humour in day's events

This is what MJ ( a friend and an independent investment guru from the school of value investing) sent me to cheer me up on a gloomy Monday. Not sure if he was cheering me up or preparing me for some more bad news - readers decide !

"You give money to to Laymen brothers and stern bears? No wonder Wall street has problems. Any More gone, Stanley? Nah! Merely Lynched.."etc.

Vijay

humor in licensing terms !

I noticed this buried in the Chrome browser licensing terms -

"You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.

, 1 April 1990

Ty Coon, President of Vice "

The person(s) who wrote it has a fine sense of humor !!

why diagonal slash?

I was just today asked this question on why title this blog "diagonal slash". What does it mean ? Diagonal Slash is a very specific line of argument used originally by Cantor to prove that the number of real numbers are more than the number of integers (both being infinite !!). Since then the technique has been used to prove a wide range of theorems like Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.

To me Diagonal Slash is an example of human insights that seem impossible to achieve using any alogrithmic or computational procedure. Diagonal Slash is the epitome of human insight and creativity. It is this kind of insight that I hope to achieve and share. It is a lofty goal, but one worth pursuing, if you ask me.