Obama's Party

US President Mr. Barack Obama's ceremonial dinner party in honor of the Indian Prime minister being attended by uninvited guest has came as a funny yet serious incident. I am not too sure how would have the Washington taken it, had it been US president visiting India and we could not provide the proper security.

It also shows the serious problem which is being faced by the security agencies today . If they do too much of scrutiny with regard to the identity of the person, it might look little rude and people often feel offended. This is something which preciously happened with Shak Rukh Khan at the Newark Airport and he left no stone unturned to get the mileage out of it .

If the security agencies don't do the necessary due diligence and maintain the security of the place, it might lead to more serious security issues.

Farmville Updated Profitability and XP Matrix

Updated till level 19 .

Crop SP Real Cost Time Gain Gain/Hr Grapes 270 100 24 170 7.08 Blue Berries 91 65 4 26 6.50 Rasberries 46 35 2 11 5.50 Pattaya Squash 160 80 16 80 5.00 Aloe Vera 85 65 6 20 3.33 Pepper 162 85 24 77 3.21 rice 96 60 12 36 3.00 Cannebaries 95 65 10 30 3.00 Pumpkins 68 45 8 23 2.88 Red Tulip 159 90 24 69 2.88 Pine apple 242 110 48 132 2.75 Straberries 35 25 4 10 2.50 Bell Peppers 198 90 48 108 2.25 Water Melon 348 145 96 203 2.11 Cotton 207 90 72 117 1.63 Soyabean 63 30 24 33 1.38 Squash 121 55 48 66 1.38 Daffodils 135 75 48 60 1.25 Antichock 204 85 96 119 1.24 Eggplant 88 40 48 48 1.00 Wheat 115 50 72 65 0.90
Crop XP Real XP Real XP/Day Blue Berries 1 2 12.00 Rasberries 0 1 12.00 Straberries 1 2 12.00 Aloe Vera 1 2 8.00 Pumpkins 1 2 6.00 Cannebaries 1 2 4.80 rice 1 2 4.00 Grapes 2 3 3.00 Pattaya Squash 1 2 3.00 Pepper 2 3 3.00 Red Tulip 2 3 3.00 Soyabean 2 3 3.00 Pine apple 2 3 1.50 Bell Peppers 2 3 1.50 Daffodils 2 3 1.50 Eggplant 2 3 1.50 Cotton 2 3 1.00 Squash 1 2 1.00 Wheat 2 3 1.00 Antichock 2 3 0.75 Water Melon 2 3 0.75

Crop Mastery - Farmville

A new feature has been added to Farmville, a internet game on facebook, its called Crop Mastery . The mastery concept makes the whole Farmville game even more interesting. The mastery as name suggest is the farmer mastery in a certain crop , hence after a certain fixed number of crop harvest person is reaches a level of mastery in the crop. For example for soyabean after 150 harvest one star is given. Their is extra bonus of coins and XP for reaching each level (star) of mastery in the crop, for first start that bonus is 500 coins and 25XP.


One can easily see the number of crop harvested by him by clicking on market and taking the cursor on the crop for checking the number of harvests and crop total number of crops required to reach next mastery level.


I am yet to explore if after reaching 3 star mastery if we can gain some extra xp per harvest but from now on it makes much more sense to stick to good profitable crop with good XP/Day for some time for reaching level 3 of crop Mastery.

Mathematical Humour!

Today browsing through internet I came across an amazing piece of trivia regarding Google Inc which I found both interesting and hilarious.

The founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin are so fond of mathematics that they created virtual Mathematical Jokes while taking important financial decisions. Google went for S-1 IPO filing in April 2004 to raise as much as 2.718281828 Billion Dollars; here the number might sound familiar as it is exponential function (Inverse of natural Log).

When Google actually went for the IPO in August 2004, they sold 14142135 shares out of their own and rest of sub stakeholders. Here again the figure is precisely chosen as it represents square root of 2 (1.41412135)

They did it again when in August 2005 Google announced to sell another 14,159,265 Shares, this again closely represents Pie (3.14159265).

The numbers must be fitted or chosen after deciding the roundabout requirement of financing by rigorous financial analysis but it still speaks loud about a company which is so fascinated by the power of Mathematics that they live it every day.

Exploring Farmville ..

Recently I started playing Farmville internet game on Facebook. Initially the game seemed boring but the graphics and animation attracted me and after 2 days I found the game really interesting and started playing it for nearly 1 hour per day.

Yesterday I tried to analyze my decision making regarding my crop selection in Farmville. Initially I thought why should I waste time in analyzing it and just visited my neighbor farms to see what they are growing but was unable to find any similar pattern in them. It might be because of variant individual likes and dislikes for different fruits, vegetable and flowers. Finally I decided to do some analysis on crop selection myself and found some really interesting patterns.

As I had reached level 11 only few crops are available to me for cultivation. I did the hourly profitability analysis based on real cost price (Cost price of crop + Ploughing charges)/crop and compared it with the selling price. Experience gain per crop is also an important variable in the game and hence it is again required to be used as a active decision variable.

Now if we refer to the table here we found that Bell peppers provide us gain of $ 2.25 Coins/hour in comparison of wheat which has low return per hour of just $ 0.9 Coins/hour. It will take the wheat farmer to harvest 2.5 crops to match the earning of one crop of Bell peppers in the similar time and on top of it one will even earn more XP/day.

Soyabean might just provide 1.38 Coins/hour but it provides good XP/day(3) , hence as per the need of the hour one can pick and choose any of them.

If someone can login to play the game after every 2 hours in the day he can cultivating Raspberries and can grow 12 hour crops rice in the night, by this process one can make maximize the profits and also earn maximum experience credits. If putting so much time in the game is not possible, one can choose Strawberries for slightly reduced profitability but more comfortable 4 hour cycle.

Getting ribbons also bring lot of money and XP in the game so one should carefully plan to hit them to increase the earnings and becoming a good farmer.

Similar profitability and experience analysis can also be done for the plants, animal and other interesting variables in the game.

Sachin Sachin .......

I was just going through Sachin's ODI record today and though of finding some averages. It might sound like a crazy idea and many people say that Indians are crazy about Sachin but I think we have all the reasons in the world to do so..

Today after reaching milestone of 17000 runs in ODIs, he has also made his 45th century . Going by 424 innings he had played till now it takes him less than 10 (9.42) innings to hit a century and less than 5 (4.66) matches to hit a half century. Doing it consistently for more than 20 years is a awesome achievement.It wont take you a second look why he is the Best player in the world. Generations past might feel jealous that they could not see a player of such a caliber . Thats why he is called the GOD of cricket.