Happy New Year everyone! 🎉 A few weeks back, I launched my new site Right From Basics. I decided to start Right From Basics to share my knowledge with the world, mostly on...

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” - Cecil Beaton...

It’s a rather bittersweet moment as I realise this will be the last semester/module review I will be writing as part of undergraduate years. Four years have rather rushed past me and as...

This semester has been the lightest so far with just 3 modules. Of course, including FYP on top of the 3 modules evens everything out. Here are the module reviews for CS4236, EC1301...

We live in a world that is extraordinarily different from what our ancestors have seen or conceived the future to be. Technology has invaded our worlds with buzzwords such as artificial intelligence impacting...

This is going to be a really short review since I was on ATAP this semester. ATAP is a 6 months long internship programme offered by the Computer Science department. Internships have been...

This week has been exceptionally good! It’s been just 5 days since I wrote about the 1st runner up position at the NUS-MIT Datathon and I am back with another hackathon! My team...

I spent the past weekend at NUS, participating in the NUS-MIT Datathon. This event was co-organised by both the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and brought together...

In the recent talk, Tim Ferriss talks about why we should define our fears more than just our goals. I found the quote he shared to be very relevant: “We suffer more often...

What is HTTP? HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is the protocol used by the World Wide Web and it forms the basis for how data is transmitted over the Internet and...

If you are student and you are looking to get a domain, then you’re in luck! You can get one for free with Namecheap. Namecheap provides services such as domain name registration and...

I have been using GitHub Pages to host my static websites for several years now. But recently, this error notice worried me. This happens when you visit my website, harishv.me, with a www...

Did you know you can host websites with GitHub Pages? In fact, so far, all my websites have been hosted with GitHub Pages. See my Projects. All the websites there under the domain...

A basic tutorial for those who are looking to connect their custom domain to GitHub Pages. This post assumes you will be getting your domain with Namecheap. But, it should mostly apply to...

Peter Thiel, a well-known entrepreneur, political activist and philanthropist shares the seven questions a business needs to answer in his bestseller book, Zero to One. Getting at least 5-6 questions correct might help...

When you truly and deeply want something, all of the universe conspires in helping you achieve it. - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho “It’s always good to work with people who make you...

CG3207: Computer Architecture CG3207 was one of the most informative, educational modules I have taken. This module answered many of the questions which was always running in my head: “How computers function so...

CS2010: Data Structures & Algorithms II This module is one of my favourite modules in this semester. Usually CS2010 is taught by Prof Steven Halim, but it was Dr Brown this semester who...

About the Challenge & Our Product Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in the Data Science Student Challenge which was co-organised and sponsored by Microsoft. I took part in this event together...

Recently, I attended 2 talks during askNOC. There were two invited guests: Jonathan Low from Honestbee and Henry Chan from Shopback. Both companies are startups, having only been in the market for around...