Blog (mostly math)

Mindfulness

Link to the Course: Link. Speculation: Practicing to pay attention to the here and now is beneficial. ROUGH NOTES (!) Updated: 6/7/26 Course - 1 : Foundations [Introducing Mindfulness] During our busy and stressful lives, our attention is usually all over the place. “People spend about 47% of their waking hours thinking about something o... Read more

BITS-1 Programming

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

Mechanical Watches

A Blogpost on Mechanical Watches by Bartosz Ciechanowski. Link to the Blogpost: Link. Read more

Entropy from Bayes Theorem

To read: “Maximum entropy from Bayes’ theorem” by Qiaochu Yuan. Link to the blogpost: Link. Read more

Entropy as Average Doubt

[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