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On a snowy sunday from Logan International
In: Anecdotes|Blog|Travelling
26 Dec 2009It was the first winter, yet it didn’t offer anything more than spectacular display, and has been more of a nuisance. OF course there were few other factors that influenced me to choose california for winter break instead of spending the holidays in my new home – Cambridge. I flew to california on snowy sunday [...]
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- Tags: life, United States
From 6.840 to 754
13 Nov 2009I started my doctoral studies at MIT last September, and becoming conversant with numbers. Today I will tell you three stories (with little satire) on 6.840, C2867 and 754, in the break I got from drinking water from fire hose. They span from art of teaching to art of service to art of democracy.
From small miracle to real miracle
In: Blog
13 Oct 2009I have had two almae matres so far;Â let’s say the first one brought only a limited amount of change in terms of exposure. The second, University of Moratuwa, had been influencing my choices and deflecting the path I had taken in my life. The first year of my undergraduate life, convinced me to stay [...]
The discussion about money is treated as taboo in many cultures not limited to Asian, and we are quite uncomfortable talking about money, especially when it is related to Health and Education – the professions we treat as holistic. We tend to avoid asking the fee beforehand in either cases, and expect good service at [...]
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- Tags: experience, MIT, United States
The lonliest …
In: Anecdotes
19 Jul 2009Last few days, I was given a strange opportunity to reflect on my life, and look back the things. I was getting angry easily, wanted to detach myself from others, lost the usual satire in speech, and strangely talking, although not pleasantly always, with my parents more. I also felt like doing nothing, enjoyed the [...]
Garthee
An Electronic and Telecommunication Engineer, doctoral student at MIT from fall 2009, and technology entrepreneur. I am passionate about machine learning, data mining, internet technologies, algorithms, photography, art and creating innovative businesses.
I have started Websoic, contributed to Drupal and Joomla, worked at Motorola INC, Suntel Telecommunications, RAFT INC, etc, and studied at UOM and Royal College. I am currently attached to DDMG of CSAIL at MIT, working towards my PhD focusing on semantic web based Personal Physician System.
I am conservative in demeanor, liberal in style, progressive in ideas, and latitudinarian in creed.
- King kong: If you are a Sri Lankan, if you have the intention of doing a doctprate...... Calmly do your AL. Fol [...]
- Nimal: Yeah... That's a nice read for anyone to start from. [...]
- Rupasinghe: I totally agree with you. What I expected were the some credits to names mentioned by you who did a [...]
- Chamitha de Alwis: Cool post... Enjoyed reading it... [...]
- garthee: @ Rupasinghe First I was stating facts and opinions, and I wasn't complaining. I believe it is th [...]
- Rupasinghe: Nice article.. But all the lecturers were not like that. right ? There were some good lecturers. The [...]
- Nimal: Nice article... [...]
- On a snowy sunday from Logan International - Weblog of Garthee: [...] in the United airlines from Logan international airport – Boston to Los Angels. Followin [...]
- Sivasayanth: Once again great article Garthee. [...]
- garthee: Not yet, as it uses few 1.6 specific classes and was expected to be included in the 1.6 core. But if [...]
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