An experiment in memorization, grokking, and misleading loss curves This post documents an experiment that didn’t go the way I expected.What started as a simple attempt to observe memorization and grokking in arithmetic models turned into a deeper lesson about how misleading loss curves can be — especially for algorithmic tasks. What I expected toContinue reading "Why arithmetic models look dumb long after they’ve learned the rule"
Extract-Transform-Load fast with Golang and Postgres
The PitchSo, I have joined a travel startup recently, and since my first day here, I have been focusing on organizing the humongous data from different sources that fuel the business, using data pipelines and sharding strategies. The ProblemA part of the problem was to solve this huge data import problem. All we needed wasContinue reading "Extract-Transform-Load fast with Golang and Postgres"
Simple URL Shortener
We all have come across social and professional networking sites, and have encountered posts containing minified (shortened) links that look something like bit.ly/bla or goo.gl/blah or lnkd.in/blahhh. We have got so used to these that we almost never pay attention to logic or design behind this philosophy. Alteast, I didn't, until recently when someone askedContinue reading "Simple URL Shortener"
Ignite with Mongodb
Thanks to the previous posts, we now know how to query data in Ignite. So far, we were either persisting data in memory (in which case, it would go off as soon as the node is down) or on file-system. However, we may also use the database of our choice as the persistence layer. One suchContinue reading "Ignite with Mongodb"
Digital payments and cashless society
We, the social beings of the modern society have a tendency of taking things for granted. Like most things, we have taken technological advancements in the society for granted. Without spending enough time on understanding the long term consequences of these advancements or the philosophies underpinning the evolution. Fernando Montoro, a friend, philosopher and guide,Continue reading "Digital payments and cashless society"
Online dating – flame of lust or love
If you were born before the 90’s, chances are that you met your partner in high school, a coffee shop, through a friend or on a trip. But gone are those days when you had to gain enough courage to present yourself in front of your crush, when you had to meet them in aContinue reading "Online dating – flame of lust or love"
Trust – a social fabric
Preface - Smart contracts and decentralization One of the fundamental ideologies of a blockchain ecosystem is "trust", rather "trustless"(ness). With smart contracts, a block of code would have the ability to run automatically setting the terms of a "contract" as per protocol, and would immutably persisted in the blockchain. In this post, I am goingContinue reading "Trust – a social fabric"
Get paid for paying attention
How many times have you been irritated by spam emails and random ad campaign in your inbox when you open your email? Almost often, right? Or think of a time when you are consumed in a piece of content on a website and you get interrupted by an ad banner selling you things that youContinue reading "Get paid for paying attention"
Barter to Bitcoin – an evolution story
What is money? At hind sight, it's a piece of paper that can buy you anything from a cup of coffee to a house. But why is money "money"? In other words, why money has to be a unit of transaction? Why does it have a value? Seriously, what's stopping us from printing shit tonContinue reading "Barter to Bitcoin – an evolution story"
The Reactive Future
Human nature has been reactive since the beginning of time. If there is there is a need to travel farther and without necessarily indulging into too much inconvenience, we invent machines (read steam engine, cars, trains and the likes). When there isn't enough land space for new construction, we cut forests. When we needed certainContinue reading "The Reactive Future"
Wisdom in a box
Welcome to the future.Think. Apply. Transform. © 2021 Wisdombox Wisdombox a.k.a wsdmbox is a platform to voice opinion, encourage thinking by creating meaningful contents, asking questions and sharing experiences to raise our collective wisdom that would create awareness, have a long term positive impact on the society and encourage us to take necessary action towardsContinue reading "Wisdom in a box"
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