The short to medium-term risks associated with holding cryptocurrencies. — Over the last 4–5 years, cryptocurrencies have seen a massive influx of so-called “retail investors”. I think a better term for most of the new entrants is “non-technical speculators”. They think of their coins as lottery tickets where they can increase their odds by entering earlier and hoping others will…

I had a weird experience last week. Someone copied 1:1 my article Reinforcement Q-Learning from Scratch in Python with OpenAI Gym and published it on multiple sites (here’s the screenshot from one of the sites) I couldn’t help but dig deeper into the author’s profile, and found a few things…

It’s been almost 3 years since I’ve been trying to develop the habit of reading, and only recently I started feeling confident enough to say that I’m a “regular” reader (for me, being regular means no longer being afraid of losing the reading habit). Throughout the last 3 years, I…

It gets me thinking whenever I come across an article or a talk from highly accomplished people relaying a message along the lines of, You can choose to be whatever you want to be. Whatever you demand from the universe, it gives it back to you. Don’t live a mediocre…

This post covers, 🚬 The extent of air pollution in metro cities (If you live anywhere in Delhi-NCR, you’re passively smoking roughly 40–50 cigarettes a day). ☠️ The consequences of air pollution (they’re way more tragic than you think). 🏠 Some myths about air pollution (hiding in your homes is…

If you’re a GSoC aspirant, then you’d have probably done your extensive research on questions like “What is GSoC?” and “How to get selected for GSoC?”. While there are tons of quality articles walking you through the DOs and DONTs of the entire GSoC journey (like How to chose an…

On this auspicious day of “Diwali”, there’s this tradition of sharing happiness by getting in touch with people you know and wish them prosperity and well being in their lives. So, this afternoon, I saw a glimpse of my Dad’s phone notification, and I saw something that caught my attention…