Miscellaneous notes and other remarks

This is just an assortment of casual stuff I find interesting not related to any academically-oriented field.

• Reading list
• Chess and shogi
• Music and anime
• Languages

Reading list

Academic

Some textbooks that I have been reading and solving lately, as well as any notes which I may have compiled about some of them.

Quantum stuff

• Theory of Quantum Information by John Watrous
• Quantum Information: An Introduction by Masahito Hayashi
• Quantum Information and Quantum Computation by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang

Theoretical CS

• Online Computation and Competitive Analysis by Allan Borodin and Ran El-Yaniv
• Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak
• Algebraic complexity theory by [add authors]

Math

• Matrix Analysis by Roger A Horn and Charles R Johnson
• An Introduction to Smooth Manifolds by John M Lee
• Abstract Algebra by David S Dummit and Richard M Foote
• History of the Theory of Numbers by Leonard Eugene Dickson

Non-academic

Non-fiction

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter
• The Tale of the Heike translated by Helen Craig McCullough

Science fiction

• Remembrance of Earth's Past by Cixin Liu
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K Le Guin
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Shogi

To be added soon. I plan on adding some resources which I found useful since beginning to learn shogi last year. Currently, I'm trying to move on from my roots in ranging rook openings and slowly learning to get used to central rook, and eventually static rook. I will also be updating my current interests along my journey as an absolute newbie.

Music

To be added soon. For now, I just want to let my love for Susumu Hirasawa's music be known to the whole world. For more insight into my music taste, you can check out my YouTube channel.

Anime

To be added soon. I have a lot to say about this topic (I mean, I did make a whole course project about recommending anime...) but I'm afraid I am equally skilled at procrastination.

Brief self-introduction

When I first found out that many people in the West usually don't speak more than two languages, and being multilingual is seen as an accomplishment, I was utterly surprised.

I grew up speaking four languages - English, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi - and I can understand Bangla too, so that makes five. My grandparents could also speak Kannada, but I wasn't able to learn much more than counting beyond ten.

I took up French when I first changed schools, and can speak at a DELF B level, so I'd say that counts as six languages I can use while shopping for groceries outside.

And yet... it's not enough, there's so much more to be learnt! The nuances of each language, and their differences in how they developed makes for an incredibly fascinating pastime that I have taken up learning some languages in my free time over the past year.

French

To be added soon.

Japanese

To be added soon.

Bangla

To be added soon.