Astronomy vs Astrophysics vs Cosmology
What is the difference between astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology? The intention and scale of interest.
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Snippets
Why is the sky not violet?
If you have seen Veritasium’s latest video ‘The world in UV’, you would know that the sky gets it colour due to Rayleigh scattering. If you have not seen it ...
How did Newton define the ray of light?
Newton’s book Opticks is probably the first piece of literature to propose that light is not continuous. And this (closely) is his argument in the very secon...
Lines in spherical geometry
Spherical geometry : A type of non-Euclidean geometry which forms a surface (2 dimensions) of a sphere (obviously 😉 )
My Explorations
Explorations #2
Welcome back, Curious minds!
Explorations #1
Hey, Curious minds!
Learn Quantum Programming
Learn Quantum Programming #1
In case you didn’t notice, this is a part of a journal series describing my experiences learning Quantum Programming. If you have no idea what quantum comput...
Learning Quantum Programming: The Beginning
Quantum Computers has been a buzzword lately. Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica believes that it is one of the 4 biggest revolutions ...
TIF
Introduction to Psychology by Paul Bloom
Learning the basics of psychology from Paul Bloom (Yale) teaches a lot about our behavior and hints on how to change it.
The Most Dangerous Writing App
A web app with the motto “Don’t stop typing, or all progress will be lost.”
Astro
Astronomy vs Astrophysics vs Cosmology
What is the difference between astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology? The intention and scale of interest.
Research
Copy images from research papers - Wisely!
It is not very rare that you want to use/copy an image from a research paper. The easiest way is to just take a screenshot and crop accordingly. But that is ...
Tools
Copy images from research papers - Wisely!
It is not very rare that you want to use/copy an image from a research paper. The easiest way is to just take a screenshot and crop accordingly. But that is ...
Book Review
The Rosie Project
A spoiler free review of The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.
Learning French
Ah! I was really too dumb!
Learning useful French phrases and how to say ‘used to be’ from an Opéra.