During my 15-month internship at HP Inc., I dove into machine learning forecasting, tackling challenges from SKU-level predictions to data management. Collaborating with the SPaM team, utilizing innovative tools, and embracing HP’s culture of innovation and failure, I emerged with invaluable skills, insights, and memories.
My notes on talks I attended (mostly on LLMs) at 29th ACM SIGKDD 2023 at Long Beach, CA
This piece explores the intricacies of coffee, from the influence of its origin and roasting process to the importance of freshness and brewing techniques, primarily from my experience.
Sometimes, a journey far from home can unexpectedly transport you back to cherished memories. Such was my experience during my two-day sojourn in Seattle, the Emerald City.
From dry deserts to panoramic mountain vistas, I experienced the unique blend of adventure, history, and tranquility in this 10-day trip through vibrant canvas of the United States.
This post provides a detailed guide to customizing the Hugo Apero template, focusing on changing themes, adding a search bar, and altering fonts for a truly personalized blogging experience.
I needed to compare two data frames with over five million rows. I asked ChatGPT for help. I ended up learning about SHA-256 and hashes.
Curious about ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that’s making waves? Dive into this article to learn how it generates human-like responses and its many applications. Get insights into both its strengths and limitations, while understanding why it’s essential to approach its responses with a critical eye.
In this blog post, I explore who are the Twitter Blue subscribers. It is not celebrities, businesses or governments. It is our regular old Joe with fewer than a hundred followers.
Height of the building determines the sunlight exposure, chess-block organisation helps with high-rise congestion and how zoning laws are hurting Americans.
Through the chitta-vritis of pramana, smriti, nidra, vikalpa, and viparyaya, Patanjali offers insights into the workings of the mind and how we can cultivate greater awareness and understanding of our own mental processes.
Revolutionary changes are cyclical. First was agriculture. More recent one was the growth of industries, powered by pooling. It looks like AI is the latest one.
Instead of relying solely on previously published psychological research, I suggest conducting personal experiments on oneself to test and develop new behaviors and attitudes. Experimentation is a cheap and effective way to determine what works best for you, and it allows for personalised results that can be applied directly to one’s life.
A ten-year-old kid was beginning his high school journey when he had to learn a third language. He was already learning two languages: his mother tongue Hindi and the common-speak English. But neither of them had prepared him for Sanskrit.
Religion is a manufactured construct of stories. Arguing which religion is ‘better’ is futile. They all say different things but mean the same: do good, avoid evil and be calm.
Between Dec 15 and 25 of 2022 I attended a meditation course called Vipassana. Vipassana is a Pali word that means ‘seeing things as they are’. The course promised me to teach how to have a clear awareness of exactly what is happening as it happens. It is a form of mindfulness meditation.
This winter I visited Pushkar, home to the iconic Pushkar Lake and one of the few Brahma temples in the world. It is a town where tranquility and vibrancy coexist, where ancient mythology mingles with a modern lifestyle. Explore the flavors of Pushkar, the colorful markets, and learn the stories behind the rarity of Brahma temples.
Twitter is shutting down Revue, the newsletter platform that I use for Next. Thus, I’m migrating to Substack. You shouldn’t need to do anything on your side.
Today, I was at Chaiyos. It’s a Thai restaurant near my home in Knoxville. I asked for lo mein with spice level 8. I thought it’d make me feel homely. I was wrong.
You rarely come across a story so powerful that you experience so many different feelings — at the same time. Ted Chiang’s ‘The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling’ does that. It evokes several strong feelings, one after another, that will leave you soul-searching.
Coffee’s captivating history, from its discovery in Ethiopia to its influence on global health and productivity, unveils the transformative impact of this beloved beverage across centuries and continents.
Population collapse is a theory that says if the growth rates continue to decline the way they are decreasing right now, we would reach population zero. It is a stage where the population neither grows, nor declines. That is, the number of births plus in-migrants equals the number of deaths plus out-migrants. While this may sound cheerful, you may not have considered the pitfalls yet.
Life is short for learning from your own mistakes; you need to play catch-up with people who tried new things. Most people do not document their learnings. The rare culturati group that notes their understandings in an essay easily trumps the large group, which keeps their learnings to themselves. I have read many interesting essays. Some of them stuck with me — like fingers working with super glue. I revisit them often.
Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Their over all literacy rate is 70% but there’s stark difference between girls (50%) and boys (70%). In 2007, the government decided to distribute bicycles to all girls for free in the hope to get higher school enrollment. The program was called Mukhyamantri Balika Cycle Yojna (Chief Minister’s Programme on Cycle for Girls). The program had astonishing improvements.
How did I found a new hobby of making coffee and surprising everyone with my methods? By making bad coffee.
Things are bad. We know that; everyone knows that. But you can choose to look at the positives. Granted, we’ll sometimes be cherry-picking. But not always. Life is like a box of chocolates; there will be good things about every negative thing and bad about most positive things. I want to be happy, so I look at the positives.
A problem with learning in public is keeping a strong note of how to avoid heresy. Back in the seventeenth century, if you said anything against God, even if the statement were true, you would be penalised. Sometimes it meant death. It didn’t matter if the statement was true. If you don’t believe me, just ask Galileo.
Use a Script Monkey in your codebase at all locations where you need to change things manually. All that involves is writing an extra comment saying ‘Script Monkey’. Later on, search for all monkeys in the script and make the changes. Simple.
How does gender affects pay? In this short exploration, I use #tidytuesday dataset provided by UK Government to visualise gender gaps using R. And why are women working at churches paid 40% less bonus than men?
There’s a famous saying: All models are wrong but some are useful. How much of statistics is wrong and how much of it is useful? Some thoughts on Hans Rosling’s popular talk on global economic development and optimism.
Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, or the song of the lord, is a 700 verses long conversation between Lord Sri Krishna and Arjun. It discusses key principles of action and embodies more wisdom than I can grasp.
I had always wondered about the ubiquity of unhealthy food in the US and the blatant absence of fresh fruits and vegetables. Why are our supermarkets full of unhealthy chips, why does bread have corn syrup, and why do berries cost $9.99 and berries snacks cost $1.99!?
माता गांधारी का मानना है की महाभारत श्रीकृष्ण ने करवाया। सिर्फ अपने अहम् के लिए।
Over the last few days, I dabbled with maps in R. Two days ago, I made a map of all the cities I’ve visited. Today, I thought to make street maps of some of them (and other cool cities).
Facebook provides data on all ad funding related to social issues, politics and elections. Here is a simple plot and table to explore the most prominent advertisers.
This is my digital garden. Here is it’s report card via Google Analytics.
शिवमंगल सिंह सुमन की कविता
It is essential to keep experimenting with new things in life. We don’t know what would stick and be successful; we can only take guesses. Take notes; that’s the only way to keep a log.
A university’s website tells a lot about it. Harvard — like all things in education and research — is a prime example.
Once upon a time, there was a nail-making factory during the peak of the industrial revolution in rural England. The workers arrived there every morning at 8 am and worked till 4 pm to make nails. Just plain nails. One day, the factory owner’s son visited the plant.
How much do the super rich really pay? Until now, the answer was unknown — thanks to privacy laws. Recently, tax returns of the super rich was leaked to ProPublica. I thought of exploring the billionaires and their tax rates.
There are three types of arguments. You can argue about what happened (past), you can argue about what’s happening (present), or you can argue about what’s gonna happen (future).
Here’s how to make your short URLs using Hugo + Blogdown
We know less than we think and we don’t even know what we don’t know.
What should the progress bar show? How to measure 10% work done?
A Casual Interview of Prof Michael Galbreth
A Casual Interview of Prof Emre Demirkaya
An Incomplete Data Exploration
Intuitive Understanding and Mathematical Notions
Why aren’t we designing anything new?
Using linear regression to find the optimal value of an input
Using Tidymodels to Find Sex of Penguins
Please don’t treat them alike
Genome, Geneology and DNA Tests
Apps that take me from 0 to 1
Thinking of Text as List of Words
A collection of my answers on Stackoverflow
What constitutes artificial general intelligence? Where are we lacking? What can we do to “get” it?
I do not have a last name and it freaks people out.
Comparing Apple M1 processor with Other Systems in R
Cultural and technological shocks
My experience of technical and casual writing.
Simulation of Ellsberg’s Paradox
Why not integrate captcha and ads?
Attending My First Academic Conference
Eerie behaviour by Hugo
My thoughts on why government hiring is broken and needs system-level redesign to improve.
Is there any evidence of tampering or manipulation in COVID-19 daily cases reported by countries? Using Benford analysis in R, I try to reach at some conclusion.
Summary of my research work on forecasting coverage for Malaria vaccines
A Quick Primer on How to Prepare for IPM
How about a listed mutual fund for investing in college education?
Using rTweet package in R to analyse live tweets from Twitter
I analyse my listening stats and patterns using R.
Non-profits do end up with more capital than they need. What kind of earnings redistribution system do they need?
Technologies come and go. The real question is can you predict its popularity?
Why is Apple ignoring such a big market like India?
Museums are a thing of past. Google has more over-the-top information than I need. Why not target for the experience instead of expertise?
Thinking about the most crucial dilemma of all time.
My workshop on using LaTeX for IIM Indore community