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I've been an inquisitive kid when I was young. I remember picking up random things and asking endless series of questions etc etc. I still do all those. I can be relentless when it comes to looking for answers that do not satisfy my internal metric for truth.

This was …


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In Part B we study functional programming languages with dynamic type checking. For this we use the programming language Racket which is a dialect of the LISP programming language. During the second week we also implement a programming language interpreter. Even though it is a toy language it gives a …


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I like processes. Often is very difficult for me to get started with something if I do not have a process in place. Something about processes makes me feel safe and routine.

Recently I was struggling to read books and hence I decided that I needed to come up a …


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So back in January 2019 I decided to reduce the amount of waste I produce on a monthly basis. Read it here

Initial plan was to behave "normally" for three months and then try the reduction thing. That did not work because I was inconsistent with maintaining the record.

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I had a realization very very recently.

This is the sort of thing that can happen only out of the blue when you are thinking about it in hindsight.

I went on a trek with a bunch of friends. It was an organized trek so there was an extended group …


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About 2 weeks ago I uninstalled WhatsApp from my phone. This decision was many weeks into the making. Below, I will attempt to distill my experience and some insights I gained during this exercise. Whatever I have written below is completely based on my experience and even though I have …


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I am planning to use the Learning tag to create a series of posts about every online course I will take. The idea is to document everything in my blog. Having something that I can refer to is also super awesome.

Structure

The entire course is quite long. The way …


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In the second week of January I had a trip planned to Bangalore. The main goal here was to figure out some work in Bangalore and college.

However during the Sandakphu trek some of the trekkers there convinced me that Western Ghats is amazing and that I should absolutely trek …


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Growing up I've always been interested in trekking; So, naturally when a friend suggested that we should go for a trek in 2018, I was kinda skeptical and kinda excited. Skeptical mainly because it was a significant amount of money including all the equipment I had to buy for a …


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Motivation

I've been an arm-chair environmentalist for far too long.

Starting 2019 I decided to do something real for a change. I am starting small and trying to optimize my consumption habits to have the least possible Carbon Footprint, as well as un-needed waste.

Plan of Action

"Optimize" often boils …