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exFAT Ubuntu: Enable exFAT file system on Ubuntu

March 28, 2017April 23, 2017 akshay pai 0 Comments ExFAT, exfat ubuntu, filesystem, ubuntu

Introduction exFAT (extended file allocation table) is a Microsoft file system that was developed specifically for large storage. All these

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6 Common Errors While Building a Raspberry Pi supercomputer

March 25, 2017April 23, 2017 akshay pai 4 Comments errors, MPI, parallel processing, raspberry pi, raspberry pi supercomputer, source dexter, sourcedexter, supercomputer

Though the Internet is a vast resource for getting a Raspberry pi supercomputer up and running, there is no full

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Manipulating image pixels with python scikit image – color schemes

February 28, 2017June 5, 2018 akshay pai 1 Comment binarization, grayscale, hsv, otsu, pixels, python, rgb, rgb2grey, scikit, scikitimage, threshold, thresholding

Scikit Image is an image processing library in python. It is a huge collection of algorithms and available for free

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Book Reviews #2 – krishnavatara, and then there were none, and more

February 5, 2017April 13, 2019 akshay pai 0 Comments agatha christie, ant and the elephant, Book reviews, douglas adams, galaxy, hitchhiker's guide, km Munshi, krishnavatara, magic flute, vince poscente

From the time I’ve written the last set of book reviews, I have mostly read fictional books and one on leadership.

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Book Reviews #1 : White Tiger, Elon Musk, Rahul Dravid, and more

January 21, 2017April 13, 2019 akshay pai 2 Comments aravind adiga, elon musk, rahul dravid, spacex, tesla, timeless steel, white tiger

I have started to read a lot and I figured that I could share what I read with others who

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Smartphone and you – How to improve your sleep quality

January 5, 2017July 15, 2017 akshay pai 4 Comments blue light, boilogical clock, health, sleep cycle, sleep quality, smartphone, source dexter, sourcedexter, well being

On a high level, i’ve tried to explain the inner workings of our sleep cycle and detailed the effects of smartphones on the human body and a few ways to improve our health and live better.

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How to build MPI for python on a Raspberry Pi cluster

January 5, 2017May 9, 2017 akshay pai 1 Comment cluster, MPI, mpi for python, mpi4py, python, raspberry pi, source dexter, sourcedexter

Building a Raspberry Pi cluster is hard work and requires a lot of time and patience. My team and I

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Raspberry Pi Tutorials : how to assign static IP and change hostname

September 2, 2016July 18, 2017 akshay pai 0 Comments cluster, Hostname, mini supercomputer, raspberry pi, raspberrypi, respbian, source dexter, sourcedexter, SSH

Making a Raspberry Pi cluster requires an initial setup to be performed. Here I assume that the OS that is

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ARM chips and their benefits in a Raspberry Pi

August 26, 2016April 23, 2017 akshay pai 1 Comment ARM, chipset, cluster, message passing, MPICH, Raspberry Model B, raspberry pi

In the process of building a Raspberry Pi cluster, I came across a few libraries for inter-node communication. I was

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Build your own steganography tool with python

August 11, 2016April 23, 2017 akshay pai 1 Comment lorem ipsum, python, source dexter, sourcedexter, steganography

Steganography is the process of hiding text or files like images, documents etc within another file like an image, audio,

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