As this unusual of a year draws to a close, my mind went on a reminiscence journey. I am sure that it happens to everyone at the end of every year, but 2020 has given us much more to think about than we normally would. A year filled with lockdowns, protests, work-from-home, restrictions and so many other unusual and unexpected events that it is hard to get surprised at a lot of things now. But there was also a silver lining. We also saw immense resilience and inspiration, love, and hope.

As I tried to recollect everything that happened this…

Windows is by far the most widely used operating system in the world today. It has been consistently occupying more than 70 % of the PC Operating System market for several years (Source: Statista). And naturally so. Most people who use PCs are not developers. So they need off the shelf software and user interfaces for most purposes. Why then, would you need to use Linux Distro like Ubuntu?

If you are a developer/data scientist, you probably are already using Linux for some of its many advantages like:

• Speed — Linux is lightning fast, which is why most of the…

Once upon a while, as I walked

I stumbled across something glittering at my feet

To my astonishment, I heard a voice

As the Queen of Gems spoke:

“Oh human! I see the greed in your eye

Its unmistakable glint, you cannot deny

Unsurprising, as I am no ordinary gem

Having once adorned the most expensive diadem”

I was taken aback, but having neither greed nor pursuit, I replied

“Oh Queen of Gems, you are mistaken

For, your arrogance is what shows you greed in my eyes

I do not know what makes you so rare

I must tell you…

Have you ever wondered what makes us go through the content that we see? As a person aspiring to write more, I have pondered over this constantly and have read extensively trying to understand.

What invokes enough interest that we continue through an article, an essay or a book right until the very end?

Of course you gravitate towards topics of interest, but I couldn’t help but notice that a few authors write in such a compelling way, that you will go through the whole content, feeling a little bit wiser as compared to when you started reading. …

Lane detection and control has become a common feature in many vehicles today. Additionally it is a basic starting point for anyone going in the direction of Autonomous Driving. But for most people who are not working on autonomous driving or computer vision, starting with it might appear much more of a daunting task than it actually is.

There is a lot of technical research involved in doing actual lane detection. In this case, we see a practical perspective so that anyone interested can try it out without much hassle. …

An elegantly dressed stately gentleman announces to the New York Times about his scientific vision based on his inventions:

“It will be only necessary to carry an inexpensive instrument not bigger than a watch, which will enable its bearer to hear anywhere on sea or land for distances of thousands of miles. One may listen or transmit speech or song to the uttermost parts of the world. In the same way any kind of picture, drawing, or print can be transferred from one place to another. It will be possible to operate millions of such instruments from a single station.”

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If you are reading this then I assume that you are interested in programming or probably already a programmer. And most likely, you are also stuck home right now with a feeling of time being wasted. The days are sunny, but you cannot go outside, other than perhaps to buy groceries or toilet paper (yeah, I’m tired of the memes too!).

Looks like a better time than any to improve your skills, to do that long overdue online web development/programming/etc. course that you couldn’t before because you were doing something, uh, other things (duh! …