THE NIHONIUM FILES

Welcome to The Nihonium Files, a blog where I, Nihal Gulati, a totally unqualified high-schooler, spew words about coding and writing and everything in between. I hope whatever lucky soul is reading this will enjoy my random thoughts.

Nihal Gulati

Feb 6, 20223 min read

The Sameness of Life

Human experience is a curious thing. Whenever or wherever you are, the present merely seems like the present. Your life feels remarkably...

Nihal Gulati

Sep 23, 20215 min read

Climate Change Is Bad :(

Here's an editorial I just wrote for the Octagon on the new IPCC report and what we can do. Also, Kurtzgeztagt, right after our issue was...

Nihal Gulati

Aug 29, 20212 min read

Fragment Of A Story, Cere Junda vs. Vader

Ferns rustled. A gentle wind blew. A not-quite-yellow sun shone warmly over the open field where the Jedi was meditating. But the scenery...

Doing Reinforcement Learning for my Internship!

Nihal Gulati

Aug 13, 20216 min read

Doing Reinforcement Learning for my Internship!

So, I've been working on my internship, actually, the last couple of weeks. It's really engaging stuff. The last time I updated you guys...

Nihal Gulati

Aug 9, 20211 min read

A Brief Utterance

Writing essays is hard.

Nihal Gulati

Jul 15, 20213 min read

The Not Diverted Post, College Stuff

Ok, now I get to actually talk about the college stuff I wanted to say last time. So, I'm a rising senior. Which is completely wild, by...

Nihal Gulati

Jun 23, 20213 min read

Coding A Webscraper!

Hey there readers! (Yes, all of my many, many, many readers, most of which are probably my two parents) Yeah, yeah, I know. Two weeks...

Nihal Gulati

Jun 6, 20212 min read

Senior Superlative - My Page Design

I've mentioned before that I'm a page editor for the Octagon, my school newspaper., meaning I essentially make one of the pages for our...

Nihal Gulati

Jun 6, 20213 min read

AP Psychology.....

Yeah, remember when I just said I was done with all of my AP exams? Well, I wasn't exactly. I still had my good old AP Psych exam just...

Nihal Gulati

May 26, 20213 min read

Happiness as a Goal

First off, I want to apologize for not posting the last couple of weeks. I've been incredibly busy with AP exams. If any of you are high...

Nihal Gulati

Apr 18, 20212 min read

Just take my Spotify playlists

So, I'm a big music listener, something that's not just common to me. Really, a large percentage of my grade, and all teenagers, I...

EM Drives and their physics-breaking behavior

Nihal Gulati

Mar 31, 20213 min read

EM Drives and their physics-breaking behavior

I’ve read a couple of articles recently about a really cool experiment, EM drives. An EM drive is supposed to be a thrust engine that...

Nihal Gulati

Mar 25, 20214 min read

What I do at The Octagon

So, I'm part of my school's newspaper, The Octagon. I'm currently a junior, joined in my sophomore year. Really, my reasons for joining...

Trying out deepfakes with artificial intelligence on my PC

Nihal Gulati

Mar 21, 20213 min read

Trying out deepfakes with artificial intelligence on my PC

Turns out I'm an easily distractible person. I though I was finished messing around with coding once I had set up GPT-2, a neural text...

Nihal Gulati

Mar 20, 20213 min read

Why we should fund space exploration

"Perseverance" by Brynne Barnard-Bahn (My editorial from my school newspaper, the Octagon) By NIHAL GULATI News Editor It’s an exciting...

Nihal Gulati

Mar 10, 20218 min read

MIT BattleCode 2021

This year, in January, I participated in MIT's BattleCode Competition. The competition, as the name suggests, is based in coding. Each...

Nihal Gulati

Feb 27, 20213 min read

Mining Cryptocurrency for Kicks

A photo of my PC. Ignore the terrible picture. So, a couple weeks ago, February 1st to be exact, I was sitting in my AP Physics class,...

Nihal Gulati

Feb 17, 20212 min read

What the heck is Nihonium anyway?

Nihonium. Kind of an odd name for a website, no? Sounds like a made up word. Well, it's not. Nihonium happens to be an element of the...

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