Rajesh Jayaprakash's Blog

(Some fiction for a change. I haven't yet decided whether it's a short story or Chapter 1 of something bigger.) Rosie “Pleas...

Hiking in the fields at Chimi Lhakhang Buzzing dragonflies in coital embrace "How sweet the dragonfly," cries innocent daugh...

Things have been pretty hectic recently, with the logistics and planning for my ELS trip (I presented pLisp at ELS, thank you very much)....

Area Man Beats Computer in  Chess For  First Time Chennai, February 3, 2018 - After more than two years of battling it out with the Ch...

I had gotten hold of Jeremy Silman's excellent How to Reassses Your Chess a while back, but couldn't make much progress, the main ...

From Slashdot : An anonymous reader writes: The social network is getting aggressive with people who don't log in often, working to k...

From The Hindu  (on the Ola/Uber drivers strike): The Ola and Uber taxi drivers unions in their 10-point petition urged the State governm...

Black Mirror S4 is out. I'm two episodes in, and it's been a mixed bag so far. USS Callister was a knock-out, while Arkangel sucked...

Coffee-through-nose time : Funny to see the devolution of communication, 1st there were social media sites like facebook, then twitter ca...

I am seriously contemplating something that would have been unthinkable even a year ago: stopping my subscription to The Hindu . Reading Th...

I chanced upon Suburra via James Delingpole's column , and boy, am I glad I did. Gripping plot, haunting music and visuals, very rel...

I have put together the next pLisp tutorial . This is more of a language-oriented tutorial, and less about pLisp features.

(Warning: Game of Thrones spoilers ahead) Season 7 of Game of Thrones is the worst season so far, even compared to Season 6 (notwithstandin...

Something fishy with the purportedly fake message sent out by Unocoin: If the email about the ICO was not sent by the Unocoin team,...

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this : "This week the L.A. Times described a 17-year-old from Virginia who'd spent se...

Nice publicity stunt  (how else would the world get to know of the existence of companies like Culture Machine and Gozoop?): Culture Mach...

... else if(item == "SanitaryPad") taxRate = 0.12; ...                       - Poor unsung tax software dev Yeah I ...

(Disclosure: IITM is my alma mater) The beef fest at IITM and the ensuing tensions  leave one shaking one's head. The IITs have alrea...

[Warning: Game of Thrones spoiler ahead] Remember S4E08 of GoT? The Mountain and the Viper ? It would be fair to say no other scene on T...

I wrote up pLisp into a paper and submitted it to ELS17 , but the paper didn't make it. However, I got a lot of valuable feedback, chi...

pLisp has been ported to OS X. This was surprisingly straightforward, for a couple of reasons: a) OS X, once the necessary bits are set up...

While the "Elderly Catholic woman has mistakenly been praying every day to Elrond from 'Lord of the Rings"' story manage...

In the brave new post-demonetization world of cashless transactions and the RBI's clueless/tone-deaf exhortation to citizens to use dig...

I am not one to toot my own horn, but what the hell. I predicted exactly this a year ago : I'll be over there in my corner, smokin...

Yesterday I got my aging tablet's screen protector changed. What should have been a simple and quick visit to a mobile phone outlet tur...

Yeah, that about describes him perfectly: If there was a fortune to be made at the bottom of a sack of shit, Blair would dive in head f...

Quick pLisp update: pLisp is now much more liberal with respect to symbol names: almost any character is acceptable, except for ten or so ...

Well, the Turkey coup has fizzled out. I was initially rooting for it to succeed, but the ramifications would have been worse if it had, at...

Must-watch interview of Mark Blyth. You know we as a species are fscked when a video like this has only 12,534 views while Gangnam Style e...

(Warning: Game of Thrones Season 6 spoilers) Well, Season 6 of Game of Thrones is over. This is easily the best season so far for me, n...

In case you wanted any more proof of the way the markets are decoupled from fundamentals and are dependent (*ahem* coupled) on happenings e...