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Working with SSH

Recently in my internship at Biometrics Lab at IIT Jodhpur, most of the work is done on remote systems due to high compute requirements. So I thought I would write something about it, as it’s bound to become more common in future at least for the folks planning to begin their journey with Deep Learning.… Continue reading Working with SSH

The Analytical Engine

This was the first fully-automatic calculating machine. British computing pioneer Charles Babbage (1791-1871) first conceived the idea of an advanced calculating machine to calculate and print mathematical tables in 1812. This machine, conceived by Babbage in 1834, was designed to evaluate any mathematical formula and to have even higher powers of analysis than his original Difference engine of the 1820s. Only part of the machine was completed before his death in 1871. This is a portion of the mill with a printing mechanism. Babbage was also a reformer, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and political economist.

It was designed by Charles Babbage, a polymath in 19th century. He designed the machine but was never able to build a complete working model in his lifetime due to constraints of fundings. It would take nearly over a century before someone attempted to design a General-purpose computer Importance of Analytical Engine does not end… Continue reading The Analytical Engine

Shells in Linux

On the suggestion of some of my Linux afficionado friends, I decided to look into changing my default shell in Mint from Bash to another shell. After some surfing on the web Fish and ZSH seemed to be the viable options. ZSH attempts to maintain compatibility with Bash while Fish ignores it. On trying both… Continue reading Shells in Linux

zip in Python

While trying to learn more about list comprehension in Python, I came across a very useful function called zip. Zip combines two or more iterables into an iterable consisting of tuples. Tuple on index n has elements having index n from all the iterables passed to the zip function. Example: Output: 3 6 9

Functional Programming with Scheme

Paul Graham’s essays on Lisp and frequent discussions on HackerNews piqued my interest in Functional Programming. Hence I decided to take a deep dive to explore this topic. Functional programming as a very fascinating history, with Lisp being the second programming language created after Fortran. Lisp was quite popular in universities but it suffered an… Continue reading Functional Programming with Scheme

Exploring the world of DevOps, CI-CD, andContainers on steroids (WIP)

Note: Work in progress! This blog is about exploring so-called DevOps/Infra: containers (docker/podman), containers on steroids (k8s), and the world of CI and CD. Abstraction Layers in Computer Host Computer (bare-metal) > Virtual Machine (VMware / VirtualBox / Vagrant) > Containers (LXC/LXD) What is Containers and some of their features? Light weight / Encapsulated Abstraction… Continue reading Exploring the world of DevOps, CI-CD, andContainers on steroids (WIP)

Information 101

#1 On website improvement Today, I updated favicon compatibility for various devices and browsers. Favicon.io is the tool that helped me easily generate favicon similar to Y Combinator (Hacker News). Favicon Generator: https://favicon.io/favicon-generator/ #2 On open source world List of trending source code repository across GitHub: https://github.com/trending Similarly, our soon-to-be IPO / best-open-culture company GitLab… Continue reading Information 101

Hwy 1 / PCH

Today we shall explore pacific coastal highway (also known as highway one) and its correlation with operating system and overall beauty of the NorCal / SoCal region. Some jibber jabbering around roads Route 1 aka California State Route 1 Route 101 aka Highway 101 PCH (pacific coastal highway) is a scenic highway. — Let’s get… Continue reading Hwy 1 / PCH

Academia Feeds

Sources: RSS, Twitter, Mailing List, (B|V)logs, Podcasts Leadership / Entrepreneurship / Business & Poetry – Academia News Feed Harvard Buisness School on Twitter @HarvardBiz Podcasts Blog Newsletters https://www.youtube.com/c/harvard/playlists Poetry: https://soundcloud.com/harvard Haas School of Business (BerkeleyHaas) @BerkeleyHaas Podcast Blog Stanford Graduate School of Business @StanfordGSB Podcasts Blog Magazine MIT Sloan @MITSloan Podcast Columbia Business @Columbia_Biz Podcast… Continue reading Academia Feeds

Web scraping with Python

What is web scraping? Webscraping involves extracting publicly displayed information from a website. Difficulty of web scraping a website can range from simple requests to solving captchas. Complex cases may require a combination of several libraries however for simple webpages only two libraries are sufficient. The libraries required are requests(the most downloaded Python library) and… Continue reading Web scraping with Python