Mar 19, 2021Why we will most likely not improve over timeI like to compare myself with a software release cycle, with each new patch and bug fix, I am a better version. Be it a major defect or moderate, being able to fix it in time must be a priority. I even changed my bio recently, because i don’t like…Philosophy3 min readPhilosophy3 min read
Sep 4, 2020Contributing to Open Source — A complete guideI first got to know about the open-source community in 11th grade through a flyer of Google’s popular open-source event called “Google Summer of Code”. This was the first time I was introduced to the world of FOSS — Free and Open Source Softwares. In my journey thereafter, the world…Open Source9 min readOpen Source9 min read
May 4, 2020Anybody’s Guide to Computer ScienceA guide to starting a journey in computer science irrespective of academic background — 4 years back, in my freshman year, I was trying to find the answer to a question that had always occupied my mind — “I am from biomedical engineering. Is my career doomed if I am more excited about Computer Science?”. Now while writing this article at 72 words per…Computer Science8 min readComputer Science8 min read
Dec 10, 2019Who are you?The remarkable journey of the “you”, started with a single identity — “The homo sapiens”, a million years ago. We all were one. Living beings identified as species. We evolved. We became hunters and gatherers. Men and Women. Men were identified and associated with hunting and protection from getting hunted…Psychology6 min readPsychology6 min read
Published in DSC NIT Rourkela·Oct 19, 2019Getting off to a Running Start — RunIO HackathonThe struggles and memories of organizing the first Hackathon at NIT Rourkela — What Why When? RunIO Hackathon was the first-ever Hackathon to be conducted at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. Opencode, the official open-source society of NIT Rourkela was the organizing club behind the event at the annual festival of the technical society of NIT Rourkela — “Innovision”. RunIO was one of the flagship…Hackathons5 min readHackathons5 min read
Jun 23, 2019Implementing a Knowledge Graph — PythonIn part one of this two-part series (link to Part I), we saw how we can imitate a thought process by using a Knowledge Graph. In this part, let's get our hands dirty! 😄 We will use an Open Source Graph database called Cayley for the KG backend. Grab the…Graph QL4 min readGraph QL4 min read
May 26, 2019Knowledge Graph — Algorithmic implementation of a thought process?🧐 — Part IKnowledge graphs have been used for quite a while in the industry. Big players like Google and Microsoft use it for storing context-specific information and relations that are useful in improving search results. In this two-part series, I will explain a different perspective of knowledge graphs in part I. In…Knowledge Graph4 min readKnowledge Graph4 min read
Dec 1, 2018Using TF.IDF for article tag recommender systems in PythonSo why am I even writing just another “recommender systems” article while there are tons of such on the internet! My answer is because I didn’t get a lot of help while I was developing one. Building recommender systems are easy! Aren’t they? But when we speak of recommending appropriate…Data Science5 min readData Science5 min read
