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  • Jul 25, 2025

    The Surprise Vector

  • Jul 24, 2025

    MCP - Model Context Protocol

    mCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open protocol that standardizes how AI applications connect with external tools and data sources. Think of it as the API layer for AI agents , enabling seamless interaction with databases, APIs, and more.

  • Jul 23, 2025

    Vibe Coding

    Watched the origin of the VIBE coding and some of the ways to use LLMs from Andrej Karpathy!

  • Jul 22, 2025

    Back To Basics - WebSockets or Long Polling

    I have always thought for real-time updates one should consider WebSockets, however this article re-iterates that there is never a single way to solve a problem, it is all about trade-offs and finding what works for your problem.

  • Jul 22, 2025

    LLM Architecture and Training

    Introduction

    I recently watched the YouTube video titled “Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT” from the Czar of AI - Andrej Karpathy.

  • Jul 21, 2025

    Binary vector embeddings

    Fascinating - Binary vector embeddings and Matryoshka embeddings !

  • Jul 20, 2025

    Volume Gymnastics

    Volume Gymnastics !

  • Jul 20, 2025

    Model Collapse

    Model Collapse?

  • Jul 20, 2025

    Agents are cool but dont deep dive first

    AI Agents Are Cool… But Let’s Not Jump Into the Deep End First 🏊‍♂️

  • Jul 19, 2025

    AlphaGo Zero meets House M.D.

    AlphaGo Zero meets House M.D.

  • Jul 19, 2025

    A rare alignment of gaps

    🌐 A rare alignment of gaps

  • Jul 19, 2025

    AI Hype vs Reality: A Nuanced Look at AI in Engineering

    AI Hype vs Reality: A Nuanced Look at AI in Engineering

  • Jul 10, 2025

    𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 !!!

    Games LLMs Play !!!

  • Dec 8, 2024

    Book Review - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

    Book Review - Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

  • Dec 8, 2024

    Book Review - Secret Pulse of Time

    Book Review - Secret Pulse of Time by Stefan Klein

  • Dec 8, 2024

    Book Review - Designing Data Intensive Applications

    Book Review - Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

  • Oct 4, 2024

    Problem with using UUIDs as Primary Key in MySQL

    Learnings about the problems of using UUID as the primary key

  • May 7, 2024

    Tokenization

    Learnings from Andrej Karpathy’s tutorial on GPT Tokenizer

  • Dec 20, 2023

    Notable books read in 2023

    1. Who Cares - Emily Kenway

  • Jun 23, 2023

    QR Code AI Art

    Stunning results but not yet usable as QR Codes

  • Jun 16, 2023

    The Composer's Quill: Weaving Melodies using text prompts with MusicGen

    Step by Step Guide to generate music in Google Colab

  • Feb 12, 2023

    How Boards Work

    Book Review - How Boards Work - Dambisa Moyo

  • Feb 5, 2023

    Business at the Speed of AI

    Business at the Speed of AI

  • Jul 4, 2022

    150 Days Of Code 2022

    150 Days Of Code Github Wall - 2022

  • Jun 19, 2022

    Beautiful Code

    Beautiful code is its own reason for being

  • Jun 6, 2022

    My impressions - Becoming the Speaking Superstar

    I believe one of the signs of a great session is when you find yourself ruminating over what you have heard from the speaker.

  • May 15, 2022

    100 Days Of Code 2022

    100 Days Of Code Github Wall - 2022

  • Dec 23, 2021

    Learning React - 2nd Edition Book Review

    Book Review - Learning React - 2nd Edition by Alex Banks and Eve Porcello

  • May 11, 2021

    100 Days Of Code

    100 Days Of Code Github Wall

  • Jan 20, 2021

    Mandelbrot and Julia - Mathematical visualization and beauty

    I have been fascinated by the idea of chaos theory since I read about the butterfly effect. I read some more about it in the book ‘Chaos’ by James Gleick including about the Mandelbrot. But until I read ‘Make your own Mandelbrot’ by Tariq Rashid I did not realize just how simple the equation to draw the Mandelbrot was.

  • Jan 12, 2021

    Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

    Book Review - Building Machine Learning Powered Applications by Emmanuel Ameisen

  • Jan 4, 2021

    Zero To One

    Book Review - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

  • Jan 1, 2021

    2020 Milestones

    Milestones / Accomplishments of year 2020

  • Dec 28, 2020

    Grokking Algorithms

    Book Review — Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava

  • Dec 22, 2020

    Things to make and do in the fourth dimension

    Book Review — Things to make and do in the fourth dimension

  • Dec 3, 2020

    Step-by-Step guide to restore old photos

    A few months back, Microsoft shared code for old photo restoration. The implementation was in pytorch. 

  • Dec 2, 2020

    User Interface design and User Experience

    Recently the story of the student who lost his seat in IIT due to inadvertently clicking the wrong link made headlines.

  • Nov 23, 2020

    Recommended Daily Interview Problem Newsletter

    TLDR; Subscribe to the daily interview problem newsletter at Quastor Daily. It is a wonderful newsletter to help prepare for technical interviews.

  • Oct 6, 2020

    Emperor of all Maladies

    Book Review — Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

  • Sep 12, 2020

    The Telescope in the Ice

    Book Review — The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole by Mark Bowen

  • Sep 12, 2020

    Stuff Matters

    Book Review — Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik

  • Aug 12, 2020

    Storytelling with Data

    Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals - Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

  • Aug 12, 2020

    Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain

    Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain by Roger Wattenhofer

  • Aug 11, 2020

    My Book List - On Lean In Bangalore

    My Book List - On Lean In Bangalore

  • Aug 11, 2020

    Learn Git in a Month of Lunches

    Learn Git in a Month of Lunches - Rick Umali

  • Jul 27, 2020

    Swap Bits - Visual

    Code that takes as input an integer (x) and swaps the bits at indices (i) and (j).

  • Jul 27, 2020

    Self-updating GitHub profile README completely within Github

    Github’s new profile readme is all the rage right now.

    Creating a self-updating profile readme helped me -

  • Jul 27, 2020

    MLCourse.ai — Fall 2019

    I came across MLCourse.ai mentioned in many articles when I was looking at good introductory courses to learn Data Science from. It was always listed in the top few. I had tried my hand at MLCourse.ai in Spring 2019 but could not complete it. However I was determined to finish it in the Fall version. And I am glad I did. This could be the last live version of the course.

  • Jul 27, 2020

    Data Science Books (2019 - 2020)

    The 3 fantastic technical books from my reading in 2019-2020:

    • Hands-on Machine Learning with Sci-kit and Tensorflow 2.0 - by Aurélien Géron
    • Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tensorflow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems by Sebastian Raschka
    • Grokking Deep Learning by Andrew Trask

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Occassional technical posts on items that are too long to fit in 'Things I learned' (TIL). Some 'how-to's. Book Reviews.