It’s so heart-warming to see guitar covers of beautiful piano pieces. This is certainly one of them. Einaudi is my favorite modern piano maestro (as if I know so many others :p).
Fetch API – was I living on Mars?
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I stumbled upon Fetch API today. It’s this simple: fetch(url) .then((resp) => resp.json()) // Transform the response object into json .then(function(data) { // Do what the hell I want to do with received JSON data }) })fetch(url) .then((resp) => resp.json()) // Transform the response object into json .then(function(data) { // Do what the hell I […]
Celebrity Recognizer and Bulma
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Last Sunday, I took a beginner’s session on getting started with artificial intelligence as part of AI-Creatives meetup Code & Coffee. To get the fancy of attendees, I picked up computer vision; more specifically, image recognition using deep learning. As time was deliberately limited (90 mins), I focused on inference more than training. Deep learning, […]
Coding a neural network in plain JavaScript!
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Sounds completely insane, doesn’t it? Mattias Petter Johansson (mpj) has done just that. The best part is that mpj is as clueless about NN’s computer science or mathematical details as probably you are. He has posted a 3-part tutorial about it on his popular YouTube channel Fun Fun Function. I like to think of it […]
Spatial Augmented Reality
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It is fascinating to realize that something as simple as a shader lamp is an augmented reality generation device. A different kind of augmented reality, known as Spacial AR. While our regular AR augments real-world objects through cameras and screens on our personal phone, SAR augments real-world objects through the use of real-world projection and […]
Best way to split a paragraph into sentences
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…is to not use your own brain but rather ride on the shoulders of an expert. Surprisingly enough (for most), a popular ‘expert’ is Stanford CoreNLP. Suppose you have the following paragraph (credit): Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk taught himself computer programming at the age of 12. He moved to Canada when he was […]
60 Years Of Bollywood Part II
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They are back on public demand! There first edition was so good that I spent one and a half hour transcribing it. So, have they bettered it this time? Well, this one is different–both in terms of focus and chords. The focus is on singing (what an incredible alaap on Roja song!). The chord progressions […]
A great AI show-and-tell meetup at Knowlarity
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It was a good day spent at the cute little offices of Knowlarity. Nice to see so many others working on genuine artificial intelligence projects, at a time when AI is primarily being used to create demo-only applications meant to impress potential enterprise clients. I think our presentation-cum-demo on improving a webpage’s accessibility through automatic […]
My little improvement to an already great WordPress to Twitter plugin
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I am blogging as much as I am tweeting these days. To keep the momentum going, I decided to link my blog with Twitter. I checked available plugins and instantly linked WP Twitter Auto Publish. It has a rating of 4.8 (with 130 ratings), which I think is great for a WordPress plugin. It’s both […]
Curse of the champions
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It’s done. They are gone! With a heart heavier than a steamroller, I saw Germany bow out of the world cup yesterday. Didn’t we all see that coming? From the start of the tournament, we could all feel something was amiss in this German attack. It was far-far from its past “blitzkrieg” glory. The way […]