Thanks to Karmakar
A student asked for a personal, academic story blog:
Long time ago, I had to travel from Mumbai, India to NY, US for my graduate study. It was 80's in India, pre-IT boom, pre-web, and the country was yet to go through a payment crisis and economic liberalization. I didnt have the money to buy a flight ticket. I found a foundation that gave travel grants and applied. I had to appear for an interview. During the interview, they asked me, what do you want to work on? I said, Algorithms. They asked me to name an algorithm. I said, Karmakar's algorithm for LP. I didnt know Karmakar or LP or that algorithm (it took a while for that to filter into undergrad conscious in India those days), but it was in my gestalt, and at that moment, I didnt think of dynamic programming or bin packing or quick sort. The gestalt paid off, I got the grant, flew from BOM to JFK, and entered a world of three caps letters.
Life is gestalt or nothing.
Long time ago, I had to travel from Mumbai, India to NY, US for my graduate study. It was 80's in India, pre-IT boom, pre-web, and the country was yet to go through a payment crisis and economic liberalization. I didnt have the money to buy a flight ticket. I found a foundation that gave travel grants and applied. I had to appear for an interview. During the interview, they asked me, what do you want to work on? I said, Algorithms. They asked me to name an algorithm. I said, Karmakar's algorithm for LP. I didnt know Karmakar or LP or that algorithm (it took a while for that to filter into undergrad conscious in India those days), but it was in my gestalt, and at that moment, I didnt think of dynamic programming or bin packing or quick sort. The gestalt paid off, I got the grant, flew from BOM to JFK, and entered a world of three caps letters.
Life is gestalt or nothing.
posted by metoo at 11:25 AM
3 Comments:
I was expecting the punchline to be that your interviewer was Karmarkar. --AC
Wow very entertaining post. Ive notice that there are many 1300 Number in Australia that giving to a business to give them many clients. Most busineses are using smart numbers to easily remember by their clients most especially in pizza delivery.
I am aware posts like these are meant to be like poems, but would you care to expand on the gestalt idea? What do you mean?
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