Desi's caught on algorithms assignment @ March 2007

A story happened in NC State that played with the future of 28 desis for four days

thr was a prob. in an assignment which was tough n no one solved it..the day before the submission, myself n another girl Deepa came up with a sol.. v thought it was fine but still had doubts.. so v told 3 more ppl..all agreed..v made 5 different versions of it n submitted..

2 days later 28 ppl. got mail saying come n meet, u all caught up with plagiarism
tht night, the sol. went to so many others..:) but the thing is , it was a wrong one..:-P..28 ppl. cannot submit the same wrong solution..leading to all being caught massively

but everybody honestly mentioned tht thy learned some hints frm somebody
so savage made a tree showing who learned from whom..
whn i went to her n said , I am Suresh..she was like haaa u were the ROOT..:-P

I was like..i discussed only with 3 ppl. don't know wht happened n all..afterwards..
she was like okie...i will give u less punishment compared to others..

finally, she was nice..she deducted 30% frm everyone..n 15% from mine..

funny part was Kunal..
I told him wht i did .. he wrote it down..but did not feel like submitting.. so he removed the answer but he told somebody else..
who cited Kunal...whn i went ..she was like thr is a missing branch in my tree..:-P
can u help me fix it..she had all the fun whn all of us were tensed..:(

Interesting websites and TED Talks

Self teaching experiments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight: http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

Awesomethings: http://1000awesomethings.com/

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Gym: http://sarcasan.tumblr.com/post/9164686093/poda-gym-is-a-lot-of-strain

Inspiration: http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_purdy_living_beyond_limits.html#.TtN3CmGVec8.facebook

Group Games

Various interesting that people can play when meeting in groups:

1. Uno ++: My own modified card game based on numbers. Two types of rounds: majority and minority. In majority round, person who drops the highest card will win. In minority or the joker round, Person who drops the highest will loose the round.

2. One up - one down, two up, two down: based on the gestures of hands.


Some simple tricky questions:
1. Draw 6 from " X 1"
2. Fill the following series

1
1 1
1 2
1 1 2 1
1 3 2 1
1 2 2 1 3 1

Interesting Documentaries

About India Separation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPqrXuELSV0&feature=related
The Secret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1GKGWJbE8
Incredible India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-EwgJfoCk
Dr. Art-ong Jumsai: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqJgobrVdYI&feature=related
America and its formation (THC - America The Story of Us): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-BdJSC42OA

Kashmir: http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4504093

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