My favorite music has always been Indian film music from the decades of the 70s and the 80s. I think that the reason for this is that these were the times when I grew up with my uncles who used to listen to music of their era. It makes me nostalgic. Incidentally, this is the same time when Kishore Kumar sang most of the songs for movies. He happens to be my favorite singer. I have liked him throughout my life. He was gifted with a magical voice that I have not heard of any singer after him. He was not a maestro. Neither did he have any formal training in classical music. However, he could sing along the spectrum without missing a note that the producer inserted in any delicate composition. He had sung with the most heavy-weight singers of his time, both male and female. But it was his specialty, as also noted by others that his version of the singing always stood out and dominated the auditory scene.

What you will find in this album are the most romantic duets humanity can ever come across. These songs are a class of their own. You will never find a parallel of these elsewhere. And these are timeless songs.

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Ek Nahi Dho Nahi - Kishore Kumar & Lata

Apne Pyaar Ke Sapne - Lata & Kishore K

Thuj Mein Kya Hai - Lata & Kishore

Hum Na Kabhi - Kishore Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar

Ab Toh Mere Huzur - Kishore Kumar & Lata

Chhodo Sanam - Kishore Kumar & Annete Pinto

Us Din Mujhko - Lata & Kishore Kumar

Kaho Kaise Rasta Bhul Pade - Kishore Kumar & Lata

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Mausam Mastana Hai - Kishore Kumar & Lata

Zindagi Ki Pehli Zaruret Hai Kya - Kishore Kumar & Lata

Hum Tumse Mile - Kishore Kumar & Lata

Top 100 Songs of Lata - Kishore | लाता - किशोर के 100 गाने | HD Songs | One stop Jukebox

Dil Main Aag Lagaye - Full Song | Alag Alag | Kishore Kumar | R.D. Burman | Rajesh Khanna,Tina Munim

Naino Mein Sapna with lyrics | नैनो में सपना गाने के बोल | Himmatwala | Jeetendra/Sridevi

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The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Marvin Minsky
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I started reading this book in early 2008. Then unprecedented events of life compelled me to pay attention to other things that I was told were more important. Although I believed even then that reading this book was more important. I started reading this book again a few days back and I finished it today. I was curious and wanted to peek into the mind of one of the most prolific thinkers who made it well into the 21st century. My primary stimulus was that I am a student of artificial intelligence (AI). The way we do AI mostly around the world these days is to pick a practical problem and devise a solution for it. Even though the solution is quite smart, looked at from a panoramic point of view, it is only a miniature version of what true AI can be. Mostly we reflect on such AI from the lenses of the AI philosophers. Winning the Turing test can be a goal for a more seasoned professional. However, what should true AI be? How should it behave and grow? and how it should act and react? These are the questions that are defied due to concerns of practicality.

Professor Minsky did a great job in writing this book. It begins with contemplations of how human intelligence evolves from infancy to adulthood. By the way, there are aspects of human intelligence in this book that I am sure that not many people might have thought of before. To this end, it is a great self help book too. I mean you could literally learn loads of ideas as to how to use your own mind more efficiently, intelligently and ethically. If you have children, this book can help your raise them well. This book could literally help you raise a genius.

But even apart from that, this book also has practical ideas as to how to make smart machines. I think this one of those books that will become a standard textbook on any course about engineering true AI.

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In our country, we lament mal-practices of many institutions and people. Much of this lamentation happens in public places like shops or cafes. We don’t care much about ourselves while throwing and disposing of so much plastic in our soil. Plastic literally ruins our soil. When I try to explain these things to the shopkeeper, it naturally takes some stamina. I have also felt that I came across as a nutty professor. So the intensity of emphasizing this point kind of reduced over time. But now I see that Avaaz has taken an initiative about this. They have created a petition and are asking everyone across the globe to sign it. Perhaps you should also sign it even if you don’t mean it. Sometimes you take action first and latter start meaning it.

Our oceans can’t breathe

By 2050 the ocean will have more plastic than fish! But in days, governments are meeting to address this emergency. If one million of us join the campaign to stop the flood of plastics, it’ll be announced to all the delegates from the podium. Click to sign!

Moreover, read the following articles and try to appreciate the problem of plastic.

The Oceans Are Drowning In Plastic — And No One’s Paying Attention

Imagine an area 34 times the size of Manhattan. Now imagine it covered ankle-deep in plastic waste – piles of soda bottles and plastic bags, takeout containers by the mile, drinking straws as far as the eye can see.

The Arctic Ocean Is Clogging With Billions of Plastic Bits

Pollution is now as dense in the northernmost ocean as it is in the Atlantic and Pacific. In other words, the Arctic Ocean has become the Northern Hemisphere’s “dead end” for floating plastic. “Our data demonstrate that the marine plastic pollution has reached a global scale after only a few decades using plastic materials,” said Andrés Cózar Cabañas, a biologist at the University of Cádiz.

Even your sea salt is almost certainly contaminated with plastic

What goes around, comes around, eventually. The latest karmic zinger is how likely you now are to find plastic particles, from packaging you might have once used, in your sea salt. Each year, humans dump 13 million metric tons of plastic into the ocean.

Full scale of plastic in the world’s oceans revealed for first time

More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes, are floating in the world’s oceans, causing damage throughout the food chain, new research has found. Data collected by scientists from the US, France, Chile, Australia and New Zealand suggests a minimum of 5.25tn plastic particles in the oceans, most of them “micro plastics” measuring less than 5mm.

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Manual :: A short tutorial about PHPUnit

Tutorial – A short tutorial about PHPUnit PHPUnit provides a simple framework for creating a test suite to automate testing of functions and classes. PHPUnit is inspired by JUnit which was created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma as a tool for eXtreme Programming.

Getting Started with PHPUnit

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PHPUnit Tutorial For Beginners – CodeSamplez.com

A easy to understand guide for complete beginners to get started working with PHPUnit for unit testing in PHP based web application.

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Think about a problem that you have conceived an idea about and you want to develop a real product out of it. Object oriented paradigm provides us with a great set of thinking tools about how to implement ideas. According to this, you have to figure out the objects which make up your desired product or artifact to make your problem modular. You then get ways and techniques to develop an object-oriented design. Once you have done that, you have to implement that design into working software. The thing I am chanting the most these days is to highlight a roadmap from the conception of ideas to their object-oriented design and finally to working software. In this vein, the thing the idea I really like to shout about is to divide your implementation phase into two parts. The first is to derive skeleton code from the design. Once that’s done, the only thing remains is to implement the methods of objects. If that is done right, what you get is working software for the project you dreamed, provided that you also designed it well. The design is important than anything else, as everything depends on that.

There are other important things too. You have to gather requirements well. You have to conduct all sorts of tests. You have to prepare documentation. And implementing methods nicely and accurately is also required.

Implementation can be mind boggling if we don’t get a few things right in our heads. And this series of articles, that I am presenting as a journey through the labyrinth of Software engineering issues, is in its essence a reflection on issues pertaining to implementation.

In my previous article, I reasoned about the fact that all dynamic memory allocation is done on the heap. It would also be nice to know that all user-defined objects are normally allocated memory dynamically. If you read my last post, there are two things about object instantiation that must be understood. One is to instantiate the object itself, which is given a place to reside on the heap. The other is to assign the address of that object to a variable of the same type, that resides on the stack.

But what about an object lies on the heap? This is an important question, the answer of which should be understood. And if understood properly, this will make you an astute programmer. You may as well become a speed-programmer and go out to win so many programming championships.

In order to understand the answer to this question, we need to understand a few things about classes and objects. Well, but we all know a few things about classes and objects, don’t we? A class has a few fields and a bunch of methods. The fields determine the state the class is in at any moment in time. The methods influence the behavior of the class. This is the basic common knowledge that we acquire in the first chapter of almost every well-written text on object-oriented programming.

However, we don’t learn a few simple things readily due to one reason or the other. And our programming acumen suffers badly due to this lack of understanding. One among them is the question about object instantiation. How are objects instantiated? If you understand the answer to this question, you will develop a lot of clarity as a programmer.

So when we do something like ‘Data data= new Data();’, what really happens? I reflected on a few issues in my last post. You must read that first and continue from here. So in a statement like above, the runtime environment of Java (remember I said that I am talking about everything from the vantage point of Java) creates a new object of type Data using the class Data. What do I mean by that?

What that really means is that when we run a program that is creating an object of type ‘Data’, the program loads the bytecode of the class into the memory. That bytecode is present in a Data.class file that you created while creating Data.java. The region of memory where the program is exactly loaded is called method area. It has all the compiled code of all the classes.

The moment you create an object dynamically, it is created on the heap. For all of its fields’, their values are stored in the respective blocks on the heap. All of the field names, method names and their bodies are still located in the method area. I want to emphasize here that the heap only contains values for the fields. These values can be changed by changed or accessed by having a reference to this object and the field names, which are present in the method area. When you try to access a method of this object, it is loaded from the method area to an appropriate place on the stack. From there it starts executing.

You already know the rest of the stuff about execution. Especially, since you have been reading the previous article on how dynamic memory works, nothing should be a big deal for you.

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1. Search Based Software Testing Frameworks.
2. Search Based Software testing Using JUnit.
3. Search Based Software Engineering.

In this post, I am sharing more online resources about these feats.

Using evolutionary algorithms for the unit testing of object-oriented software

Genetic Improvement of Software

The Community Website on Repair and Optimisation of Software using Computational Search

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Genetic programming for Reverse Engineering | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

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EvoSuite | Automatic Test Suite Generation for Java

A new version 1.2.0 of EvoSuite has now been released. The main changes are: Java 9 support for DSE (@ilebrero) Updated Docker configuration (@mitchellolsthoorn) Support for JUnit 5 output (@VoglSebastian) Refactoring of the generics-related code (@VoglSebastian) Java 9 support for Eclipse plugin General refactorings and reformatting Bug fixes for various crashes and minor issues Release data is available 1.2.0 release results.

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SBSTFrame: a framework to search-based software testing | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Please read how Facebook employs evolutionary algorithms for automatic bug detection of their app using Sapienz.

Facebook’s evolutionary search for crashing software bugs

Ars gets the first look at Facebook’s fancy new dynamic analysis tool.

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First of all, please have a look at this tutorial. In my opinion, this is the best starting point.

TestNG Tutorial

TestNG Tutorial – TestNG is a testing framework developed in the lines of JUnit and NUnit, however it introduces some new functionalities that make it more powerful and easier to use. TestNG is designed to cover all categories of tests: unit, functional, end-to-end, integration, etc., and it requires JDK 5 or higher.

The following link has a nice video that teaches how to use TestNG in Netbeans for automatic test case generation.

https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/testng-screencast.html

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A long time ago I came across tools that generate code through UML diagrams. Using such tools, you design the software using a computing tool with drag and drop features. Once you are done with the visual design, you could generate the corresponding code using clicks of a few buttons. I was wondering what is the state of the art right now.

The truth is that there is a whole bunch of tools and plugins available that integrate with famous IDEs like Netbeans and Eclipse. You simply have to drag and drop a visual design and they produce the corresponding skeleton code. The only job you are left with is to plumb the code together. Here are a few nice links.

http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/55435/easyuml

Here is a nice video tutorial about using easyUML.

Here is another nice UML plugin that works with earlier versions of Netbeans. It might not be very useful though.

http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/1801/netbeans-uml

https://blogs.oracle.com/JavaFundamentals/entry/generating_uml_from_the_netbeans

How to Draw UML Diagrams in NetBeans?

Quick NetBeans tutorial for modeling, code engineering and ERD design. Learn it today, with this step-by-step NetBeans tutorial. Feature rich and awarding-winning tool, try free!

Here is a plugin that works with Eclipse.

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/uml-java-generator

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This tutorial on tutorials-point is possibly the best thing I have come across about JUnit.

JUnit Tutorial

JUnit Tutorial – JUnit is a unit testing framework for Java programming language. JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks collectively known as xUnit, that originated with JUnit.

This is a very nice tutorial that tells you how to use JUnit in netbeans. This will make your life a lot more easier.

https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/junit-intro.html#Exercise_31

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