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John Twipraham Debbarma

B.Tech + M.Tech (Dual Degree) CSE, IIT Gandhinagar · Graduating 2027. Building at the intersection of machine learning, robotics and the arts.

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Concepts I'm
wrestling with.

Engineering notes on machine learning, robotics, sensor fusion, graphics — anything I had to think hard about that week. New posts daily or weekly depending on what's in front of me.

Topicscadcssdesigndistributed-systemsengineering-graphicsgraphicsmetamlraftwriting

Latest · 17 September 2026

Twenty-eight parts, ten people, one Formula One car

In first year, ten of us modelled a Formula One car in Autodesk Inventor, one component each and then some. I drew the middle chassis with its side air ducts and cockpit display, and the control pedal. What stayed with me was not the CAD — it was what a drawing sheet refuses to let you leave vague.

4 min read· cad· design· engineering-graphicsRead

Earlier posts

  1. 12 September 2026

    Checkpointing a training run into Raft

    A parameter server's coordinator is the one process a data-parallel run can't afford to lose. Here's what I put through consensus in Many-As-One, what I deliberately kept out of it, and the lost-write bug that taught me the difference between acknowledged and committed.

    distributed-systemsraftml
    5 min
  2. 22 May 2026

    Why I'm writing in public

    Engineering notes, not announcements — concept-first posts on whatever I'm wrestling with that week. Here's the rationale, the cadence, and the shape of what shows up next.

    metawriting
    2 min
  3. 21 May 2026

    Refraction in CSS — building Apple's Liquid Glass with feDisplacementMap

    Apple's Liquid Glass aesthetic looks like real glass because it bends the content behind it. Real refraction comes from feDisplacementMap driven by smoothed turbulence — here's the recipe, the optics, and why scale ≈ 9 falls out of a refractive index near 1.5.

    cssgraphicsdesign
    4 min

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