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Programming "The Economy Computer"

07 May, 2021

Human beings have been programming for millennia. If you do anything without thinking, the programming in your brain is doing the work. Genes program the physiological computers that are our bodies. …

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Past Essays

A Case Against Social Media Pessimism

02 April, 2021

Problems are inevitable, problems are soluble. This is the shiny dime of David Deutch's work at The Beginning of Infinity. Besides the pandemic's current problem, there is another epidemic that is lo…

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Internet, Social Media and The Individual

19 September, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic has proliferated and as we have come to terms with it, the Internet became the heartbeat of our world. It has already become ubiquitous in our lives but the pandemic has forc…

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Abstraction

11 July, 2020

A variable is an abstraction. In maths, it could represent an unknown, a to be calculated entity or a changing quantity. In programming, it could represent a number, a character/string, a function, a…

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Internet and Micro-Celebrities

04 July, 2020

If you have been reading between the lines of the internet lately, quite several people from the cinema industry are landing up on Youtube and have started posting content in the form of vlogs. This …

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Indian Problems need Indian Solutions

17 March, 2020

If only one thing can be said about India in the past decade, it's that the last decade was the decade of startups. India is navigating through a startup boom and the pace is only going to increase i…

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The Misery of Bad Software

07 March, 2020

You can revert code to a previous state but you can't revert the decisions that have gone by in writing it. It's 2020 and we are still producing bad software. Almost 70 years have gone by since the d…

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