The Four Year Transform
An essay with random fundae on college life packaged in a giant pun
general
A Quantum Semester
… in which I did three courses with ‘Quantum’ in the title.
Why Quantum, man?
Why an EE undergrad ended up studying quantum mechanics
The Blub Paradox
On why we underestimate powerful tools and techniques
Welcome!
My second attempt at having a blog.
academic
Volumes of spheres in discrete metrics
On the paper ‘A method to find the volume of a sphere in the Lee metric, and its applications’
Shannon’s Channel Coding Theorem
The (highly) non-trivial content of Shannon’s Channel Coding theorem
Binary Search, the Ulam game and Coding Theory
Binary search with lies allowed and adaptive block codes
Quanta on Quantum Computation
A short(ish) introduction to quantum complexity
Conway’s Game of life
Interesting things about a cellular automaton
puzzles
One More April Puzzle
One more special puzzle to celebrate April Fools Day
April Puzzles
Science Coffeehouse - special puzzles to celebrate April Fools Day
A Night Full of Questions
QnA for SnT Code in Takneek, the technical fest of IIT Kanpur.
travel
To the bit of my heart I left in Hong Kong
My stay in the city, more than a year on
Travelogue – Old Bangkok
Adventures in the old city of Bangkok
Travelogue – Rajasthan, on the Feluda Trail
Satyajit Ray’s film Sonar Kella and how we ended up following the journey by the protagonists of the film during our trip to Rajasthan
technical
Real time updation in gnuplot
Plotting data generated in real time using gnuplot
humour
The Worst Pun Ever?
You have been warned.
music
Musical Excursions: the Maihar Band
The beautiful music of the dying notes of the Maihar band
research
Volumes of spheres in discrete metrics
On the paper ‘A method to find the volume of a sphere in the Lee metric, and its applications’
writing
French Duels
Mathematics, aliens, history, time-travel rolled into one story based on true events.