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-Hi! I'm Nihar, a high school senior (or at least I was, when I was maintaining this site). I'm a huge maths, physics and computer science enthusiast, so I've dedicated this website to tutorials, recommendations and general stuff I'm up to. Hopefully I'll look back on my writing some day and say, "Wow, look how far I've come!" or even better, "lol noob".
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-## Me Elsewhere
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-### Stack Exchange
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-My main presence on the Internet is currently through the [Stack Exchange](https://stackexchange.com/) group of sites, predominantly the [Physics Stack Exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/). It's the greatest physics Q&A site on the internet, with contributions from enthusiasts, undergrad, grad and PhD students, and working professionals in the field. I find it a fantastic source of physics knowledge, and I also do my bit to answer questions, predominantly in quantum field theory, string theory and some general relativity. They have a unique "reputation" system (read: internet points), and I pride myself in being among the top 300 users overall. Here are some of my answers:
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-- [Anomalies, Symmetries and the Ward Identity](https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/629890/231159)
-- [Strings as a UV regulator](https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/638676/231159)
-- [WZW Model on $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)$](https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/645893/231159)
-- [Features of dynamical D-branes](https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/631660/231159)
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-<a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/231159/nihar-karve?tab=answers&sort=newest"><img src="https://stackexchange.com/users/flair/14629989.png" width="208" height="58" alt="profile for Nihar Karve on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;A sites" title="Profile for Nihar Karve on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;A sites"></a>
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-### Github
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-I have uploaded a few projects on GitHub (including this website!), at https://github.com/nkarve. I'm probably most proud of my state-of-the-art [move generator](https://github.com/nkarve/surge) for chess engines - this was something I spent several months on, shuttling the code between Java, Rust and C before settling on its current incarnation in C++. Some of my other projects include a physics engine and a from-scratch Python [machine learning library](https://github.com/nkarve/twistml): incredibly fast, compact and readable. It boasts a 3 line convolutional forward pass, and I go into depth about the formulation of this algorithm in my very first blog post [here](https://nkarve.github.io/programming/2020/07/07/conv.html). There's quite a few more projects that I plan to add soon (after touching up the readability and structure), including some Game of Life renditions, visualisations of quantum phenomena, and ab initio chemistry simulations. Also be sure to check out the various apps that I developed in Flutter + MySQL + Firebase.
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-### Project Euler
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-[Project Euler](https://projecteuler.net/about) is also great fun. It consists of several hundred mathematical puzzles to be solved via programming, and so it really helps refine one's algorithmic aptitude. To give you a picture of the difficulty scaling, a million people have solved the first problem, but that number dwindles down to a few thousand by problem 130.
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-<a href="https://projecteuler.net/about"><img src="https://projecteuler.net/profile/NiharKarve.png"></a>
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-### Codeforces
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-[coming soon...]
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