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Some interesting music I discovered using Shazam & Youtube Music Radio

Part 0 Part 1 Part 2 We stir the data-pile a bit more this time around. We start with the question - does a certain portion of the population avoid inauspicious days through appropriately chosen C-Section slots? I did some digging and it’s pretty hard to map out all the inauspicious times over 2012-15. In any case we don’t...

Story so far: Part 0  Part 1 Getting straight to it: Girls vs Women 8% of girls in the 2013-15 cohort have their name starting with AA ~25% of all girls have a name starting with the letter A SA continues to be the perennial favourite (5.5% in the 2013-15 cohort and 5.2% with the mums) Names starting with NE and SH hav...

Story so far: Part 1 A recent article about Indo Anglians was doing the rounds on my FB feed. This piece, in turn, references an older piece about First World Yoga Names. I needed little else to be inspired to poke around with the DoE dataset which lists roughly 78,000 unique individuals of the 2013-2015 year of birth cohort (I could tell you h...

It’s admission season here in Delhi and kiddo is in the fray. The DOE does a pretty neat job of putting up registered applicants school wise here which is great if you’re querying by school but sucks if you’re querying by student name. I wrote a little scraper + data reorganizer for my personal use last weekend. I’ve tried wrapping it into a Go...

In 1999 I had the privilege of attending the KRMO (Karnataka Regional Maths Olympiad) camp at IISc. While it didn’t do much to improve my math capabilities, it taught me a lot about how to preserve self-esteem when in the presence of materially smarter, sharper & more capable folks. One of the quaint bits of math that I did learn was the Ch...

In terms of firsts, the earliest memory I have of a book that I self-read is this combo of “Whiskers for a Cat and Bilderoo is coming”. When I extend the same question to poetry there is nothing that comes to mind. Until today. Thanks to kiddo I rediscovered Eleanor Farjeon and Cats which we read and re-read until one of us had had enough. The...