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Nish Tahir

Principal Software Engineer. I write about engineering and fun projects I work on.

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Getting started with VHDL

VHDL is descriptive[1] language used to describe digital systems. It's an acronym which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language. VHSIC is also an acronym which stands for Very High Speed Integrated Circuits[1:1]. It was designed by our good friends, the United States Department of Defense

Fuzzy string matching using cosine similarity

Lately i've been dealing quite a bit with mining unstructured data[1]. This often involved determining the similarity of Strings and blocks of text. One of the more interesting algorithms i came across was the Cosine Similarity algorithm. It's a pretty popular way of quantifying the

Exploring Java bytecode

Java is a phenomenal language in a lot of ways. It has a relatively simple syntax. It's well documented and super easy to get familiar with. Getting started is easy. You write your source in a *.java file and run it through the java compiler using javac which

Getting into Embedded Systems

So it looks like i'm going to be going a little bit into the world of embedded device programming. Which is pretty different from what I consider to be your run of the mill software development. For starters, instead of the common 500 Gigabytes (GB) of hard drive

My experience with Windows 10

A lot of us acknowledge Windows as the operating system that we love to hate. Whether it's at the office, work or that gas pump that you never really gave a second thought, it's really hard to get by without having to deal with a little