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2026

A New Home on the Internet Apr 10

Sainik School Tilaiya Apr 4

2025

Language Models and Multiverse Sep 1

A Week in Tirana, Albania Jul 15

Power of Your Passport Jun 24

From Data to Decisions: The Story Behind My PhD Apr 22

AI Manifesto Feb 18

Recipe: Making a Homestyle Indian Curry Jan 25

2024

Happiness: What makes us happy? Dec 11

Best Cafes in Knoxville Aug 7

The Ongoing Sixth Mass Extinction Jul 19

Recommendations: List of Things to Read, Listen and Watch Jul 4

Thoughts about Vipassana Meditation (and My Second Experience) Jun 3

Web surfing isn't fun anymore 🏄 May 15

Have fun with Terminal on Mac/Linux May 3

Book Notes | Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Apr 2

Who's funding the politics in India? Mar 15

Against Capitalism Feb 26

OpenAI's GPT is a terrific idea Feb 8

Theory of Mind Jan 20

Egypt: An Odyssey Through Time Jan 11

2023

Four AI Chatbots other than ChatGPT Nov 27

Trapped in Beautiful Garden Nov 23

Warren Hastings, The First Governor General of India Nov 11

Battle of Palassey and Clive of India Nov 9

What are you optimizing for? Sep 30

ML Forecasting at HP Inc. Aug 21

HP Internship: A Year and a Half in the Fast Lane Aug 21

Reflections from KDD 2023 Aug 14

What makes a good coffee? Jul 1

Seattle: Echoes of Home in the Emerald City Jun 5

Predicting Race, Age and Gender from Face: A Small-sample Example with Encoding Jun 3

My 10-Day Escape into Nature's Embrace: A Camping Journey to Moab May 21

Up Your Blogging Game: Three Enhancements to Hugo Apero May 20

Comparing two BIG data frames in Pandas May 6

How does GPT work? Understanding Generative AI Models Apr 26

Crafting Conversations with GPT Personalities in Python Apr 9

Who are Twitter Blue Users? Apr 1

Planning Cities with People Mar 16

Chitta-vritis: Exploring the Depths of Consciousness Mar 9

I wonder how this AI thing is going to shape up Mar 3

How to Hack Your Own Mind? Feb 25

From Bits to Words: A Tale Computing and Communication Languages Feb 8

What happens when you meditate ten hours a day? Feb 1

From Mythology to Modernity: The Dual Faces of Pushkar Jan 20

2022

Moving Next from Revue to Substack Dec 30

DLTGH: Days Left to Go Home Dec 1

Infallible Memory: The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling Nov 24

Notes on Coffee Nov 22

History of Coffee Nov 22

Is the world population going to collapse? Nov 10

Supply Chain Analytics at HP Inc. Oct 31

Bullets of Wisdom Oct 7

How the government of Bihar is changing lives one girl at a time? Sep 20

Rediscovering Coffee: A Newfound Hobby Sep 9

Being Optimistic Aug 12

Stoned to Death at the Public Square Aug 10

Script monkey! 🐒 Aug 1

The Ascribed Advantage Jul 9

The best stats you've ever seen Jul 3

Next — Today I learnt About R Jun 18

The Song of The Lord Jun 12

Food Choices in America Jun 5

धर्मक्षेत्र: माता गांधारी का आरोप May 30

Street Maps (of Some Cities) May 28

Some Website Stats May 23

हम पंछी उन्मुक्त गगन के May 15

Trying New Things May 13

Harvard's Website May 11

Joint Probability-based Dissimilarity Measure for Discrete Variables May 10

Making Nails Apr 22

Adrenaline Activities Apr 20

Billionaires and Taxes Apr 14

Arguments Apr 10

Creating your own short URLs with blogdown Mar 24

Imaginary Reality Mar 11

Let’s say you’re copying a folder to a folder Mar 10

Interesting Problems and Where to Find Them? Mar 9

How to Decide What to Research? Mar 9

garlic: Some R Functions I Use Rather Frequently Mar 5

Titanic: Who Survived The Tragedy? Feb 22

Number of PhDs by Field Feb 20

Rules for Life Feb 18

Notes on STATA Feb 16

Score and Fisher's Information Feb 13

Public Transport & Lack Thereof Feb 13

Linear Regression and Optimisation Feb 11

Classification: Logistic Regression and Random Forest Feb 11

Improbable Doesn't Mean Impossible Feb 9

Cheatsheet on Python Feb 8

Notes on R Feb 3

How much do we know about our ancestors? Feb 3

My Mac Workflow Feb 2

Basics of Text Mining in R Jan 27

Notes on Github Jan 24

Stackoverflow Answers Jan 14

2021

Urban-Rural Population in 200+ Countries Dec 30

Optimizing Order Frequency to Minimize Partial Pallet Orders Dec 10

Improvements in Artificial Intelligence Dec 9

My Name Dec 8

Replicating Tennessee STAR Project Nov 29

How fast is M1? Nov 8

Next — Today I Learnt About R Oct 6

Supervised Learning Using Baysian Decision Rule Sep 7

Ten days in the United States Aug 1

Technical and Casual Writing Jul 27

Aspect Ratio (Merck Inc.) Jul 15

Ellsberg's Paradox Jul 11

IRCTC's Captcha is Smart Jul 6

Yihui on Blogging and Writing Books Jul 5

What I Find Interesting Jun 19

Notes on LaTeX Jun 19

Invento Robotics Jun 19

Inspiring Quotes Jun 19

How is Government's Employment System Broken? May 30

Bliss Lifesciences Mar 1

Is COVID-19 Data tampered? Feb 15

2020

Forecasting Malaria Vaccine Demand Dec 24

IPM: What You Need To Know Sep 11

A (better) Way to Fund College Education Aug 11

Sentiment Analysis of Tweets Jun 10

Exploring My Spotify Listening Jun 3

Understanding Profits of Non-profits Mar 7

2019

Gartner Hype Cycle Nov 25

iPhones in India Jun 2

Museums and Experience Tourism May 5

How to decide: to do, or not to do? Apr 13

Notes on Linux Feb 26

2018

Presentation on LaTeX Nov 24

2016

Smart Villages Indore Nov 1