The Irregular Journal of a Pseudo-Random Software Engineer
I’ve been busy watching videos. A lot of them, as part of my learning process for quantum computing. To concretize my learning, I’ve been taking notes. As quantum computing is hardcore math, it’s impossible to not have some sort of equations in notes. I’ve never needed to learn or use LaTeX before: all simple algebraic […]
A couple days back I spoke at World College of Technology and Management in Gurgaon. My topic Building a career in Artificial Intelligence was directly aimed at students at the cusp of starting a career. Without going into deep technical details, my session was designed as an eye-opener for students (and teachers alike) who have […]
Today I completed 23 days of consecutive morning workouts. 23 days… my gosh! It was once believed that the magic number of days after which doing something daily became a routine was 21. I am 2 over. However, recent studies have shown that 21 is a little too less. The actual magic number is 66. […]
Being a physics enthusiast, I was perhaps as dumbfounded as you were when I saw the first-ever image of a blackhole in today’s newspaper. I’ve always been fascinated by blackholes: their mind-bending complexity and the various sci-fi theories weaved around them over the years. So it’s obvious that capturing the ‘un-see-able’ felt weird. Like really […]
That’s right. Believe it or not. I created my first cron job TODAY! This is what it looks like: It’s a very simple job that calls a Node.js script to renew a watch I have on one of my Gmail accounts. at exactly 4:00am daily. Now, what is a watch or why I am watching […]
Such is the impact of linear algebra in the world of computer science that today it’s impossible (for all practical reasons) to stay away from the topic. Computer graphics, machine learning and, even, quantum computing all model their data using the same language–you guessed it–linear algebra. When we were taught this seemingly obscure topic at […]
It’s out. Live. My new website is finally ready for prime time. A couple of months back, I set out to redefine my online identity. Looking at the websites of some of the coolest developers online, I felt low. Kinda left-out. For a software developer, their website is a key ingredient of their ‘brand.’ My […]
A list of books I am reading and ones I finished recently, fetched from my Goodreads profile.
Augmented Reality, the buzzword of corporate boardrooms and the talk of developers’ town. A topic talked about so much, yet understood so little. I had the opportunity to speak on AR at a meetup yesterday. Tending to a mixed crowd of practitioners and (mostly) mid- to upper-management audience, my presentation was technically deep enough to […]
Back in the days when I had just started blogging, my dream was to learn whatever there is to learn about building websites and one day become a popular person on the internet. It could perhaps be done by disseminating my gained knowledge through hundreds or thousands of blog posts. It was a silly dream, […]