What is he doing here?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, saswat, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Manish Achuth and Dibyo
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Taking a screenshot in 1983!
Who are you gonna call?
This plant is white (not green) and yet, it survives. Tell us why and identify.
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi and s m muneer ali
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Monotropa uniflora or the ghost plant that has no chlorophyl and uses fungi to generate energy.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Just learning
Identify and connect
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth and Dibyo
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William Gosset published his research concerning his distribution in 1 under the pen name “Student” since his employer Guiness did not allow him to publish research results.
Friday, June 13, 2014
My Kid, My OSS
This dude is the creator of one of the most widely used OSS. He named it after his first daughter. Later, when he did not like the direction his creation was taking, he forked the project and named it after his younger daughter. Not to leave his son ‘Max’ disappointed, he also created another OSS and named it after him.
Who is he?
Cracked by: s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, kmk1018, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar and Manish Achuth
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‘Monty’ Michael Widenius - Creator of MySQL, MariaDB and MaxDB.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Pass!
Name the kid and tell us his claim to fame
Cracked by: Rogi, buk, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Bablu and Satish
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Eugene Goostman, supposedly passes Turing test!
Friday, May 9, 2014
Two for Friday
Two guest questions today! Yay!
- %gqh% Rogi asks
You’ve heard of the Jacquard Loom? This is on the other end of that spectrum. What was the method used, called? We will accept the proper term or the humorous acronym.
- %gqh% Manish Achuth asks
What is this guy holding? He basically proved something that happened in 1983.
Be a Guest Question hero. Send in your question to [email protected]
Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, Bipin Banavalikar and Siddharth C S
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Answer 1: “Little Old Ladies” or “LOL” was the term used for the programming or rope core memory like that used in early space probes and the Apollo Guidance Module’s memory core.
Monday, May 5, 2014
64k Jump
Epic jump. Who is jumping over a chair here? (Warning: Gif)
Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Siddharth C S, buk, Jayaprakash B R, Mayukh Bose, Bipin Banavalikar and s m muneer ali
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Bill Gates jumping over a chair on primetime TV. Aah the excitement of 1994 :)
Sunday, May 4, 2014
One Dollar
These things are very popular in the US and they work really well. This is how it looks from the inside. What is this?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Siddharth C S, Rogi, Anjul, Bablu, Mayukh Bose, Bipin Banavalikar and Supritha Maiya
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The Redbox. DVD vending machine.
Friday, May 2, 2014
Not in wonderland
Many people believe R in 1 was making a reference to 2 in his 1977 paper on a technology that is now widely used. Since then, people use it in every single paper written in that field of study.
What are we talking about?
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Rogi and Sumanth Patlolla
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Placeholder names: Alice and Bob.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Reserved
Reserved Parking spots in UC Berkeley. For who?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Adarsh Kumar Mohapatra, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, Satish, Anjul, Jayaprakash B R, Manish Achuth, vijeeth srinivas, Suman Kujur, Mayukh Bose and Supritha Maiya
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Nobel Laureates Parking lot in UCB.