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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.
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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
Feb 7, 20223 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
Sep 23, 20215 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...
Nihal Gulati
Aug 29, 20212 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 13, 20216 min read
A Brief Utterance
Writing essays is hard.
Nihal Gulati
Aug 9, 20211 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
Jul 15, 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 24, 20213 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, 20212 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
Jun 6, 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
May 26, 20213 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...
Nihal Gulati
Apr 18, 20212 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 31, 20213 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...
Nihal Gulati
Mar 26, 20214 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 21, 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 21, 20213 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
Mar 10, 20218 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 27, 20213 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...
Nihal Gulati
Feb 17, 20212 min read
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