A Survival Machine's blog

Hey there! Thanks for visiting my blog. Whoever/Whatever led you here, I hope you find something useful here. Some rant about me follows.

I am Amit Saha. I am a 25 something Computer Sc. Engineer by qualification. I am originally from Siliguri, West Bengal. Its a gateway to the North East of India. Its near to that beautiful place called Darjeeling. I studied in the premier Don Bosco School and then moved on Army School, Bengdubi. I have lived in Haldia, Kolkata, New Delhi, Bangalore (ranging from 3 months to 4 years).

My primary interests are Bio-Inspired Computing, Scientific & Numerical Computing, contributing to Open Source software and writing about them. I currently work at an intersection of Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Optimization. I dream to get a  PhD  and right now that is the objective function. But that;s just the end. I am currently enjoying the journey. I cherish the idea of teaching, sharing knowledge. My writings, blog posts and some part time classes that I have taken are all some means to achieve that end. Let’s see!

I use, contribute to and advocate the cause of Unix and Free Software, possess a dabbling knowledge of the Linux kernel, Solaris and Open Solaris operating systems.  I have picked up various programming languages from time to time- GW BASIC, C/C++, Java, Python, Common Lisp, Scheme, Groovy, Haskell, Perl, et cetra. My Open Source and community efforts are archived here

I have written for various Internet magazines, portals and print magazines. I am also starting to write some Computer Science focused essays. You may view them here

You may want to take a look the kind of books I love reading here .

In a past life, I have worked with Sun Microsystems, Inc in the MySQL Engineering team- that was God’s way of making me work with/on SQL and Databases. I used to blog at http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha . Sun Microsystems was a great place to work. I had a great team and a great manager. Unfortunately, I realized it wasn’t really what I wanted to all my life. So I quit after 14 months of a roller coaster ride, often literally!

While I was student, I gave my first ever and only interview to Sun Developer Network and my coverage of the interview is here. Also, some feature talking about me:  Meet Amit Kumar Saha.

I also used to blog at http://amitksaha.blogspot.com before I moved here.

Contact: amitsaha.in@gmail.com

Now follows some stuff, which you may or may not want to know

• How do I look like?

This is me with the Dublin south coast in the background. I had awesome fun during that trip to Dublin.

(add/subtract a few pounds and you have a current picture)

• What is thing about README, contribs, YMMV.. WTF ?

Yeah, I love geeking around. Talk geek, do geek, feel geek. I love supplementing my daily English usage with some stuffs from my research work, Open Source software stuff and in general geeking.

• Are you a jack of all trades, master of none?

Jack of all trades, master of some. Good enough?

• Is the Random search going to converge ever?
  

Good Question. The answer is I hope so. The exploratory path have so far been succesfull. I have been able to find a better point at   every move. Its still on. Let’s see. As with all random search, this will hopefully converge before the final iteration is over. Or let’s just put a while(1) and set RawScoreCrtiteria as the convergence criteria.

Thanks for your visit!