Sunday, April 25, 2010

Satwikipeare




To graduate or not to graduate– that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of this graduate life,
Or to take up the sea of troubles that haunts
This industry obsessed with silicon,
Beyond which, nay, they cannot see
And, by putting my mind to this sea of circuit issues
End them. To tape out again, to sleep
No more – and by a sleep to say we end
All noise and non-linearity that circuit is heir to
‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Anti Murphy's Law



The validity of Murphy's law depends on the object on which it is applied. At this point, it is important to identify two categories of people in the world: Satwik Patnaik, and everybody else.* While Murphy's law remains uncompromisingly valid for the latter, the former come under the purview of Anti Murphy's law: "Whatever can go right will go right."

Famous example of Anti Murphy's law:

In the sacred (by virtue of Satwik starting his undergraduate studies at IIT Mumbai) year, 2000 AD, Satwik wrote his IIT-JEE examinations. Understandably, the evaluators did not understand the elegance of his solutions. However, as fortune would have it, the IITs did not have to pay the price for their ignorance. The powerful Anti Murphy's law came to their rescue, and of the 263,473 candidates that took the examination, the list of 3872 qualified candidates had exactly one typographical error, by virtue of which Satwik still got admission into IIT Mumbai [Ref: Satwik Patnaik].

*Such distinction becomes even more conspicuous in the case of an imminent destruction of the world, where only one (obvious) category shall be selected to survive. For further technical information on this event, contact Sudhir S. Kudva.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Quotes about Satwik

- Satwik knows.
~Narasimha

- When it comes to electronics, Satwik is God, and this lab is his altar.
~Sudhir

- Abbe gadhe!
~Satwik to the rest of the world