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This is Very, Very Powerful: The Guantanamo Hunger Strike’s Voice | Debug Mind
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. April 18, 2013. July 31, 2016. This is Very, Very Powerful: The Guantanamo Hunger Strike’s Voice. The New York Times recently published. A Guantanamo detainee’s account of the brutal treatment he’s received at his prison. In clear, cutting language, the Yemeni prisoner tell us of his hunger strike of the tubes thrust “up [his] nose” (and, once, “18 inches into [his] stomach”) that shovel food down his throat. And others took note, and Reddit. I don’t pretend to ...
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I really, really want to fly into space. | Debug Mind
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. April 16, 2013. July 18, 2013. I really, really want to fly into space. Update, April 24, 2013: Turns out I didn’t win. But I had fun nonetheless! If you’d be so kind as to help a boy get a wee bit closer to realizing his dreams,. Every unique click I get slightly increases the radius of my guess and makes my yearned-for spaceflight a tiny bit more likely. Thank you very kindly! And the winner gets two tickets (worth 95 grand a pop! And have posted tutorials. Maine an...
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A Small Glass Box | Debug Mind
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. August 28, 2014. July 31, 2016. A Small Glass Box. Exhibits at this unconventional museum are designed to stir your curiosity. It’s hard to resist playing with them, but of course there’s no need to almost everything is hands-on. Photo by Sara Yang. Our homemade cloud chamber consists of a small box with a lid lined with black felt. In order to nudge muons into uncloaking themselves, we douse the felt with isopropanol and heat it from above with my desk lamp. On a nos...
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The phoenix. – bake (+travel) with sonia
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Bake ( travel) with sonia. Yogi, foodie, writer, must-love-dogs. Cakes & Cupcakes. Fruit Desserts and Pies. January 1, 2015. There is a subtle freshness that arises after enduring a challenging experience. Sure, the challenge is difficult, and at times, dark, but I am talking about a bit later on, a few days the fever breaks and you can start tasting real food again, a few weeks after a loved one passes and you realize that life is now even more full of their beauty. Dengue fever took me out for two mont...
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Maine and Potatoes: Approaching Life Like Steinbeck
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. July 31, 2016. July 31, 2016. Maine and Potatoes: Approaching Life Like Steinbeck. Per my sister’s. Recommendation, I recently picked up. Of a cross-country road trip he took one summer with his beloved Poodle in tow. Steinbeck’s favorite kind of journey is a meandering one. By his own admission, he’s “going somewhere” but “doesn’t greatly care whether” he arrives. Reflecting upon a leisurely detour through Maine’s potato farms, he writes,. The individual who cannot c...
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A Breakdown of IGN’s Game Rating Distribution | Debug Mind
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. July 14, 2013. July 31, 2016. A Breakdown of IGN’s Game Rating Distribution. If you’d like to take a look at the data referenced in this post and the script I wrote to gather them, feel free to head over to my Github. But video game ratings come with problems. On a 10 point scale, what’s the difference between a 7.3 and a 7.5? Even a 7 and an 8? And why does it seem like reviewers hardly dish out scores from the bottom half of their scales? For HTML parsing. I ana...
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Shaving off Seconds: Making your Website Faster | Debug Mind
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. July 7, 2013. July 31, 2016. Shaving off Seconds: Making your Website Faster. Does your website load too slowly? Try using a content delivery network and caching static content. Read on for details and a quick-and-easy three-step guide. I’ve never been satisfied with. Now uses both CloudFlare. A content delivery network and optimizing service, and W3 Total Cache. A WordPress caching plugin. Step one: Diagnose the bottlenecks. Chrome Developer Tools can help you diagno...
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Archive | Debug Mind
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. An unfiltered archive of my blog, stretching back to 2010. Happy reading! Maine and Potatoes: Approaching Life Like Steinbeck. Gaussian Random Walks: The N-step Distribution. Learning about Learning: Educational Data Mining. Machines that Learn: Making Distributed Storage Smarter. A Small Glass Box. A Breakdown of IGN’s Game Rating Distribution. Shaving off Seconds: Making your Website Faster. Lesson Learned: Back up Your Website. Who is not me. Same Site, New Look.
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Lesson Learned: Back up Your Website | Debug Mind
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. July 3, 2013. July 31, 2016. Lesson Learned: Back up Your Website. I was careless in over two years, I never made a backup of this site. You can imagine how I felt when, two days ago, I accidentally deleted every single comment posted here. Fortunately, it turns out that Hostmonster creates courtesy backups. The comments had returned. Through (e.g.) phpMyAdmin. If you don’t already back up your website, I strongly encourage you to start. You’ll probabl...Required fiel...
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Learning about Learning: Educational Data Mining | Debug Mind
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The personal blog of Akshay Agrawal. September 16, 2015. July 31, 2016. Learning about Learning: Educational Data Mining. The Educational Data Mining Conference took place in Madrid this year. Pictured above the Retiro Pond in Buen Retiro Park. It has nothing to do with EDM. But I enjoyed the park so please enjoy the picture. No, not that kind of EDM. Educational Data Mining affectionately collapsed to EDM might sound opaque. From the society’s website, EDM is the science and practice of. Any educational...
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