Lost before Translation: Examining Language Death

August Schleicher’s Stammbaum Theory of Linguistic Change, introduced in 1871, proposes that the evolution of languages follows a predictable pattern. According to this theory, similarities between...

Getting Started with Table Extraction in Document AI

Table extraction fall under the umbrella of Document Intelligence, a relatively new research topic that deals with analzying and understanding business documents. The documents vary in style, layou...

SAdam: An Adam variant that converges faster for convex loss functions

SAdam (Wang et al, 2019) is an online convex optimizer that enhances the Adam algorithm by utilizing strong convexity of functions wherever possible. Although the motivation behind making these mod...

Agony, expectation, relief & the journey in between

Somewhere in the middle of February 2020, I was moving into my first rented house. The place was perfect, it was isolated enough from the main roads to be quite and sombre at night, whilst also bei...

My Personal Productivity Hacks: Open Source Tools for the Adventurous Linux User

As a Computer Science engineer every miniscule jump in productivity in and around the workspace tends to have a butterfly effect, and ends up being a huge time savior. Over the years, I have disove...

Using Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory to gauge aptitude of children

Howard Gardner in 1983 came up with a theory to challenge the traditional view on Intelligence. According to him, cognitive abilities of an individual does not solely constitue intelligence. He cla...

Some of my favourite mini-side projects

Like any other beginner to the field, I have experimented with different technologies, often times collaborating with others to learn more about a particular topic that spurred interest. That over ...

The Smart India Hackathon Experience

On some night in January 2019, me and my roommates Aadil & Sushant were discussing how the hectic schedule in our college, and all our other commitments for improving our profiles, virtually me...

React Native, thou aren't as complex as thou seem

During my intership at Optimize IT Systems, my job entailed creating a basic curriculum for React Native, since the company wanted to migrate towards developing mobile applications with it. This po...

Musings about where we are headed

The past decade has seen an unprecedented surge in developments and advancements, comparable only to the Industrial Revolution of the 17th century—yet, remarkably, this progress has occurred withou...

Tryst with Git

For novice coders, mastering version control systems like Git can seem daunting and unnecessary. However, version control is crucial for managing project changes, and you’ll only realize its value ...