02 Aug
I’m a data scientist. I’m good with numbers, and handling large and medium sized data sets (that doesn’t mean I’m bad at handling small data sets, of course). The work-related thing that gives me most kicks is to take a bunch of data and through a process of simple analysis, extract information out of it. [...]
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18 Jul
I did my undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. My parents wanted me to study Electrical Engineering, but I had liked programming back in school, and my JEE rank “normally” “implied” Computer Science and Engineering. So I just went with the flow and joined the course. In the short term, I liked [...]
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26 May
Less than a semester into my undergrad (Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras) I wanted to drop out, and start work. I didn’t want to be an “engineer”. I didn’t know why I’d to spend all my Thursday and Friday afternoons filing away at some piece of iron in the [...]
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06 Jan
Back when I was in school (11th/12th) I think I was an awesome coder. I think I was especially good at what they called as “logic coding”, i.e. coming up with algos. I used to experiment quite a bit (as much was possible with TurboC) and had a lot of fun too. I remember doing [...]
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07 Jun
This post doesn’t necessarily restrict its scope to romantic relationships, though I will probably use an example like that in order to illustrate the concept. The concept that I’m going to talk about any kind of bilateral relationship, be it romantic or non-romantic, or between any two people or between man and beast or between [...]
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27 Sep
Q: How do you carve an elephant? A: Take a large stone and remove from it all that doesn’t look like an elephant – Ancient Indian proverb, as told to us by Prof C Pandu Rangan during the Design of Algorithms course As I had explained in a post a long time ago, this whole [...]
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26 Jul
For some reason, today I happened to look back at some of my old IIT textbooks, and happened to see this book by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest on algorithms. I was reminded of the algorithms course at IITM. The prof had just finished his term as HoD and much relieved as he was, he put [...]
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13 Jul
Left-wing economics is idealistic, and the basic assumption is that everyone is a good guy, and he will work in the best interests of the system. On the other hand, the basic assumption behind right-wing economics is that everyone is inherently a bad guy, and will work only for his own benefit. Hence, systems have [...]
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04 Jul
It was only when udupendra pointed out last week that I realized that “Theory Lab” sounds somewhat self-contradictory.
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