Gaurish Korpal

Gaurish Korpal

Hello World

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Here is my first post.

I was just reading “Through the Mathscope by C. Stanley Ogilvy” there he points out a flaw in rigorous proof by Euclid in his Elements, see if you can point out the flaw in following problem (by Euclid).

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Back to the future

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Recently, I watched the movie “Hidden Figures.” One thing that caught my attention was the fact that the advent of the IBM mainframe computer was a major disruption to the careers of human computers. The best way for most of them to survive was to transition to the role of computer programmers by learning Fortran.

I use Arch btw

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I was introduced to Linux via Canonical’s advertisement program that it ran with PCWorld magazine, in which the accompanying CD had latest Ubuntu version and other software updates. This led to Linux explorations (including weirdos like BOSS Linux, Puppy Linux, Peppermint,…) in VirtualBox running on Windows XP. However, being unable to keep up with Microsoft Windows’ increasing system requirements, I ended up using Lubuntu once Windows XP reached end of life. Since then, over the last 20 years, I have had the pleasure of using the three major Linux distro families: APT (Debian/Ubuntu/Linux_Mint/Tuxedo_OS/Kali_Linux), DNF (Fedora/RHEL/CentOS), and ZYpp (SLE/openSUSE). You can read my long rants about various Linux distros in one of my old blog post. Long term Linux users might enjoy a comparison of Arch with other distros, why most of them are not endorsed by GNU, and the GNU/Linux naming controversy.