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This week in review: An ode to lost time Sat, 21 Nov 2020 Zero days, and dull routines Day after day, night after night Sweater weather…

I had been away from ROS world for a while now, but recently had to use ROS for work. I have not worked with mobile robots before so the…

Snippets that make my life little bit easier while working with Git. Here’s a list of Git puns “Git on with it” “A little Git of everything…

Useful snippets reference while working with Images Convert Image to CSV I recently had to convert a binary image into a csv file. Here is a…

This week in review: Happiness index, cli productivity. Sun, 26 Apr 2020 Interesting article by Shivya of https://the-shooting-star.com on…

This week in review: Lockdown. Sun, 19 Apr 2020 Lockdown has been interesting. (-_-) ▣

This week in review: Quantified Self. Mon, 06 Apr 2020 Quantified Self update: Sleep: Pillow app on Apple Watch can automatically track your…

This week in review: what is an experiment? Sat, 28 Mar 2020 An experiment is a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a…

Useful snippets reference while using Chrome Developer Tools. I routinely find myself needing to extract a bunch of content from a website…

This week in review: designing your life, optimization, lockdown!!, libfuse on wsl. Sun, 15 Mar 2020 TIL: Recognizing ego-centric worldview…

Having them show up as delegates is okay, but it’s nicer if they show up with the other Google calendars, and that also makes for a better…

This week in review: on writing down ideas, kernel panics, flatten the curve, Mindset by Carol Dweck. Tue, 10 Mar 2020 Two things that have…

Useful snippets reference while using Homebrew the unofficial macos package manager. Backup and Restore Uninstall everything List Installed…

These are some of the comments I found interesting on HN. I am reproducing them here as a reference for myself. ericb Better googling. Time…

These are my notes on how to install install preempt_rt patch for linux kernel on Ubuntu 18.04. I am doing this for a robot control…

I was once working with a customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis of the code, I pointed out that they…

This week in review: Realtime scheduling. Mon, 03 Feb 2020 Interesting article that talks about realtime scheduling and priority inversion…

This week in review: Real time communication and safety. Mon, 27 Jan 2020 TCP/IP protocol sucks if you want to do realtime communication…

This week in review: compilers! Thu, 16 Jan 2020 A compilers job is to help you find logic errors at compile time by making distinct…

My notes on how to calibrate intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters using nonlinear least squares. This post is a work in progress https…

This week in review: pre-commit hooks Tue, 07 Jan 2020 Adding a pre-commit hook to automate last modified date update. Pre-commit hooks can…

This week in review: decade is over, tmux and vscode, fools and fanatics. Tue, 31 Dec 2019 End of a Decade! TODO: figure out what I did for…

This week in review: end of year cleanup Sun, 22 Dec 2019 cleaning up

This week in review: Hackathon!, zero day :( Tue, 17 Dec 2019 I kinda participated in a hackathon today. I learnt tensorflow.js, a little…

This week in review: Dynamically loading , resolving local domains with mDNS, Code Quality, and be kinder. Tue, 10 Dec 2019 When dynamically…

This week in review: rain, chicken tenders and Catch-22 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 Biking in the rain. It has been raining continuously for the past…

This week in review: slacking off!! I did not keep up with writing updates this week. I wasn’t really busy, I was just lazy. In other news…

Docker jargon Image contains all the additional file changes required to run your application. This is likely a union of your os files…

This week in review: testing and debugging across the stack, early and late binding, GNU Parallel! Mon, 18 Nov 2019 is a great tool to run…

This week in review: Life lessons, Geography lessons, and Hypervisors Sun, 10 Nov 2019 Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood…

We are entering troubled waters, beware! visual diff tool, C++ Templates, Google’s”Testing on the Toilet” and Compilers. Sun, 03 Nov 2019 I…

Fun week! Halloween, more DevOps stuff, JSON vs XML, cool electronics and Pies!! Tue, 29 Oct 2019 Back to work. Wed, 30 Oct 2019 Law of…

I’ve been having trouble keeping myself motivated to work on my side projects. I am not sure if I’d call this a slump but it feels very…

I am currently using an MSYS2 installation instead of Git for Windows. I chose MSYS2 because it comes with pacman and am able to use other…

Sudoku is a simple/easy to define problem. You have a 9 x 9 grid and you have to fill the numbers 1 to 9 in such a way that no number is…

The principle of layered complexity to display information such a way that your target audience/users can immediately get a high level…

Leaves from the vine, Falling so slow.  Like fragile tiny shells, Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy, Come marching home. Brave…

Using Van der Pol oscillator as a placeholder. $$ {\displaystyle {d^{2}x \over dt^{2}}-\mu (1-x^{2}){dx \over dt}+x=0,} $$ This post is a…

Python is slow because Dynamically typed Interpreted GIL This post is a work in progress

I recently moved the and folders into their own theme repo. This resulted in me having trouble updating my website automatically when the…

Author gives a really good overview of what Salesforce is. This was an interesting read. I’ve always wondered how behemoths like Oracle lock…

Are you forced to work in a Windows environment at work? Do you think Windows is a pain to work with? Would you rather eat a shoe? Then…

While using Windows 10 Guest on macOS host, I found that Windows was running really slow. I first tried increasing the RAM to 6GB but there…

Just testing out a new look for the blog and this is the first post. More posts to come soon.

Creating a Random Forest model to predict survivors Loading Data into SFrames There are 891 lines of train data. So, up to PassesngerId 89…

These are a few puzzles from IISC Summer School 2013 which I accidentally stumbled up on. The original PDF can be found here. There may be…