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  • Jun 1, 2024

    Simulating Prisoner's Dilemma

    A recent Veritasium video sparked my interest in Game Theory, and I decided to try to implement some of the experiments in it.

    When I was talking about this with a friend of mine, she incessantly pushed me to write an article about it in Marathi in a magazine. This is a post accompanying the article. I will only discuss the implementation in this post. I would highly recommend watching the Veritasium video before reading further. Derek has done a phenomenal job in this one.

    The word “game” in game theory makes it seem that it is related to (possibly silly) computer or board games. But that is not true. In game theory, we create models which attempt to replicate real life situations in terms of rules and some scoring system to measure the outcomes. A “game” also has rules and a scoring system, hence the name.

    Prisoner’s Dilemma is one of the famous games in game theory. You can read about it here.

    We are going to implement an inverted version of this game. The rules of our game are as follows:

    There are two players who can either cooperate with each other or defect. If both cooperate, they each get 3 points. If one cooperates and the other defects, the defector gets 5 points while the cooperator gets 0. If both defect, they each get 1 point.

      Player 1 cooperates Player 1 defects
    Player 2 cooperates P1 - 3
    P2 - 3    		 P1 - 5
    P2 - 0
    Player 2 deffects P1 - 0
    P2 - 5    		 P1 - 1
    P2 - 1

    My plan is to implement a two player version first and then implement a multi-player version (which will be a new post).

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  • Apr 9, 2023

    Raag Mishra-Charukeshi in Luxembourg

    This is from one of the recordings we did in Luxembourg after the Indian classical music workshop KG Westman and I conducted.
    The base composition is composed by KG Westman.


    KG Westman - Sitar
    Mohammed Abuzekry - Oud
    Ahmed Radwan - Violin
    Achal Murthy - Bass

    Gratitude to Adham Al-Sayyad and to the Belong team for organizing the workshop and the recording.



  • Jun 21, 2022

    Our new album - Zafaran - is out!

    We recently recorded a music album which is a mix of Indian, Swedish and Egyptian music. The songs are composed by KG Westman. I got to collaborate with two incredible musicians from Egypt - Adham Al Sayyad and Ahmed Radwan. Here’s the album:


    My favourites are Piloo, Kaaphal Hill and Hårgalåten!

    Hope you like it! :)



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