Current Work.

A great insight into how Google as we know came to be. Mentions of PageRank brought back memories of BD classes. I just love the absurd humour and pranks they played in their early days. 10/10 would work there.

Lovely book on the Toyota Management principles and how they can be applied to any business. I’m a sucker for business history and this book is a goldmine of information on how Toyota became the behemoth it is today.

This book was probably written by a madman. I’m halfway through and I’m already baffled. The sentences are half a page long, the premise is absurd at best, I’m not sure if I like it or not,and a anything I say about the contents could get me beheaded but I’m going to finish it anyway.

Absolutely hilarious satire on British Politics which still stands true to this date. The scriptwriting is brilliant, but fair warning the jokes are very British and very Basil Fawlty. Will I keep watching this? Yes, Prime Minister.

Probably my favourite movie now. I’ve watched it 3 times already. They don’t make thrillers like this anymore. Chianti and Fava beans anyone?

Psychological serial-killer thriller with the stone-cold mentor and hotshot trainee theme. Best movie after Ratsasan.

Helped a friend at the Cloud Computing Center with fixing a few old Xeon E7-8830 servers. We got a couple up and running again. Plan is to build a HDFS cluster out of them for the juniors to work on. There’s just something about sitting in a server room with loud fans, faulty KVM switches and wondering why pings aren’t working that makes me happy.

Pytorch is a lot more intuitive and easier to use than Tensorflow. I’m still getting used to it but I’m liking it so far.

All of this is from scratch, no WordPress involved. Just about everything is manually built so its taking a while to finish it. On the bright side this page is getting some insane hits. For a site that is cooler on the backend go check out Anirudh’s website .

The side-effects of having musically gifted friends is that you end up listening to a lot of Carnatic music. I’m not complaining though, it’s pretty good. Even went to see a band called Agam perform live.

• A potential replacement / augment to the gradient based backpropagation algorithm used to train neural networks. Building test benches to test the algorithm on various datasets and comparing it’s performance to that of backpropagation is in progress, but while a CNN was easy pickings, building an RNN is turning outto be a bit of a challenge.

• You can find the original paper on ArXiv here or just download it by clicking here

• Note : ArXiv is pronounced Ar-Chive. People who pronounce it Arksive are the same people who pronounce GIF as JIF. Don’t be like them. The origin of the name is the word “Archive” , they replaced the chi with the Greek letter Xi (Ξ) because it looks cool.

Learn more about this on the research page

curl -L http://git.io/unix  //Try it out in your terminal

Thought it would be a boring show about lawyers, but it was pretty good … atleast until Season 3 after which it nosedived. I don’t think I’ve ever managed to finish any show. Discontinued.