Machine Learning

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Understanding gradient descent

I totally expected to get started with coding at this point. After all, I have a great (basic) understanding of what a perceptron is, and how several of these are arranged in layers within a neural network. And it's intuitive to think of the network as a computer program (because it IS one, or at le...

2025-11-19

WTF is a cost function anyway?

ML endeavors begin

As someone who has been a software developer and a builder for quite some time now, it's been humbling trying to get back to research and studies. Lately, I've been very curious about how the AI tools I use every day in life really work behind the scenes. I've learnt all about it back in my days at...

2025-11-09

Tackling machine learning as a subject, from a builder's perspective

Psychology

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Are we just bots?

I've been having a shitty few weeks. But I've gotten to hang out and interact with so many different people from diverse backgrounds these last ten days. It feels like I've finally burst free from the tech bubble that Bangalore is, and came face to face with discomfort, harsh truths of life, and oth...

2025-12-07

Do LLMs resemble us, or do we resemble them?