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I’m currently a Graduate Research Assistant at the LAINE Laboratories of Vanderbilt University, where I also study as a CS PhD Student. I did both my Masters in Computer Science and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Pulchowk Engineering Campus, Nepal.
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You could have invented PageRank
Picture this, the year is 1996. You find yourself frustrated with the incumbent search engines like AltaVista, which primarily does a content-based search (it'll give you an article on "Hotels for Chickens" if you search "Hotels" because the word matches)
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Do you understand what I'm saying?
Edward Teller once said, "Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals…" He added that he sometimes wondered whether von Neumann used the same principle when speaking to everyone else. That is
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The democratization of education.
I had this interesting debate with my wife on what the future of education might look like as we navigate forth in this information age. We've seen the internet democratize many traditionally monolithic institutions. Radio programs of the yore are now pod
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Solving the Nerd-Sniping Problem: When Electronics meets Heat!
I recently stumbled upon this exciting problem from XKCD, aptly named as the Nerd-Sniping Problem: True to its name, it successfully managed to derail me from whatever it was that I was doing. The problem itself is quite curious, we have to find resistanc
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100 pages vs 11 words.
How difficult is it to find a solution for something like this: "Mary baked some breads. For each bread, she boiled the same (as the bread) number of eggs. For each egg, she made the same (as the bread) number of pickles. If the total number of food items
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