End of Semester 1

Semester 1 of M.Eng. at Cornell ended a couple of weeks ago and I left Ithaca feeling very happy.
Had to stop working on my Supernova app in the last month because the assignments really started pouring in. Machine Learning just kept demaning more and more time, with assignments, then prelim, then final…

“Hi, I’m Arjan and I’m from Aurangabad, India”. I’d always introduce myself without worrying too much what people thought about the latter part of the statement. ‘Its a small town near Bombay’, I would add sometimes, when the opposite party appeared clueless. I’ve never been ashamed of being from this rather…

Took mom and Armaan out to dinner at a nice wood-fired pizza place on Saturday. Pizza was really good, and a professor of Armaan’s bumped into us. He teaches Biz-Com (business computing) to Armaan, which involves learning about msft excel, templates, VBA, etc. I told…

My high school principal, Mr Dass, and high-school counsellor( also his wife) Monica maam had recently become friends of my parents. Even though I had graduated high school (after a wonderful 12 years at the same) quite a long time ago (6 years) my parents would often meet Dass sir…

I’m taking an Artificial Intelligence class that’s been teaching all kinds of search algorithms. Most of these are applied to games, but they can be extended to other real life situations also. One such algorithm is called the greedy…