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The perils of Facial Recognition
August 29, 2019
On June 28, 2019, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) called for bids for the implementation of a Facial Recognition System
The RFP is on the NCRB website .
This would allow the police to identify people by clicking a picture or pulling up CCTV footage and automatically matching them against a database of faces. This is a terrible idea and here’s why.
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An argument for Scala
February 4, 2017
I gave a presentation on Scala as an assignment for my Open Source Programming class. While researching for
the presentation, I came across many interesting talks and articles about the language and its philosophy.
What follows is an attempt to condense that information as set of reasons to use Scala for a project.
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Lessons learned from training neural nets on large datasets
November 28, 2016
This semester I have been trying to understand deep learning. Along the way I tried to implement some of the algorithms
and use them to classify images.
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Understanding Heroku Logs
July 23, 2016
I’ve been using heroku for hosting my apps for free.
However, free accounts on heroku are not provided with metrics.
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Making movie recommendations
July 17, 2016
I did my summer internship at Microsoft Technology Center, Bangalore. There, I
worked on the problem of recommending movies. This post talks about how the
solution that I developed works.
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Mass downloading notes
October 3, 2015
Open book Exams
Now that VIT has introduced open-book exams ( “open self-notes” to be more precise ) for CAT-2 ,
I needed to make notes from ( at-least ) all the material uploaded in the course page in the
Academics portal.
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Safer input in C
September 10, 2015
Why not to use scanf
scanf is the standard method to get structured, formatted input in C.
The problems with scanf are:
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First Post
July 7, 2015
Hello World !