<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Uday Parmar</title><link>https://www.udayparmar.in/</link><description>Recent content on Uday Parmar</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.udayparmar.in/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Books</title><link>https://www.udayparmar.in/shelf/books/</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:20:09 +0530</pubDate><guid>https://www.udayparmar.in/shelf/books/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Books that I read and enjoyed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="tech"&gt;Tech&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gopl.io/"&gt;The Go programming language&lt;/a&gt; by Alan A. A. Donovan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/http-the-definitive/1565925092/"&gt;HTTP The definitive guide&lt;/a&gt; by David Gourley and Brian Totty&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests"&gt;Learn go with tests&lt;/a&gt; by Chris James&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-machine-learning/9781492032632/"&gt;Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow&lt;/a&gt; by Aurélien Géron&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-pytorch"&gt;Deep Learning with PyTorch&lt;/a&gt; by Eli Stevens, Luca Antiga, and Thomas Viehmann&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edition/"&gt;Practical Vim&lt;/a&gt; by Drew Neil&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/rest-api-design/9781449317904/"&gt;REST-API Design Rulebook&lt;/a&gt; by Mark Massé&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="fiction"&gt;Fiction&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61439040-1984"&gt;1984&lt;/a&gt; by George Orwell&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1428.By_the_River_Piedra_I_Sat_Down_and_Wept"&gt;By the River Piedra I sat down and wept&lt;/a&gt; by Paulo Coelho&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm"&gt;Animal Farm&lt;/a&gt; By George Orwell&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forerunner_Saga"&gt;Halo The Forerunner Saga series&lt;/a&gt; by Greg Bear&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="non-fiction"&gt;Non-fiction&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18290401"&gt;Show Your Work&lt;/a&gt; by Austin Kleon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morrie"&gt;Tuesdays with Morrie&lt;/a&gt; By Mitch Albom&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38315.Fooled_by_Randomness"&gt;Fooled by Randomness&lt;/a&gt; by Nassim Nicholas Taleb&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War"&gt;The Art of War&lt;/a&gt; by Sun Tzu&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41881472-the-psychology-of-money"&gt;The Psychology of Money&lt;/a&gt; by Morgan Housel&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>Articles</title><link>https://www.udayparmar.in/shelf/articles/</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:20:20 +0530</pubDate><guid>https://www.udayparmar.in/shelf/articles/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Some of the great articles I read and enjoyed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://nowherethis.svs.io/2023/10/05/the-invitation"&gt;The Invitation&lt;/a&gt; by svs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://paulgraham.com/noob.html"&gt;Being a Noob&lt;/a&gt; by Paul Graham&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://adityatelange.in/blog/papermod-went-viral/"&gt;My GitHub Project went viral&lt;/a&gt; by Aditya Lenge&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/keep-yourself-unblocked"&gt;How to keep yourself unblocked&lt;/a&gt; by Arpit Bhayani&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html"&gt;What we got right, What we got wrong&lt;/a&gt; by Rob Pike&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bytesizego.com/blog/one-billion-row-challenge-go"&gt;One Billion Rows Challenge in golang&lt;/a&gt; by Shraddha Agrawal&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://lelouch.dev/blog/you-are-probably-not-dumb/"&gt;You are not dumb, you just lack prerequisites&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="https://x.com/lelouchdaily"&gt;lelouch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://medium.com/@anferneeck/the-red-car-theory-steering-your-way-to-unseen-opportunities-a45dd1f10cf3"&gt;The Red Car Theory&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="https://medium.com/@anferneeck"&gt;Anfernee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>Essay on Into the Wild</title><link>https://www.udayparmar.in/blog/into-the-wild-brief-introduction/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.udayparmar.in/blog/into-the-wild-brief-introduction/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="essay-on-into-the-wild"&gt;Essay on &lt;em&gt;Into the Wild&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Into the Wild&lt;/em&gt; tells the true story of Christopher McCandless, who abandons his comfortable life to travel across America in search of freedom and meaning. The movie tracks his path through the natural world, which helps him develop his understanding of life and independence through his experiences, which demonstrate how modern society exists in opposition to a simple existence that embraces nature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The movie raised an essential question that I kept thinking about throughout the film: &lt;strong&gt;should we hurt our loved ones for our freedom?&lt;/strong&gt; Christopher chooses complete independence, which made me wonder whether it is possible to be &lt;strong&gt;halfway independent&lt;/strong&gt;, or whether life must be lived in an &lt;strong&gt;all-or-nothing way&lt;/strong&gt; like McCandless believed.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Papar Platform</title><link>https://www.udayparmar.in/projects/paper_platform/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.udayparmar.in/projects/paper_platform/</guid><description>A project: Paper Platform — repository and overview.</description></item><item><title>AI Trip Planner</title><link>https://www.udayparmar.in/projects/ai_trip_planner/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.udayparmar.in/projects/ai_trip_planner/</guid><description>AI Trip Planner - Overview</description></item><item><title>Shazam Algorithm</title><link>https://www.udayparmar.in/projects/shazam_algorithm/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.udayparmar.in/projects/shazam_algorithm/</guid><description>Shazam Algorithm implementation — repository and overview.</description></item><item><title>Papers</title><link>https://www.udayparmar.in/shelf/papers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:20:40 +0530</pubDate><guid>https://www.udayparmar.in/shelf/papers/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf"&gt;Attention is all you need&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03735.pdf"&gt;Pre-train, Prompt and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modelling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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