intrepidkarthi

a limit order book and matching engine in go

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Three weeks, 21 releases, 20,299 lines of Go and 19,906 lines of tests. An embeddable central limit order book with integer-exact pricing, a lock-free single-writer core and machine-checked crash recovery. What it does, what it deliberately refuses to do, and the three things that found bugs the test suite couldn't.

my voice journal will not speak tamil

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Apple's Speech framework handles 34 languages. DailyVox ships its interface in five. The binding constraint on an on-device multilingual app is sentence embeddings, not speech recognition, and Apple ships those for five languages and no more. Tamil is unreachable, and I stopped calling it deferred.

8 out of 8: the blind test that closed my voice cloning feature

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I spent two weeks on runtime engineering for on-device voice cloning, then ran a one-hour forced-choice blind test against real recordings and scored 8/8 identifying the fake. p = 0.0039. Every ear test before it had compared two synthetic clips to each other, which tells you which is less bad and never whether either is good.

building topical authority from zero traffic

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Three months. Five posts in a single narrow niche. The trajectory you can actually hit, and the mistakes that compound badly if you skip them.

a twin that refuses to predict your future — where DailyVox is, and where it's going

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

DailyVox builds a model of one person from their own journal, on their phone. It measurably fails at forecasting their mood — and that failure is the product boundary, not a bug. Where the build is, and where it's headed.

RSS in 2026 — the best distribution channel nobody uses

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

RSS subscribers read 10x more posts per delivery than email, churn at 1/8th the rate, and require zero infrastructure to support. Almost no creator uses it. Here is why that is a mistake.

llms.txt in practice — what it is, what to put in it

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A plaintext file at the website root that tells LLM crawlers what they should index. The new robots.txt, except this one matters.

The machine learning career path in India nobody draws honestly

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Every machine learning career path guide for India draws the same neat ladder of certifications and job titles. The real ladder is about what you own and what you can be trusted to decide, not what you have completed. Here is the honest version of the rungs, with what actually moves you up each one, from someone who hired at every level.

Machine learning projects for final year: how to pick one that actually helps you

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Your final-year machine learning project is the first real portfolio piece most Indian students will have, and almost everyone treats it as a checkbox to clear instead. I have judged these at hackathons and screened them on resumes. Here is how to choose one that works for you afterward, instead of one that blends into the pile.

Spec-driven development is the verification bottleneck with a name

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Spec-driven development is being sold as a new methodology for the agent era: write a precise spec, let the agent build to it. It is a good idea. It is also not new. It is the thing I have been arguing for years, that generation got cheap and verification became the work, finally given a name and a workflow. The spec is not documentation. It is the oracle.

Independent quality gates for coding agents: stop letting the agent grade its own homework

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The agent that wrote the code should not be the one that decides it is correct. Same model, same context, same blind spots, now also marking its own homework. The fix is an independent verifier the agent does not control. Here is the gate stack I actually enforce, and why the order matters.

The privacy-first on-device AI app architecture behind DailyVox

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

DailyVox runs the AI on your phone, not on my server. That one constraint decides the entire architecture. Every component that is normally a cloud call has to have an on-device answer, or it does not ship. Here is the actual stack, layer by layer, and what each layer costs.

Why my backtest works but live trading loses money

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I took a clean backtest live and the equity curve inverted inside a week. Same code, same market. After watching it happen from both sides of an exchange, I stopped calling it luck. The backtest and the live book are different games, and the gap has a fixed set of causes. Here they are in the order they cost me money.

The bottleneck is me

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Three and a half years of following one cost curve, and it has landed in my own chair with a physical symptom. I keep six to eight terminals open at once, agents generating in parallel, and the one thing everything queues behind is me deciding what is true. Generation went ambient. The bottleneck walked up the bench and sat down on me.

what I learned from running a public PnL

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Three years of a public trade log, now a live PnL dashboard on feaws. The good months were teaching moments. The bad months were better. Five lessons that do not show up in any trading book.

Verifiable Delivery: what comes after Continuous Delivery when the machine writes the code

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

For twenty-five years the bottleneck in software was writing the code. That cost is now near zero, and the gauges we used to measure engineering work broke with it: in one controlled trial, developers using AI felt about 20% faster and were measured about 19% slower. What replaces the old discipline is verification. I call it Verifiable Delivery, and it is the work that survives when the machine writes the code.

the OG image generation pipeline I wish someone had given me

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fourteen SVG motifs, one template, build-time PNG render. Open Graph images that cost zero ongoing and look right for every post. Here is the pipeline.

the economics of on-device AI — zero API cost is not the same as free

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On-device AI eliminates the per-request API cost. It does not eliminate the engineering cost, the device cost, or the capability cost. Here is the actual unit economics.

minecrAft — building a voxel game for my son

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

My son asked for Minecraft. I built him one — a custom WebGL voxel engine, no game libraries, an Electron desktop app, and a web version at intrepidkarthi.com/minecraft.

migrating without losing SEO juice — the actual checklist

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Eighteen years of accumulated backlinks. One migration. The wrong move kills 80% of it in a week. The checklist that did not.

the TwinEngine — building a personality model entirely on-device

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The TwinEngine reads a year of your journal entries and builds a model of how you think, what you care about, and what triggers your worst weeks. Everything runs on your phone. Here is how.

what the 2022 webshell compromise taught me about owning my archive

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On September 4, 2022, someone dropped seven zero-byte PHP files at the root of my WordPress install. The site survived. The trust did not. Here is what I rebuilt around the lesson.

The machine learning interview questions I actually asked as a hiring CTO

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Every list of machine learning interview questions gives you the textbook answer to 'what is overfitting.' None of them tell you the follow-up I asked after you gave it, which is where most candidates fell apart. I hired ML engineers. Here are the questions I actually used and, more importantly, what I was really testing with each one.

the case for publishing your strategy — transparency as edge

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Why making your trading strategy public almost never destroys it, and why the edge from publishing usually exceeds the edge you lose. Five claims, one falsifiable test.

On-device AI memory, privacy-first: how DailyVox remembers without a server

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

An assistant that forgets you every session is a toy. So it needs memory. The easy way to give it memory is to ship your history to a vector database in someone's cloud. DailyVox does not have that option, because nothing leaves the phone. Here is what on-device memory actually takes, and why the data path is different, not just smaller.

18 Years of WordPress. I'm Done.

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

After 18 years on WordPress — through plugin rot, database corruption, spam floods, and one too many 'critical update' emails — I rebuilt intrepidkarthi.com from scratch on Astro, Markdown, and Vercel. Here is the full architecture, the migration story, and why I should have done this a decade ago.

AI projects for students: the ones that are already obsolete, and the ones we actually ask about

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Most AI projects students put on a resume were good signals in 2020 and are dead ones now. I have screened these as a CTO and I co-wrote a book of them, so I can tell you exactly which projects make a hiring manager's eyes glaze and which ones make them ask a follow-up question. The list changed. Most students are building the old one.

Survivorship and look-ahead bias: the two ways your crypto backtest data lies

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Before slippage or fees or psychology gets its turn, the data itself lies. Survivorship and look-ahead bias make a crypto backtest look brilliant using information a trader on that date never actually had. Here is how both work, and why point-in-time data is the only real fix.

DailyVox: Why I Built a Voice Journal That Stays on Your Phone

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I have been writing a diary for 20 years. When the habit started slipping, I switched to voice notes. That experiment turned into DailyVox.

feaws — the quant lab is public, and so is the math

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A walkthrough of the feaws.xyz whitepaper in plain English. Five hypotheses, one engine, every trade public. The content IS the product. The trading IS the proof.

I like the way I am — what this blog used to be called

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Going through the old WordPress wp_options table during the archive migration, I found the original name of this blog. It wasn't intrepidkarthi. It was 'I like the way I am' with the tagline 'Earth is a nice place to enjoy our life.' Notes on the slow drift from one identity to another.

The Lost Archive — 58 posts that didn't survive the WordPress reinstall

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

When I rebuilt this blog in 2026 from a cPanel SQL dump, 27 posts came back clean. 58 did not. Here is the memorial — the slugs, the years, the topics — for posts I wrote between 2010 and 2013 that exist now only in Google's sitemap and the Wayback Machine.

Books I Have Read

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A complete list of books I've read over the years — from fiction to business strategy, self-help to thrillers.

why 'Data Not Collected' is a moat in 2026

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Apple's strictest privacy label. What it actually requires, why almost no app gets it, and why the gap will widen every quarter.

I’ve Been Writing a Diary for 20 Years. Then I Couldn’t Anymore.

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I’ve Been Writing a Diary for 20 Years. Then I Couldn’t Anymore.

WidgetKit + AppIntents for habit-forming journaling

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The home screen widget is the highest-leverage retention surface on iOS. AppIntents make it interactive. Combined correctly, they convert reminders into recordings without opening the app.

CryptoKit AES-256-GCM in iOS apps — what is easy, what is not

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Apple's CryptoKit makes authenticated encryption look like a three-line API. In production it is more nuanced. Here is the practical guide for shipping it correctly.

Apple Intelligence vs sending it to OpenAI — the actual tradeoffs

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Same prompt, same audio, two providers. Latency, cost, capability, privacy — what each one actually gets you, with numbers.

I wrote an ML book. Here are the ones I'd actually recommend, and why I'd tell you to close most of them

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I co-authored a machine learning book, so this will sound strange coming from me: most people trying to learn ML should read fewer books, not more. Book-buying is the most comfortable form of procrastination in this field. Here is the short list worth your time, and the point at which you should stop reading and start building.

CoreData + CloudKit encrypted sync without trusting Apple

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Syncing user data through Apple's CloudKit while ensuring Apple itself cannot read it. The architecture, the choices, and the one constraint that makes the whole thing honest.

how to run a personal post-mortem on a losing week

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Most retail traders end a losing week by closing the broker screen. The professionals open a different one. The template, the rules, and the 30-minute constraint that makes it work.

from insurance fraud detection (2018) to crypto fraud signals (2026)

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Eight years apart, two fraud-detection problems. Same shape, different data, different stakes. What transfers, what does not, and what I would do differently the second time.

Verifying AI-generated pull requests at scale: we stopped reading the diff

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

When agents open pull requests faster than any human can read them, reading every diff stops being a strategy. It is a queue that grows without bound. Verifying AI-generated PRs at scale is a different job from reviewing them, and the teams that do not make that switch are quietly approving code nobody understood.

SFSpeechRecognizer deep dive — what requiresOnDeviceRecognition really gets you

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Six characters in a single property flip the entire trust model of a speech-recognition app. What you gain, what you lose, and what the API will not tell you.

Feaws: How I Built a Bitcoin Forecasting Engine from Scratch

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I started working on Feaws in late 2025, not because I thought I could beat the market, but because the existing tools frustrated me. Here's the technical breakdown of what I built.

I hired ML engineers with no ML experience. Here's what substituted for it

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The fresher's trap: no ML job without ML experience, no ML experience without a job. I have hired people straight out of that loop. Not on potential, and not on certificates. On three specific things that stood in for experience, and that anyone can produce in a few weekends without a job.

from writing to speaking — the mechanics of switching journal modes

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Twenty years of writing a daily diary, then six weeks of silence, then voice notes. What you gain and what you lose when you switch from typing to talking.

INR stablecoins — when, how, who, and what could block them

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

USD stablecoins moved $11 trillion in 2024. An INR-denominated equivalent does not exist at scale. The mechanism, the candidate issuers, and the three things that could prevent it from happening.

NLTagger for sentiment + NER + POS — gotchas nobody warned me about

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Apple's NaturalLanguage framework looks clean in the WWDC slides. In production it has six specific gotchas that cost me hours each. Here is the list.

LLM non-determinism in production: temperature zero still lies

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Set temperature to zero and the model is supposed to be deterministic. Same input, same output, every time. It is not, and the reason is not the sampler. It is the hardware. If your production system assumes a fixed prompt gives a fixed answer, you have built on a foundation that moves, and the place it tends to move is the place that costs you money.

Timesheets to tokens

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Three years of following the cost curve lands on one industry. The Indian services model sells human hours spent generating code. Generation is the thing that went to nearly zero. The model is not being killed. It is being repriced, and the deflation is already in the financials while the rescue is still in the forecasts.

The projects that make me stop scrolling a resume

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I have screened a lot of engineering resumes as a CTO, and most projects are the same five: Titanic, MNIST, a spam classifier, house-price prediction, a chatbot. When ninety percent of candidates submit the same thing, the project stops being a signal. Here is what actually makes me stop scrolling, from the person on the other side of the table.

healthywealthy at year three — what the habit cost me

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Three years of a daily habit pairing physical training with financial journaling. The compounding showed up. So did the costs nobody warned me about.

2026: The Future Belongs to the Builders

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Since last year, I’ve completely transformed how I work by integrating AI tools into my

why journaling apps die after 60 days

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Five UX failure modes that kill journaling apps before the habit forms. Built from twelve apps I quit and one habit I have kept for twenty years.

building a second brain that stays on your phone

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Most second-brain tools assume the cloud. Building one that operates entirely on-device is harder, more interesting, and produces a fundamentally different product.

journaling your trades — the meta-layer of feaws

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I am building feaws to make my trading transparent. The deeper benefit that nobody talks about: the journal becomes a forcing function that vetoes trades before they exist.

how Indian retail traders behave differently from US retail (and why it matters)

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Indian crypto retail behaves measurably differently from US retail across position size, holding period, leverage tolerance, and venue preference. Build for India assuming US patterns and you will misprice the market.

cold-start UX for an empty journal app

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Day one of a journaling app: zero entries, zero history, nothing to show. The cold-start UX determines whether the user writes the first entry or never returns.

Polymarket as a leading indicator — when it works, when it does not

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Polymarket consensus on 'BTC above $X by date Y' sometimes leads spot price by 24-48 hours. Sometimes it lags. The difference is measurable and tradeable.

designing for honesty — how UI choices affect what people actually record

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A journal entry is only as honest as the interface lets it be. Five UI choices that determine whether users write the real thing or the safe thing.

The gauge broke

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

For two years I argued the feeling of AI speed had come apart from the fact of it, from watching my own teams. This summer it stopped being an anecdote. A controlled trial measured experienced developers feeling about 20% faster while running about 19% slower. The instrument we steer by reads backward.

liquidation cascades — the 30 seconds after BTC drops 3%

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The first 30 seconds after a 3% spot move on BTC, second by second. The liquidation engine, the insurance fund, auto-deleveraging, and why the cascade is structural, not panic.

funding rate arbitrage in practice — what 18 months of running it actually looks like

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The basis trade is mechanically simple. The execution is not. What 18 months of running it actually produced, with the numbers and the inconvenient parts.

Preparing for AI/ML interviews in the GenAI era

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

AI/ML interview preparation advice is still mostly the pre-2023 quiz with a few LLM buzzwords bolted on. The interview actually changed underneath it. The fundamentals still get tested, but there is a new axis now, and it is the one that separates people who use these tools from people who are used by them.

2025: The Year Stablecoins Leave the Crypto Bubble

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

When I first noticed stablecoins back in 2020, they felt like a side

INR-margined perps — why they had to exist

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A USDT-margined BTC perp on an Indian exchange exposes the trader to two risks: BTC's price and USDT's stability. INR-margined perps remove the second. They had to exist.

why I publish trades live

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Most traders hide their losses. I publish mine in real time. Here is the asymmetry that makes it the right call, with one warning about who it does not work for.

Your Brain vs. the Bull Run: Taming FOMO Before It Ruins Your Trades

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

If you're still letting FOMO control your trades, maybe the problem isn't the market—maybe it'

why I built another Go microservices boilerplate in 2025

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

There are a thousand Go microservices boilerplates. I built another one. Here are the specific opinions baked into it that the alternatives did not have together.

DeepSeek, Jevons, and the price of a token

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

DeepSeek shipped a frontier-grade reasoning model with open weights and a fraction of the assumed cost, and the market briefly lost its mind. The lasting lesson is not geopolitics. It is that generation is becoming ambient and nearly free, and cheaper generation does not shrink your verification bill. It grows it.

why leverage feels different at 3 AM

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Same trade, same position, two different times of day. At noon you sleep through it. At 3 AM you watch every tick. The trade did not change. You did.

#healthywealthy — two years and counting

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A daily streak post on x.com — walk, push-ups, plank, a small SIP, a few pages of a book. Two years in. The point is the showing up.

funding rates, explained without the hand-waving

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The formula, the cadence, where the money actually goes, and how to read funding as a regime indicator. With real BTC numbers, no analogies.

Web3 in India after the 1% TDS — what survived

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Two and a half years after the 1% TDS came into force, the Indian Web3 ecosystem has consolidated around a different shape. Here is what made it through, and what each survivor is doing now.

latency budgets — retail vs prop vs market-maker, in numbers

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Retail's order takes 200ms. Prop's takes 5ms. Market-maker's takes 50µs. The gap is what determines which strategies can exist at each tier.

AI/ML jobs in India for freshers: what actually changed in 2024

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The AI/ML job market in India for freshers did not get bigger or smaller in any simple way this year. It split. The generic 'train a model' role is quietly thinning while a different kind of role grows, and freshers are still preparing for the one that is going away. Here is the honest shape of it from the hiring side.

anatomy of a perpetual futures matching engine

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

What actually happens between an order hitting the gateway and a fill landing on the wire. Five components, a sub-millisecond budget, and the failure modes you only see in production.

the home library project — why physical books still win

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Eight hundred physical books on shelves I designed. In 2024 this is increasingly an exotic choice. Here is why I keep buying and what the library actually does.

the TEDx talk I would rewrite today — Building Better Software, 2017 revisited

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Seven years after a TEDx talk on building better software, the principles are intact and the examples are unrecognisable. What I would say differently in 2024.

the behaviour gap — measure it in your own trade journal

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Dalbar's 2014 study found the average mutual fund investor underperformed the fund itself by 7.25%. The gap is real and the gap is in your trade journal. Here is how to find yours.

the Indian crypto winter was actually a regulatory winter

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Western commentary called 2022-2024 the 'crypto winter' driven by macro and the FTX collapse. India had a different winter, on a different cause, and the survivors look different.

1% TDS and what it did to derivatives volume

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The 1% TDS was designed to kill speculation. It killed spot. It barely touched derivatives. Two years in, here is the data and what it means for the next phase of Indian crypto.

position sizing for retail — the math no one shows you

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Most retail traders have heard 'size your positions properly.' Nobody has shown them the math. Half-Kelly, the drawdown ceiling, and why 5% feels safe but isn't.

the four mistakes I have made in every bull market since 2017

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Three crypto bull markets later, the mistakes have not changed shape. Only the size of the loss did. The same four, every time, in the same order.

What I look for when hiring an ML fresher in India

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A year after ChatGPT, the resumes crossing my desk have changed and most of them changed in the same wrong direction. Everyone can now generate a working project. That has not made the good candidates easier to find. It has made the one thing I was always screening for, judgment, the only thing that still tells them apart.

why FIU registration changed everything for Indian crypto

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

The March 2023 gazette that brought VDAs under PMLA was the largest structural change to Indian crypto since the 2020 court reversal. Most of the market still has not absorbed what it means.

the cost of being early in Indian crypto

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Building a crypto exchange in India during 2018-2020 cost a specific tax that the 2021 cohort did not pay. Here is what that tax was, and what survived it.

GPT-4 and the wrapper year

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

GPT-4 shipped a month ago and a thousand startups became a text box in front of someone else's model. The gold rush is real. It is also misreading where the value lands. The bottleneck in software was never typing. It was deciding what is correct, and that did not move.

Highlights on India Budget 2023-24

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A thread on Indian Budget for the financia

The New Internet

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Ten days ago Sam Altman tweeted a link to ChatGPT and the timeline decided it was a chatbot. That is the wrong frame. This is closer to a new front door to the internet than a toy, and the first thing standing in its shadow is Google search. The demo is not the story. The cost curve is.

Data science interview questions in India: what actually gets asked

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

The lists of data science interview questions floating around India optimise for the wrong round. The definitions are the easy part and rarely where offers are won or lost. Here is what each round actually tests, from someone who has sat on the hiring side of the table, so you prepare for the interview you will get and not the quiz you have memorised.

Google Indic Hackathon — what we built, what survived

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Six years after the Google Indic Hackathon, the project we built is gone. The relationships are not. The lesson, late.

the RBI vs crypto exchange timeline — 2018 to today

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Four years of regulatory whiplash, in dates. The 2018 banking ban, the 2020 Supreme Court reversal, the 2022 tax regime — and what each step actually did to Indian crypto businesses.

WAGMI in Web3

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Decoupling a few queries about the Web3 eco system as simple as possible based on the attempt of deploying a couple of dApps as a hobby…

teaching 50 hours of full-stack engineering — what worked

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Forty-five topics. Fifty academic hours. Multiple sessions Aug-Oct 2021 over Google Meet. The curriculum I taught to non-CS engineers, and what I would cut today.

How to become a machine learning engineer in India: the path I'd actually take

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Most guides to becoming an ML engineer in India are a list of courses and a promise. Here is the honest version from someone who hires for these roles and wrote books on the subject: it is one strong project, not ten certificates, and the hardest part is the part nobody sells you a course for.

What has been changed since the pandemic?

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I was having a casual chat with a friend who is a Group Manager at one of the India’s

mission as a working list, not a bucket list

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT

A bucket list is decoration. A working list is a contract with the future you can read out loud. The difference shows up at year five.

porting sdp-transform to Java for WebRTC on Android

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT

SDP — Session Description Protocol, RFC 4566 — is the negotiation language of WebRTC. The JS and C++ libraries to parse it existed. Java did not. I ported one.

Blockchain + Brands + Loyalty

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

In the past 2 months, I am helping a startup as a consultant before I pick my next role. In the meantime, I was exploring a f

The Learning Never Ends

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

This month I am completing my 11th year into my professional life. I have worked across MNC, Startups and Mid-size companies. Runni

hackathon → product → company — the pipeline that actually worked

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Most hackathon projects die at the venue. A few escape. The ones that turn into companies share a specific five-stage pipeline. Here is what each stage actually demands.

Will India Change in 2020?

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Since my childhood, I have heard our late ex president Dr Abdul Kalam’s words “India will become a superpower by 2020”. We are a…

Building a culture is bigger than building a product

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

It has been 11 months since I joined with Sequoia Consulting Group, a leading provider of Benefits, Payroll processing, 401(k) management…

Maintaining secrets and credentials across environments

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

At Sequoia.com, we are building an Enterprise B2B SaaS product for providing health Insurance, HR Benefits & Payroll processing. We are…

what writing two ML books taught me about teaching ML

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Two books, twenty months of evenings, royalty income that did not pay for the coffee. The compounding returns were everywhere else.

PPDM — privacy-preserving data mining before differential privacy was mainstream

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

K-anonymity. Generalisation. Suppression. Perturbation. The pre-differential-privacy techniques I applied to insurance fraud detection in 2018, and what each one actually did to the data.

From hackathons to publishing — how 18 weekends turned into two ML books

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT

I bagged 18 hackathon prizes, gave a TEDx talk, and ended up writing two books on mobile machine learning. The connection between the three is not what I expected.

Swiggy hackathon — real-time anomaly dashboards before they were standard

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Three apps, one delivery network, Kafka and Apache Storm with PostgreSQL geospatial. A weekend in July 2018 building real-time anomaly detection for food delivery.

Insurance fraud detection — a privacy-first ML pipeline

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Five-stage pipeline: synthesize Indian insurance data, clean it, do EDA, anonymize with k-anonymity and perturbation, then classify with a decision tree. ~99% accuracy on a 91k-row test set.

TEDx · Building Better Software

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

My talk at TEDxSOAUniversity — what 'better software' actually means once you've shipped past the demo, and why most of it isn't about code.

pipelineDB and what choosing dead infrastructure teaches you

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT

I built a real-time analytics dashboard on pipelineDB at a January 2017 hackathon. Within 18 months pipelineDB was acquired, deprecated, and EOLed. The dashboard rotted. Here is the lesson.

EmpowerWomen — 18 hours at Google Bangalore for rural India

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT

An Android survey-collection app for rural India, built in 18 hours at the Google Android Indic Hackathon. ODK on the front end, App Engine on the back.

Mobile app statistics :: One week after launch

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT

We have launched Teleport Call :: First ever VR Caller application on Android

Is India ready to face Virtual Reality?

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT

The first decade of 21st century can be categorised for smartphone and handheld devices evolu

SAY NO TO FREE BASICS

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT

India’s poor deserves something better than Facebook and their advertisements.

3Ps of attending hackathons and events

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

> Chase your dreams and not the money. Money will follow you automatically! It is still in my memory about th

OnTheGo — civic accountability at MobileSparks 2015

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Thirty-six hours, three of us, one theme: Make For India. The civic-accountability app we built at MobileSparks, what it did, and why it never made it past the venue.

I Have An Idea And I Need An App For That

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. -Paulo Coelho

What did I learn in 25 years?

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I have downloaded a random app from app store on my mobile in morning. There were a few initial screens with q

Running my own ad server — mAdserve on shared hosting

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Spent a weekend standing up mAdserve — an open-source mobile ad server — on a corner of intrepidkarthi.com. The Teleport Call install base is now in the hundreds of thousands and the question of how to monetise without ruining the call experience needs an actual answer. Notes on what mAdserve does, why I'm running my own instead of plugging in AdMob, and what I think the right ad model for VR voice calls actually is.

Medic — building healthtech logistics at Sequoia's 2014 hackathon

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT

A hospital → patient → pharmacy ecosystem prototype, built in a weekend at Sequoia Capital's 2014 hackathon in Bangalore. Shipped to the Play Store before we left.

Vodafone is reading SMS/MMS — what I caught in the metadata

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Noticed something strange in the headers of an MMS that arrived from Vodafone India. Some metadata that does not seem like it should be there. Two screenshots and a few questions that I do not have good answers for.

the four device IDs on Android — what changed since 2013

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Secure Android ID, GSF ID, UUID, IMEI. Four ways to identify an Android device in 2013. The app I shipped to Play Store to expose them, and what happened to each over the decade.

twelve hours setting up RabbitMQ on Ubuntu for an Android chat app

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Twelve hours. Ubuntu 12.04. AMQP. An Android chat app that needed reliable message delivery in 2013, before Firebase Cloud Messaging was usable.

An XSS cookie stealer, built as a teaching tool

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Three small PHP files I keep on intrepidkarthi.com/files/xss as a working demonstration of how a cookie-stealing XSS attack actually unfolds — vulnerable page, exfiltration endpoint, log file. For workshop use only. The point is to make the attack physically visible to people who have only seen it in slides.

Presentation: Dive into FOSS and LAMP architecture

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Slide deck I gave this month on Free & Open Source Software and the L-A-M-P web stack. Built in impress.js, hosted at intrepidkarthi.com/files/presentation/lamp/. The agenda, the highlights, and a why-FOSS-actually-matters note for the engineers in the room.

தமிழ் கவிதை — எதிர் வீட்டு ஜன்னல், தனிமை, and a few others I've been writing

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I've been writing Tamil poetry on the side. Putting up a few that I've illustrated this month — Edhir Veettu Jannal (the window across the road), Thanimai (solitude), and a couple of others. Notes on why I keep coming back to Tamil for the things that matter most.

Norton Ninja — security suite for your Android

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Notes on Norton Ninja, the Android security suite I'm working on at Symantec. The threat list is growing fast — premium-rate SMS Trojans, Bluetooth auto-pair attacks, SD-card payloads, contact-list exfiltration. The mantra: whatever the enemy is, we have to win at last.

Bandwidth test files — and why mine are filled with Celine Dion

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

I needed two files of known size — 100KB and exactly 1MB — to test mobile-data throughput on Android phones. Filling them with random bytes is boring. Filling them with the Titanic theme song, repeated until the byte count is right, is much more on-brand for what we are actually testing.

Srisailam trip

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Long weekend at Srisailam — the Mallikarjuna temple, the Krishna river dam, the ghat road in. Notes and photos from the trip.

எனது முதல் தமிழ் படைப்பு (My first Tamil work)

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

First Tamil-language piece on this blog. Putting it up properly — the writing, the small image I drew for it, and a note on why Tamil is the right language for the things I most want to say.

TOSS and C-Star — what we shipped from the CSE lab this year

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Two student-team projects that shipped from the Computer Science department at Thiagarajar College of Engineering this year. TOSS — a developer-focused Ubuntu spin, live ISO out yesterday. C-Star — the first fully online intra-college programming contest at TCE, ran in February.

TCS days starts — orientation tour through Bangalore, Cochin, Ooty, Trivandrum

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Joined TCS as a fresher last month. The induction took us on an orientation tour — Bangalore, then Cochin, Ooty, and Trivandrum. Photos and notes from the first weeks of the post-college life.

Automatic Synonym Generator — live

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

AutoSynGen is now live at intrepidkarthi.com/autosyngen. Plug in a word, get back a multiple-choice question with one right synonym and four distractors picked using WordNet's synset graph. The MPL trick is doing the work.

Post - after a long busy time

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

It has been a long time since i posted my last post. I have involved with various things. To start with it, treat in aarthy drive inn for conducting FOSSConf'09…

Deploying osQuest5 — the engine behind the online C test

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The C++ online test I linked a few months ago points to itworld2.com. The version I'm running on intrepidkarthi.com/oltest is built on osQuest5 — an open-source PHP/XML quiz engine I forked, fixed, and pointed at my own test bank. Notes for anyone trying to do the same.

TOSS inauguration

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

It was my great pleasure to tell about the release of TOSS(TCE Operating System Services), an operating system has a full compatibility and capality to debian a…

Kutladampatti trip!!!

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Last sunday, me,aswin,mahesh,kannan,naagu,mani went for a bike trip to Kutladampatti nearer to Alankanallur and Paalamedu. It is 35 kms away from my home. We st…

iCCC — Internet C Coding Carnival, tomorrow

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are running an online C programming contest tomorrow as part of TecUthsav 2009. Four hours, gcc-only, no IDEs. Code from anywhere with internet — hostel, home, CCC. Notes on the format and how to enter.

Project status before second review

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Till now we have completed simple search and also we have integrated wordnet api into our app. We have implemented simple search through every documents in our …

Gonna be busy

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

From tomorrow onwards I am going to be busy, for project and tecuthsav works. I am always doing multiplay. This gonna be continue. Tomorrow morning I am going t…

Movie Review - padikkadhavan

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Yesterday afternoon, I went to ganesh Adlabs with my school buddies, rajesh, Suresh,Selvaprabhu, Rafi,Vinoth to the film Padikkadhavan, starring Dhanush, Thaman…

VHN Reunion

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On Jan 14th, the day on Thamizhar Thirunaal, all my school buddies were gathered together at Eco park, Mdu. We were around 35 people there. Our friend Senthil m…

project status

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I am on the way of finding a way of progressing to generate rules (owl files) for the raw data. As for now I have completed getting the files as input and index…

Bye bye 2008!!! Welcome 2009!!!

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Some important events on 2008 - My last birthday in college in December - Placement in TCS in May - Went to tirupathi on Deepavali - Started building our new ho…

TecUthsav 2009

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I am really glad to work with the TECUTHSAV team in my college. Oh, first let me tell about tecuthsav. Tecuthsav, a national wide technical extravaganza organiz…

Wrote in mood out

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A short personal entry — a long evening fixing the TecUthsav registration form, an irritation, a headache, sleep. Saving it because the day was real even if the entry never got published.

Text Annotator - first module in project

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Text Annotator will be my first module regarding SSTS(Secure solution tracking system). Here with this module, i am going to get a file as input and parse throu…

Tecuthsav

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I am currently working on developing the website for tecuthsav09 with my juniors, second year guys. We are using LAMP stack where we have used Xhtml, css, java …

My Birthday

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Successfully I have crossed 2 decades of my life path, this is completion of 21 st birthday(12/12/08). First of all i thank god for giving me such nice friends …

Final year project

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

At last we have started working on our project. The name of our work is 'Solution Tracking System'.Our project mainly concentrates on providing eSupport for the…

Project confirmed atlast!!!

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

At last our project title was confirmed today. It is 'Solution Tracking System', a project deals with rule based semantic search. The main aim of our project wi…

C++ Online Test…

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Test ur Knowledge of C++ Online Test…… Free online test of C++ www.itworld2.com try it……… its nice

SEO working!!!

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Our project title is still under consideration. May be it will be confirmed within monday. But i dont know whether it will be a research oriented or application…

Written in a confused state

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

hi, today its wednesday. From the morning itself i am feeling somewhat uneasy. I dont know what happened. Feeling really very bored too. I am in a confused stat…

Last semester starts

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

From yesterday onwards, last semester of my college life started. Still we have a very few days to go to complete our college life. Now we are in the state to s…

Our papanasam trip

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Hi friends, on friday night we have planned to go for a trip to papanasam to enjoy our holidays. It is nearer to tirunelveli. We reached there on saturday morni…

Ikon begins!!!

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

this is just about my first blog post

This is about me

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I havent yet told anything about me. First let me introduce nyself. Myself Karthikeyan NG, doing my final year BE(2008-09) in Thiagarajar college of Engg, Madur…

Yo yo.. RoBo.. On d track…

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It is officially confirmed that Superstar Rajinikanth will feature in Shankar’s Robot! It might be recalled that Shankar had this project in mind a few years back with Kamal Hassan…

New Year…..

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.

Let us walk on 2008!!!!!

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A New Year 2008 image-only post — the original Photobucket-hosted GIF is no longer reachable.

About MyCity –>மதுைர

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Madurai is a 2600 years old historical city surrounded by elegant natural plantations, technical institutes and textile mills situated in Tamilnadu, India.

Factory waste produces enough energy for 750 homes…. Nice one….

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This comes from an old story but it is more relevant today than ever! The photo is a typical rotary furnace sold today so you can get an idea of how it works.

mig33

intrepidkarthi@gmail.com (Karthikeyan NG) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Get mig33 and you’ll be connected to people around the world. IM, visit chat rooms, send email, share photos, SMS and, of course, make cheap calls all through your mobile phone and…

C++ Online Test…