Every year, around this time, our department plans an outing to some place in the outskirts of Bangalore. This year, people voted for a resort called Urban Valley (check here). Google Maps labels this place as Bluemoon Retreat. I can only guess that they had undergone a rebranding exercise. You might be interested to read the 2 … [Read more…]
I kept bumping into Solanin in many automated suggestion lists (those that seemed to predict what I may like, based on my tastes). A few months ago, I decided to trust these suggestion algorithms and pick it up. In my opinion, it is a coming of age story of the protagonist, Meiko Inoue. Somebody who has read … [Read more…]
One of the caveats of running a website on a self-configured system is that the webmaster is in charge of all fail-safe, precautionary measures – not only for the data, but also for the server configuration – in case something strange happens. This is in stark contrast to the shared virtual hosting ethos where the webmaster … [Read more…]
I would like to elaborate this a bit more. Learning Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in two weeks has been tough. Prof. Ng’s Machine Learning course on Coursera explains the algorithm without getting into mathematical exposition or exposing the complexity behind the algorithms. In the end, my perseverance paid off. I managed to complete the quizzes and the programming … [Read more…]
Ready Player One is a dystopian, science fiction novel by Ernest Cline. I had picked this title up on a whim after I had read the blurb on a Goodreads list. If you call yourself a geek, and come across a text like this, how can you not resist? My connection with this book Personally, I … [Read more…]
Exchanging books related to Himalayas with Nabyendu Last Sunday, I paid a visit to Nabyendu. He had lent me Ed Viesturs’ biography earlier and I wanted to return it. (If you want to read my thoughts on that, please click here.) I had also packed another book for him. This one to be precise: Nabyendu shares … [Read more…]
I can officially declare myself as the king of punctures. Riding with strangers I had plans to do an airport loop. En route, I met a guy, Ram, on his Lynskey Titanium bike, who invited me to join him and two of his friends to Bagalur. These guys were rolling pretty nicely and were riding at … [Read more…]
Spare tube stuff After that puncture last Sunday, I repaired the tube (and posted a photo). What I didn’t realise was that the nail had done more damage than just punching one hole. Long story short, the tube was damaged beyond repair and I was out of patch kits. I had no spare tubes left. … [Read more…]
Incase you are wondering how to sing that line, you can use this song as a reference. Me and Bluehost: A history lesson About three years ago, I wanted to migrate my anime blog (Line of Flow, later merged with my personal blog) from the shared WordPress.com servers. I wanted to do so because I … [Read more…]
Ed Viesturs is a great thinker. Well, he is a great climber, too. Reading through his book, I could realise how much of a mental fortitude and clarity one needs to do tasks that are superhuman. In his case, it was climbing all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world. A few days ago, I had borrowed his … [Read more…]
