I am grateful to have a very healthy and supportive family. But I have had the misfortune of witnessing, in absolute strangers, what seems to be some mental unease. Truth be told no one is infallible. To protect my mental health: Having good role models seems to be of help. Read more 27 Jun 2026 - less than 1 minute read
Link to Coursera - BITS BSc Computer Science program: Link. Note that the individual courses in this program are available under Coursera +. Course - 1 : Introduction to Programming Link to the course: Link. All rights of the content go to BITS Pilani. Refs: “Computer Fundamentals and C Programming” by S. Das. ROUGH NOTES (!) Update... Read more 17 Jun 2026 - 17 minute read
A Blogpost on Mechanical Watches by Bartosz Ciechanowski. Link to the Blogpost: Link. Read more 16 Jun 2026 - less than 1 minute read
To read: “Maximum entropy from Bayes’ theorem” by Qiaochu Yuan. Link to the blogpost: Link. Read more 12 Jun 2026 - less than 1 minute read
[Doubt of an event] Consider a setup where various events are assigned various probabilities. For an event ${ E , }$ let ${ \mathbb{P}(E) }$ denote the probability of occurence of ${ E , }$ a measure of certainity of ${ E }$ occuring. Suppose we want to assign to each event ${ E, }$ a measure of doubt of ${ E }$ occuring, ${ \text{Doubt}(E) \... Read more 10 Jun 2026 - 2 minute read