A compendium of ideas, lecture notes, hobbies and some interesting stuffs I have collected over time!
Notes, Tutorials
A collection of lecture notes, tutorials, assignment problems, and blog posts.
Undergraduate and Postgraduate level Statistics course Assignements and Solutions - Multiple problems, assignments and solutions for an undergraduate and postgraduate level course on Statistics, from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Natural Language Processing in R - A complete example of a natural language processing project using R. Investigates the changes in english language in speeches of US presidents over time.
Reinforcement Learning Introductory Tutorial - An introductory tutorial series for basics of Reinforcement learning. Requires some mathematical background and understanding of Python.
Generative AI Introductory Tutorial - An introductory tutorial series for basics of generative AI, without much mathematical requirements
Visual proof of the formula for area of a circle. - Possibly the best visual proof I have seen so far. The proof is by Rabbi Abraham (a Jewish philosopher living in Spain and France).
Explorable Explorations - It is a decentralized “movement” of creators that creates cool interactive ways to learn different scientific ideas.
Ideas & Open Questions
A collection of ideas and questions that excite me. Feel free to reach out if something resonates!
A product where there is a small camera inside the refrigerator. It takes picutres of the inside of the refrigerator and detects what vegetables / groceries are there using object detection. It then compares against historical eating behaviour of the owner and tells if something needs to be refilled.
A product which uses doorbell camera to take pictures, and then perform face detection and match against your contact list (or social network friend list). Whenever someone rings your doorbell, it says aloud who it is.
3D Arts
Some 3D models I have created using Blender, Bryce and Wings 3D.
Quotes
A collection of quotes that are very dear to me!
Fire, uncontrolled, can burn your house down. Fire, controlled, can cook your food & keep you warm. Can we control what we've made?
Both the optimist and the pessimist contribute to society: the optimist invents the airplane, and the pessimist invents the parachute.
We are smart, but not because we stand on the shoulders of giants or are giants ourselves. We stand on the shoulders of a very large pyramid of hobbits.
The ultimate fate of all intelligent beings is always to become as grand as their thoughts.
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.
Failing to prepare is the same as preparing to fail.
The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.
What customer wants, is not a “perfect product”, but a “reliable product”
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.