2024 in numbers

Around this time each year, I take the opportunity to reflect on the past and plan for the future. In the past, I relied on an elaborate 20-page booklet filled with thoughtfully curated questions and exercises. The goal was to uncover patterns from the previous year and craft a vision for the year ahead. Over time, I developed my own system for simplicity and ease. I focused on areas of interest and created small trackers to monitor them throughout the year.

Yamaha FZ-S 2016

Owning a bike was a dream during college which became a reality within a year of leaving college. This bike was purchased on 16 Jan in 2017 and sold on 11 Nov 2024. It never dissapointed but when it was time to let it go, I let it go. While selling the bike, it had 30363 km on the odometer. Here is the odometer timeline and following that is a short chatGPT generated ode to the bike.

A Scala Interview

This was a coding interview in Scala. The problem statement was a simple one : Input = List(10, 10, 10, 10, 20, 30, 30, 10, 10, 40, 50, 50, 50, 50) Output = List(10, 20, 30, 10, 40, 50) Kindly eliminate the consecutive duplicates of the elements contained within this list. Approach 1 My first thought was to implement a temp variable based solution - introduce a “memory” element which keeps updating when encountering a new number and I ended up writing the below code -

A Deep Dive into my chess.com games

Since I created an account on chess.com in 2020, I have played an unhealthy amount of games on the website and all my games are saved in their database. The trail of data I have created over the years should contain huge secrets of my own gameplay, but the stats I see on my profile are too basic and do not offer useful plans to improve. If I could to decipher more from the data of my games, I could get potential insights into my strengths and weaknesses.