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Created an app for live preview of Pandoc
When my wife was editing my books, she used Mou.app for live preview of the text so that she knows what the output is going to be like. The caveat was that Mou.app does plain Markdown and not Pandoc...
View ArticleWrote an EDN format reader and writer in Python
I was reading about the EDN format over the weekend. EDN (pronounced like in “eden garden”) is a data format in the same league as JSON but is supposed to have some nifty features such as sets,...
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Review: Big Data Book by Nathan Marz
Recently, I finished reading the latest “early access” version of the Big Data Book by Nathan Marz.What is Big DataLet’s look up Wikipedia:In information technology, big data is a collection of data...
View ArticleMicro targeting
Recently the Obama re-election campaign employed similar population-wide behavioral analytics to micro-target voters to ensure his re-election. There is no reason why we in India must not look to...
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[Tech] Why is “Database Layer as a REST API” not common?
We have “database APIs” such as abstraction layers over multiple SQL databases and ORMs. But why not take it to the next step and make it a REST API like any other network call that we can...
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Revamped isbn.net.in
New & revamped isbn.net.inBecause 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...
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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...
View ArticleBGs Clojure Course Day 2
1 Pro TipPro 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 problemStarting the...
View ArticleEight 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...
View ArticleLoad testing using Tsung
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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/spacemacsSpacemacs is a new...
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Notes from AIFrontiers conference
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....
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My experience with Udacity Deep Learning Foundation course
If you don’t know what is machine learning, just know this from Francois Chollet (creator of Keras)’s “Deep Learning with Python” book :Classical programming vs. Machine learningAfter attending the AI...
View ArticleML model monitoring
May 20, 2021Kornel and I wrote about our team’s work on “Maintaining Machine Learning Model Accuracy Through Monitoring” on the DoorDash Engineering blog: Maintaining Machine Learning Model Accuracy...
View ArticleBack to IC
Two and a half years ago, I wrote about Engineering Management : Lessons learned in first year.It’s been more than a year since I have been back to an Individual Contributor (IC) role. So I have been...
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