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Drawn from Wikipedia's amazing RCU explanation.

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My 2015 MBP 13" was giving me some pain over this entire semester, lagging a lot and being very slow overall. I recently upgraded to a 16" MBP, and there have been no complaints so far :) the notch is simply not there if you have a black desktop background, so …

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Happy New Year! This is going to was supposed to be a long one, so sit back and grab a chocolate (and preferably view this on your laptop)

Some optimization algorithms. Click on a colour in the legend to hide/show it

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   • Do Solutions Even Exist …

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I've kind of zeroed down on Deep Learning at this point, and putting my money where my mouth is, will be taking both COL772 (Natural Language Processing) and COL775 (Deep Learning) next semester.

Along with Operating Systems, Parallel Programming and Theory of Computation.

Why a workflow?

I'll need to train …

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Some of you might have come across HackerFX, an image binarizer. This was written a long time back, when the only language I knew was Java, and when I was still in school.

An update was on the cards for a while, because I wanted to change my desktop background …

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The Basics

The most basic boot process is BIOS on a standard i386/x86-64 device. The BIOS first detects the CPU/RAM, then initializes the remainder of the hardware, and then begins the boot sequence. The boot sequence basically consists of finding a bootable device, loading the boot program in …

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When in Neovim, Do as the Luans do

Unless you're just starting out with Neovim or are extremely used to vim, it's a good idea to set up Neovim using neovim-exclusive plugins. Most of them are written in lua, and integrate more nicely with the Neovim environment (async, faster startup …

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Prerequisites

• XCode CLT (which you should have)
• QT 5. Install via brew install qt5. NOTE: if you already have an updated version of Qt, you'll need to pass a different qmake, and brew won't link this to your system. Brew will inform you of this, and you'll manually need to …

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ft. nvim, neofetch and htop. WM: i3-gaps, with compton for compositing.

Wallpaper: Pick and Place.

nvim theme: tokyodark.nvim, supporting transparency.

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While pruning a bug in my server, I had to debug my code on Manjaro, which was getting tedious. I'd installed Neovim, so the rational step would be to install Sublime and forget about neovim.

Right?

Nope. Let's install Neovim on Mac instead and try moving to it!

Sprucing up …

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When you learn more in the last week than in any other week in your life. A summary of how I built a high-performance peer-server-peer file sharing network in the span of a week.

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The Problem

The problem is a simple search problem: given a partially filled sudoku board, return a fully filled sudoku board with the initial numbers in place such that each digit features only once in every row, column and 3x3 subgrid.

The Solution

These problems, in general, are called Constraint …

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Most of the times, the regression models we need to fit don't have a constant standard deviation, but rather one that is some function of $x$. In this article, I try to learn a model with variance varying linearly as a function of x: kind of like a regression on variance

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My Thoughts on Web Development, Programming Influencers/tutors and the portrayal of programming as a lavish dream rather than providing a careful solution to complex problems, bit by bit.

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Not everything goes exactly as planned. That's why it's a plan, not a certainty.

Aiming in

Before this entire joomla started, I asked myself: What is it I want from an intern?

• I wanted to tour: I didn't pick up a foreign research intern this summer, and was tired of …

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For the upcoming semesters, we have a ton of systems courses. So, I needed a linux box that I could hack around, preferably at the kernel level. I finally got around to installing Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi¹: Here's how I did it.

Context

For starters, I already …

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I seldom get time to do anything other than course related activities nowadays, but in this midsem break, I did nothing other than roam around campus and laze in bed. And publish the first release of the IIT Delhi Course Planner Dataset (Also available on GitHub). This is a scraping …

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After using vim for a long time, I realized that vim would be very tricky to use for larger projects; there are a few reasons behind this, which are:

1. Hard to set up and use autocomplete: I've tried omnicomplete, but it just didn't cut the mustard. I very seldom need …

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This is a short getting started article on LaTeX; Recently, one of our courses involved a bit of LaTeX work, and this is meant to be a short introduction on how to use LaTeX to explain one's working.

Getting Started

LaTeX (Pronounced lay-tech, stylized $\LaTeX$), at it's core, is merely …

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C development on a Mac has it's fair share of traps and pitfalls, even though Mac is supposed to be POSIX compliant. I'll cover a few of them here, with the hope that nobody repeats the same mistakes :)

XCode CLT Pitfalls

The first thing one does while starting out with …

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