Analyzing war through the prism of humanity, empathy, and the duality of human nature — You can read this essay on my website “A curious emotion stirred in Winston’s heart. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already he had instinctively started…

Each scene of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is a painting. You cannot help but get immersed in the Georgian era, costumes, landscape. Kubrick often deliberately pauses his characters, slows down any movement, so that a viewer can scrutinize the scene as a painting. …

Everything about Synthetic Aperture Radars minus the concept of ‘speckle’ — The image above depicts the thunderstorms over Estonia in false color RGB with VV-, VH- and VV+, VH- polarization backscatter. I also had no clue what that meant. When talking about remote sensing images, one may assume a photo with colors of the objects visible to a human eye, such…

Dedicated to my grandfather. I regret not asking him to narrate me the stories of his life. But I am lucky to hear my grandmother talk about their lives spent together and the miseries they overcame; for life and struggles come in package. Brodsky has said something beautiful: “Whenever you…

A glimpse into important concepts and evolution of deep learning — This article introduces the emerging and popular area in Artificial Intelligence called Deep Learning and is based on Chapter 1 of the famous Deep Learning book by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville. The book was written in 2016 and can be considered to be old by today’s rapid…

“Stumbled, perhaps… but to stumble one must be moving.” — Great visionaries seem to be skilled at presenting their ideas and experience in a witty manner. They are also good at self-reflection. I noticed it first while reading the transcript of a famous speech by Richard Hamming, which amazed me in many ways, including with its “non-humble” style. Therefore, when…

Shortest Path Algorithm in Golang — Follows the implementation of Dijkstra and A* pathfinding algorithms in Go programming language. Obviously. The best article on the A star algorithm was unexpectedly on Wikipedia. Before reading further, I am assuming you already have some background knowledge on what both Dijkstra and A star pathfinding algorithms do (hint: they…

In the introductory article, we have already described some key concepts about software architecture. Now it’s time to dive in and learn about a concept called perspectives, which is a very important notion for a software architect to understand. Even though views and viewpoints are powerful, the need for specifying…

The scientific method is bogus, functional programming is good, time is a flat circle, and desert is beautiful — There is a top-notch TV show called True Detective, the first season of which was phenomenal (except for the last episode, the last episode was bad). …