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Random Ideas with Potential

I realised that I get a lot of random ideas that I think are potentially good as I read more blogs and watch more videos. Making a list of them here so that I can come back to them later and work o...

Personal Recommedations

My list of personal favourties of anything and everything at one place. These are highly curated channels and blogs which I have been following regularly for more than half a year. And also so that...

Distributed Consensus: Where is it used?

Raft etcd ( Refer ) MongoDB ( Refer ) - Uses a variant of Raft. Instead of Raft’s original push based mechanism where Master pushed logs to Followers, MongoDB uses a pull based mechanism. (I w...

Social Influence Dialogue Systems

I had the chance to present a paper in Stony Brook University’s CS Department’s NLP Reading Group. I chose the paper - Social Influence Dialogue Systems: A Survey of Datasets and Models For Social ...

Distributed Systems Papers & Resources

This is a list of some great Distributed Systems papers that I have already read and found super interesting. When I say interesting, I mean they are well written, introduces an interesting new ide...

LLMs for hiring (short idea)

Motivation The motivation for this is, unfortunately, rather a frustrating one. I am currently a grad student looking out for full-time opportunities. Having applied to countless applications for m...

The fantastic engineering of code editors

Motivation In my 6 months of internship at Crio.Do, I was responsible for building a code editor from scratch and we would let our learners build the backend of it. Hence, I wasn’t able to use any ...

The Art of Frontend Engineering

Summary: With my 3 years of experience in the world of frontend with ReactJS, these is an exhuastive list of practices that I have found to be useful in my day to day work. This is a living documen...

Let's talk about duplication on social media

Motivation Ok, so I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. I’ve been seeing a lot of duplicate images on social media. I’m not talking about reposts, I’m talking about the same image being po...

The Carbon Footprint of Emails

Motivation So the motivation of this idea comes from thousands and thousands of CVE (vulnerability report) emails flooding my work mail inbox almost everyday just because the ACLs (access control ...