My soothsayer friend BG told me last year that “deep learning is the next big thing”. I didn’t know what that meant. A few days ago, I attended the AIFrontiers conference in Santa Clara, California. Now I have a glimpse of what he meant :-) What is Intelligence? In this context, by “intelligence”, I interpret it as “smart”. Yes, … Continue reading Notes from AIFrontiers conference
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Using Spacemacs
In the past couple of months, I’ve been using and, a first for me, regularly contributing to this open source project called Spacemacs. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs Spacemacs is a new distribution of Emacs. Think what Ubuntu did for GNU/Linux – Spacemacs is doing the same for GNU Emacs. It combines all the existing great pieces and providing an easy-to-use good-looking … Continue reading Using Spacemacs
Load testing using Tsung
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Eight programming lessons learned in 2013
Although it’s not yet the last month of the year, I was in a reflective mood, and jotted down programming lessons I learned this year: Spend time first on what you’re going to do, iterate several times on the “plan”, and when you get to the computer, it should just be about typing out what you have already decided.Of … Continue reading Eight programming lessons learned in 2013
NH7 Weekender 2013
NH7 Weekender 2013 Pune was fun. Well, I thought it was better music last year, but the festival is definitely worth visiting every year. Nucleya, Madboy/Mink, Ankur Tewari & The Vinyl Records are the new discoveries for me this year. Started downloading some of their albums and playing their songs on Youtube - this is … Continue reading NH7 Weekender 2013
Learning where to invest money from MoneyLife
Investing in property and gold is the first thing that comes to mind for us Indians when we want to invest money. But somehow I've always preferred finding out a more systematic way of figuring out how and when to invest. Bajaj Capital has been my financial advisor for many years, but even with them, … Continue reading Learning where to invest money from MoneyLife
BGs Clojure Course Day 2
1 Pro Tip Pro Tip: Always set this in your REPL to prevent long data structures or infinite loops from hanging your REPL: (set! *print-length* 50) (set! *print-level* 10) 2 Workshop problem Starting the day with this problem: Given a text file, let's find the n most common and uncommon words. Ignore certain stop words. … Continue reading BGs Clojure Course Day 2
BGs Clojure Course Day 1
Continuing my journey of learning Clojure, I am attending BG's Clojure Course. Today was Day 1. ~30 people in one room and BG as teacher for the weekend. Of course, I was looking forward to it. Most people in the audience had a background of mixture of C/C++, Java/Android, Python and Ruby. BG Clojure Workshop … Continue reading BGs Clojure Course Day 1
Khadakwasla Dam and Sinhgad Fort
Long ago, friends told us that Sinhgad Fort is a nice weekend getaway from Pune, finally, yesterday (Sunday) morning, we took out our getaway car and visited Khadakwasla dam and the beautiful misty land of Sinhgad. It was totally worth it.
Revamped isbn.net.in
Because of constant badgering from loyal isbn.net.in users (Navdeep, Chinmay, Hari, Sandip, Vidyaraj, Kartik, Vivek, Arjun, Leo, Ravi and others), I finally had to dedicate a weekend to fixing up isbn.net.in. However, instead of just fixing up the old code base, I rewrote it to use Compojure instead of the deprecated Noir library, and … Continue reading Revamped isbn.net.in