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An archive, oldest at the bottom.

2016

Normalization, Standardization and Rescaling

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This is copy/paste of an interesting FAQ from faqs.org, I really loved reading the article and thought of reposting the same in a better formatted manner for readability. Courtsey: ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html…

2015

Zinda ho tum !

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One of the Bollywood movies which I always loved watching has been ZNMD, here is a collection of shayari recited by Farhan Akthar (Imran) in ZNMD. A compiled version from Souncloud. Apne Hone Par Mujhko Yaqeen Aa Gaya…

Ponmudi - 2

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If you happen to be in trivandrum with a bike and you loves to ride, Ponmudi is one place that should go. Sharing some photos taken by Saurab Devanandan during the trip. The Ponmudi ! Bullets :) Me the posing Nabeel the…

Data science and unix command line

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Note : This article applies only to those who code. I have seen many strugling with MS Excel trying to figure out data in a large csv file, I don't blame them beacause most people I have met ignore standard unix command…

2014

Ponmudi

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The five photos in this post originally came from Instagram embeds; the source posts are no longer available, so the iframes are commented out below pending a re-upload to another image host. The captions remain.…

Deep C, understand the language before you write code.

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I came across a slide which explains why is it hard to program in C/C++ programming language when you don't have a proper understanidng of the same. Here is slide which demonostrates why a proper understanding of…

A dictionary in your terminal

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Owning to my poor vocabulary I had to look up for meanings every now and then, the following script gets you the meaning for any word from dictionary.com using bash. A bash script dictionary A function to pronounce a…

2013

Installing Minix 3 using VirtualBox in Linux

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This article will help you in setting up Minix 3 using VirtualBox on a Linux Host for development and enabling ssh connection between Minix and host Linux machine. But why, but why?? Minix is a micro kernel, unlike…

Useful bashrc functions

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I'm going to share some of my bashrc functions which saves me a lot of time. Killer This function helps you find a process using a keyword and to kill it, you don't have to use ps aux along with grep and then kill the…

Configuring to Fedora 17 Local Mirror of NITC

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This will help you to configure your system to download packages from NITC fosscell fedora mirror. Login as root in your system and use the following command to create a file inside the folder Copy and paste the…

Offline mirror a website using wget

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Use the following wget command to mirror a website -m mirrors the entire website -k converts all links to suitable web viewing. -p downloads all required files like that of the css, js ... -b wget will run in background…

Battery information inside terminal

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If you want to know your battery details in terminal use upower and create an alias to it. This is helpful hack if you want to trigger events on low battery or if you are someone who uses really light desktop managers…

Welcome to Jekyll

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I always wanted a clean and simple interface for my blog, I used to blog on blogger with an ugly theme. If you are yet to use Jkeyll, I would recommend you to use it along with Github Pages. ---

Permanently adjust screen brightness in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

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This details a fix to reset the screen brightness in Ubuntu / Linux Mint during each boot. This idea will work only if you have a file named brightness in the folder and the hack is relevant for the Ubuntu (version <…