Hey there! Thanks for visiting my blog! I am an Emergency Medicine doctor based in London. Alongside this, I am a self-taught Software Developer. I am an M.B.B.S. graduate from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. I am also a multi-instrumentalist musician and a music composer. I…

AGI is coming faster than we think it to be. The simple reason is that we are riding on an exponential technological growth curve. Humans think linearly and this is the reason that it will hit us in the face quicker and harder than we imagine. But, it still won’t…

1. WeakMaps WeakMaps are stores of key-value pairs, where keys are objects and values are of any arbitrary JavaScript type. A WeakMap’s keys are weakly referenced. This makes sure that if there are no other references to the key object, it can be garbage-collected. Confused? Let’s understand this better. In JavaScript, memory…

1. find vs. locate Both commands are used to search for a file on your computer. find performs real-time searches for files and directories in a specified directory and its subdirectories. locate is used to perform a search as well but it is extremely fast because it relies on a pre-built database or index…

I dropped out of Keto 2 days ago after a stretch of 8 continuous months. The reason? Was it destroying my kidneys/ increasing my cholesterol levels to give me an instant heart attack/ making me weak to my bones/ making me intolerant to the air I breathe? …

Feynman was always a part of my high school Physics books. But for those who are new to him, he was a Nobel laureate who pushed forward what humanity can do, through his exceptional work in the field of Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Electrodynamics. It wasn’t until the day I…

Imagine waking up, turning on your computer and finding a set of mysterious puzzles waiting for you to solve. Sounds exciting (or is it scary)? Here’s such a story that shook the internet. It is called Cicada 3301, one of the most elaborate and mysterious puzzles of the internet age. …

Let’s learn the different ways in which software developers can store passwords in a database. Btw, the method shown in the photo above is not recommended at all. That’s Level 0. Level 1: Storing In Plain Text With this, passwords are stored in the database exactly as they are entered by the user. This method is…

Let’s learn about the 5 laws that web developers can utilize to create highly lucrative user interfaces! 1. Miller’s Law “The average person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.” This law is based on the cognitive psychology fact that the…