New Horizons

I decided I'll expand my blog and start writing about my other interests, including quantum computing, information theory, and telecommunications. A bit of context as to why I'm interested in quantum computing in the first place: in the last lap of my first year of undergrad, and for most of the second year of undergrad, I worked under the guidance of my physics professor on (broadly) 'The Problem of Time' (which is basically physicists trying to figure out how to harmonize the concept of time in general and special relativity). We looked at 'time as an emergent phenomenon' which was an experiment carried out by a group in INRIM. Later on, we also checked out David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics and compared a few other schools of thought, which culminated in me reading  "Wholeness and the Implicate Order"  by Bohm. All of this happened because my college was teaching us Quantum Mechanics in the first year of engineering instead of clas...

Our Moon has Blood Clots, by Rahul Pandita If you were shocked to find senior journalists in India justifying a series of assaults on the Kashmiri Pandit community by factoring in economic disparities and cultural differences, and want to read literature that serves both as a horrifying account of violence against the Pandit community, as well as a polemic against crass and insensitive mainstream media, this is the book for you. These first-hand accounts of atrocities against the Kashmiri Pandit community leave you shaken; you grow to further despise and distrust the mainstream jargon about Kashmir that only focuses on brutality by the Indian state and the greatness of the separatist movement.  Pandita is generous with his writing; he starts off with a detailed history of Kashmir and Kashmiri Pandits, going as far back as the fourteenth century. You learn a lot about their customs, their poetry, their tales of Kashmiri life, as well as the multitudes of times the community has been...