I wake up. Not groggy, not tired, but alert. Something woke me up. I'm getting less sleep these days. Probably the weather changing; it rains at odd times, sometimes at night. The thunder wakes me up too. And sometimes passing vehicles that sound just a little different from the regular traffic. Ha, guess I'm just a light sleeper. I get up,...
There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system to load up software and install. This was the 2000's, when computers prided themselves on being personal computation devices. A Chromebook was a curiosity at the time, promising to run most...
I was just in the washroom with the CEO of our company in the adjacent stall. We had an awkward eye contact while we both were washing hands. Should I address it with him directly ...? Firstly, I feel like it was his fault for coming to this washroom, this is mine. Ours I mean, the plebians'. Like, don't they have a separate hoity-toity one...
On a sweltering August evening, I gathered a bunch of friends for dinner. It had been a while since we'd met, so there was a backlog of updates and stories to catch up on. We settled in and placed our orders. I opted for a cottage cheese steak. As the food arrived, we traded "gossip" - interesting stories from our recent past, ranging from mildly...
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by Shashank and Ritika "Instagram tries to understand what you like and keeps giving you that. Sometimes it throws in new content to see if you like it, but mostly it sticks to what you've liked in the past." It's a neat trick, but it works best for active users. What about the folks who are new or just haven't interacted enough? Those are the...
TLDRBWW Too long; didn't read - but will watch BackgroundCooking should be fun, following recipes is kinda boring. So I make it a point to read a recipe once and then wing stuff along the way, hoping to keep things edible while turning into interesting and exciting culinary destinations. I follow the hand-wavy way of cooking, as evidenced by the...
by Raghava G. Dhanya and Shashank S. AbstractIn this article, we examine how to represent the game state of a chess board as space-efficiently as possible. We propose two methods for representing the game state: the Static Method and the Dynamic Method. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages, and we discuss their respective...
Respected friends, members of the friends council and my dear friends. Welcome. Conversations are one of the underrated pleasures and privileges of us, human beings, the human condition. Specially the ones where you go back to the same person and are able to hold long threads of thought. Not the same thought, that would make it an asylum. But...