Rohan

Learn PyTorch - a quick code-based summary from PyTorch 60-min Blitz

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Tensor

everything is tensor
computation happens in compiled c++ code
over 300 mathematical operations
default float32
seed is used to generate replicable data

Stable Diffusion, Staying Put, Being Successful and Her Majesty

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Can we believe 👀 anything we see online anymore?

Trump picking up Coconuts in Thailand - Image generated artificially

Hello 👋🏽

An algorithm generated the picture you see above. It took me 10 minutes to set up and I can generate anything you can think of in some form. Imagine the information you will see going forward - how will you understand whether what you see is real or not?

The YAML syntax - get over the config files

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A quick reference to basic YAML syntax

Lists

All members of a list are lines beginning at the same indentation level starting with a “- " (a dash and a space)

# a list of models
- logreg
- randomforest
- xgboost
- mlp

Dictionary

key: value (colon followed by a space)

rohan:
  name: Rohan Singh
  job: Data Scientist III
  skill: Elite

Complicated Data Structures

# a list of dictionaries
- rohan:
      name: Rohan Singh
      job: Geneticist
      skill: Beginner

- emmanuelle:
      name: Emmanuelle Charpentier
      job: Professor and Researcher
      skill: Elite

Flow Connections

It can be used to represent abbreviated data structures

Stable Diffusion, Staying Put, Being Successful and Her Majesty

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Trump picking up Coconuts in Thailand - Image generated artificially

Hello 👋🏽

In a world where the skill gap is increasing day by day, I wonder what will the social standing of people who are either not a part of such advances or do not understand the latest technologies. Will they become a target of sophisticated misinformation campaigns that will take advantage of them politically, socially, economically, financially, personally, and in countless other ways?

Slow Productivity

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

✅ 🐢 ❌ 🐇

Slowing driving into San Francisco

In the last few weeks, I have been involved in a lot of things at work and after analyzing at the end of the month I realized I did not do any meaningful work during this time. This made me recall an article, I read earlier this year, by Cal Newport on Slow Productivity. It is definitely a game-changer.

Building on the idea of System 1 and System 2 in the book, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, it could be said that short-circuiting our brain to achieve our assigned task would not be at par with the quality of work that was well thought of using our logical brain a.k.a. System 2. Given a high volume of work, our brain does exactly that - it starts finding shortcuts. Quality work especially in science and technology requires you to analyze and understand the problem deeply which requires mental effort. Therefore, the volume of work assigned to you should be limited as human beings are adapted to make good strategies to achieve a longer-term goal not so much for short-term goals.

Old Paradigms

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Old ways 🆚 New Ways

Hello 👋🏽

Here are two things that I pondered 💭 over the weekend.

What do you want in life?

A snippet from the Collaboration Fund newsletter blog by Morgan Housel (Author of the Psychology of Money) -

… Fifty-four years ago… Sunday Times offered £5,000 to whoever could sail solo nonstop around the world … The two men, Donald Crowhurst and Bernard Moitessier, are astounding examples of how the quality of your life is shaped by whom you want to impress. Their stories are extreme, but what they dealt with was just a magnified version of what ordinary people face all the time, and likely something you’re facing right now…

In the free time

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Podcasts I'm listening to!

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Listen and Learn

I love the podcast format especially while taking a long shower or walking!

Upgrade Your Life with My Personal Productivity Tools and Favorites

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I am a Data Scientist 📊 and a productivity fanatic! I love economics, technology and history. Here is a list of things I use to make my life better.

Photo: Maman - A cute little Cafe in Little Paris, NY

📚 Reading

📲 Apps

🎧 Podcasts

📚 Books

⌚️ Products

🎥 Movies and Documentaries

I always buy/watch/use things which are recommended by people I trust. This page will help you cut through the recommendation-saturation.

📚 Reading

August 2023

Articles

📲 Apps

Snipd (Podcast Listening)

It is a Machine Learning based app which lets you highlight podcasts and also see what others highlighted. It is completely free right now. You can bookmark podcast with your Airpods or CarPlay easily too.

Organize your computer 🗄

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Target Users

If you use python and like having an organized computer - this article is for you 👋🏽

The data 💿 in your mac 💻 is spread around into downloads, desktop, etc.There is a python 🐍 tool organize-tool which can help you declutter and organize all your data with a simple YAML configuration.

The best part is that - you can also have python code in actions.

Thanks 😄 to tfeldmann for this awesome 😎 tool

Build NLP Apps, quickly! ⏩

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Created an app to to zero shot classification using huggingface 🤗 library.

In this app, I created a simple streamlit app to try out the zero-shot-classification pipeline provided by HuggingFace.

Please take a look at the code here

https://github.com/ygivenx/zero-shot-classifier-app

Or try it yourself by running

Make sure your docker memory is set to over 6GB.
docker pull ygivenx/zero-shot-app
docker run -it -p 8501:8501 ygivenx/zero-shot-app

About Me

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Telephotography is one of my passions.

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things well.” — Hugh Walpole

Hi there! I am a Data Scientist and this is my website. I live in Seattle. I blog about data science, programming, and travel.

Home

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

List all folders over a GB in terminal

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Several times, you realize that you need to see folder with a lot of data in it. I have used this command several times and find it really useful to see all the large folders lying around in the current dir.

So, you got a new Mac 🍺

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Update Feb 2024 with Mac OS Sonoma on M3 Pro.

I, recently, changed jobs and got a brand new mac. Now, I am a data scientist and I wanted my new mac to be familiar. In this post, I wanted to show what I installed on my new mac to make it somewhat efficient from the get-go. I Hope, this post will help you get started, quickly :)