#100DaysOfMLCode

नमस्ते I was introduced to Supervised learning algorithm in around 2015, when I was working on my Bachelor's thesis and have ever since working in Data Science field and learning more about Machine Learning and Deep Learning. It has been quite an interesting journey, lot of literature to read, great work happening around the world. …

[GSoC 2015] Dependency Calculation using libsolv

Hola amigos, Finally, much awaited dependency calculation post is here. First let me give you a general idea on what dependency calculation mean. 1. Recursively calculating Dependencies: Dependency calculation means to calculate the dependent packages of a software e.g., A depends on B, C, D to work. So we will need all the 3 packages …

[Data Science] What is bias and why is it so important ?

नमस्ते, I have started reading about neural networks and deep learning on http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com. While learning about data analysis, one would be wondering what is this bias variable and why is it used in all the machine learning algorithms. Even I used to wonder about this while working on my Bachelor thesis. Initially I used to …

Life in München

Guten Tag, It's been quite some while, or a long time to be precise since my last post. It would be because I was busy trying to cook food :p. I got the opportunity to spend one semester abroad at TU München, Germany as part of Amrita's student exchange program. It was really great meeting …

2015 in a Flash

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many …

[Web] Call different Servlets within a single form

नमस्ते While working on Net-Centric Project I came across an obstacle of creating multiple buttons and calling different servlets within the same form. This was in the login page, where we can either login or register by making use of the same form fields 'username' and 'password'. To do so you can create a button …

[OpenGL] Running OpenGL program on Mac OS X

नमस्ते Today I am going to show how you can run OpenGL programs on your Mac OS X through command line (Terminal.App). 1. Use the header file "GLUT/glut.h" and not "GL/glut.h" 2. main function should return an integer type value. E.g. 3. Run the program by using the following command: We are passing -Wno-deprecated flag …

[Star Wars] Google Easter Egg

नमस्ते Google has an awesome treat for all the Star Wars fans 🙂 Open up Google Chrome and enter the following query in URL bar - "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" and see the magic. Here's a small preview of the page if you the Easter egg isn't available. May …

[Android] Fix Rendering Issues in Android Studio

नमस्ते While creating a new android project using Android Studio I came across a Rendering error when I try to open the 'Design tab' on any layout xml file. Solution: Open up the styles.xml file. It would be under res/values/ folder in your app directory. Change the following line to Here, we have added Base …

[Fedora] Add self signed certificate to list of trusted certificates

नमस्ते Today I am going to show you how to add a self signed certificate to the list of trusted certificates in fedora. I was trying to install some packages on fedora and was getting SSL errors while I was connected to my university WiFi (which makes use of self signed certificate). In order to …