List of Blogs
Disclaimer: I am not good at writing.
Books, linux, graphics, vision and what not...
[books]
June 17, 2024
3 minutes.
If my memory serves me right, it was 2015 when I learned about this book, and I've had it on my reading list since then. I think I even attempted to read it back then, but I cannot remember why I i…
[books]
June 04, 2024
3 minutes.
This blog may contain spoilers; reader discretion is advised :)
Holly Jackson released her latest book a few months back, and this time I didn't read it immediately since I've been occupied …
[random]
May 26, 2024
2 minutes.
The circumstances were such that my thoughts came across an interesting real-life problem which in it's bare-bone form can be formulated as an asynchronous coin toss.
Problem
[random]
May 20, 2024
3 minutes.
Since late last year, I had started to run regularly, or atleast I thought I did. Being a beginner, I used to run a kilometer or so and then take a break of five minutes and then perhaps run anothe…
[random]
May 09, 2024
3 minutes.
It was a challenge without a name, but I just gave it one right now: April Abstention. Well, some of my friends and I noticed the lack of discipline in our eating habits. We often found ourselves g…
[random]
January 14, 2024
2 minutes.
I'm sure Hide & Seek was played differently by different folks. But here was we played it back then:
- One unfortunate person is chosen as the denner/seeker.
- They close thei…
[books]
December 05, 2022
2 minutes.
I was mistaken. I was wrong when I said that the Throne of Glass books would be the only ones I read in 2022. Since the semester is over, I have a little extra time on my hands. When I heard that H…
[books]
October 24, 2022
3 minutes.
This year, 2022, hasn't been great in terms of reading. I've been busy throughout the year with academics and I believe Throne Of Glass might be the only book series I read in 2022.
The seri…
[books]
November 11, 2021
2 minutes.
I finished reading the perks of being a wallflower today morning and I just felt that I should write something here. Is it because I've not updated this place in a long time or is it because the wa…
[computer graphics]
August 21, 2021
1 minutes.
I was learning GLSL and how to draw using maths and tried to replicate a famous shader program on shadertoy.
For a first-timer who did it …
[computer graphics, computer vision]
July 21, 2021
11 minutes.
I was studying line drawing algorithms and then had an idea to replace the best algorithm with a neural network. This long post contains an explanation of the basic algorithms and the process I wen…
[books]
June 22, 2021
32 minutes.
I actually wanted to read Six of Crows. People all over the internet said that Six of Crows Duology is much better than the Shadow and Bone Trilogy and that one could directly read Six of Crows Duo…
[linux]
June 12, 2021
5 minutes.
It had been such a pain to format lines when I was writing Latex/Markdown/HTML. Since single line breaks are ignored, we can write all that we have to in a single line or multple lines. Writing in…
[books]
June 05, 2021
11 minutes.
I read The Shadow and Bone Trilogy in a span of a week and a half if I remember correctly. Overall, I enjoyed the experience. The story is great but it was slow paced for me. I don't mind the lengt…
[linux]
June 01, 2021
1 minutes.
Zathura is a document viewer and I use it to view PDFs. Until now, I was using the default inverted color mode (called recolor in zathura). It basically flipped black to white and white to black. I…
[books]
May 25, 2021
2 minutes.
This explains a lot. Why Pip took to pursue the Bell Disappearance Case for her project? So Pip and her gang of friends (6 in total) are celebrating the end of term by playing Kill Joy - a murder m…
[books]
May 22, 2021
3 minutes.
The first book was so good, I was kind of skeptical about the second book since I did not want to ruin the experience from the first one. I am ashamed that I had such a disgusting thought in my min…
[books]
May 17, 2021
3 minutes.
I have to admit, when I started it I did not anticipate that I'd be up till 3 in the morning finishing the book rather than sleeping. It's been so long since I've been this hooked.
The way t…
[linux]
February 02, 2021
3 minutes.
It is hardly the case when programming involves editing a single file. On whatever medium to big sized projects that I've worked upon, atleast 3 files are needed to be opened at once either to edit…