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Investing in the Stock Market: A Scientist's View
Introduction Growing up in an Indian family, I had very little exposure to discussion and information about the stock market. People in India are generally less likely to invest in the stock market. Many view investments with suspicion. Indeed, most estimates put the percentage of the population that invest in stocks at 2-5% of the country’s total population [5, 6]. Unsurprisingly, investments were never really a topic of conversation in my home or in school growing up.
Building a Simple Telegram Bot Using Google Cloud Functions
Many websites use bots to automate tasks and add useful (and sometimes harmful) functionality. For instance, there are reddit bots that can help you stabilize shaky videos, remind you of events or even vote on the usefulness of other bots. Telegram - an instant messaging service similar to WhatsApp - lets you create and manage bots on their platform using their Bot API. Bots on Telegram are officially identified and provide fun and useful services.
Cartpole Dynamics and Control
Introduction As is the case for a lot of PhDs, my main work focuses on a small part of robotics. There are many areas of robotics that I would love to work on but do not. As part of my ongoing effort to learn more about these areas, I work on accessible problems that interest me. One area of robotics that fascinates me is that of rigid body dynamics and control.
Learning Haskell Through Google Code Jam
Introduction Over the last year or so, I’ve been playing around with functional programming. As the first few lines of the Wikipedia page suggest, functional programming is all about expressing a computation or algorithm as the composition of functions rather than using a state that changes over time. From what I’ve understood so far, functional programming is based on lambda calculus which is an alternative but equivalent formulation of the famous Turing Machine that most modern computers are based on.