Reflecting on the year ahead — “As the final pages of this year’s diary are filled with memories both vibrant and fleeting, I am reminded of a tranquil autumn sunset. The sky, a canvas of warm oranges, pinks, and purples, as if painted by the masterful brush of Makoto Shinkai himself. Each memory, like a leaf…

A quick revision of some useful commands Things can look confusing for first-time users but trust me, the more you use these commands, the more seamless and easy it gets. It’s just like multiplication tables. Creating your first repo and the first branch can feel intimidating, and you may wonder…

How does it do? — While ChatGPT is impressive, it looks like it doesn’t give correct answers easily to complex problems. I tried solving the first 10 Leetcode hard problems (tagged under top interview questions) using ChatGPT to verify the same. You can find the problems here: Problem Set. Some of these include famous problems…

How well does it do? — For this experiment, I will be giving prompts to ChatGPT based on the Leetcode questions asked in Weekly Contest 321 (which was chosen randomly). I will read the problem statements on Leetcode and present them to ChatGPT. …

Can it do it? — Here’s a case I picked from a Harvard Case Competition conducted in 2022: “You are a buy-side analyst working at IFSA Network. Given your team’s successful track record and skills, your Managing Director asked for a meeting. …

Serverless applications are “functions” that you can set up without worrying about boring stuff like servers and infrastructure. For example, let’s say you want to create a weather forecast app. In the magical kingdom of serverless, you can create a “weather forecast function” that automatically pulls the latest weather data…

An exhaustive list of ideas 💡 — Note- This article contextualizes what you can do while staying in India instead of pursuing an Indian MBA. The main focus of this article is about what you can do AFTER you have decided that you don’t want an MBA. There could be various personal, financial, and merit reasons for…

How can we use Stable Diffusion? — Stable Diffusion has undoubtedly taken the world of art and images by storm. This article explores a few ways to create good prompts for these kinds of AI models. All the prompts mentioned below are input to a stable diffusion text-to-image generation AI model run using the hugging face implementation…

Some debatable reflections — It’s been 3 years since graduation 🎓 Time to reflect on how things have been and what’s ahead wrt careers. As with all my diary entries, this is my take, applicable to me and me alone. …