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Mar 14, 2021
A weirdish guide to Paragliding
I should have written a similar piece about diving while it was still fresh in my mind but I didn’t. Let me not repeat the mistake with paragliding. Here we...
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Mar 13, 2021
Mughal invasion and British rule dichotomy
In a recent conversation, I realized I lacked clarity in my head about something. India renamed the city of Allahabad to Prayagraj in 2018. Allahabad was the name given during...
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Feb 16, 2021
50% failure rate
That’s the rate at which my travels fail. Before *everybody *became a traveler, I was considered a decent one. Not that I spent a lot of time visting exotic or...
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Feb 15, 2021
Shakespeare and binary
It is said that the line To be, or not to be by Shakespeare is one of the most quoted lines in English language. Written in binary, it would simply...
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Jul 14, 2020
Why teach AIs how to play games
Given there are far more pressing problems that AIs can potentially solve, say drug discovery, road traffic optimization, stock market predictions etc, why is it that every time every AIs...
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