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·Aug 19, 2019

Crowd Counting: Approaches, Use Cases and Importance (Part 1)

Context: I am writing this article as part of the Crowd Counting project which came out of a study group called sg_wonder_vision. This study group is in turn an initiative by fellow students of “Udacity Facebook Secure and Private AI” Course. I am not new to math, machine learning, security, socket…

Machine Learning

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Jul 4, 2019

Differential Privacy — personal study note 1

It is first one of my study notes related to the Facebook Udacity Differential Privacy and Federated Learning course. …

Differential Privacy

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Nov 1, 2017

Notes on Geo Spatial Processing for Small to Medium Scale Dataset

Note: Writing this for later reference. The article is as is/needs polishing. For some of our projects we needed to handle geo-spatial processing. For example as part of one of our analytics project we had to figure out which Pharmacy in BC belongs to which Local Health Authority. We were…

Python

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Nov 3, 2016

Resources on EEG Software, Data and Corresponding Analysis

(For my own use. To be able to locate these quickly when I need these). MEG and EEG data analysis with MNE-Python Magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography (M/EEG) measure the weakelectromagnetic signals generated by neuronal…journal.frontiersin.org EEG processing and Event Related Potentials (ERPs) - MNE 0.12.dev0 documentation EEG processing and Event Related Potentials (ERPs)751-1301584-gh.circle-artifacts.com

Eeg

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Nov 3, 2016

Some Tips Related to Locally Managing (Saving and Reloading) a Docker Image to Save Bandwidth

Here is my personal note regarding how to save changes to a docker image locally and then reload it with the changes intact instead of fetching components related to the changes from some remote repositories while running it next time. This is to prevent excessive overall monthly bandwidth usage every…

Docker

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Oct 13, 2016

Increasing Virtual Disk Space for a Guest Machine Managed by Oracle VirtualBox

This is to keep track of the steps which I followed to increase disk size so that next time I can just use this document and do something similar quickly. Couple of months ago to explore Docker on Windows I had to install Oracle Virtual Box first and then had…

Virtual Disk

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Oct 12, 2016

Preparation for Building EEG based Emotion Detection Model

Links and hints for my personal use/preparation for building an emotion detection model: MNE is a collection of code/tool to process EEG and MEG data. Code on how to simulate/generate fake raw data based on some sample is here. Some basic concerns and questions on MNE are answered here. One…

Mne

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Oct 10, 2016

Message Brokers Short Note

Why message brokers? To ensure loose coupling, asynchronous/non-blocking communication between producer and consumer. Producer can be written as for example in one language and consumer can be written in a different language. Also in case the consumer cannot process messages as fast as producer is producing; the messages can be…

Rabbitmq

4 min read

Oct 2, 2016

Getting Raw EEG Data for My Research

The last couple of months I have been waiting for the release of a new EEG device (http://shop.openbci.com/collections/frontpage/products/ultracortex-mark-iv) from OpenBCI. Apparently the availability date is continuously getting shifted and I am no longer confident that I would get it before 2017. That said in general I found that every single…

Public Domain Eeg Dataset

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Oct 1, 2016

Virtual Machines

As usual it is my personal note on refreshing my memory on a particular subject and some trouble shootings as relevant. A virtual machine is an illusion of a machine (Guest) within another machine (Host). [1] discusses different types of virtual machine designs. The areas which I am focusing on…

Virtualization

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