The curious case of ‘Oumuamua
On the night of 19 October 2017, Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered something peculiar while reviewing image data from the …
Author: rishabh
Gravity: The Cosmic Mirage
In 1687, Isaac Newton mathematically demonstrated that the physics that govern the apple falling from the tree also govern the …
Drive Home by Steven Wilson – Vibe Check
Welcome to Vibe Check, a series of song “reviews” from the perspective of a listener. I cover Drive Home by …
The Great Conjunction of 2020
A Great Conjunction is when the planets Jupiter and Saturn, the solar system’s two largest, conjunct (or come closer/intersect) with …
Solar Minima is here!
The sun is blank, just like my mind most of the time 😂 This one from the “solar observatory” at …
Sunspot AR2767: The Lone Crusader
Sunspot AR2767, the lone crusader wandering on the face of our parent star. Seen on a sun-day. 😛 The Sun …
The Great Indian Solar Eclipse
Perhaps one of the finest astrophotography I’ve done so far – a montage of the solar eclipse of 21 June …
Speech-to-text and Text-to-speech with Android
Have you ever wondered how does Google’s speech search work, or ever thought of building an ebook narration app? At …
Kotlin Coroutines and Retrofit – A Practical Approach to Consuming REST APIs in Android
If you are a serious Android developer, consuming REST APIs at some point in your career is inevitable. This article …
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Building Heatmaps using Google Maps for Android
Heat maps are a popular way to represent data where each entity is associated with some intensity or magnitude. This …