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How to be a Good Software Developer

Yesterday I spoke to students of NPTEL. The topic was “How to be a Good Software Developer”. It’s more like my advice to my younger self. The talk went on quite well except for few internet glitches. It was also special we because I was part of NPTEL’s engineering team at Google. I...

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DataMeet’s COVID-19 India Datasets

DataMeet community has been doing some amazing work in collecting, cleaning and organizing COVID-19 datasets. The focus in on Indian datasets. The data is mainly sourced from different government websites which are freely available to all the Indians. I recorded a video introducing these datasets. In the video we will go through each...

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Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020 – Updates

Note: I have not figured out yet. I will update with a new blog once I am sure. – May 20, 2020 Usually I announce the results on April 14. This year it won’t happen. When I announced it in Jan 2020 world was a different place. Today world is a different place....

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echo “I am echo and I am here”

He is here. He was supposed to come home next month. Thanks to Corona Virus our travel got cancelled. We are mostly working from home. So why wait? He is five six or seven. Super friendly. We adopted him from CUPA, Second Chance. That’s all for now. TTYL

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Novel Corona Virus (COVID19) : Archive and API of India Data

I have been archiving Novel Corona Virus #Covid19 data published by Ministry of Health and Family Affairs (mohfw) for last few days. This archival will give us access to historical data which mohfw doesn’t publish. All data is on Github. There is an API too if you are interested.

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Android Kunjappan, Alexa and Loneliness

Note: Spoilers Subramanian (Soubin Shahir) lives with his father Bhaskaran in a small village in Kerala. Subramanian is a smart mechanical engineer. He wants to get out of his village to work like most educated Malayalees. His father Bhaskaran is a stubborn man, He won’t let his son go out (village) to work....