science camp by agragami

the post is about the science camp being conducted by agragami, an organisation at ulliyeri(the panchayath to which i belong to). the program, a science camp, was held on 30th of april, wedneday, 2k8.
The program is meant for high scholl students, and there were 45 participants.
Started with a talk on "theory of evoulution". The after noon was meant for a collective learning experiment and i was fortunate to be the co-ordinator of the collective learning program.

The first challenge i faced was to make the children speak freely, with out any fear and inhibition. The ice breaking attempt revolved through a tiger exercise, whistling, discussion about films. The lunch was served by the participants them them selves, as a social transactions experiment. The after noon section straight away moved on to a few theoretical discussion about science and discussions about a few scientific theories. Then there were a few group discussion sessions.

The topic given for discussion was "do we need language to thing". The discussions were held on multiple levels, and finally concluded that language is not necessary for thinking, and which is quiet contrary to my argument on this topic.

Then an experiment which involved all the students were conducted to give them a feel of evolution theory.

the glass beed game of life

Fuzzy Neuro System

Many people are involved in doing projects in neuro fuzzy systems.
And many people refer to the mathematics of fuzzy logic as the reference for their work.
But if you have a good conceptual knowledge about mathematics and if you willing to look into a fuzzy neuro system closer, you can see something interesting.

In strict sense, a fuzzy neuro system has nothing much to do with fuzzy or with intelligence artificial.

Rather
it is a very long and complex algebraic equation.
and i could draw similarities between neuro-fuzzy systems and "finite element method".

what do you say?
The question is to people who can play a glass bead game with mathematics.

14/4/08

years back i had the habit of writing diary in the evening or before i go to sleep.
right now sitting in the office.
time to leave for home.

i am currently involved in a finger countable number of projects. The expertise required for the projects are different.
I have two roads here.
complete one project and proceed to the next or
parallel processing with task switchings.

which one should i resort to?

invite your comments.

accounting solution: gnucash

it all started when i was being consulted by a resort for automating their financial book keeping.
a simple search in synaptic would have solved my search for the ubuntu´s favourite accounting software, but i resort to giving a call to my friend anoop and that worked.

gnucash is a convenient tool for accounting, it´s a free software and sofar i couldn´t face any bug in it. those who need any help regarding gnucash, feel free to contact me.

vhdl complete solution with ubuntu

i began my explorations in vhdl about an year back.
and the tool was quartus 2 from altera which works on windows platform.

this year i have shifted to xilinx ise.
the linux version of xilinx can be installed in ubuntu,
this tool is not available in ubuntu repository, but those who need it can download it free of cost from the xilinx website.

image processing : octave is my tool

i am using octave2.9
i have been using matlab for years when switched to octave i found many a functions are not available in octave which is installed from the ubuntu repository.

but i could get most of these functions in a google search.
and i need to make minor modification on functions make them work for me
thought of putting those image processing functions which i find useful here in thos blogspot

and for any queries regarding image processing feel free to scrap or email or reply or call me