The genesis of this project came from my desire to publish my writings separately. I wanted it to be detached from the blog with its own look and feel but I did not want to have a separate content management system. I have been using WordPress for quite some time and I am familiar with … [Read more…]
I have been using DigitalOcean for the last three years. I am pretty happy with their service. Of late, I found that my website takes a tad too long to load. Reasons for migration My old server ran Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It is no longer supported by Canonical The machine had only 0.5 GB of … [Read more…]
About a month ago, I had worked for three days to come up with a proof of concept for a project collaboration platform aimed at a small company – typically less than 40 people). The webapp was not something that could be actually used by anyone. There were glaring holes and missing functionalities that would be … [Read more…]
Some background A few weeks ago, I was fooling around with Flask framework. I loved it. As a consequence, I had this strange itch of creating something useful using the framework. My goal was not to write a production ready, industrial level software, but something that would give me some experience in dabbling with a modern toolkit … [Read more…]
A few months ago, I had asked Mogit if we can up with a simple collaboration system similar to Basecamp. The objective was not only to come-up with a set of tools that we could use ourselves but also learn the newer tricks-of-the-trade. Let’s face it, the last time I had programmed any real website was in … [Read more…]
I would like to elaborate this a bit more. Learning Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in two weeks has been tough. Prof. Ng’s Machine Learning course on Coursera explains the algorithm without getting into mathematical exposition or exposing the complexity behind the algorithms. In the end, my perseverance paid off. I managed to complete the quizzes and the programming … [Read more…]
Incase you are wondering how to sing that line, you can use this song as a reference. Me and Bluehost: A history lesson About three years ago, I wanted to migrate my anime blog (Line of Flow, later merged with my personal blog) from the shared WordPress.com servers. I wanted to do so because I … [Read more…]
I have just completed the Week 3 programming assignment for Prof. Ng‘s Machine Learning course on Coursera. I have learned linear and logistic regression so far and their application in regression and classification problems respectively. The course also introduced me to Gradient Descent algorithm to solve for the minima of a function. I have used other iterative … [Read more…]
8 hours of TCL (and not so much of Tk) Our guys had invited some Altair guys to teach us some specific topics in Hypermesh (henceforth abbreviated as HM). Today’s topic was automation and customisation. Since I do a lot of the former, it was a great way to introduce myself to the methods of HM … [Read more…]
I had built a crude N-Gram parser and resorted to the Sherlock Holmes books on Project Gutenberg as my training data set (training corpus). I was toying around with various phrases and the likelihood of their appearance in the books. One such phrase was “Elementary, my dear Watson”. “Elementary, my dear Watson” is technically a … [Read more…]
