AI (artificial intelligence) can be an intimidating word that has suddenly crept into our lives, so let’s see how it affects us. — People around the world from our parents who get their news from social media, to students who are exploring and coming across the new buzzword, AI, everyone wants to know what it is and how it can affect us. When I was in college, I was learning robotics and I…

Even if you are just plotting a graph, a clean code is always appreciated, so try out these practices while coding — I am a data scientist now, but I started as a software developer, and so in my heart, I am still the guy who cringes at bad indentation and x, y, z, a, b, c variable names. …

As a data scientist, these libraries will save your life while implementing ML/DL algorithms. — Well, saying that I don’t use libraries for my work as a data scientist would be like saying I own a bike but travel only by walking from one place to another. It’s theoretically possible but not practical or efficient for all the cases. Similar to different modes of transportation…

I find myself using bash all too often for all my projects, so here is a list of all commands you would need — Bash is the most used shell in Unix, as it is the default shell we all get. In this blog, I aim to extensively cover all the bash commands that I think are important. Who should read this blog? People who have just started their Unix journey People who want to advance in their Unix…

Matplotlib is a go-to library in python for data visualization. Have you explored all functions that this library offers? If not, let me help you! — I work as an Applied scientist at Amazon. Believe me or not, I don’t recollect any week in which I haven’t used this library for my work. Sometimes we need to visualize data for our understanding, and sometimes visualizations are required in presentations/documents. Hence depending on the need, we also…

I believe we should all pool the wisdom we get in our lives. Who knows when someone, somewhere, will tell us precisely what we need to hear! — In a networking session that I recently attended, a wise person said (I am paraphrasing) that recruiters around the globe specialize at getting great people in. When that happens, rest assured that 90% of us will be Type A personalities(talking about the developer community here)!

Ever had a doubt about which distance metric would be most beneficial for your use case? — Disclaimer: You won’t need a distance metric for every ML model, but if you do then read on to pick the best one. Distance metrics play a significant role in machine learning and deep learning. …

Ever accidentally deleted files or necessary code? Or do you wish to look back at an older version of your code? — I have a normal love-hate relationship with Git, meaning I love Git when it's just me working on the project, and I hate it when I have to merge my code with someone else's. But then all marriages have their ups and downs, right. The truth is that as a…

Want to know what is activation function and why are they essential? — We know that deep learning models are a combination of different components such as activation function, batch normalization, momentum, gradient descent, etc. So for this blog I picked up one part of DL and give a detailed explanation about activation function by answering the following questions-: What is an activation…