Jan 18, 2021How to understand an existing codebaseWriting code is much easier than reading and understanding an existing codebase. It’s an overwhelming process and your brain usually gets heated after looking at it. Here’s are a few things that I use to help me in some way: 1. Don’t jump here and there This is the very first and important thing but hard…Software Development2 min readSoftware Development2 min read
Published inDataDrivenInvestor·Jun 12, 2020Production ready Architecture for fetching websites screenshots at scaleAt Greendeck, we also provide market intelligence to our customers, and to do that we capture thousands of snapshots of various websites and newsletters daily. How does market intelligence and capturing snapshots are related? There are so many variables involved that need to be tracked by an eCommerce store to…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Published inDataDrivenInvestor·May 28, 2020Beyond requestsWe at Greendeck provide pricing and retail intelligence solutions to our customers. We help them make great pricing decisions based on data, not intuition. To accomplish this, one of the major tasks is scraping hundreds of millions of products from many e-commerce stores on a daily basis. As we’re a…Microservices6 min readMicroservices6 min read
Dec 2, 2019Own your styleThis is your life. Your’s only. Learn from others. Learn with others but don’t mimic them. You have a different angle to the story, share that. What may be working for them, will not work for you. Don’t execute exactly what they’re doing and telling you to do. Execute and…Writing1 min readWriting1 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Nov 16, 2019Two important skills for an aspiring data scientistIt was just like another day of life. I was working on a regression problem for an internet-based company. I was doubling down on looking up the literature of the domain and trying to figure out what more can be done that will improve the performance. Doing my best. This…Machine Learning4 min readMachine Learning4 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Nov 6, 2019Secret element that helped me learn machine learning!The journey started nearly 1.5 years back. I still remember I used to feel uncomfortable when looking at those complicated mathematical concepts needed for machine learning. And even worse, I was very anxious and overwhelmed because of the vast amount of concepts to be learned. I used to doubt, and…Machine Learning3 min readMachine Learning3 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Nov 2, 2019machine learning != .fit()Like all beginners, I’d made so many mistakes when I started my machine learning journey. It’s the same story. A lot to learn. A lot of hype. Tons of technical jargon. Tons of prerequisites to covered and what not. Seems familiar? I know. For me, machine learning was all about…Machine Learning4 min readMachine Learning4 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Oct 28, 2019Face Alignment: Deep multi-task learning1. Introduction Facial keypoint prediction: Given a picture of face, predict the locations of various facial features. This problem comes under the umbrella of computer vision and comes with it’s own challenges. A lot of work has been done in this space. In this article, we will deep dive into the unique…Machine Learning9 min readMachine Learning9 min read
Oct 6, 2019Train vs Val vs Test SetI remember when I just started my machine learning journey, I was overwhelmed a lot. Lots of technical jargon. Some are digestible, some are completely going above my head. If you’re a beginner, I can feel you. This is the new series I’m rolling out to explain some of the…Machine Learning4 min readMachine Learning4 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Dec 15, 2018The Ultimate NanoBook to understand Deep Learning based Image ClassifierA guide for understanding Convolutional neural network — In today’s world, we are making extensive use of images. Isn’t it? Have you ever wonder how Facebook automatically detects faces in an image and then tells who is in the image like it did in the above figure. When I move the pointer near to one of the faces…Machine Learning27 min readMachine Learning27 min read
