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…

QML — quantum machine learning in action for a fun use case of high-energy and particle Physics — Background This year’s August was dedicated to IBM’s Global Quantum Summer School where I not only learned the basics in a compressed timeline and a tight schedule but also a few applications of quantum computing. The badge one gets after 4 gruelling weeks is a “quantum experience” in itself as you…

A Data-driven approach to the global warming issue — So, here I was, minding my own business and teaching myself the basics of quantum computing when I enrolled in IBM’s global quantum summer school this August, it’s an intensive course, so one has to really immerse oneself to understand the basics, I was reading various blogs and articles written…

Have we really found a superconductor at room temperature? — Note: The format of this post would be different from the previous ones. So, LK-99 has been in the news for the past couple of weeks; a few scientists making claims for superconductivity, a few refuting it, and a few are watching from the sidelines wondering what’s happening. Superconductivity isn’t…

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…

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. I don’t think I did a very good job at that and it led me to think — Do I understand them myself or…

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…