” There is no authority in science; be humble and ambitious but not arrogant, care to have a winning design but don’t insist on it. “ ~ Richard Sutton
I’m a Software Engineer working in the High-Frequency Trading (HFT) space for the last 4 years. I graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2022.
With the little experience I have with life, I have had tremendous impact of songs, books, poems and movies. I think of them as philosophical stepping stones to scientific ideas. They inspire us to new possibilities and help think more elaborately. I have curated some of my personal favourites here and I wish to populate this page with interesting stuff over the years. If you wish to share your special recommendation, shoot me a mail :-)
I sometimes enjoy playing football and reading books.
Music Recommendations
- The Killers. “Some Kind of Love” Wonderful Wonderful, 2017.
- Gregory Alan Isakov. “If I Go, I’m Goin” This Empty Northern Hemisphere, 2009.
- Jeff Buckley. “Hallelujah” Grace, 1994. (Controversial opinion, I think its better than Cohen’s version)
- Brigitte Engerer. “Nocturne, Op. posth. in C-Sharp Minor: Lento” Chopin: Complete Nocturnes, 2010.(The piece was played by Holocaust survivor Natalia Karp for the Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth, with Goeth being so impressed with the rendition that he spared Karp’s life. Check this out!)
Movie Recommendations
Check out my Letterboxd for movie recommendations.
Books
Reading List
- Books by Gary Marcus
- Books by Daniel Kahneman
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami
Educated, Tara Westover
Poems
Where the Mind is without fear Rabindranath Tagore
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.