The Brain of Nimish

Moving to Wordpress...sometimes

Different tools have different uses. Ghost is great for creating something like a long-form Facebook post. Doing more, though, requires a more powerful tool. Despite its dated interface and feel, Wordpress has the community and ecosystem needed to run a more 'serious' site. So I'll be moving more professional work

Linguistics

The linguist in me sees the linguist in you

What does 'namaste' actually mean?

Visualizations

Word2Vec on Swedish Parliament Speeches

Can we find biases in political speeches with word2vec?

Startup Culture

An honest response to "Will you work late?"

[Note: this is a re-working of an older medium post I've written] "Will you work late?" It's one of the worst questions to hear from a prospective employer. Other forms of the question include: Are you ready to do 'whatever it takes' to ship on time? Will you

Visualizations

Sweden: Crime vs Fear

Crime vs Fear of Crime for Sweden (Data from 2016 crime surveys)

Visualizations

Wikipedia Clickstream Visualization

The Wikimedia Foundation has recently released Clickstream data.[1] This is the data that shows the "clicking around randomly" effect we're all familiar with when browsing Wikipedia.[2] I tried to do some initial clustering analysis on it, but thought, for the time being, it might be more

Visualizations

Changes in Danish Political Parties from 2009 to 2011

Open in new window --- Political Support as Percentages There have been plenty of maps showing the outcome of the Danish 2015 election, though I don't know of any (so far) that look at percentage changes. I thought it would be interesting to take the percentage of votes each party

Visualizations

Sweden Population Visualization

Open in new window --- Sorry about the painful navigation above. I wasn't sure what the best way to embed it would be. How to read this This shows the population change in Sweden from 1749 to (as of this writing) 2015 according to Statistika Centralbyrån. There are 3 different

Internationalizing a static site with PHP and nginx

I'm getting married (yay!) and a majority of the guests speak some combination of Swedish, Nepali, or English. I thought it would be nifty to have a multi-lingual wedding site, where the same URL would present different language versions of the same content based on the user. Here's how I

Org-Mode: the reason to use Emacs

Org-mode is a subsystem inside the emacs text editor that's used for making todo lists and organizing tasks. Why it's awesome I've tried to find some task-tracking system that works for me personally for years now. Despite all the high tech solutions available, I've always used pen and paper and

Tech

Ergodox - one week in

(continued from earlier) I've been typing on my Ergodox keyboard for about a week now. First off, though, the keycaps haven't come in, so I've had to make due with a standard set from a normal keyboard. This means that the keys are raisesd (the Ergodox was designed for flat

Tech

Ergo all the way

The problem A few weeks ago, I noticed my right pinkie was sore. Not just sore, but it felt like it'd been severely strained. I started looking at what I did all day. Here's the keyboard I use at work, with all the keys I use my right pinkie for

Philosophy

Infinite Hype

After several years, I'm suddenly working for a for-profit. Not just a for-profit, but one that exists in the realm of "Social Media". I still don't know how I feel about that. Generally, my eyes glaze over and my brain tunes out when I hear the phrase. When

Tech

History auto-complete in bash

Sometimes, when using bash, you want to find a command in your history that starts with something you remember. Rather than scrolling through hundreds of commands that just read cd, ls, pwd, etc, you can search your bash history. Put the following in your .bashrc file: bind '"\e[

rambling

Hello World: A web presence

I finally have a web presence. I bought a domain name a few years back and literally never used it for anything. I was able to repurchase it, thankfully. I think, working in the world of computers, I felt that I would be expected to make something amazing as my