Quantum behavior around the House: an intuitive explanation — The motivation behind this article A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a friend’s son, who was talking about the Olympiads and how to prepare for them. I had only appeared for the Physics one at the senior school level, so I provided him with my 2 cents. We discussed the mode…

The science behind the earphones and the parameters involved — How I bought my new earphones? Prologue (Almost) Everyone likes to listen to music, and so do I. I had been using the stock earphones(the ones that would come with the phones)for many years but finally, I decided to spend a little on audio equipment to listen to music and for work. I was living in Chicago…

Second Brain, Productivity Gurus, and Toxic Need to be Productive all the time — Recently, I came across a meme which showed a Gaussian curve with the lower and upper standard deviations opting for Apple notes and the middle ones jumping ships of Anki, Obsidian, Notion, Google Drive etc. It made me ponder over my own journey of choosing a note-taking app, productivity in…

Back to basics — coding neural network using NumPy alone — Recently I was explaining the concept of the neural network to my mother; I couldn’t go beyond the usual trope of inputs, hidden layers, outputs etc. …

Lessons from client-facing Data Science and ML consulting — Computing and tech are the centres of the key domains, such as Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, AGI, Quantum systems etc, is a common narrative, when in fact, all of them have come to the forefront in our lives as they impact or potentially impact the way we think, live…

The lifecycle of Machine Learning and Data Science projects — In my experience, ML projects come in all shapes and sizes and vary greatly in their complexity. In the initial 2000/10s, the emphasis was on the model-centric approach which I always found a little bizarre as I heard umpteen times about the fancier models than the results(well, it was a…

The connection between turbulence and art — The Cypress tree, the sleepy village, the luminescent sky, and the rolling hills- that’s how we see Van Gogh’s The Starry Night. …

Step by step approach for reading technical papers — Ok, I won’t try to convince you why you need to read technical and research papers. Almost all the algorithms that you use in daily life came from the technical literature but are present ubiquitously in the form of tutorials or easier walkthroughs. …

Data exploration of attacks in Afghanistan — The Present The first time I read about Afghanistan was in a story named — Kabuliwalah, a story about a nomadic businessman from Kabul who sells dry fruits in India. He develops filial affection for a little five-year-old girl named Minnie, who reminds him of his own daughter back home. …