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Theseus - IIT Hyderabad (11/1/26) YouTube
can't believe we got robbed on this one keys - sarthak vocals - vaibhavi and Arusha guitar - autrio and radhikesh bass- siddharth drums - Chinmay
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Theseus CBIT Sept 2025 YouTube
the first performance ever from project theseus. upon this rock we shall build an empire (sorry for bad audio quality, ts is more archival) Bass - Attharva Gogate Drums- Chinmay (me lol) Guitar - Siddharth Sinha and…
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Comms Game 2/50: pitch YouTube
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Comms game 1/50: Intro YouTube
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ef 4 YouTube
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Ef 3 YouTube
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ef 2 YouTube
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ef 1 YouTube
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guten morgen YouTube
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motiveless (fi10) My Too (Many) Cents
the google pixel 8 pro has shit battery life. i know that because that's the phone i own. a beautifully coloured cover I got the same semester I met my beautiful girlfriend. it was a reminder of colour rushing into a…
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fwa (fi 9) My Too (Many) Cents
pushing the boundaries of an art. pushing the boundaries, its a start. rhythm and tone. metered over phones. phony truths dont last long. phony truths die in songs. there's a rhythm internally. and now make it slower.…
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karma yoga (FI #8) My Too (Many) Cents
Feldenkrais. Where there is effort there is no yoga. Efficiency. Crashing waves. A slight insecurity over the truths i've accessed in the past. can truths really be forgotten? where am I now? in music. my journey with…
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qualt Midnight Hysteria
Black holes of desire. Unabashed and unashamed The slip of a nightdress From the cold hardness of a nipple A bossom that blossoms In the tender embrace of the lantern. It’s contours shaped by the fervourous labour of…
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meditative solo YouTube
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EF application video YouTube
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bag$ Midnight Hysteria
bags under your eyes Bags of cash The quiet sobbing And widened apertures You my lady have looked into the abyss more than your fair share. And I see them reflecting on to me. The wailing banshees of old. They wail and…
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A thing of Sorrow Midnight Hysteria
is incomplete forever. It’s loneliness increases It will never Pass into compassion . The very human dearth Of noble natures Of hustling hoecruxes And horrid creatures Of bodies that scream And their tanks And their…
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Hegel (Not Really) Everyday #7 My Too (Many) Cents
I took up again today my project of working through Hegel's Phenomenology that I started almost 4 years ago and my last engagement with was nearly 2 years ago:…
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An Unclaimed Terrain, a Thousand Plateaus. My Too (Many) Cents
“साहित्य समाज का दर्पण है” - Munshi Premchand In this term paper, we conceptualize caste as a specific particularity of a drive to stratification. We locate this general urge as an outcome of a phenomenological…
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The Labor and Practice of Ethics My Too (Many) Cents
(done as part of literature and the ethics of telling a story term paper 2) Introduction "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." — Alexis Carrel The word ethics derives…
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loverboi hours. Midnight Hysteria
दिल हारने के खुमार में जो डूब जाए वो कैसा आशिक? रूह-ए-सुकून की नफ़स से जिसका गला सूख जाए वो कैसा आशिक? ख्वािश-ए-ज़िंदगी के लिए जो ना आलम से लड़ जाए वो कैसा आशिक? आशिकी तो इन्किलाब-ए-खुदा है,जिसमे संसार का चिह्न रह जाए…
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घाव Midnight Hysteria
I am scared. Not of you leaving me, Or of the inevitability of life tearing us apart, But of every moment I forget the smell of your dried sweat every day I don’t see the simplistic lustre of a face glowing mundanely…
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critikal analsis My Too (Many) Cents
Ajay Navaria's Unclaimed Terrain is a harrowing account of the juxtaposition of financial mobility and social stratification. But I'll probably analyse that in a term paper sometime soon. Today, I want to talk about the…
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On Stories - Shoah, Night and Fog, Night My Too (Many) Cents
This was done as part of a term paper asking me to differentiate and make claims about the specific differences between the given holocaust media we engaged with in class. Introduction To understand how these stories…
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(die Arbeit) Midnight Hysteria
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aparigraha My Too (Many) Cents
My younger self has saved me multiple times. Every single time I decided to stay with my thoughts and emotions and digest them and understand them, it has been an act of rebellion against the superficiality of society.…
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laya Midnight Hysteria
The gentle murmur of a wardrum Matches the steady crescendo of a heartbeat The cries of a valkyrie pierce the air And tears stream down your face The golden glow of your brother Basks you in it’s radiance And bounces of…
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bukowski's bukkake My Too (Many) Cents
oh hey. you're here again. looking out of a car window. obsessively overthinking some random detail as the city lights and mundane chatter blend in with the smog into a panoramic cocktail of absolute apathy. wanting to…
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शर्मीले तालों की ताल Midnight Hysteria
Possession. A pound of flesh Is what we agreed on The first time we locked eyes my love For you to dig your fingers into my back And for me to hold your delicate warm breaths in front of mine For me to cherish your…
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feelingmyself Midnight Hysteria
This one’s a little crazy gng So let me get underneath my sheets My left hand goes to sleep And my sinus is a G.O.A.T’s bleat A Muslim goat that got massacred Muhammed Ali I be feeling myself, I be feeling myself…
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sirens. Midnight Hysteria
Hope,My favorite ropeTo hang myself with. A drunk exAnd a night of intense desireWhere might it lead?Curiosity kills the cat. A cute face,A deep conversationThe purity in her eyesThe purity of her skin. I am a bitch,For…
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queer foundations for masculinity My Too (Many) Cents
what happens to a thought deferred? does it fester and explode? I have been coming to accept my creed as a writer slightly more through my practice of writing to understand myself everyday. I'm only up to 87 out of…
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hysteria (midnight) My Too (Many) Cents
Welcome to Midnight Hysteria. Not my Poetry blog but rather the feeling, or the state of frenzy it was meant to express. There's a restlessness that resides within me. It is a feeling I felt again today after a long…
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Avenged Sevenfold. My Too (Many) Cents
I was trying to draw a deathbat from Hail to the King when your subtle remark reminded me that my sense of view had been twisted and my eyes had been deceived. Why was it that I had not been able to see a simple…
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all one. My Too (Many) Cents
I set aside my phone and close all the tabs that dig the fingers of distraction into my skull. I have a rough idea of what I want to write about, a stew of thoughts that has been churning in my head for the past couple…
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leaves of un-grass My Too (Many) Cents
I could not turn and live with animals. I see a dog sleeping on the ground, the weight of his body pushing into the gravel on the road. A warm monsoon breeze floats on the air, and a replete smile dons his face as he…
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hi, life My Too (Many) Cents
hi life, I don't think we've met before. I am. None of those qualifications that I add to the phrase after that. I'm just me, a bundle of memories tasting your lapping waves against the shores of my mind for the first…
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strong, independent(?) My Too (Many) Cents
A cold hard smack. And I landed right on the ground. I grumbled and turned to look upwards into the expanse of the night. Or what I could see of it trapped within a concrete cage. There was a rememberance of a dream…
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दाग अच्छे हैं My Too (Many) Cents
An aphorism is the most pretentious form of writing. Except for every other form. There is a certain rhythm to the internal tone with which a paragraph is written. A sense of song and improvisation as these words leave…
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on Change - Bojack Horseman and Friends from College My Too (Many) Cents
as I walked back from my lab after another late night Netflix binge, the humid breeze lapped against my skin doing no justice to the storm brewing within. When I walked past the lights and chatter of the people around…
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on 'Society and the Individual' by E.H.Carr My Too (Many) Cents
This is my attempt to understand EH Carr's Chapter on 'The society and the individual' by articulating my thoughts about it. There are mainly two arguments that the chapter seeks to make. The first is whether the…
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on 'What is History' by E.H. Carr My Too (Many) Cents
I have been assigned the reading 'What is History' by EH Carr. This is my interpretation of the first chapter as I attempt to make sense of it in my head. The chapter is arranged quite similarly to a dialectical…
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anima. My Too (Many) Cents
The kids played by the river. For that is how they had grown. The wisp bearded guru watched in stoic solitude with his legs crossed, as the seasons passed. He watched as the boys grew up; From scratching their knees as…
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माया My Too (Many) Cents
Each word I write is a prayer of gratitude to that which comes through me. It is only with this evocation that I may begin writing in the earnest. I am a child of the ancient east, a land rooted in such spiritual depth…
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divergence. My Too (Many) Cents
A whispered prayer escaped the dream of an artist's most sleepless night. It asked god in a sincere manner whether it would be allowed to piece together a necklace of words for its own amusement today. The innocent…
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notes on creativity My Too (Many) Cents
My drum teacher once told me that every great musician stops hearing the sound of others music after a point in their career. They no longer look at others engagement with their instrument with greedy eyes that try to…
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halo My Too (Many) Cents
Humans are beings born of thunder. Stolen from mother nature in her throes. Each of us has a grand potential. A message in a glass bottle, a prayer cast out into the chaos of the universe. Sincerity is the bedrock of…
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clothes for a king My Too (Many) Cents
The reluctant prince must learn to use the scepter. The flourish of magnificence is the beginning of the end. Power flows and multiplies uncontrollably The applause, the praise, the cheer the money. Yet the deafening…
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Song of the Free My Too (Many) Cents
Terrence Tao said in one of his interviews that sometimes some problems are just not solvable within one lifetime. Because of being born at the wrong time, your attempt to look at the problem is like trying to climb the…
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A day I remember well. My Too (Many) Cents
Those books do not interest me which are not written in the author's blood and tears The carefree bounce of the sunlight from the leaves of a tree. The child's carefree singing as he skips along a path laden with autumn…
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Abstraction and Complexity My Too (Many) Cents
Beauty is life itself. Here I attempt to describe what I find beautiful within the intellectual landscape in which I exist. Abstraction is a key idea in computer science. Each piece of the technology we use has…
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Mastery My Too (Many) Cents
Advertisment and Propaganda thrives on humans insistence that there is something that needs to be "fixed" about themselves. The conditioning creates the tendency to remain trapped in problems, and most solutions offered…
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live smart. My Too (Many) Cents
The human is engaged in a battle everyday. A battle between the magnificence of his being and the finitude of his existence. He does not realise this. With all his movements through life, he is sloppy and inefficient.…
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Caskets of Mud My Too (Many) Cents
In the bustle of the everyday, when we adorn our masks and present confidently, callously in the world around us, we forget that people are not strong. Life is never strong, never hard. It's a subtle magic that works…
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Going back My Too (Many) Cents
A human can only channel what he possesses. For a beginner to expect world class performance of himself is inauthentic. A judgement free watching of the seed of our potentials is all we can offer to life. All the while…
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Modularity Maximization rhizoMorphic
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Laplace Eigenmaps rhizoMorphic
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Specialization My Too (Many) Cents
Wherever pure awareness touches, it creates abundance; In solving problems we uncover deep connections to areas of knowledge we would have thought never existed. It furnishes the collective psyche. The collective psyche…
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Negentropy My Too (Many) Cents
At the end of the day, you are a being born of light. How you live, how you spend each day is a reflection of this. There is a subtle magic that comes as we become aware of things. With our bodies, we start to notice…
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gordian knot My Too (Many) Cents
Suffering is a gordian knot. The one who is suffering is caught, in a spiderweb of silky steel. Each proverbial struggle only tightens the noose around their neck. The light of reason can slash through it in an instant,…
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Mistborn and Human Potential. My Too (Many) Cents
One of my favourite authors when I avidly read fantasy was Brandon Sanderson. His world building and pacing was something that always kept me on the edge of the page while reading through the first few books of the…
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Words. My Too (Many) Cents
Impermanence is the nature of all things. This is not a platitude or something that merely meant to sound deep. This is a fundamental truth of life. It is love that gives us a temporary relief against the great tragedy…
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FI #7 My Too (Many) Cents
This is me attempting to have a rational conversation with myself about something that I struggle with, because no one else in the world will really fully understand my experience. At the end of the day, this is still…
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truth My Too (Many) Cents
The pure sincerity of revolution. The fire in the revolutionary's eyes. The steadfastness of his being. That is the essence of truth. In trying to express that through a framework, a need for others to understand…
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Bullshit My Too (Many) Cents
The child gleefully laughed as his parents pretended to be weak and playfight with him. In the childish innocence of the fantasies the group had weaved together, he found reprieve from a world that was already growing…
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Variational Bayes rhizoMorphic
Recently I came across Variational Bayes which is a very powerful technique in bayesian inference. The idea is that we want to find out a posterior using bayes theorem. Formulating the problem: Z , X Z, X Z , X are in…
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Journey. My Too (Many) Cents
Another late night, spent alone in a lab. Another sleepy evening spent grinding iron, and kicking against the cobalt. Another average day spent sleepwalking through class. Another deadline forcing my brain to move from…
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Limits of Thought My Too (Many) Cents
The limits of thought is a series of conversations between Jiddu Krishnamurti and David Bohm. I remember being fascinated by this book two years ago, which made me stay up all night trying my hardest to grasp at the…
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Romanticizing the Rogue My Too (Many) Cents
The archetype of a rogue, a subtle, dandy mysterious thief - moving through life with a certain poise and lightness is what I wish to talk about here. This is a selfish excercise in the exposition of beauty I see. Life…
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random thoughts. My Too (Many) Cents
The only question that matters in my life is understanding the mystery and wonder of consciousness. Over the past few years, everything that I have learnt and experienced has been in the background of this question. I…
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Freedom is within grasp My Too (Many) Cents
Wherever you might be in life, there are a lot of things that are being thrown at you. But what you can realise is that a lot of it is really garbage. Societal expectations, projections, judgements. Your own…
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Creativity, Sex, Metalearning (FI #6) My Too (Many) Cents
The best way to learn something is to create something with it. Every interaction in life is an oppurtunity to learn. I have let these thoughts ruminate in my head for way to long, I wonder if they have gotten stale in…
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Apathetic My Too (Many) Cents
Why are there aspects of my life in which I continue to be apathetic and indifferent? I know that movement is life and stagnation is death, not as an intellectual observation, but as a fact. Then what is it that allows…
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Dialogic Exploration (FI#5) My Too (Many) Cents
What is the relation between collective knowledge and personal ingenuity? In a recent interview Ido Portal said that there is immense power in collective knowledge. A fighter could train by himself in perfection for 20…
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IPA, Optimality and Evolutionary linguistics rhizoMorphic
In this week’s Theory Thursday we covered the IPA chart, the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis and Optimality Theory. I learnt about how modern linguistics analyses language. Meaning(Content) Discourse Pragmatics Semantics Form…
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Nim, Sprague Grundy and the XOR group rhizoMorphic
This week in Theory Thursday we covered the Nim game. Nim is basically what all impartial games are reducible to. Impartial games are those where both parties have perfect information about what moves the other player…
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Axiom Futures AI Safety Week 6 rhizoMorphic
Intro Understanding larger neural networks in terms of functional circuits and their relations RLHF and Scalable oversight are not enough to deal with issues like deceptive of sycophantic behaviour If we can understand…
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Axiom Futures AI Safety Course Week 4 notes rhizoMorphic
collecting human feedback, fitting a reward model, and optimizing the policy with RL.
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Neuromatch Academy Week 1 Day 2 rhizoMorphic
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Neuromatch Academy Week 1 Day 1 rhizoMorphic
1. Tutorial 1 Konrad Kording What model: Description of Data - No promises about meaning How Model: Mechanistic Understanding. Why Model: Which things matter, what’s optimized ecologically or evolutionarily Steinmetz…
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Axiom Futures Week 3 Notes rhizoMorphic
AI Safety Remastered video what’s the most important problem in your field? Why are you not working on that? Problem of AI safety: Sooner or later, build an artificial agent with General Intelligence. Agent: Has goals…
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Git Internals 1: Blobs, Trees, Commits rhizoMorphic
I’ve been using git for a good amount of time but haven’t gotten really good at it. I think that learning how things work under the hood often helps me use them better which is why I’m attempting to learn git better.…
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Git Internals 2: Initialize new directory with plumbing commands rhizoMorphic
In the previous post I went over the internal workings of git commands. In this post we initialize a new git repository only using linux utilities and git plumbing commands. What are plumbing commands: In an analogy…
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Axiom Futures AI Safety Week 2 rhizoMorphic
Why are people building AI systems article article Automating tasks McKinsey estimate of 0.1 to 0.6% growth rate in productivity (!?) which leads to a value addition of $2.6 to 4.4 Trillion dollars. this is a disputed…
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Axiom Futures AI Safety Week 1 Notes rhizoMorphic
1. Neural Network and Gradient Descent Basics Videos videos: video1 video2 Later Layers capture bigger patterns in data. Everything is just weighted sums and activation functions. Activation function = measure of how…
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Economic Principles, Politics and Statistical Physics Emergence Premium
The week of 12th to 19th May '24
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Natural Isomorphisms in Vector Spaces rhizoMorphic
Anyone taking an introductory course on linear algebra has probably seen the statement “There is a natural isomorphism between a vector space and its double dual” In some sense we realise that it makes sense. But what…
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Random Walks and the Riemann Zeta Function rhizoMorphic
In this week’s meeting of theory thursday, we discussed random walks in higher dimensions. Specifically the statement that a drunk human can return back to where they started from but a drunk bird can’t. This is related…
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Consistency. Emergence Premium
I planned to be consistent with this letter but recently I haven’t been writing at all even though the ideas I had to write about have been piling up.
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Small Subgroup Confinement Attack rhizoMorphic
This is a neat number theory problem I came across while discussing the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange in this week’s meeting of the Theory Group of my college. The idea of the protocol is that we choose a generator g and…
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Creativity, Chaos Theory and The Psychology of Selling Emergence Premium
The Week of 4th Dec to 10th Dec 2023
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Pranic Breathing, Status Games and Learner Psychology Emergence Premium
The week of 27th Nov to 3rd Dec 2023
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Eigenfunctions of the Position Operator rhizoMorphic
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A Cool Problem on Chernoff Bounds and Moment Generating Functions rhizoMorphic
Here is a cool problem that I had in one of the problem sets for my Probability and Random Processes course. Let ( X 1 , X 2 , … , X n ) (X_1, X_2, \ldots, X_n) ( X 1 , X 2 , … , X n ) be independent random…
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Free Energy and Active Inference Part 2: Perception Action Coupling rhizoMorphic
Hello everyone, welcome to the second post where I will discuss Perception and Action Coupling in Karl Friston’s Model of Free Energy. The idea here is pretty simple. From the Markov Blankets described in the previous…
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Algebras rhizoMorphic
Hello everyone, today I would like to talk about Algebras which have a simple definition but are still very beautiful to me. This is possibly part of a series where I build up to Lie groups, or other exotic mathematical…
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Free Energy and Active Inference Part 1: Markov Blankets rhizoMorphic
Hello everyone, this is going to be a series of posts building up to Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle. All of this came about as a result of me reading a paper on the free energy principle being applied to…
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Fock Spaces Part 1: Tensor Products rhizoMorphic
Hello everyone, today I would like to talk a series of posts building up to Fock Spaces, which came up while we were discussing identical particles in my Introductory Quantum Mechanics Class. The idea behind Fock Spaces…
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C* and W* Algebras rhizoMorphic
I recently came across C and W algebras which are basically just formalizations of the spaces we do quantum mechanics in. Formally, we start with the following: Definition: A C ∗ C^* C ∗ algebra is a (complex) banach…
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The Folly of Self Improvement and The Burnout Society Emergence Premium
The week of 19th to 26th August