I remember one day messaging one of my seniors asking them, “Dude, how do you write such good, structured code”. But unfortunately, since he was so used to good coding practices it was natural for him, and he didn’t have an answer. …

Save yourself by identifying these red flags. — A few years back when I delved into the world of academia, little did I realize how broken Academia would be. All I envisioned about academia was as the land of “Invention”, “Breakthrough”, and “Discovery”. Having fun while doing “Groundbreaking”, “Novel”, and “Interesting” research. …

Merkle Trees and how they are so powerful. — One fine day me and my friend who works as a Backend developer started a discussion related to Blockchain. …

They say once you use Vim, you never go back. — As a developer, using Vim can be quite threatening. Especially if your peers force you to use Vim, or subtly hint every time at using Vim. …

Understand the mystery behind Dimensionality Reduction algorithms such as PCA with this Free Course. — With the hype surrounding Large Language Models(LLMs) I wondered whether I actually understood some of the basic concepts of Machine Learning algorithms. To my surprise I realised there were a bunch of algorithms that I never really understood despite clearly using them in my workflow. Such as while using popular…

Use this technique to receive Reccomendations without hassle. — In the following post, I will be detailing how to streamline your process of requesting and receiving a Letter of Recommendations for Graduate Applications. As University admission season approaches so does the time to ask for recommendations letters. Now just like the readers, I was initially clueless as to how…

How I am using ChatGPT for understanding research. — Before Larger Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT existed, reading research papers was quite a struggle for us. I see ChatGPT as a tool to seriously improve my productivity. Before ChatGPT, I would often spend many hours trying to understand the intricacies of a relatively simple problem, and Google did…

A surreal tale of why every data point matters. — This story is about one of the Hackathons I participated in my Sophmore year being held at IIT Bombay. The story is as crazy as it can get. So gear up for a ride. I was supposed to board a flight to Mumbai earlier that day , but I missed…

Why Coursera is a suboptimal experience and how to improve it OR a user experience evaluation of Coursera for ease of learning. Learning how to learn on an dull platform. The reason for writing this rant is obvious: the Coursera platform is very boring and the site overall needs an overhaul. You might blame it on me saying…