Chronicles of Nikhil Baliga

Swami Gulagulaananda quoted Abraham Lincoln: " Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe " Europe is a dream destination for many travel enthusiasts. Having read about the intricate work of Michaelangelo, the grandeur of the Vatican, the glorious Roman empire as well as of relatively modern periods of the Nazi era, I thought that a visit to Europe may be a great idea. I am not a travel expert, but I will try to walk through some of the things that I did in order to make my entire trip hassle-free. Spend time to prepare well and the trip will go through smoothly. There are a couple of ways to plan your trip. One, is through package tours with a travel agency like Kesari Travels, Thomas Cook, etc. and the other is to plan your entire trip yourself. Booking through travel agencies has several advantages. You don't have many headaches. The agency takes care of everything, including stay, food and point to po...

Swami Gulagulaananda said: " There are always problems associated with scale... especially when my weight doesn't seem to reduce " Scalability has been a popular buzz word for some time and with the increasing use of the internet, social media and machine learning, data collections and performing operations at scale has become very important. But scale isn't something that is necessarily confined to the realm of technology. In this post, let's have a look at how solutions that work for some problems don't work at scale. A long time ago, I came across a fascinating website called Project Euler . Project Euler presented us with a series of mathematical problems of increasing difficulty and the objective is solve them under a minute using a computer program. The first few could be as simple as sum of the first 100 numbers or sum of first 50 even numbers which were quite easy to solve for even novice programmers. Most engineering students might remember thes...