Author: akshay
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It’s Based on Science, No Really
There are two kinds of people in the world – those who understand the meaning of the word “science” and those who don’t. This post is about the latter set of people. You know someone has no idea what they are talking about when you hear them say: “Numerology is a science” Even mathematics isn’t…
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Early Preview: telegram-pybot – A Telegram Bot based on Plugins, written in Python
We have all used and loved Yago’s telegram-bot written in Lua as an extension for Vitaly Valtman’s tg-cli for making funny Telegram bots. But Lua was keeping a lot of people away from making meaningful plugins. Alternate approaches included adding a –json flag to vysheng’s tg-cli and parsing that data or building wholly native APIs…
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[jog-journal] The Idea
They say an idle mind is devil’s workshop. A jogger’s mind is god’s workshop then. I’m waking up at 4 am since I had a sweet dream yesterday. Some goons appear outside a hostel. They beat the two securitiy guys up and ask them to go inside, take the mobile phone from every guy sleeping…
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Mozilla India Task Force Meetup – 2015
Either of Shreyas or Jafar must have invited me to the Task Force meetup, and I got to be a part of the Mozilla India Task Forces. The 2015’s task forces were formed in an event at Bangalore (Lemon Tree hotel, Ulsoor lake) over 7, 8, 9, 10 May, 2015. On 7th and 8th, it…
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Lost
Today evening viswa found a kitten outside in the drain. He brought it to hostel and I thought I’d adopt it. Later Hari went for a tea at lemon tea and found two of its siblings also. We went back to fetch them, but the auto drivers there had thrown them inside the hostel walls…
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Everyone has an Angel and Devil in Them
Last week I had (what I thought was) the rare privilege to have a conversation with Jimmy Wales, the reluctant-to-admit-so co-founder of Wikipedia. It was all a part of the #NetNeutrality campaign to save the Internet. I built a Firefox add-on called Zero Internet which would simulate what happens to a poor mother of three…
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Defending Net Neutrality
I truly believe that the Internet and the Open Web has played and will continue to play a massive role in my learning. That’s why I had started MMC MedFox Club – to spread the Internet love to more medical students. Today that Internet is about to be saved from being damaged by TRAI and…
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Internet Will Become Dramatically Useless in the Near Future, Unless What is Said in This Happens
Allow me to introduce you to “net neutrality” if you haven’t heard of it yet. Hindu had an editorial about why it is important yesterday. Net Neutrality is the concept that all data traffic on the Internet should be considered equal. There shall be no discrimination. So, say, if you pay for 1MBps Internet, your…
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Free and Open-Source Software
Imagine you discovered how to make a delicious cake. You are the only person in the world who knows how to make it. It is so tasty that you could make a fortune selling it. What would you do? If the first thought that came to your mind is to start a bakery and make…
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Cochlear Herniation of Brain
Today is a holiday. Tomorrow Kreida'15 starts. The batch organizing it seems to be enthusiastic enough to write 2k12 on every T-shirt, even that of people from other batches. Sobotta atlas of anatomy is a brilliant textbook for anatomy. I had discovered it under the caption of an image in Gray's anatomy. Used that to…