My personal favourite song from Slumdog

Everyone is raving about Jai Ho from Slumdog, but this one is my personal favourite. The words are beautiful (ok, so ignore the dreams on fire verse). While it’s meant to be a love song, to me it reads like a prayer.
Rahman uses the “Re ga re ga” phrase often in his songs. He uses [...]

Delhi 6 – My review

If you’re a fan of Abishek, if you miss random scenes of Delhi, if you love Rahman’s music, if you don’t care too much about plot and structure, if you’re interested in checking out Sonam, then it’s worth your sitting through Delhi-6.
if you’re going because Rang De Basanti heralded the arrival of a [...]

The formula that killed Wall Street

Wired magazine is running a piece by Felix Salmon (a prolific financial blogger) on the Gaussian Copula. It is not a new position in the Kamasutra. It is a formula created by a quant known as David Li. It became one of the central underpinnings of measuring the risk of a security by looking [...]

3D light show on actual buildings

This has to be one of the coolest light shows I’ve seen. I found it on Metafilter.com .
Free your imagination, truly.

Maths with attitude

I got an email recently – fun with numbers.  Wouldn’t math have been so different in school had we been taught this along side QED’ing those boring theorems anf cramming multiplication tables?
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = [...]