a lot of other people there who were VERY interesting.
One thing I figured out is that people can be VERY dumb a lot of the time. Just listen to this. I'm talking to this one girl (really cute btw) and at the same time this other guy is trying to .... hit on her?? Here's what happened.
(In attempt to generally be like a host I try to include everyone in the conversation)
(this is all happening at around 4 AM on sunday morning)
Me : So what are you guys doing?
Really cute girl : I'm doing my final year in Mount Carmels
Dumb chap : I'm in my second year in St. Josephs
(he now realizes that this would make him younger than the girl so...)
Dumb chap : But it's not like that....I actually dropped a year. So while I'm academically younger than you, I'm not actually younger than you.
(he now realizes that this would kinda make him a dumb chap so...)
Dumb chap : You know I didn't fail a year or anything....
(at this point I start sniggering and I'm fairly certain she did too)
And this is just a random example. All weekend long people have been coming up to me and saying the most inane things. One girl even tried to kill me ( minor exaggeration : assault would have been more appropriate ) because she lost the dance competition and we didn't give her a participation certificate. Seriously.....what the hell is she going to do with a certificate claiming she participated in a competition thats free for ANYONE to participate. Hell....Mayank could have taken part in that competition and we all know how he dances. ( note : really cute girl won the dance competition )
I haven't slept in ages. Managed two hrs of sleep on friday and saturday nights. Zero on sunday. I went to class at 8:30 AM monday morning...Slept there so obviously that even I was ashamed. Apparently I had my knees up on the table, my head was tilted back and I was snoring. Some of my friends even say I was drooling but I'm going to pretend that didn't happen.
Thats about it from Bangalore....If you want to know about the other side of Bangalore call the Pamily and pind out. Of course, Bohemians is always there...
P.S : Oddly enough the name of the girl I mentioned is Natasha, just like my old laptop. I've also decided that my Apple is also a Natasha, it's a nice name...
P.P.S : Where is everyone....Only few people are posting. Monkey I'm sure doesn't know how to type yet but what about the rest?
I tried getting our juniors to come from ISI for the fest. Chand and Suranjan said they would but, as expected, neither turned up. There we're however a lot of other people there who were VERY interesting.
One thing I figured out is that people can be VERY dumb a lot of the time. Just listen to this. I'm talking to this one girl (really cute btw) and at the same time this other guy is trying to .... hit on her?? Here's what happened.
(In attempt to generally be like a host I try to include everyone in the conversation)
(this is all happening at around 4 AM on sunday morning)
Me : So what are you guys doing?
Really cute girl : I'm doing my final year in Mount Carmels
Dumb chap : I'm in my second year in St. Josephs
(he now realizes that this would make him younger than the girl so...)
Dumb chap : But it's not like that....I actually dropped a year. So while I'm academically younger than you, I'm not actually younger than you.
(he now realizes that this would kinda make him a dumb chap so...)
Dumb chap : You know I didn't fail a year or anything....
(at this point I start sniggering and I'm fairly certain she did too)
And this is just a random example. All weekend long people have been coming up to me and saying the most inane things. One girl even tried to kill me ( minor exaggeration : assault would have been more appropriate ) because she lost the dance competition and we didn't give her a participation certificate. Seriously.....what the hell is she going to do with a certificate claiming she participated in a competition thats free for ANYONE to participate. Hell....Mayank could have taken part in that competition and we all know how he dances. ( note : really cute girl won the dance competition )
I haven't slept in ages. Managed two hrs of sleep on friday and saturday nights. Zero on sunday. I went to class at 8:30 AM monday morning...Slept there so obviously that even I was ashamed. Apparently I had my knees up on the table, my head was tilted back and I was snoring. Some of my friends even say I was drooling but I'm going to pretend that didn't happen.
Thats about it from Bangalore....If you want to know about the other side of Bangalore call the Pamily and pind out. Of course, Bohemians is always there...
P.S : Oddly enough the name of the girl I mentioned is Natasha, just like my old laptop. I've also decided that my Apple is also a Natasha, it's a nice name...
P.P.S : Where is everyone....Only few people are posting. Monkey I'm sure doesn't know how to type yet but what about the rest?
Monday, February 4, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
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