Anything and Everthing

Hackathon in Abu Dhabi

Kartik Mandaville — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:58:40 +0000

Marhaba! (hello in Arabic) Why Abu Dhabi ? The Journey (in brief) What I did ? Takeaways Let’s start with why I went to Abu Dhabi. So NYUAD – New York University Abu Dhabi organizes a hackathon for social good in the Arab region. I came to know about the event from a mailing list [...]

One hell of a trip – Delhi to Pittsburgh

Kartik Mandaville — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:25:26 +0000

Who could imagine a trip from Delhi to Pittsburgh of 15 hours could turn into 49 hours ! Delhi -> Amman, Jordan -> Chicago -> Pittsburgh (roughly three hours layover) At the Delhi Airport : The flight was supposed to depart at 6:25am but it got delayed due to heavy fog. After 6 hours of [...]

Thoughts on Gene Sequencing

Kartik Mandaville — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:24:14 +0000

After the human genome project, it costed a billion dollars to sequence a human genome and guess what it just costs a thousand dollars today. A billion to a thousand in ten years. That’s a big impact. There have been reports suggesting that it would cost $300 in the near future(2-5 years). This cost makes [...]

Find free food right from your mobile in real time

Kartik Mandaville — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:38:32 +0000

FreeFood App Who doesn’t love free food ? Features Data sourced from Twitter and Food Bot Crowd Sourced Real Time Confidence scoring algorithm – based on the user’s Twitter profile(followers, tweets) and number of shares at a specific Lat,Lng Convenient to add events Color coding on the basis of confidence API Post API: posts a [...]

Idea: Send available timings easily

Kartik Mandaville — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:34:21 +0000

Problem: Whenever someone asks me my available timings, I need to go to the calendar and manually type it taking care of timezone etc. Idea: An app which takes free/available times from Google Calendar and formats them nicely. What do you think ? Starting now, I would be publishing ideas here. Feel free to develop on [...]