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    Lamps and Random Numbers

    19th June 2022 /

    💡Why are lava lamps used by a cloud company to generate #randomnumbers? Random numbers are the foundation for the encryption and security of the Internet. As software becomes smarter and ever more data is available, the (random) numbers generated can be calculated, of course with high difficulty and expense. This will be of no real concern for everyday usage for common people but certainly can keep CTOs at big tech and security services awake at night. To solve this, security engineers are turning to novel solutions from nature and the physical world. One such ‘creative’ solution being used by #Cloudflare (a CDN company which can be thought of as a…

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    Holidays and backup

    19th December 2019

    The future for Software Engineers by 2040

    29th October 2021

    Today’s special – Annoyances with apps

    2nd December 2020
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    Present in Teams in PowerPoint

    10th April 2022 /

    A #PowerPoint Tip. #MicrosoftTeams allows participant(s) to move between individual slides, while a speaker is presenting. As a speaker to enable this, you need to save your slidedeck (PPTX) in #OneDrive or #SharePoint, only then “Present in Teams” will light up in #PowerPoint. More details are at this Microsoft support page.

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    1st November 2015

    Silverlight – Search Engine Friendly by Design

    3rd July 2008

    Mix 08 Day 3 – Future of Advertising

    7th March 2008
  • Gadgets

    iPhone faceid finally works with a face mask

    30th March 2022 /

    Finally, it is here! Apple fixes iPhone’s faceid to work on faces with #mask. During the pandemic it was a pain to type a PIN everytime to unlock the phone while you were out and wearing a facemask. The new fix with iOS 15.4 doesn’t require an Apple Watch, owning one was a requirement in earlier versions. In the pictures here, notice my mask and the unlock icon (highlighted), taken with #iPhone12 Pro.

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    27th February 2015
    Venkatarangan with K10 Wireless Bluetooth Headset for Noise Free Calls

    Bluetooth Headset for noise-free calls with an ending you won’t be expecting

    24th June 2019

    Colossus: World’s first fully functioning electronic computer

    19th September 2004
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    Synthetic imagery and VQGAN+CLIP

    17th January 2022 /

    When it took social media by storm last year, I checked it out and was fascinated with how much machine learning techniques have progressed in the last ten years. I am talking about the VQGAN+CLIP, a text-to-image generation model released by Katherine Crowson as a Google Colab Notebook. Suddenly when reading an article I got reminded of this, and spend some time trying with various captions and I am sharing the images I got. VQGAN+CLIP is a text-to-image model that generates images, given a set of text prompts. The field is called synthetic imagery (“GAN Art”). Here, VQGAN is the image generator, CLIP is the “natural language steering wheel” that…

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    13th October 2008

    Mobile Apps Technology

    5th February 2016

    Surrogate piracy

    22nd October 2004
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    Redmi 10 Prime

    7th December 2021 /

    I was looking for a new phone to replace a Samsung M20 which had broken down and Samsung service was quoting a repair fee of INR 7000 – more than half of the price (INR 12,990) I had paid three years ago. Till now, my experience with Samsung mobiles has been good. My wife was having a Samsung Galaxy M31s, my sister and my son were using Samsung Galaxy M30s, and I have a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite as my second phone, which I am very happy with.  But recently, apart from the problem with this one (M20) I had heard from a friend about a motherboard problem he was…

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    15th November 2017

    Car Audio system – Pioneer FH-P6050UB

    30th August 2009

    Multiple WiFi antennas and load balancer in my home

    17th March 2014
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