I started watching Prof. Naveen Garg's Data structures & algo lectures in the final year of my undergraduate. I can confidently say that it changed the trajectory of my career. I hope this won't happen, especially given the variance in quality of education in our country.

Periodic reminder:

My coffee to me

AI art as a coping mechanism.

Writing be like...

An example of a set of measure zero.

Discovered a new hobby. Not based on true events :)

I have magical abilities though...

Image credits: Gemini and ChatGPT

However, the iterative version eventually works!

Love seeing Naomi Osaka honor the CLRS Algorithms textbook at this year's Met Gala

This is how the green cover in Bangalore reduced over the years.

The city is baking .

When you were doing an undergrad, you wanted to do a masters. When you did a masters, you wanted to do a PhD. Now you’re doing a PhD, you want to be a cat.

Bloom season🌸🍃

#IIScframes #Blossoms

📸 Sandeep Soman

GPT-6 will have the intelligence to open a bakery instead of doing a PhD

aka Downloading papers you will never read, but for the joy of knowing they're there 🥲

my goals

Since Studio Ghibli is trending, worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film.

Each has 60k-70k frames, all hand-drawn and painted with water color.

This 4-second clip (“The Wind Rises”) took one animator 15 months to do.

In the documentary yazaki”, the legendary Japanese filmmaker talks to one of his animators (Eiji Yamamori) after they complete the crowd scene.

The exchange is gold:

▫️Miyazaki: “Good job.”
▫️Yamamori: “It’s so short, though”
▫️Miyazaki: “But it was worth it.”

The animator gets a second of joy (he’s pumped) but on to the next.

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Link to doc: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/sh…