The Dumb Guy takes on Puzzles/PJs

I have never tried to confuse people. The fact that people get confused when they listen to me(says the dumb guy) is infact their own doing. But i like asking puzzles, solving them, modifying them and making them my own. The modifying part is very easy. One just has to look for the right subjects to be replaced and use them. Some people think that i am stupid. They say all my puzzles are trivial. Some say they are not challenging enough. Some say they are too hard to be classified inside puzzles and should be called Pjs. I whine. Futile are my attempts to convince the ignorant.

I dont deny the fact that i say jokes. But to classify them as poor is unacceptable to me. The pain i take in thinking on those lines and putting it infront of people can only be pleased if some say its a joke. Not to mention the real happiness i get if some add pleasing adjectives like good and excellent. But they are mostly followed by sentences like ‘Never ever repeat them on me’, ‘Next time u think of doing such an act inform me a day prior so that i can prepare myself by seeing some amazing comedy movies like KANK or some movies with a lot of morality in it like Trainspotting.’. Which are so negative to a aspiring artist, but i take them as criticism. But attributing a adjective so hurting to the human soul as poor is sickening. protestations.

To motivate a guy negatively is a thing which one should never do. I have never been in a position where i was told to judge the skills of a person but if at all i was made to do it. I will be nice to him. That for me is the best revenge i can take on my critics. For now i will say that most of humour i make can only be digested by people who are not yet born Or rather i was supposed to be born at a time where people will have the taste for my kinda humour.

Solving puzzles taught me to have another perception at things when one didnt work. This helped a lot. I am able to view failure as failure instead of the stepping stone thing which people call it. Puzzles were like so simple at times that they require a lot of sense to be cracked. Like which of the two people are nearer to a particular place X when they meet at place Y where as one starts from X and another from Z. More puzzling are those questions which doesnt have an outright answer like which is the odd one out in the following.

1,2,3,5,7,9,11,13,17,19,21,23

If at all people say its 2 then i say its even and not odd. I specialise in this kind of humour/puzzles.

No wonder why people think about me the way they think. I assume, they have every right.

The Dumb Guy Who (thought he) knew Math, revealed, prospered finally understands….

Revealing and prospering were done much before. After passing through a stage of ill- luck(if i am successful it is because of my intellect. Else if its a devious plan by some sinister force which doesn’t like me. I am assuming that java keywords are helping me express my thoughts more simply.) spanning a long long time, i realize i like the blaming job to a good extend.

Statistics is an unconquered territory for one like me. I normally blamed the pointlessness of calculating the median and mode of a set of variables, finding the averages of a distribution, not to forget the variance and standard deviation. There is no fun in doing things when one doesn’t realize the importance or significance of things. I was one such fool, not for long.

I didn’t have time to enjoy the good things of being a fool. For circumstances forced me to take operations as an elective and i was back battling with things which i thought i will never try again. This time around i was not the guy who knew things. I was the rather the one who asked people how to go about with things. Felt odd for the first two times but then got used to it. Getting things out of people helped me realize how bad i was when it comes to imparting knowledge. For i used to convey ideas with an exaggerated use of jargons which would have been tough for a normal person to understand.(sad thing is that you know that only when you are on the receiving side)

The great thing about the earth being round is that however long you travel u will come to the place you started.(may be i am a bit foolish here, but i assumed that people don’t stay at a place. If they do the above statement is false for certain. It could be false on many other counts as well.). Why is said it was to come to the conclusion about life where you will be at one point be at a place where your past achievements count for nothing. You have begin from scratch.

I no longer have the disliking for statistics. Nor any more fondness for algebra. Just got to know that i just ought to respect all streams. I sort of realize that the dumb guy was overrated when he was in school. He was dumb not because he came up with weird stuff taking about equating one to zero.He was dumb because he took a little longer to understand that he was overrated.

The Dumb Guy Who (thought he) knew Math prospers…

The greatest trick devil ever pulled on earth was that convince people that he didn’t exist. the greatest trick(the only trick i should say) i ever pulled was to convince my friends that i am good in maths. Now it was not that difficult, not difficult at all for a guy who spend a major part of his school life behind Math books.

Then i didn’t know that i was memorizing. I never memorized the formula(thats what i thought). I did memorize them to pass the test which my teacher used to conduct. Only after attending a course on Fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence did i come to know about that fact. I felt human.

I was made to do all the different kind of problems at least once(I think some i would have done more than a couple of times). I remember spending most of my time at my tutors home figuring out the integral, derivatives and limit functions. I also remember accompanied by a lot of friends. (Friends used to visit me often would be a just statement).

So when some one throws a question at me. either i would have done that before or i would have a similar kind. I would be like telling them you have to add a one to the numerator and split it into two fractions before integrating it. and they would be surprised. for they just said x^2. Int (x^2/(x^2+1)) this is what they would be asking. I had monopoly most of the times.But there a smart guy who used to come in at times(He used to share the doubt clearing sessions). Thanks man.

For more tougher problems which has something like prove L.H.S= R.H.S . If i never had a clue then i would start simplifying both the left hand and right hand and stop at a point where both relate to a similar looking function and thus escape(I used to state “Hence Proved” just for the heck of it)

I do not know if my “Hence Proved” had any influence on the teacher. It did fetch me marks.