Mermaid
I heard about mermaid a couple of months ago and I was curious about it. I used it for dialogy a project I maintain at work. Mermaid has a…
Selection sort after 6 years of experience.
Selection Sort I have been focusing on programming challenges recently and noticed the commonly available material on the internet. There is…
Fear of conflict
Conflict is not your enemy; indecision is. Often the fear of hurting someone becomes part of invisible decision-making. The tricky part is…
Scaling down
Scaling Down Learning new things comes at a cost. A mistake I often make is rushing too soon. Patience is necessary to get familiar and…
Ch-10 Batch Processing With Unix Tools Part 2
Reducing side-joins and grouping In a relational database setting data is usually normalized for faster queries. It is common for a record…
Ch-02 The Investor and Inflation
Those with a fixed income suffer when the cost of living advances. An owner of stocks have an option to offset the loss in currency's…
Ch4 The Empires and Kingdom of the Immune System
Notes Two groups in which we will simplify the immune system layers: Innate Immune System Adaptive Immune System Innate Immune System…
Ch1 What is the Immune System?
Notes Humoral Immunity Humor; greek for bodily fluids. Observed in sponge (and inherited by other organisms, almost all have this in common…
Ch3 What are your cells?
Notes Protien synthesis Protiens are made from chains of amino acids. DNA dictates: which protiens are made? how are they made? quantity…
Ch-01 Investment versus Speculation: Results to be expected by the Intelligent Investor
Viewpoints for the individual investor (non-professional). Investment An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis promises…
Ch-10 Batch Processing With Unix Tools Part 1
The chapter starts with a brief on online vs offline vs stream processing systems. Systems Services (online-systems) Awaits a request. Sends…
Building a linked list in rust
I got myself a copy of Rust in Action, it has been a nice read so far. I have followed the amazing rust-lang book as well but I still got…
After effects of a study break
I covered my plans around a study break in a previous post, concluded on 1st Jan 2021. My experience was highly positive, a quick set of…
Study Breaks
I came across various articles that questioned the way engineers learned the most at their job. It resonated very well because that's what I…
Hindley milner for humans
A friend introduced me to Hindley Milner set of equations and the first time (Oct 2019), they looked like arcane maths problems. The looked…
Research Paper: Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions...
Key points: Explainable models. Interpretable models. Interpretable Models Constraints lie within the model. Obeys structural knowledge of…
Text classification conflicts and hierarchical models
Pre-requisites We will use this dataset for our study, taken from this repository. Some experience with Python Story In my experience of…
Regular expressions and efficiency
To start our study, we will use this dataset from this repository. An introductory analysis shows: Now, let's look at the training data a…
Diffusion of K+ ions
While taking a course on neuroscience, I read about how neurons communicate. This image answers one of the basic principles involved, how do…
The Resting potential
Communication across neurons happens by the means of electric-signals. The electricity is due to the presence of , , and ions. These…
Git log exclude dirs and authors
Recently I was working on a project where I had to port features from a growing but to-be-marked legacy system. My kung fu hasn't evolved…
Lucifer's pen
This year around February mid, I was introduced to mountainofink.com. The blog itself is aesthetically pleasing and my friend happened to…
Negative labels for classification
Solving a classification problem has a standard approach to it. Acquire lots of labelled data. Hand it to a simple neural network and watch…
Reanimation
I am going through a course on edx.org named: Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 1: The Electrical Properties of the Neuron. Binge watching…