पाठांतर

हल्लिच्या काळात .. हल्लीच्या म्हणजे अगदी अलिकडच्या नव्हे, पण मी शाळेत असतानासुधा ब-यापैकी हेटाळणी वाट्याला आलेला हा विषय. गेले काही दिवस मी अभ्यासाची पद्धत, अभ्यासले जाणारे विषय वगैरेवर विचार करतोय म्हणजे तो आपोआप होतोय. त्यात काही गोष्टी माझ्या ध्यानात आल्या त्यापैकी ही एक. घोकंपट्टी, पाठांतर ह्या पद्धती त्यांच्या चुकीच्या वापरामुळे हिणवल्या गेल्या. माझ्या मते पाठांतराचा मुळ उद्देश ही एखादी गोष्ट किंवा पद्धत लक्षात राहणे हा नसुन माणसाची स्मरणशक्ती वाढावी हा असावा. Most of the times what students try to do is to mug up the method than developing the logic behind the formula or solution to a problem. I've seen many ppl who used to remember the whole math problem without understanding even a bit of it and then started thinking that ppl who mug up have no brain, which could be true but not always and can 't be put as a generalized statement of fact. I can consider myself as a perfect example of what I want to convey. When in school I hardly understood anything. And like every other student I never understood what maths really is. Yeah I really mean it. I didn't 'understand' a single concept of mathematics for all my years spent in school days. I didn't realize it till I was in 11th. Then how come I used to make good grades (at least in middle school) ?? It was just because of memory. I had good memory as kid. The way I memorized Raamarakshaa or Atharvasheersh or likes, I used to memorize the method to solve problems and for other subjects it was even easier .. it was all text not much of logic or reasoning behind it. I remember that at the end of 5th std. I'd memorized the whole history book. So I was doing good in regular school exams but my performance in scholarship was poor rather extremely poor as those are little different and u need to understand stuff. It is possible to practice those problems a lot and get through that exam as well. Once you’ve seen enough of those patterns you'll immediately pop the method from your memory and you are done. When I was in 11th, I was spending my time either on badminton court or at home so never bothered to study. During initial days I tried to attend tuition but I wasn’t able to understand a single thing so me and my friend we used to bunk tuition everyday and used to go cycling to Satara hill or Daulataabaad or Aurangabad caves. A week before the exam I realized that I need to pass the exam as well :D and then I got a book which my elder brother had used from scrap papers as I hadn’t bought the book and didn’t have tuition notes as well .. I called a friend and asked what do I need to study to get passing marks. I started from the first page and OMG .. it was all greek and latin. So sat and took the very first problem, it took 1 hour to solve that problem , understand the formula and then I was happy because for the first time I had understood something.. I’d figured out why distance formula is sqrt((x2-x1)2+(y2-y1)2) which I had mugged up for all the years. Then on I fortunately met with few very good teachers and I developed a habit of questioning everything and knowing why something is like that. After few years I developed some confidence, "if you understand the logic behind anything you don’t have to spend time in mugging up" and I was happy. This led to a mindset where I almost stopped memorizing things .. just remember logic and when the real problem comes use the logic, derive formula and solve , whatever may be the form of problem( This doesn’t mean I was able to solve any kind of problem or I'm super smart. I was able to get similar results with lesser efforts that’s it !). I didn’t realize what I was losing with that. With this kind of attitude I had slowly started losing my memory. ठीक है ना .. जब जरुरत पडेगी तब कर लेंगे attitude. So the system became like very small memory with all the data zipped. So there were two losses 1) I was left with lesser memory and 2) The processing was taking time because every time the data needed to be processed to convert it to information. Another striking observation is I remember almost all the numbers till I bought a cell phone and after getting cell phone I remember phone numbers of my family members only. Another example in professional life is, I am very very bad or you can even say ugly at remembering syntax. Just get the plugin needed or write a lisp macro and patch it to emacs. There is nothing bad in doing this rather it should be done this way only .. one shouldn’t spend his/her memory in retaining something very trivial like syntaxes but at the same time one shouldn’t lose that memory. Naturally you will lose whatever you don’t use. म्ह्णुनच तात्पर्य काय की पुरातन भारतियांनी पाठांतराला महत्व दिले होते ते उगीच नव्हे. Create a huge database of information and keep refreshing it just like DRAMs so that you can apply your logic on top of it. जशी नुसती स्मरणशक्ती कामाची नाही तसच नुसतं logic सुधा कामाचं नाही. A complete system needs good processor, scratchpad memory, main memory, secondary memory and the artificial intelligence and all the connections suggested by Cognitive science. पाठांतर हेसुधा कसं पाहिजे तर content addressable multiply linked list. Generally whenever we try to memorize श्लोक it seems to be stored like linked list …आधीचं आठवलं नाही तर पुढचं काहीच आठवत नाही.
आपल्याकडे बुद्धीचे ३ प्रकार सांगीतले आहेत प्रद्न्या, मेधा आणि प्रतिभा. प्रद्न्या म्हणजे ग्रहणशक्ती, मेधा म्हणजे धारणशक्ती आणि प्रतिभा म्हणजे स्रुजनशीलता. असा हा सद्यपरिस्थितीतला निश्कर्ष म्हणुन सध्या पाढे म्हणणे, वर्ग म्हणणे, परवचा म्हणणे सुरु केले आहे :)

ता.क. :- हे मत आजच्या परिस्थितीतील आहे त्यामुळे ते पुढेही असेच राहील अशी अपेक्षा न करणे.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen
and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Speak what you think now in hard words,
and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,
though it contradict everything you said today--
'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood'--
Is it so bad then to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood,
and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther,
and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,
and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

weird dreams

Lately I've had some weird dreams .. so thought of sharing them with you guys for fun ...

1) I am boarding a plane .. I show my ticket to the hostess before getting in to the plane and the hostess says " Null pointer deference. The seat no you are pointing to is a null object". In my sleep I try hard to solve this problem by running my SV code with debugger but no success and finally I get up realizing what a dumb thing i was thinking about ... that 2 in sleep ....

2) I am in SBI to update my passbook .. and it is not printing all the transactions correctly. I find that.. this is happening because severity of the print messages is not set correctly in OVM and hence it is not printing them correctly.

3) I buy shares ..but those are not getting reflected to my DMAT account ... later i discover that it is happening because dclks(Clocks used for Data X'fer ) are not reaching the DMAT account correctly....

and I was trying to solve all these problems in my sleep and when I got up I cursed myself for loosing sleep for such a silly thing ...I was laughing like crazy after i got back to my senses ...

This fourth is one of the crappiest ..
4) sometime in future I am doing advanced study of maths(this itself is weird) ..
The concept of future is .. all the functions have life and they grow like living beings .. their characteristics at a certain age depend upon the environment they live and the inputs they get.

With this concept in mind i've been asked to write a test where I am given a function, its environment and interactions of this function with other functions and I am supposed to find the characteristics/behavior/response of this function for xyz age

This dream ate almost half of my sleep ...
I can think of this as height of irrational lateral thinking .. i would want to call this as surd

There's one more of these weird dreams .. which i will write .. i am tired of typing rt nw ..