Apil TamangRouting Ports internally in Linux using iptablesSimply what I have for port forwarding. A lot of web-resources mention *nginx* as a good alternative.1 min read·Oct 28, 2019----
Apil TamangHow to expose your MySQL Server to the InternetMore for my own records than to disseminate real knowledge. Very quick and dirty walkthrough. Meant for my Ubuntu server.1 min read·Oct 25, 2019----
Apil TamangInstalling Apache Toree on OS X w/ Conda environmentLooking for a good Spark + Jupyter integration solution. After giving spylon_kernel a try, and seeing that the project seemed to have been…1 min read·Dec 17, 2018----
Apil TamangGranting external users folder permissions in Ubuntu 16.04Recently me and a pal (let us call him Harry) are working on a project that requires sharing data quite frequently. In particular, this is…2 min read·Feb 7, 2018----
Apil TamangUnicode, UTF-8, and ASCII encodings made easySo I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2017 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets…4 min read·Feb 3, 2018--11--11
Apil TamangUnmasking a vanilla RNN: What lies beneath?RNNs have a reputation for being rather hard to understand. They are truly a bit mysterious, and can often seem inscrutable to the new…5 min read·Dec 10, 2017----
Apil TamangLearning Entity Embeddings in one breathWell maybe not, unless you’re routinely breaking the world-record in holding your breath! On the bright-side, entity embeddings is really…5 min read·Dec 2, 2017--5--5
Apil TamangA gentle dive into the anatomy of a Convolution layer.In the realm of deep learning, the convolution network is a workhorse for many awe-inspiring results. After 2012’s publication of the…5 min read·Nov 21, 2017--2--2
Apil TamangCase Study: A world class image classifier for dogs and cats (err.., anything)It is amazing how far computer vision has come in the last couple of years. Problems that are insanely intractable for classical machine…7 min read·Nov 10, 2017--5--5
Apil TamangYet Another ResNet Tutorial (or not)The purpose of this article is to expose the most fundamental concept driving the design and success of ResNet architectures. Many blogs…3 min read·Nov 4, 2017--2--2