To take your software development career to the next level, learn how to write well — I started writing because the generous community of programmers had helped me by sharing their knowledge freely over the internet. I wanted to contribute to this incredible trend so I could be a part of something bigger than myself. Little did I know that it would be me who benefitted…

How reducing my website cost by 5 times (!) led me to discover the concept of a not-for-profit… startup! — Last month, I made a productive use of my quarantine time — I created my personal website! There’s a tour in this Twitter thread: I made this website by self-hosting Ghost on a Digital Ocean droplet (with the help of this amazingly thorough guide). …

3 systems to make self-learning easier, Mentors to follow on Twitter and Cool Project Ideas for learning <X> — MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) are a boon to us, self-learners. Lectures from the world’s best professors brought straight to your hands, no matter what corner of the earth you live in — Isn’t that the recipe for disrupting world-class education and democratizing it to the entire world?

Psst.. A Confession: I have, in the past, used and tuned models without really knowing what they do. I tried to do the same with Gradient Boosting Machines — LightGBM and XGBoost — and it was.. frustrating! This technique (or rather laziness), works fine for simpler models like linear regression…

“Wow! This was so cool!” my friend says. “How do you even find these things?” I tell him that I got it from the newsletter of <so-and-so> website where people post interesting stuff. And the next question goes, “Well, but how did you find out about the <so-and-so> website?” And…