Vik

Meet our Goldendoodles

Wife & I adopted two Goldendoodles 3 weeks ago. They are around 3 months old now. One is a female called Coco Latte or Coco for short (Blue) and the other a male called Max Raj or Max for short (Red). Coco has a slight white in the chin whereas Max white chin extends to the belly. They are very cute and a force of destruction together.

PyCharm & Git

Install Git for Windows first Using Git Bash, generate private and public keys Add public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the remote server Create a local folder to store repository On server, create a new repository or initialize a repository from existing files cd some_dir git init git add . git commit In PyCharm, use ssh://vik@jarvis/~/code/jarvis/.git

Playing with wit.ai

wit.ai is a NLP (Natural Language Processing) api. Think of it as something that can be used to create next Cortana or Siri. Basically, the api allows you to send a text statement (or voice), and convert into meaningful form that your program can understand and respond to. I have started playing with it. First thing I am doing is install on Jarvis to be used with Python3. Installing is easy. First ensure following packages are installed: python3-dev, libcurl3-dev, …

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Trick 2: Bulk download 4K wallpapers from alphacoders.com

A year ago I had posted about how you can bulk download 1080p wallpapers from Microsoft’s website. You can read the post here. That tricked worked very well and allowed me to download a total of 543 1080p wallpapers in one go. Now, I am using the same concept to download wallpapers from alphacoders.com albeit this time it’s 4K, baby! (3840×2160) Since the level of our pixel gorgeousness has increased we will step up our game …

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Healthcare cost in the US

I occasionally rant about stuff that is just unfair and this is one of those moments – so why does it cost so much in the US for healthcare? I mean it’s quite a lot for the same treatment when you compare against India where I have personally experienced paying for healthcare. Here’s an example. In 2013, I experienced sever pain due to kidney stone and ended up going to ER. I stayed there for …

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