Rishi Sharma https://rishisharma.in Engineering articles by Rishi Sharma en-us <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0013: The Baby That Changed Everything: The First Stored-Program Computer Runs]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0013-manchester-baby https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0013-manchester-baby Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0012: A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Shannon Invents Information Theory]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0012-shannon-information-theory https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0012-shannon-information-theory Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0011: The Science of Control: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0011-wiener-cybernetics https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0011-wiener-cybernetics Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0010: The Transistor: The Tiny Device That Ended the Vacuum Tube Age]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0010-transistor-bell-labs https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0010-transistor-bell-labs Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0009: ENIAC: Eighteen Thousand Vacuum Tubes and the Dawn of Electronic Computing]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0009-eniac-unveiled https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0009-eniac-unveiled Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0008: As We May Think: Vannevar Bush Dreams of the Thinking Machine's Memory]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0008-vannevar-bush-memex https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0008-vannevar-bush-memex Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0007: The Blueprint of Every Computer Ever Built: Von Neumann Architecture]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0007-von-neumann-architecture https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0007-von-neumann-architecture Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0006: Colossus: The Secret Electronic Brain That Cracked Lorenz]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0006-colossus-first-electronic-computer https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0006-colossus-first-electronic-computer Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0005: The First Artificial Neuron: McCulloch and Pitts Describe a Logical Brain]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0005-mcculloch-pitts-neuron https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0005-mcculloch-pitts-neuron Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0004: The Machine That Won a War: Turing's Bombe and the Breaking of Enigma]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0004-turing-bombe-enigma https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0004-turing-bombe-enigma Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0003: Gears and Logic: Konrad Zuse Builds the World's First Programmable Computer]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0003-zuse-z1-mechanical-computer https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0003-zuse-z1-mechanical-computer Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0002: Electricity Learns to Think: Shannon's Boolean Algebra for Circuits]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0002-shannon-boolean-circuits https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0002-shannon-boolean-circuits Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Inside SubQ: How a Fully Sub-Quadratic Sparse-Attention Architecture Actually Works]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/subq-sparse-attention-architecture https://rishisharma.in/articles/subq-sparse-attention-architecture Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0001: The Paper That Started Everything: Turing's "On Computable Numbers"]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0001-turing-computable-numbers https://rishisharma.in/articles/tmc-0001-turing-computable-numbers Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How Neural Networks Actually Learn: Backpropagation Explained]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/backpropagation-explained https://rishisharma.in/articles/backpropagation-explained Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Understanding Transformers: The Architecture Behind Modern AI]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/transformers-explained https://rishisharma.in/articles/transformers-explained Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Gradient Descent: The Algorithm That Trains Every Model]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/gradient-descent https://rishisharma.in/articles/gradient-descent Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Fine-Tuning BERT for Text Classification with Python and HuggingFace]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/fine-tuning-bert-python https://rishisharma.in/articles/fine-tuning-bert-python Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[BERT and the Attention Mechanism: How Transformers Actually Work]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/bert-attention-mechanism https://rishisharma.in/articles/bert-attention-mechanism Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Spring Framework: Why Dependency Injection Changed Java Development]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/spring-framework-early https://rishisharma.in/articles/spring-framework-early Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Hibernate: Mapping Java Objects to Database Tables]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/hibernate-orm-intro https://rishisharma.in/articles/hibernate-orm-intro Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Struts: MVC for Java Web Apps Before Spring MVC]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/struts-mvc-pattern https://rishisharma.in/articles/struts-mvc-pattern Sun, 08 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[EJB Entity Beans: Persistence Before Hibernate Made It Bearable]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/ejb-entity-beans-pain https://rishisharma.in/articles/ejb-entity-beans-pain Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[J2EE: Building Serious Business Applications in Java]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/j2ee-enterprise-java https://rishisharma.in/articles/j2ee-enterprise-java Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[J2ME: Writing Java Applications for Mobile and Embedded Devices]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/j2me-mobile-first-steps https://rishisharma.in/articles/j2me-mobile-first-steps Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Apache Ant: Automating Java Builds Before Maven Existed]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/ant-build-automation https://rishisharma.in/articles/ant-build-automation Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[CORBA vs RMI: Choosing Your Distributed Object Protocol in 1999]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/corba-vs-rmi-99 https://rishisharma.in/articles/corba-vs-rmi-99 Wed, 22 Dec 1999 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[SOAP Web Services: When XML Was Going to Save Enterprise Computing]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/soap-xml-web-services-99 https://rishisharma.in/articles/soap-xml-web-services-99 Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Logging Strategies for Distributed Java Applications in 1999]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/logging-distributed-apps-99 https://rishisharma.in/articles/logging-distributed-apps-99 Sun, 08 Aug 1999 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[WAP and the Mobile Web: The First Attempt at Browsing on Phones]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/wap-mobile-web-1999 https://rishisharma.in/articles/wap-mobile-web-1999 Tue, 08 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Load Testing Java Applications Before JMeter]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/performance-testing-early-1998 https://rishisharma.in/articles/performance-testing-early-1998 Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Pair Programming: The Most Efficient Way to Spread Knowledge in a Team]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/pair-programming-early https://rishisharma.in/articles/pair-programming-early Sun, 08 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Designing Software for Constrained Devices: RAM, CPU, and Battery]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/mobile-constraints-design https://rishisharma.in/articles/mobile-constraints-design Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Database Normalisation: When to Follow the Rules and When to Break Them]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/normalisation-practical https://rishisharma.in/articles/normalisation-practical Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Java I/O Streams: Reading and Writing Data Efficiently]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-io-streams https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-io-streams Thu, 22 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Exception Handling Patterns in Java: Beyond Try-Catch-Finally]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/exception-handling-patterns https://rishisharma.in/articles/exception-handling-patterns Thu, 08 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[JDBC Deep Dive: Talking to Databases the Hard Way in Java]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/jdbc-deep-dive https://rishisharma.in/articles/jdbc-deep-dive Mon, 08 Dec 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Estimating Software Work: Why We're Always Wrong and How to Be Less Wrong]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/estimating-software-wrong https://rishisharma.in/articles/estimating-software-wrong Sat, 22 Nov 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Technical Documentation That People Actually Read]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/writing-tech-docs-people-read https://rishisharma.in/articles/writing-tech-docs-people-read Sat, 08 Nov 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Why Code Review Culture Matters More Than Any Tool]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/code-review-culture-early https://rishisharma.in/articles/code-review-culture-early Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Iterative Development Before Agile Even Had a Name]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/iterative-dev-before-agile https://rishisharma.in/articles/iterative-dev-before-agile Wed, 08 Oct 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[What I Learnt Building My First Engineering Team at Motorola]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/building-first-eng-team https://rishisharma.in/articles/building-first-eng-team Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Debugging Distributed Systems: When the Error Is Three Hops Away]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/debugging-remote-systems https://rishisharma.in/articles/debugging-remote-systems Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[CVS: Surviving Code Merges Before Git Changed Everything]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/cvs-version-control-99 https://rishisharma.in/articles/cvs-version-control-99 Tue, 08 Jul 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[JVM Garbage Collection: Understanding Memory Without Black Magic]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/jvm-gc-tuning-basics https://rishisharma.in/articles/jvm-gc-tuning-basics Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Network Programming with Java Sockets: A Practical Walkthrough]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-socket-networking https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-socket-networking Thu, 22 May 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Building High Availability: Early Lessons from Distributed Systems at Motorola]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/high-availability-early-lessons https://rishisharma.in/articles/high-availability-early-lessons Thu, 08 May 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Gang of Four Design Patterns Applied in Real Java Projects]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-design-patterns-gof https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-design-patterns-gof Tue, 22 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[UML in Practice: Designing Systems Before Writing a Single Line of Code]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/uml-modelling-practice https://rishisharma.in/articles/uml-modelling-practice Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Multi-threading in Java: Concurrency Patterns from the Early Days]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-threads-concurrency-98 https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-threads-concurrency-98 Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Relational Database Design with MySQL: Getting the Schema Right]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/mysql-relational-design-98 https://rishisharma.in/articles/mysql-relational-design-98 Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Java RMI: Calling Methods Across the Network]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/rmi-distributed-java https://rishisharma.in/articles/rmi-distributed-java Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[SNMP: How Network Management Actually Works]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/snmp-protocol-internals https://rishisharma.in/articles/snmp-protocol-internals Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Java and Object-Oriented Programming: Getting It Right From the Start]]> https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-oop-late-90s https://rishisharma.in/articles/java-oop-late-90s Wed, 08 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT