THE NIHONIUM FILES
Welcome to The Nihonium Files, a blog where I, Nihal Gulati, a totally unqualified high-schooler, spew words about coding and writing and everything in between. I hope whatever lucky soul is reading this will enjoy my random thoughts.
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The Sameness of Life
Human experience is a curious thing. Whenever or wherever you are, the present merely seems like the present. Your life feels remarkably...
Climate Change Is Bad :(
Here's an editorial I just wrote for the Octagon on the new IPCC report and what we can do. Also, Kurtzgeztagt, right after our issue was...
Fragment Of A Story, Cere Junda vs. Vader
Ferns rustled. A gentle wind blew. A not-quite-yellow sun shone warmly over the open field where the Jedi was meditating. But the scenery...
Doing Reinforcement Learning for my Internship!
So, I've been working on my internship, actually, the last couple of weeks. It's really engaging stuff. The last time I updated you guys...
A Brief Utterance
Writing essays is hard.
The Not Diverted Post, College Stuff
Ok, now I get to actually talk about the college stuff I wanted to say last time. So, I'm a rising senior. Which is completely wild, by...
Coding A Webscraper!
Hey there readers! (Yes, all of my many, many, many readers, most of which are probably my two parents) Yeah, yeah, I know. Two weeks...
Senior Superlative - My Page Design
I've mentioned before that I'm a page editor for the Octagon, my school newspaper., meaning I essentially make one of the pages for our...
AP Psychology.....
Yeah, remember when I just said I was done with all of my AP exams? Well, I wasn't exactly. I still had my good old AP Psych exam just...
Happiness as a Goal
First off, I want to apologize for not posting the last couple of weeks. I've been incredibly busy with AP exams. If any of you are high...
Just take my Spotify playlists
So, I'm a big music listener, something that's not just common to me. Really, a large percentage of my grade, and all teenagers, I...
EM Drives and their physics-breaking behavior
I’ve read a couple of articles recently about a really cool experiment, EM drives. An EM drive is supposed to be a thrust engine that...
What I do at The Octagon
So, I'm part of my school's newspaper, The Octagon. I'm currently a junior, joined in my sophomore year. Really, my reasons for joining...
Trying out deepfakes with artificial intelligence on my PC
Turns out I'm an easily distractible person. I though I was finished messing around with coding once I had set up GPT-2, a neural text...
Why we should fund space exploration
"Perseverance" by Brynne Barnard-Bahn (My editorial from my school newspaper, the Octagon) By NIHAL GULATI News Editor It’s an exciting...
MIT BattleCode 2021
This year, in January, I participated in MIT's BattleCode Competition. The competition, as the name suggests, is based in coding. Each...
Mining Cryptocurrency for Kicks
A photo of my PC. Ignore the terrible picture. So, a couple weeks ago, February 1st to be exact, I was sitting in my AP Physics class,...
What the heck is Nihonium anyway?
Nihonium. Kind of an odd name for a website, no? Sounds like a made up word. Well, it's not. Nihonium happens to be an element of the...