How to set up your personal server for projects

How to set up a server for personal web projects.

GenAI and my six degrees of separation from tensor products

My experiences getting up and running with GenAI and views on code interpretability.

AI+Building Energy Modeling: IBPSA SimBuild 2024 Notes

Notes from attending the SimBuild conference, especially sessions on data science and modeling.

Running python on air-gapped systems

How to reproducibly run python code on a system with no internet access.

Helping fix aircraft - from NLP to Bayes Nets

NLP to help aircraft mechanics reason about maintenance actions

ChatGPT x Tennis - a weekend hacking project

Using ChatGPT as my coding assistant to help me play more tennis

Remote SSH into your home desktop

Things you’ll need: A dynamic DNS service A router A local desktop A remote computer Audience for this post: people who have used SSH before. Often times I have found myself wanting to access a computer at home while I am traveling. There are options like TeamViewer, which let me control my computer’s screen from afar. But, I want something more convenient over the command line, like SSH. That way I can drop in and out of my home machine without breaking my flow.

Escaping Echochambers

The echochamber effect is a worrisome issue in social media. It risks isolating users in exclusive groups as they repeatedly subscribe to content that reinforces their biases. To keep users engaged, websites expose users to content similar to their history. You will get recommendations for movies you may like, or peoply you may befriend, or communities you may join - all based on some measure of similarity with your profile.

Trials and Tribulations of Maintaining a Hugo Blog

As of the writing of this post, I maintain this site using my very own theme created in hugo. Hugo is a static site generator. It takes a bunch of plain text, applies a theme, and renders it as HTML. This is opposed to applications like Wordpress that assemble a page each time its served, to put it simply. This compute once, use many times approach saves on processing time and makes a site more portable.

Algorithms: Balancing

Balancing in algorithms refers to minimizing the complexity of an algorithm by making sure that its constituent parts share the load efficiently. It is not a technique for solving problems. Instead it helps us understand how an existing solution may be optimized. The theory of balancing Say there is a problem of size \(n\). The problem is such that it can be broken down into a sequence of smaller problems. There are many ways the problem can be broken down:

Optimizing static sites with hugo

According to httparchive the average size of a web page in 2016 was around 2.5MB. Now this may not seem a lot in this age where the internet is the primary media delivery platform - but it is worth noting that most web pages serve text as their primary content. Looking at the report sheds light on what constitutes an average web page: The HTML content takes up around 50-60kB. Images, understandably, make up the biggest chunk with ~1.

Is cold the new hot?

Note: This article was originally published on astroibrahim on April 17, 2013. Yes. A few days back, a friend shared an article with me. It talked of how scientists had managed to achieve temperatures below absolute zero. Does it mean that temperature has to be redefined? Has our understanding of thermodynamics been flawed for the past hundred years. No, it turns out. It is all a matter of semantics. Absolute Zero.