Alok Govil https://alokgovil.com/ Simplifier in Science, Technology, and Life Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:29:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://alokgovil.com/wp-content/uploads/root/cropped-alok-govil-32x32.jpg Alok Govil https://alokgovil.com/ 32 32 Experiencing the Milky Way https://alokgovil.com/experiencing-the-milky-way/ https://alokgovil.com/experiencing-the-milky-way/#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:29:07 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=673 Given my interest in sciences, I had seen Saturn with a consumer-grade telescope (looked like a line going through a dot), Jupiter with four of its moons (the sight Galileo would have had). 🙂 Seeing the Milky Way in the night sky was not coming. I knew where in the sky it is supposed to […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/experiencing-the-milky-way/feed/ 0 Artificial Light Pollution https://alokgovil.com/artificial-light-pollution/ https://alokgovil.com/artificial-light-pollution/#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:25:46 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=661 Artificial lights have helped us correct an imbalance that existed in nature for us — Nights are typically longer as compared to the amount of sleep our brains need. We’ve however taken the artificial illumination to another extreme, where it has detrimental effects on nature and on our own health too. This post is inspired […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/artificial-light-pollution/feed/ 0 The Science of Decision Making https://alokgovil.com/the-science-of-decision-making/ https://alokgovil.com/the-science-of-decision-making/#respond Sun, 09 Aug 2020 15:04:13 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=636 Here are photos from a new session I developed and delivered recently at Amazon; attended by about 200 people (online, given the pandemic). The session is still under construction actually; feels perhaps only 5-20% complete. I’ll be continuing to build this. Median feedback rating: 4.8 stars out of 5.0. Most loved it, except one person […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/the-science-of-decision-making/feed/ 0 Neural Networks at DDU College https://alokgovil.com/neural-networks-at-ddu-college/ https://alokgovil.com/neural-networks-at-ddu-college/#respond Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:12:47 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=621 Here’re a few photos from a session Purav Aggarwal and I took at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College on Neural Networks in February. In the four hour workshop, we introduced the topic to the students (about 60 of them, from 1st/2nd/3rd years, various streams) from scratch. Whereas the professor had asked to explain the industry specifics, we insisted […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/neural-networks-at-ddu-college/feed/ 0 Engineering Drawing of a Sphere https://alokgovil.com/engineering-drawing-of-a-sphere/ https://alokgovil.com/engineering-drawing-of-a-sphere/#respond Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:26:14 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=612 Back in college, I had missed a few engineering drawing classes because of a family event. Once caught up, I had some “A-ha” moments with it. Home works aside, I tried making one of my own, just to see. 🙂 The following isn’t art; it’s purely engineering. 🙂 It’s made using those tools. I did […]

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