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Writing in the Age of AI
June 5, 2026When ChatGPT arrived in 2022, I gave up writing. Not dramatically. I just quietly stopped. What was the point? Here was a machine that could produce essays that were more coherent, more entertaining, and more polished than anything I could...
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Base rate fallacy
April 16, 2023Picture yourself in the year 2040. Cancer detection technology has become so inexpensive that there are drive-through stores where you can test for cancer and get immediate results. The test engineers designed it to have a recall of one to...
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Some observations about US
September 17, 2022Its been 4 years since i came to the US back in 2018. Before landing in NYC. Large houses and vast empty spaces for a middle class family. Ludicrous public transport(except for NYC). Generally clean neighbourhoods (except for some downtowns)....
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Precision and Recall
September 17, 2022Precision and recall are one of the most fundamental metrics in machine learning and having a good intuition for these metrics is really important for evaluating any of the fancy models. Confusion Matrix The results of a classification models can...
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Metrics for computer vision models
September 17, 2022IOU IOU for a predicted bounding box and ground truth box is the area of intersection divided by area of union between the boxes. Average precision(AP)@IOU_threshold for a label in an eval dataset Lets say the eval dataset has 10...
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Thoughts on Recommendation systems
July 12, 2022Recommendation systems(RS) have become ubiquitous in the past few years. All 10 of the most visited websites on the internet use recommendation systems of some form on their landing page. Given this prevalence, what are the most common types of...
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Big Tech - Big Moat
June 24, 2022At their core, what most software systems do is collect, organize and put on view data, which has some connection to the real world. Take for example Facebook, which collects data about people, their friends, and the content generated by...
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Effecient Execution
April 27, 2022Executives at corporate organizations have the most reponsibility among all the employees. If the company misses an earnings estimate, if the revenue growth is not as expected, if the hiring is not as fast as it should be, executives are...
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Back to Office
March 7, 2022Today, after two years of working from home, i returned to office. It feels like time froze here since March 2020. A lot has changed in the world since then but everything here feels the same. The first thing that...
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Why Write?
March 4, 2022Knowledge sharing I’m a self-taught programmer and some of the most valuable learning I did was by reading blogs, forums, and well-written documentation. The internet has revolutionized how the human collective knowledge is organized and appended to. But that’s is...
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