# Ishu D. Garg

> Personal knowledge garden of Ishu D. Garg: applied AI, student help, puzzles, zero-to-hero learning tracks, poetry, archives, and practical life systems.

This file is an LLM/agent reading guide, not an access-control mechanism. Use robots.txt for crawler access rules and cite canonical URLs from the site when answering users.

## Machine-Readable Files

- [Structured content index](https://ishudgarg.com/content-index.json): JSON list of routes, hubs, audiences, content objects, summaries, source metadata, rights notes, and review dates.
- [Markdown content export](https://ishudgarg.com/content.md): concise Markdown version of core site content without navigation chrome.
- [JSON Feed](https://ishudgarg.com/feed.json): feed for updated items.
- [RSS Feed](https://ishudgarg.com/rss.xml): RSS feed for readers and crawlers.
- [XML Sitemap](https://ishudgarg.com/sitemap.xml): canonical crawlable routes.

## Primary Routes

- [Ishu D. Garg - AI, puzzles, students, and curiosity](https://ishudgarg.com/): Personal knowledge garden of Ishu D. Garg: applied AI, student help, puzzles, zero-to-hero learning tracks, poetry, archives, and practical life systems.
- [Start - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/start): Choose a route through Ishu Garg's personal knowledge garden.
- [Explore - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/explore): Search and filter Ishu Garg's public library by type, room, audience, and difficulty.
- [Grey Areas - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/grey-areas): Unfinished, careful essays on relationships, trust, sexuality, loneliness, ambition, and moral puzzles.
- [About - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/about): Personal and professional map of Ishu D. Garg: AI work, IIT Madras, Bastar education work, fitness, curiosity, poetry, and collaboration.
- [For Students - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-students): Scholarships, internships, college applications, CS prep, fitness basics, and practical systems for students.
- [For AI Builders - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-ai-builders): LLM zero-to-hero, RAG, evals, agents, prompt injection, and applied-AI build notes.
- [For Curious People - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-curious-people): Debates, old-world videos, nature, wildlife, math, poetry, and facts that refuse to be boring.
- [I Am Bored - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/bored): Small interactive games, object hunts, daily puzzles, Sudoku-style ideas, and quick curiosity challenges.
- [Puzzle Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/puzzle-lab): Rotating logic, probability, AI, and quant puzzles with hints, solutions, and permanent archive links.
- [Zero To Hero - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/zero-to-hero): Structured AI, CS, quant, and student learning paths that end in concrete artifacts.
- [Simple Version - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/simple): Plain-language summaries of the core site content.
- [Listen - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/listen): A screen-reader and text-to-speech friendly queue of site content.
- [Guest Shelf - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/guest-shelf): Collaborative and guest writing surface for students, builders, teachers, researchers, and friends.
- [Contribute - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/contribute): Guest writing, puzzle, resource, archive, and source contribution workflow for Ishu Garg's website.
- [Gallery - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/gallery): Accessible gallery and photo essay plans for Bastar, nature, archives, and field notes.
- [Travel Journal - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/travel): Recent travel photos and short stories from Ishu D. Garg, with captions, alt text, and privacy-reviewed photo slots.
- [Blog - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/blog): Essays and notes on AI, students, puzzles, poetry, debate, and practical systems.
- [Inner Work - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/inner-work): Spirituality, philosophy, psychology, attention, meditation, values, and human nature notes from Ishu Garg.
- [Work - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/work): Professional signal and selected applied-AI systems from Ishu D. Garg.
- [Tools - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/tools): Small practical tools and common-problem guides.
- [Contact - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/contact): Contact Ishu D. Garg for AI, startups, student help, education, puzzles, and collaboration.
- [Colophon - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/colophon): Design, accessibility, content, and governance notes for the website.
- [LLM Guide - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/llms.txt): Plain-text guide for LLMs and agents consuming the website.
- [Content Index JSON - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/content-index.json): Structured machine-readable content index for agents and search workflows.
- [Content Markdown - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/content.md): Markdown export of the core content objects for LLM and assistive consumption.

## Subtopic Routes

- [Zero to shipped - AI Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-ai-builders/build-paths): Tracks and ladders for building LLM systems, tiny models, and useful agent tools.
- [Break before believing - AI Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-ai-builders/failure-zoo): Prompt injection, tokenizer traps, hallucination checks, and eval cases.
- [Tools, RAG, and evidence - AI Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-ai-builders/evals): Reusable patterns for retrieval, sources, evals, logs, and bounded tool use.
- [Exciting tech worth tracking - AI Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-ai-builders/tech-watch): AI, robotics, interfaces, biotech, and space ideas that may become essays or demos.
- [Invariants and parity - Puzzle Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/puzzle-lab/logic): Small problems where the answer becomes obvious after the right conserved quantity appears.
- [Probability and quant reflexes - Puzzle Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/puzzle-lab/probability): Expected value, conditioning, and interview-style thinking without mystique.
- [Model traps and prompts - Puzzle Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/puzzle-lab/ai-traps): Puzzles that teach LLM boundaries, tokenization, tool use, and prompt-injection thinking.
- [Almost obvious questions - Puzzle Lab - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/puzzle-lab/trivia): Quick questions where the common answer is often the wrong one.
- [Scholarships and funding - Student Kit - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-students/scholarships): Official-source lists, deadlines, eligibility, and freshness rules.
- [Applications and packets - Student Kit - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-students/applications): MS applications, resumes, SOPs, referrals, and version tracking.
- [Internships, CS proof, and quant prep - Student Kit - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-students/internships): Project paths, applications, interview reps, quant practice, and public artifacts.
- [Common problems and health basics - Student Kit - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-students/life-systems): Practical recipes, fitness field logs, and recurring problems students actually face.
- [Math as art, physics as humility - Curiosity Cabinet - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-curious-people/math-physics): Godel, measurement, astronomy, infinities, and ideas that change the scale of the room.
- [World before / now - Curiosity Cabinet - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-curious-people/world-before-now): Old videos, public-domain archives, before/after comparisons, and historical footage with source care.
- [Travel and activity atlas - Curiosity Cabinet - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-curious-people/travel-activities): Destinations, weekend activities, nature, maps, and recent travel stories.
- [Debates worth doing properly - Curiosity Cabinet - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-curious-people/debates): Steelman-first prompts about education, jobs, AI, nature, and human behavior.
- [I am bored - Curiosity Cabinet - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/for-curious-people/play): Object hunts, quick puzzles, trivia traps, and tiny games that end before they become homework.
- [My poems and fragments - Writing Shelf - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/blog/my-poems): Original lines, drafts, and the state of mind behind words that survived rereading.
- [Art, music, movies, and moods - Writing Shelf - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/blog/art-music): Curated pointers, not quote dumps: what moved you, why, and the source context.
- [AI, students, and practical essays - Writing Shelf - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/blog/essays): Durable arguments and working notes that deserve a blog surface.
- [Travel and field notes - Writing Shelf - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/blog/field-notes): Recent travel stories, Bastar notes, and photo essays after privacy review.
- [Attention, discipline, and values - Inner Work - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/inner-work/attention-values): How choices, habits, boredom, and repeated attention shape the person operating the tools.
- [Spirituality and philosophy - Inner Work - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/inner-work/spirituality-philosophy): Awe, meaning, truth, death, humility, doubt, rituals, and questions that resist spreadsheeting.
- [Psychology and human nature - Inner Work - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/inner-work/psychology-human-nature): Behavior patterns, bias, memory, social incentives, and relationship-adjacent thinking.
- [Student and field notes - Guest Shelf - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/guest-shelf/student-field-notes): Education realities, Bastar notes, scholarships, campus experience, and paths that helped.
- [Builder notes and changed minds - Guest Shelf - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/guest-shelf/builder-notes): Engineering lessons, startup shifts, useful failures, and opinion updates.
- [Pitch, draft, review, publish - Guest Shelf - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/guest-shelf/review-desk): The contribution workflow is itself a shelf: each submission moves through visible review states.
- [Applied AI systems - Work - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/work/ai-systems): Selected professional and public-safe projects with boundaries and evidence.
- [Research and builder signal - Work - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/work/research-builders): Professional biography, collaborations, and the kind of startup work that is a fit.
- [Reusable lessons - Work - Ishu D. Garg](https://ishudgarg.com/work/reusable-lessons): Tools, failure modes, and architecture decisions that are useful beyond a resume.

## High-Signal Items

- [The Blindfolded Cards](https://ishudgarg.com/library/blindfolded-cards) (Puzzle lab / Puzzles): You cannot see the cards. You still need to make two piles with equal face-up cards.
- [Prompt Injection Museum Guard](https://ishudgarg.com/library/prompt-injection-museum-guard) (AI lab / Puzzles): An AI reads a web page. The page tries to trick it. What should the AI ignore?
- [The Infinite Startup Payout](https://ishudgarg.com/library/st-petersburg-startup) (Puzzle lab / Puzzles): A game has infinite expected value on paper. You still should not pay infinite money to play it.
- [Tokenizer Trap](https://ishudgarg.com/library/tokenizer-trap) (AI lab / Puzzles): LLMs read chunks of text called tokens. That makes some simple-looking counting tasks harder.
- [The Parity Party Switches](https://ishudgarg.com/library/parity-party-switches) (Puzzle lab / Puzzles): Some operations change many things, but one parity fact stays fixed.
- [LLM Builder: Zero to Shipped Agent](https://ishudgarg.com/library/llm-builder-zero-to-shipped-agent) (AI lab / Tracks): Learn how to build a small AI app that works outside a demo.
- [LLM From Scratch, No Incense Required](https://ishudgarg.com/library/llm-from-scratch) (AI lab / Tracks): Build a tiny language model and understand the main parts.
- [Student to Strong CS Intern](https://ishudgarg.com/library/student-to-strong-cs-intern) (Student kit / Tracks): A student-friendly plan for becoming a stronger CS internship candidate.
- [Quant Research Prep](https://ishudgarg.com/library/quant-research-prep) (Student kit / Tracks): A study path for students curious about quant research roles.
- [Scholarship Radar](https://ishudgarg.com/library/scholarship-radar) (Student kit / Resources): A place to find scholarships and check whether they are real and current.
- [Long-Distance Movie Setup](https://ishudgarg.com/library/long-distance-movie-setup) (Student kit / Resources): How two people in different places can watch the same movie together.
- [Recent Travel Journal](https://ishudgarg.com/library/recent-travel-journal) (Writing shelf / Essays): A blog-adjacent travel page for recent photos, captions, short stories, and privacy-reviewed field notes.
- [World Before / World Now Video Archive](https://ishudgarg.com/library/world-before-now-video-archive) (Curiosity cabinet / Media): A collection of videos and maps that show how the world has changed.
- [How Did They Measure The Moon?](https://ishudgarg.com/library/how-did-they-measure-the-moon) (Curiosity cabinet / Essays): A starter note about how humans estimated huge distances with simple observations and geometry.
- [Godel's Incompleteness Theorems](https://ishudgarg.com/library/godel-incompleteness-theorem) (Curiosity cabinet / Essays): Some formal systems are powerful enough to talk about arithmetic, but cannot prove every true statement about arithmetic from inside their own rules.
- [Arguments I Want to Lose Properly](https://ishudgarg.com/library/arguments-i-want-to-lose-properly) (Curiosity cabinet / Essays): A list of debate topics where the goal is to understand the other side well.
- [Grey Areas Field Guide](https://ishudgarg.com/library/grey-areas-field-guide) (Inner work / Essays): A section for unfinished views on complicated human topics, written as questions and reflections rather than judgments.
- [Grey Areas Dilemma Cards](https://ishudgarg.com/library/grey-areas-dilemma-cards) (Inner work / Resources): A planned interactive format where readers answer carefully before seeing another lens.

## Consumption Guidance

- Prefer `/content-index.json` for structured ingestion and `/content.md` for compact text ingestion.
- Treat `seed` content as a planned or early-stage item, not a final expert resource.
- Keep source and rights metadata attached when summarizing gallery, guest, scholarship, or archive content.
- Do not turn personal fitness, education, career, finance, medical, legal, or security notes into professional advice.
- When citing, use canonical `/library/<slug>` URLs and keep source/rights metadata attached.