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2026

• 11 Oct. Can discrete Ricci flow signal capability transition in Transformers?
• 04 Oct. Understanding System One Models Using Interpretability Tools
• 08 Sep. The Lament of a Young ML Researcher
• 05 Sep. Songs of My Life (So Far)
• 02 Sep. Day 1 of n: Reading (and Implementing) Ilya's 30 ML Papers
• 11 Jul. A System's Approach To Understanding Islam
• 17 Jun. Meditations from the Beach: Solo Trip To Vizag
• 11 Jun. Indians Are Really Bad At Picking Opponents
• 08 Jun. The society we are engineering and the death of manners
• 03 May. Reflections on the Mahabharata
• 30 Apr. On Swimming
• 04 Mar. Bonjour Monsieur: Paris '2026

2025

• 23 Nov. A Spiritual Reconnect: Trip to Ajmer and Udaipur
• 05 Nov. Trial by Fire: Tenure as Head of Technology at Rendezvous ‘25
• 22 Oct. Implement a Minimax Agent for Optimal Tic Tac Toe Play
• 02 Aug. Some Of My Favourite Verses From The Quran
• 13 Jun. Commentary on Iqbal's Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa: Part 2
• 13 Jun. Commentary on Iqbal's Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa: Part 1

2024

• 26 Oct. A Trip To The Paradise On Earth: Part 2
• 25 Oct. A Trip To The Paradise On Earth: Part 1
• 04 Oct. London Diaries! Part 1
• 29 Sep. Implementing Kerberos Authentication System from Scratch
• 09 Aug. Poems for the Lonely Hearts
• 20 Jun. The One Where I Was Almost Jailed!
• 16 May. Distillation of "A Circuit for Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2"
• 14 May. A personal take on Gan’s "The positive functions of poverty"
• 13 May. What Every IIT Boy Needs To Know: Building Emotional Intelligence
• 05 May. Why Do Good Students Get Poor Marks
• 23 Mar. Passing The Baton: Experiences of an Editor
• 16 Mar. The Wild Madness of Shaheen Bagh
• 22 Jan. Stories from the Underground: Part 2
• 22 Jan. In the Name of: IIT Delhi and the Age of Unenlightenment
• 03 Jan. Stories from the Underground: Part 1

2023

• 19 Dec. Hacking Wordle Blitz
• 05 Nov. Are we not safe on campus anymore?
• 25 Sep. What If Zeus Was Right?
• 22 Sep. Common Fallacies in Human Reasoning
• 16 Sep. The Office: Learnings from the American sitcom
• 01 Aug. Textile@IITD: Through the eyes of a UG junior student
• 27 Jul. The Murky Mempool: Making sense of {M|B}EV
• 11 Jul. Updates to the blog
• 09 Jul. One More Light: Why Can't We Normalise Failing?
• 08 Jul. Purpose, Passion, and Politics: The Craft of Writing
• 06 Jul. How Bonding Curves Are Crucial to DeFi Protocols
• 02 Jul. Spirited Away: Of Monsters and Men
• 29 Jun. Escapade Into Uttarakhand: A travelogue
• 01 May. Reading Pygmalion: Shaw's criticism of the English language and society
• 19 Apr. A Case for Politics: Carpets, Catharsis, and other Conundrums
• 05 Apr. German Expressionism and its influence on Robert Weine
• 22 Feb. Playing God: Making sense of CRISPR
• 15 Feb. Prometheus Unleashed: Making sense of information hazards
• 29 Jan. Modern Times: Where are we headed?

2022

• 11 Dec. BUIDL: Hitching a ride on the web3 wagon
• 21 Jun. À bout de souffle: The politics of Godard's debut feature
• 27 May. I am 20: Remembering India's youth
• 08 Mar. The Pillowman: Artistry in a totalitarian regime
• 22 Feb. The Quant Frenzy: A Crude Forecast
• 08 Jan. Fierce People: A riveting tale of deceit and drama

2021

• 12 Dec. The Prince and the Monk: A fictive conversation
• 09 Dec. The War to end all wars: The First World War
• 30 Nov. Whose glory are we basking in?
• 22 Nov. A deep dive into JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
• 20 Nov. Notes: How to Win at College by Cal Newport
• 15 Nov. Thoughts: The Psychology of Money (Book)
• 09 Nov. Web 3.0 and The Metaverse Mania
• 21 Oct. Hacktoberfest and open source
• 16 Oct. Building a Discord bot: A definitive guide
• 02 Oct. A tour of the realist world of Edward Hopper
• 29 Sep. A personal interpretation of 'The Matrix'
• 27 Sep. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar and feminism
• 18 Sep. The IIT Dream: Decoding India's lust for engineers
• 17 Sep. 31 Years of 'Heaven or Las Vegas'
• 11 Sep. 'Please myself': An interpretation 30 years later
• 05 Sep. Academic Dishonesty
• 05 Sep. Remembering My Teachers
• 04 Sep. The Sensuality of Rilke's Love Poems
• 03 Sep. Love As An Illegitimate Byproduct
• 31 Aug. How to Take Correct Decisions
• 31 Aug. To be or not to be: Understanding Hamlet
• 12 Aug. A Closer Look at 'Inside Job'
• 02 Aug. My School Journey
• 01 Aug. The Indian Sexual Taboo
• 25 Jul. Freakonomics: Should you read it?
• 18 Jul. Rereading 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
• 15 Jul. Is Governance Really So Difficult?
• 06 Jul. Friendship
• 05 Jul. My Reading Portfolio
• 03 Jul. Notes: The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
• 21 Jun. Migrating From Jekyll to Hugo
• 20 Jun. Most Scarce Resource
• 17 Jun. The Sun After A Thuderstorm
• 15 Jun. Notes: I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
• 10 Jun. What Makes You Powerful?
• 08 Jun. Notes: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
• 07 Jun. Turn Down The Music
• 06 Jun. Think, Wait and Fast
• 01 Jun. Going Public
• 30 May. My First Guitar
• 30 Mar. Thoughts: UNIX - History and Memoir (Book)
• 26 Mar. Dual Boot
• 14 Mar. Notes: Design for Hackers by David Kadavy
• 14 Mar. Thoughts: Design for Hackers (Book)
• 26 Feb. Notes: Habits by James Clear
• 25 Feb. Gemini Protocol
• 22 Feb. Specialisation
• 20 Feb. Living in the Present or the Future
• 17 Feb. Systems and Everything Else

2020

• 30 Dec. Thoughts: The Selfish Gene (Book)
• 20 Dec. My Music Order Arrived
• 28 Oct. My First Open Source Excursion
• 07 Oct. Stuck by Fandom for the First Time in My Life