2016

HackNSIT is a 24 hour hackathon that took place at Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, and had around 150 participants from all over India. The themes of the hackathon were diverse and we chose to build an app that can solve the problem of tracking the nutritional value of whatever you eat with just a simple snap. The app processes the image of a food item, retrieves nutritional content and also suggests recipes based on your daily calorie limit/goal.

BLIP is a naive solution for effective tracking of assets in indoor spaces, where satellite (GPS) based positioning systems are unreliable, and provide location based contextual services. This project was made at IndiaHacks: Internet Of Things Hackathon at SAP Labs, Gurgaon. It was an overnight hackathon and Paul and I were awake till the last moments and only slept after creating a small demo video. We were inspired by the The Time Machine (2002) movie’s scene where the protagonist enters a museum in the future.

Unable to think what to tweet about? Have you ever faced a similar situation? Well, it’s very easy to create your own bots using python’s Tweepy module. You can use these skeletons I recently made for a workshop on the same topic. All you need to make your own bot is add some logic to these skeletons. This is a basic static script that you can use by running once yourself or setup a cronjob to run automaticaly in intervals.

It is not always true what you might be told about floating point numbers, always better to look for things in the manual or on the internet Black Hat was lying to the ACM team. e^π – π, which is around 19.999099979 is very close to 20. Many people forget that floating point numbers are approximations, otherwise infinite space would be needed to store such numbers. He made them believe that it is “close enough to 20 that the computer should be unable to tell the difference, and that any noticeable deviation from 20 results from errors in the code”.

It’s often a pain to make presenations. How many times have you just wanted to make a simple presentation but have had to deal with bulky software like MS Office? Well markdown alternatives exist for presenations also, you can focus on your content and make your presentations simply in markdown. If you don’t know what markdown is you can see this wonderful cheatsheet and get acquainted with it in seconds.