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My ML/DL Portfolio
Here is a index of all my Ml/DL experiments.I largely focus on NLP. Do check out and share your comments feedbacks ! # Project Type ML/DL Domain Project Description Solution Link LB Score Rank 1 Kaggle NLP Movie Sentiment Review analysis Fasttext + BiLSTMCNN Notebook 0.70172 3rd 2 Kaggle NLP++ DonorsChoose.org Application Screening TfIdf +… Continue reading
Reading AI predictions – Part 2, Future of “jobs”, not so bleak
In the first edition of this multi-part series, I briefly touched upon the evolution of the machines with respect to our minds and how AI predictions are taken out of context. Also, I made a couple of counter-intuitive observations about jobs of the future. But the key takeaway is: AI is far from magic (at least when… Continue reading
Reading AI predictions – Part 1, Take’ em with a pinch of salt
Please start with the original post and come back to the updates. So, you will know how the updates dovetail with the substance of this original post. Update 13/Nov/2018: Here is another piece by Twiggle on medium that validates the substance of this series. Update 27/July/2018: I recently came across this book and the substance… Continue reading
What is Observability ?
There has been a lot of movement around observability (more precisely system observability) in the DevOps world of late, which is nothing but a control system terminology for monitoring production systems. Here is a much-needed rant about it. So what is Observability? Observability is an attribute of a system that lets the users understand how “it… Continue reading
What happens when boundary cases are not tested in the real world ?
Disclaimer: This post is neither intended to denigrate engineering folks at Zomato nor intended to hurt anybody’s’ feelings. I am just recording my experiences with the food ordering app – Zomato. I have used Yelp, Burpple, and Zomato at different points in time of my life and I love all three of them equally. Please… Continue reading
A real-world case for PWA (Progressive Web Apps)
After Google, I/O 2018 a friend of mine asked me about what are progress web apps (PWA) and what’s the case for them. Well, there are a ton of resources on the web that you can get your hands-on. I am not going into the technicalities. But I just wanted to share my experiences with… Continue reading
Quora: How do you choose a machine learning algorithm ?
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Extreme vetting for capitalism
The ecology and the economy Charles Darwins’ Natural selection theory explains how the ecological balance is maintained on planet earth. Natural selection theory is an overarching biological algorithm and it operates across the spectrum of living organisms, from bacteria to blue whales. Gravity to physics is Natural selection to Biology. So it sort of takes care of the extreme… Continue reading
Fighting climate change at scale and pace
Decentralization: Dilution of power and authority The fundamental idea behind the cryptocurrency revolution (almost synonymous to Bitcoin revolution) is the paranoia that banks and financial systems, the fabric of the modern economics and the quintessential intermediaries can make some grave mistakes again which can potentially cause a financial meltdown (like the one that happened in… Continue reading