Technical Fridays | Blog
Personal notes on machine learning, deep learning, and software engineering — what's Technical Fridays?
- Personal
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- R
- Python
- Algorithms
- Cryptography
- Mathematics
- Visualization
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
- Generative AI
- Speech Recognition
- PyTorch
- LLM
- CUDA
- Agentic AI
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Data Sciencep-Value
Understanding p-values and statistical significance in the context of simple linear regression and hypothesis testing.
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AlgorithmsShortest Path: Dijkstra's Algorithm
A walkthrough of Dijkstra's greedy shortest-path algorithm, foundation behind Google Maps routing, with step-by-step explanation.
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AlgorithmsDivide and Conquer
The divide and conquer algorithm paradigm explained: breaking problems into subproblems, solving them recursively, and combining results.
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AlgorithmsGreedy Algorithms
An introduction to greedy algorithms, a problem-solving paradigm that makes locally optimal choices to seek a global optimum, with examples and limitations.
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Data ScienceOut-liars
How to detect and handle outliers in data using the Interquartile Range (IQR) method and box plots.
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Data ScienceCorrelation is not causation
Why correlation between two variables does not imply causation, illustrated with classic examples of spurious correlations.
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Data ScienceOverfitting and Underfitting
Explaining overfitting and underfitting in machine learning, and how the bias-variance tradeoff helps build better-generalizing models.
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Data ScienceData leakage: A big problem
Understanding data leakage when training data inadvertently contains information about the target, causing unrealistically good but unreliable model performance.
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MathematicsThe Rule of 72: Mathematics in everyday life
Deriving the Rule of 72, a quick mental math trick to estimate how long it takes an investment or debt to double at a given interest rate.
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MathematicsMathematics and Beauty
A reflection on the aesthetic beauty found in mathematics from elegant proofs to surprising results like the parity of zero.