nandhan

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Monday, September 20, 2004

Theory of Massive Algorithm

It was a usual day for me at the office, I started home biking my way through congested Chennai streets. Believe me I am no Yogi, but that day I was thinking about God, Life, Nature etc.
(1.No, I didn't booze that day! 2.I didn't watch Matrix movie the night before)

Nature appears to be sporadic and arbitrary at micro-level whereas at a macro level we find it to be very regular and perfect.
Why did that yellow chudidhar girl preferred to look at me while there were atleast 5 guys around me? Why did I wear my Lee jeans instead of Levis when both were equally dirty?

On the other hand why is moon placed in that exact orbit around Earth? A change of few km will make earth wobble more, drastic change in climate and probably no life at all. Is God really throwing a dice?

At first look it seems that the system as such is hybrid, in some cases it is predictable and in some cases it is unpredictable. At a closer look one can see that these cases are mutually exclusive and widely dispersed...so it can't be Hybrid by Nature...probably it is apparently Hybrid and deep inside it has a Massive Algorithm that governs the process.

Through out the course of evolution, mankind has been able to understand that algorithm in bits and pieces. A kind of black box testing...The test cases and reports enable us figure out what is in that black box, likecycle of seasons, alcohol, eclipses etc. But you see the algorithm becomes verycomplex at micro level, so complex that even with millions of test cases we get different answers every time...

Ahh our hands are tied with lack ofdata. If I could switch places with Bill Gates I will spend all my money to record every day of every man's (woman's) life. Probably after few thousand years with millions of Terra Bytes of data we will be able to use a powerful data-mining algorithm and dig the hidden patterns revealing that Massive Algorithm.

Then we would have conquered fate. We can predict every test cases output. We can say what will be the name of your girlfriend, we can say what will be your appraisal rating. Indian victories in cricket matches and even the days on which you will have constipation are predictable.

Bam Bam..zzzzk Savugrakki vutla sollitu vanthutiya?
I found myself before the green-yellow city bus with my bike just few feet in front of the bus. And the already irritated bus driver fondly (!) asking me whether I have informed my house that I am going to die in an accident today. Embarrassed I moved my bike away from his line and tried starting it again.

Hey! wait a minute how did he ask me about predicting an accident, is he aware of the Theory of Massive Algorithm? I should have asked him, but who listens to a software engineer...see even you are laughing.