Anecdotes

The program was giving me four errors. I had devised a machine learning program for my robotics team. We had to present the robot that we were making for an event that might take us to IIT-Bombay and eventually to Stanford University ! My team-mates were students of the Electronics branch. We had divided work among ourselves so as to not strain a single person with the task of doing the whole thing. Mine, was the last job. All the circuitry had been completed. All that I had to do was to program the robot so that it learnt on it's own how to respond to the path in front of it. Such type of a program is known as a machine learning program. My robot was to run on a path without any remote control, learning the path and where to avoid obstacles. These errors were only declaration errors i.e. errors in which variables in a program have been left undeclared  before they are being called in the program. It took me another five minutes to correct those errors. I looked at my watch. It wa...

I was walking down a muddy path in a dense forest. I do not remember the time or even the date. It was dark and i was only able to see right in front of me. I had a flashlight with me but using flashlight at night would have attracted hunting animals. I was searching for a tree i guess. It was my way out of the forest. I had marked it before entering the forest so that i do not forget the way. My family did not know I entered the forest. I had told them that I'd be back by evening, but now I was thinking that they must be getting worried about me. Why did I ever enter this forest ? I decided to move some distance in the same direction and then change my path in search of the tree. Then I saw the tree which I had marked. Ohh what a relief ! I moved towards it and then something stung me on my ankle. Oh My GOD ! It was a snake ! I had stepped on the snake and so it bit me. The first thought that came to my mind was that I was about to die ! Then I thought of tying a string around my...