53/2012 Ubunutu lovers will love this......

How to build an exactly similar ubuntu installation on another computer

(I have not yet tried this myself....partha)

Copied from :: http://www.shibuvarkala.com/2012/07/how-to-build-exactly-similar-ubuntu.html

Here is an easy way to build an exactly similar ubuntu installation on another computer. Run $ dpkg --get-selections >my_pakages on the machine that you want to clone. Install a clean copy of Ubuntu on the target machine. Copy the file my_packages to the target machine. Run the following command on the target machine. $ sudo dpkg --set-selections < ./package_names $ sudo apt-get -u dselect-upgrade Done.

52/2012 More bookshops to be discovered

Next time I visit Berlin, I hope I will, I have some more places to explore and discover. This includes some more bookshops .

51/2012 AI @ KU -- Course Chronicle

Each session = 90 minutes
Session #	Date	Events
??	10 Aug. 2012	Strike/disturbance in KTM. Sign off. Completed student evaluation report. Vacated office.
25	09 Aug. 2012	Evaluation of students. Personal interviews. Viva voce.
24	08 Aug. 2012	Fuzzy expert systems continued. Fuzzification-defuzzification examples. Defuzzification approaches. Wrap up. Limits of AI. LAST LECTURE
23	06 Aug. 2012	Fuzzy expert systems. Reasoning under uncertainty. Overview of logic -- binary logic, ternary logic, multiple valued logic, infinite valued logic, fuzzy logic. Fuzzy rule base. Fuzzification and defuzzification. Examples.
??	05 Aug. 2012	Strike/disturbance in KTM. NO class
??	03 Aug. 2012	KU Entrance exam. NO class
??	02 Aug. 2012	"Rakhi" -- holiday. NO class.
22	30 Jul. 2012	Student seminars. Rohit Amatya "Instant insanity". Chandan Gupta "Prolog features and examples".
21	27 Jul. 2012	Student seminars cancelled. Review. General discussions.
20	25 Jul. 2012	Robotics and AI overview.
19	23 Jul. 2012	Expert systems
18	20 Jul. 2012	Seminar on Prolog (Chandan Gupta). Seminar on Simulated annealing (Rohit Man Amatya). Discussions.
17	18 Jul. 2012	AI technologies. Overview of : Expert sytems, ANN, Fuzzy logic driven systems, Image processing systems, Banking systems, Intelligent programs, implantable medical devices, intelligent buildings.
16	16 Jul. 2012	AI programming. Desirable features. Panorama of languages. Overview of Prolog. Lambda calculus. Overview of LISP. SHRDLU.
15	13 Jul. 2012	Seminar on "Semantic graphs" by Sushil Shreshta. Seminar by Rohit Man Amatya on "Non- monotonic reasoning". Discussions.
14	11 Jul. 2012	AI in manufacturing.
13	09 Jul. 2012	AI in design. Concluding session.
12	06 Jul. 2012	Seminar/presentation by Chandan Pd Gupta : Genetic algorithms Discussions.
11a	?? Jul. 2012	AI in engineering. AI in design.
11	04 Jul. 2012	Extension of interval algebra. Events and durations. Episode analysis. Use of constraint logic programming. AI in engineering. AI in design.
10	02 Jul. 2012	Overview of temporal logic methodologies. LTL, LTA, interval algebrs, duration calculus, time Petri nets, hybrid Petri nets, Interval algebra s a semantic net. Use in temporal knowledge base creation. Checking inconsistencies. Post-mortem analysis. Glass oven example.
9	01 Jul. 2012	Seminar/presentation by Rohit Man Amatya : automated guided vehicles. Discussion on AGV.
8	27 Jun. 2012	Temporal knowledge and temporal reasoning. What is time ? Why should we bother about time ? Approaches to temporal knowledge : modal logic, LTL, quantified time, events and conditions, relative time, interval algebra.
7	25 Jun. 2012	Knowledge representation.Principles. Requirements. Precautions. Methods. Lists. Trees. Fault trees. Semantic nets. Rule based systems. Logic based. Relay ladders.
6	22 Jun. 2012	Seminar/presentation by Chandan GUPTA. Tabu search
5	20 Jun. 2012	AI problems, characteristics of AI problems, state space, state dependant problems, path dependent problems, search, informed vs uninformed search, heuristic search, depth first, breadth first, back tracking.
4	18 Jun. 2012	Issues in intelligence vs knowledge. Recognising human intelligence. Turing test. CAPTCHA. Learning. Objectives. End-results. Learning approaches :: supervised, assisted, Autonomous, unattended. Learning methodologies :: rote learning, Take advice, Learning by example / induction, Explanation based, Discovery, Analogy.
3	17 Jun. 2012	List of topics for seminar/projects. The nature of knowledge. Knowledge vs. intelligence. Knowledge vs. meta-knowledge. Why machines are not intelligent creatures.
2	13 Jun. 2012	Take-off lecture. Course modalities. NLP vs problem solving.
1	11 Jun. 2012	Course planning. Preparations.

Dummy. Test. Ignore

Day #	Date	Events
x	y	This is a dummy table for testing

50/2012 An unforgettable experience

I visited my school, after 46 years. I was transported to my childhood days, as I loitered all around this school. I recalled many moments of joy, anxiety, and discovery, which I had experienced several years ago. Time flies relentlessly. People grow old, but memories remain young. Thank you, my dear school, for what you did to me.

49/2012 Another amazing bookstore

My earlier post # 36/2012 spoke of an amazing bookstore in Oxford, UK. Here, in India, I found another bookstore, which is just as amazing :: The TATA bookhouse in Indian Instt. of Science, Bangalore (Bengaluru for some fanatics). A bookstore where books are piled up from the floor to the ceiling. The place is so small, you wont fall down if you trip over something. You can browse for hours together, until your legs start aching. The things you discover here will make you come for more.

Even the staircase is stacked with books. You wonder how they keep track of all those gems. The remarkable thing I noticed is that, unlike many other bookshops I know, they do not keep any of those dumb "coffee-table books" which you find everywhere. Never mind, they have a real superb coffee house next door where they serve excellent south-Indian coffee and snacks. A visit to Bangalore is not complete without a visit to Tata Book House, and the coffee shop next door.

TATA Book House has a twin sister in IIT Chennai. This one is much bigger, and is much better organised, but it does not impress a book lover, like its Bangalore sister. This bookshop is also located in close proximity to a coffee shop. It is just one floor above "Cafe coffee day". TBH seems to know the formula that book lovers are also great coffee lovers. Good for me !

Thanks to TBH, I am now richer by several great books. I am a happy man !

48 / 2012 Boy or Girl paradox

A simple question in probability theory. The answer is not so simple. Take a look at :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox to see how mathematics can sometimes be bewildering to many of us.

partha

47 / 2012 Doctor, heal thyself

Doctors are the ones who advise people not to smoke. Ironically, Doctors are often the ones who go out of their way to adopt sickening and toxic computing practices and platforms (read Microisoft). They find it okay for them, but forget the nuisance their addiction can cause to all around them. Those who are so fussy about keeping themselves clean and sterile in the operation theatre ignore the kind of infection they are creating and spreading in their front office, by using infected and infectious tools (read Microsoft).

Here is hope for them, and for mankind. Open "medical records system" Open MRS is just what we can prescribe for the doctor who needs to be cured. Supported by World Health Organization and a host of health organisations the world over, open MRS is just what you need for your front office.

OpenMRS is a multi-institution, non-profit collaborative led by Regenstrief Institute, a world-renowned leader in medical

informatics research, and Partners In Health, a Boston-based philanthropic organization with a focus on improving the lives of underprivileged people worldwide through health care service and advocacy. These teams nurture a growing worldwide network of individuals and organizations all focused on creating medical record systems and a corresponding implementation network to allow system development self reliance within resource constrained environments.

OpenMRS is a software platform and a reference application which enables design of a customized medical records system with no programming knowledge (although medical and systems analysis knowledge is required). It is a common platform upon which medical informatics efforts in developing countries can be built. The system is based on a conceptual database structure which is not dependent on the actual types of medical information required to be collected or on particular data collection forms and so can be customized for different uses.

For more details ::: http://openmrs.org/about/

Doctor, it is time to heal thyself, before you attempt to heal the world.

Take a look at all the options you have .

Or, take a look at the highly popular open EMR project or take a look at openMRS

partha

46/2012 General LaTeX tips and tricks

Made one more discovery today. This a cute introduction to LaTeX.

Take a look at http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/

partha

45 / 2012 FOSS for mathematics

I have added a detailed report on FOSS tools for those who use mathematics.

The report is downloadable from ::
http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/publications/fossmath5.pdf

partha