Geneva is compact, walkable, and layered: medieval streets on a hill, a lakefront that feels like a resort, and a global "capital" of diplomacy and science a few tram stops away. This guide is a practical list of what’s worth your time—plus the context that makes each stop click—without the filler.
What if we reconsidered the approach to reading? In this article, I have penned down some of my notes on how I think habit of reading and concentration needed to read can be developed using some of my own time-tested standard practices.
This is a synopsys of the talk given by Dr. Richard W. Hamming at Morris Research and Engineering Center on March 7, 1986 as a part of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Series. I have adapted it from J. F. Kaiser's "Richard Hamming: You and your research." Simula Research Laboratory (2010): 37-60.
Some time back, I shared my experiences with undergraduate students of my bachelor's university as an Alumni. In the past few years, I got to learn under eminent scientists in 4 different countries. So looking back, there are surely a bunch of thoughts I would have shared with my younger self. This article is my attempt to share some of my insights with the current students in India by sharing some lessons learnt as a Non-IIT Bachelors Student from India.
I wrote this article when I was working as a part of the Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) Team. I was responsible for designing the electronics systems for the flagship sounding rocket of that year, Stratos-III, that was being developed to break the then European altitude record for the student-built experimental sounding rocket.