other stuff - Satyajeet Kanetkar

Moon

You asked me one day,
if I looked at the moon. read more ▷

Oct 1, 2023 ∙ 1 min read

Yearnest

Tell me love,
Where are you these days?
Do you not yearn to meet me,
As I do, you? read more ▷

Aug 17, 2023 ∙ 1 min read

Verifying Chaayos Customizations

Chaayos is an Indian chai brand that boasts “more than 80,000 customizations”. That number seems surprisingly large, so I did some basic math to see what allows them to make such a tall claim. read more ▷

Jul 1, 2023 ∙ 2 min read ∙ math, combinations

Diffluence

My love for you is conflicted,
not in its intensity
or in its surety,
but in what it would do to me.
For I have come undone
in ways far more than one.
It seems that only my love
or I will survive,
in this tussle to a certain demise. read more ▷

Apr 29, 2023 ∙ 1 min read

Lilies

The lilies wait in full bloom,
held in place by a vase. read more ▷

Apr 14, 2023 ∙ 1 min read

Ode To Ocho

Before you found me,
I didn’t know what caring was,
I had only felt it in glimpses and in parts.
Before you found me,
I didn’t know what a woman was,
Someone so gentle, yet a force to call.
Before you found me,
I had given up hope,
Of ever feeling a lady’s dote.
Before you found me,
I was a child with a whine,
Alone in the open wilderness of time. read more ▷

Jan 7, 2023 ∙ 3 min read

I Recommend Giving Up

Mon, 19th Sep, 11:41PM
I recommend giving up. Broadly speaking, it is one of the two options you have. And it is certainly the one with less pain or pleasure. If you can pull it off, make it quick, cheap and definite. Don’t get distracted, or you will linger on. read more ▷

Sep 25, 2022 ∙ 2 min read

Hedonism is Not Easy

Sat, 17th Sep, 11:16PM
They say that you should “write drunk, edit sober”. Well I’m pretty sure I’m drunk. Not on alcohol. No. I’ve had enough of that over the past few days. I’m numbed by the pain of loneliness. It slowly but steadily chips away at my soul. read more ▷

Sep 24, 2022 ∙ 3 min read

📺 BoJack Horseman - An Attempt at a Thematic Analysis

We’d already seen a flurry of blog posts, videos and essays trying to deconstruct the success of Netflix’s “BoJack Horseman”. I too, finished watching the last season last year and really felt like commenting my version of the show. read more ▷

Jan 15, 2021 ∙ 10 min read ∙ tv-review, animation ∙ spoilers

📺 Star Trek - The Ultimate Computer - S2E24

A computer called M5 built by the scientist Daystrom is being tested out on the Enterprise. The implication of its success being that a starship no longer requires a crew, let alone a captain. We see the computer manoeuvre the starship through an unscheduled test encounter successfully. read more ▷

Apr 12, 2020 ∙ 3 min read ∙ tv-review, star-trek ∙ ★★☆☆☆ ∙ spoilers

Spotting Consecutive Integers

A useful technique that stumped me on a couple of proofs recently was the idea of “consecutive integers”. A friend had the following proposition: The result of subtracting a number from its cube is divisible by $3$ . read more ▷

Jan 15, 2020 ∙ 3 min read ∙ Math, Proofs

Arbitrarily Large Prime Gaps

If $n \in N$ and $n \geq 2$ , then the numbers $[n! + 2, n! + 3, n! + 4, \dots, n! + n]$ are all composite. Thus for any $n \geq 2$ , we can find $n - 1$ consecutive composite numbers. The implication here being that there are arbitrarily large “gaps” between prime numbers. read more ▷

Jan 1, 2020 ∙ 2 min read ∙ Math, Proofs, Prime Numbers

Deducing prime factors through elimination

I recently found this interesting proof technique that uses a combination of deductive reasoning and integer factorization. The prompt goes something like this: If $p$ is prime and $k \in Z$ for which $0 < k < p$ , then $p$ divides $(\binom{p}{k})$ . read more ▷

Dec 29, 2019 ∙ 2 min read ∙ Math, Proofs, Prime Numbers

Why I Write Reviews

Over the past few months, I’ve been getting much less time to write reviews about all the books I’ve been reading. I’ve completely stopping watching any new movies given the whole backlog of reviews that I have. Even when I try to force myself to write, I takes some time to get into the groove and much longer to write anything meaningful about a book or a film. I’d also been pondering writing about other things, like my life or thoughts about the random things in life. read more ▷

Mar 20, 2019 ∙ 3 min read ∙ personal, creative

Room

It was the longest I’d stayed away from home. About ten months had passed since I’d spent any time in Nagpur. Back for a Diwali vacation, I was planning to stay for a week or so. read more ▷

Nov 2, 2018 ∙ 2 min read ∙ personal, creative

📺 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)

Having seen the first three seasons I was expecting more abuse of the mind palace, even more unbelievable cases and more of Moriarty. Turns out I was right. read more ▷

Jun 18, 2016 ∙ 3 min read ∙ tv-review ∙ ★★★☆☆ ∙ spoilers

Notes on the Rating System

I wanted to record a few thoughts on the rating system that I am using for movies and books. read more ▷

Jul 27, 2015 ∙ 1 min read ∙ general

Making Peanut/Jaggery Laddoos

The process is quite easy: read more ▷

Nov 20, 2013 ∙ 1 min read ∙ food

Cleaning that old faithful keyboard

I recently obtained a TVS Gold Mechanical Keyboard with Mechanical Cherry MX Blue Key switches that go ‘Click’. I had to retire my old Logitech Desktop keyboard, which still functioned perfectly even after 7 years of no cleaning whatsoever. I decided that it at least deserved a wash before I packed it away. The keyboard was caked with years of dust, food, dirt, hair etc. read more ▷

Aug 12, 2012 ∙ 1 min read ∙ general

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