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. en Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:16:24 GMT https://ishudgarg.com/library/blindfolded-cards https://ishudgarg.com/library/blindfolded-cards A clean invariant puzzle: split cards while blindfolded so both piles have the same number of face-up cards. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT puzzle https://ishudgarg.com/library/prompt-injection-museum-guard https://ishudgarg.com/library/prompt-injection-museum-guard A tiny LLM security challenge: separate trusted instructions from hostile page text. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT puzzle https://ishudgarg.com/library/st-petersburg-startup https://ishudgarg.com/library/st-petersburg-startup A probability puzzle about expected value, real-world constraints, and why math without context lies politely. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT puzzle https://ishudgarg.com/library/tokenizer-trap https://ishudgarg.com/library/tokenizer-trap A small LLM puzzle about why models can write beautifully and still stumble on character counting. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT puzzle https://ishudgarg.com/library/parity-party-switches https://ishudgarg.com/library/parity-party-switches A small parity puzzle where the trick is noticing what can never change, even when everyone is busy flipping switches. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT puzzle https://ishudgarg.com/library/llm-builder-zero-to-shipped-agent https://ishudgarg.com/library/llm-builder-zero-to-shipped-agent A practical path from prompting to RAG, evals, tools, agents, deployment, and failure analysis. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT track https://ishudgarg.com/library/llm-from-scratch https://ishudgarg.com/library/llm-from-scratch Tokenizer, embeddings, attention, training loop, mini-GPT, finetuning, and why scale changes behavior. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT track https://ishudgarg.com/library/student-to-strong-cs-intern https://ishudgarg.com/library/student-to-strong-cs-intern A realistic path through CS fundamentals, project taste, internship search, applications, and interview practice. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT track https://ishudgarg.com/library/quant-research-prep https://ishudgarg.com/library/quant-research-prep Probability, statistics, puzzles, Python, backtesting hygiene, and research taste for quant-curious students. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT track https://ishudgarg.com/library/scholarship-radar https://ishudgarg.com/library/scholarship-radar A maintained index for scholarships, eligibility, deadlines, and how to verify official sources. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/long-distance-movie-setup https://ishudgarg.com/library/long-distance-movie-setup A practical guide for watching movies together online without spending half the evening debugging audio. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/recent-travel-journal https://ishudgarg.com/library/recent-travel-journal Recent travel photos, short stories, captions, and small field notes, published only after photo and privacy review. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/world-before-now-video-archive https://ishudgarg.com/library/world-before-now-video-archive A video archive shelf for old footage, public-domain films, maps, timelapses, and data stories. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT media https://ishudgarg.com/library/how-did-they-measure-the-moon https://ishudgarg.com/library/how-did-they-measure-the-moon A curiosity note on ancient measurement, shadows, geometry, and the strange fact that people measured the sky before they had our tools. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/godel-incompleteness-theorem https://ishudgarg.com/library/godel-incompleteness-theorem A plain-language explainer for the mathematical result that makes formal systems feel slightly haunted, without turning it into vague mysticism. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/arguments-i-want-to-lose-properly https://ishudgarg.com/library/arguments-i-want-to-lose-properly A debate shelf for AI, education, nature, jobs, politics, and human nature, with steelman-first prompts. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/grey-areas-field-guide https://ishudgarg.com/library/grey-areas-field-guide A careful writing lane for relationships, trust, sexuality, loneliness, ambition, and moral puzzles where verdicts would arrive too early. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/grey-areas-dilemma-cards https://ishudgarg.com/library/grey-areas-dilemma-cards Interactive reflection cards for trust, relationships, identity, ambition, loneliness, and human messiness, with enough guardrails to avoid cheap verdicts. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/travel-destination-atlas https://ishudgarg.com/library/travel-destination-atlas A living map of places worth visiting, organized by why the place is memorable rather than by generic tourist adjectives. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/activity-menu-for-bored-curious-people https://ishudgarg.com/library/activity-menu-for-bored-curious-people A menu of activities that are more specific than 'go outside' and less exhausting than becoming a lifestyle influencer. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/im-bored-play-shelf https://ishudgarg.com/library/im-bored-play-shelf A small lane for find-the-object games, daily micro-puzzles, Sudoku-style constraints, quick logic sprints, and other tiny things that wake the brain up. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/exciting-tech-watchlist https://ishudgarg.com/library/exciting-tech-watchlist A watchlist for AI, robotics, space, biotech, interfaces, security, climate tech, and tools that feel like the future arrived wearing normal shoes. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/agent-failure-zoo https://ishudgarg.com/library/agent-failure-zoo A practical field guide to how AI agents fail: wrong tool, stale context, hidden authority, bad memory, and confident nonsense wearing a clipboard. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/rag-source-boundary-checklist https://ishudgarg.com/library/rag-source-boundary-checklist A builder checklist for retrieval systems: corpus scope, freshness, citations, refusal cases, and when the answer needs a human handoff. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/evals-before-agents https://ishudgarg.com/library/evals-before-agents A practical note on writing small pass/fail cases before adding tools, memory, autonomy, or impressive-looking agent loops. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/ai-app-hosting-map https://ishudgarg.com/library/ai-app-hosting-map A practical map for deciding whether an AI utility belongs as static content, an Astro island, a route-scoped app, an API-backed tool, or a separate app surface. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/quant-research-interview-map https://ishudgarg.com/library/quant-research-interview-map A map for probability, statistics, estimation, coding, simulations, and research judgment for students preparing for quant-style interviews. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/computer-science-as-art https://ishudgarg.com/library/computer-science-as-art A personal note for artists and curious people: algorithms, proofs, compilers, distributed systems, and type systems can be beautiful in their own medium. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/poems-that-churn-or-chirp https://ishudgarg.com/library/poems-that-churn-or-chirp A personal shelf for poems, lines, and states of mind that move from knowledge to realization. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT media https://ishudgarg.com/library/music-that-holds-a-mood https://ishudgarg.com/library/music-that-holds-a-mood A listening shelf for songs, scores, ragas, covers, and tiny sonic moments that explain a feeling better than a paragraph. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT media https://ishudgarg.com/library/ai-without-becoming-dumber https://ishudgarg.com/library/ai-without-becoming-dumber A student-facing essay series on using AI as a tutor, critic, simulator, and assistant while keeping your own judgment in the loop. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/cs-internship-radar https://ishudgarg.com/library/cs-internship-radar A practical, source-checked internship and application tracker for CS students who do not have a secret referral network. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/ms-application-resource-map https://ishudgarg.com/library/ms-application-resource-map A structured guide for students applying abroad: timelines, SOPs, recommenders, funding, and sanity checks. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/student-application-packet https://ishudgarg.com/library/student-application-packet A reusable packet for internships, scholarships, MS applications, cold emails, and mentor asks, so students stop rebuilding their story from scratch. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/debate-topic-atlas https://ishudgarg.com/library/debate-topic-atlas A rotating atlas of serious, funny, and uncomfortable debate prompts across AI, education, jobs, nature, politics, and human nature. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/break-the-llm-challenge https://ishudgarg.com/library/break-the-llm-challenge A playful challenge shelf for prompt injection, hallucination, tool misuse, tokenization, eval gaps, and other AI failure modes. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/fitness-journey-field-log https://ishudgarg.com/library/fitness-journey-field-log A practical personal log about losing fat, gaining strength, building community, and not pretending discipline is cinematic. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/inner-work-notes https://ishudgarg.com/library/inner-work-notes A living shelf for spirituality, philosophy, psychology, attention, values, meditation, and human nature. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/attention-operating-system https://ishudgarg.com/library/attention-operating-system A non-preachy note on attention, ambition, boredom, desire, phones, work, and the strange problem of wanting a life while being interruptible. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/student-application-operating-system https://ishudgarg.com/library/student-application-operating-system A practical student kit for scholarships, internships, college applications, referrals, documents, deadlines, and review loops. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/puzzle-technique-atlas https://ishudgarg.com/library/puzzle-technique-atlas A map of puzzle moves: parity, invariants, extremal arguments, expectation, symmetry, recursion, graph cuts, and simulation checks. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/curated-video-archive-protocol https://ishudgarg.com/library/curated-video-archive-protocol A reusable protocol for collecting lectures, old footage, films, demos, and public archives without breaking rights, speed, or context. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT media https://ishudgarg.com/library/ishus-dispatch-newsletter-plan https://ishudgarg.com/library/ishus-dispatch-newsletter-plan A future newsletter shape: one AI build note, one puzzle, one student resource, one curiosity window, and one sentence worth keeping. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT post https://ishudgarg.com/library/radar-to-page-source-packets https://ishudgarg.com/library/radar-to-page-source-packets A reusable workflow for turning discovered links into source-reviewed website objects without mixing candidates and published claims. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/quotes-with-context-shelf https://ishudgarg.com/library/quotes-with-context-shelf A curated shelf for Tolstoy, poets, philosophers, scientists, builders, and stray sentences that deserve context before admiration. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT resource https://ishudgarg.com/library/bhumisahayak https://ishudgarg.com/library/bhumisahayak AI land-records assistant for rural India, focused on practical use and careful verification. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT project https://ishudgarg.com/library/common-problems-index https://ishudgarg.com/library/common-problems-index An indexed collection of practical solutions for recurring student, work, relationship, and life logistics problems. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT project https://ishudgarg.com/library/ai-student-helper-system https://ishudgarg.com/library/ai-student-helper-system A public-safe project shell for an AI assistant that helps students find resources, prepare applications, and verify sources. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT project https://ishudgarg.com/library/micro-app-garden https://ishudgarg.com/library/micro-app-garden A future home for small utilities, games, calculators, AI labs, and experiments that stay fast, indexable, and isolated from the main site. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT project https://ishudgarg.com/library/bastar-student-field-note https://ishudgarg.com/library/bastar-student-field-note A guest-note slot for students, teachers, or volunteers writing what actually helped on the ground. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT guest https://ishudgarg.com/library/builders-who-changed-their-mind https://ishudgarg.com/library/builders-who-changed-their-mind Guest essays from startup people and engineers about one belief they abandoned after reality objected. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT guest https://ishudgarg.com/library/bastar-field-notes https://ishudgarg.com/library/bastar-field-notes A future photo essay surface for education work, places, classrooms, and context, gated by privacy and consent. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT gallery https://ishudgarg.com/library/world-before-now https://ishudgarg.com/library/world-before-now A visual shelf for archive frames, public-domain imagery, maps, and timelapse comparisons. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT gallery