I’m 24 years old, but the world around me constantly reminds me that I’m still young. I think I have a lot of time to explore the world, but as they say, time is subjective, and that it skips a beat and passes in the blink of an eye. But…

The article explains the paper ‘Dropout’ by Srivastava et al. (2014) — We will be learning a technique to prevent overfitting in neural network — dropout by explaining the paper, Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting. The paper was published by Srivastava et al. in 2014. Deep neural networks are very powerful machine learning systems, but they are…

If I ask you what day it is, could you answer without looking into your calendar? Feels weird, right? — You are not alone, who is finding it difficult to keep track of the days. For many people whose schedules were upended by this pandemic, time seems to move differently. Days go flying by without any sense of acknowledgment. The paradox seems to be that time feels really long and…

Understanding the evaluation metrics for recommender systems — In this post, we will be discussing evaluation metrics for recommender systems and try to clearly explain them. But before that let’s understand the recommender system in short. A recommender system is an algorithm that provides recommendations to users based on their historical preferences/ tastes. Nowadays, recommendation systems are used…

It’s a jungle out there as far as understanding what a recommender system is, so this article focuses on providing a trajectory in order to study recommendation systems. A recommender system is an application of machine learning that provides recommendations to users on what they might like based on their…

On some festive occasion you receive warm wishes from a friend whom you had known in the past, you revert back with best wishes. A few days later, you are receiving ‘Good Morning’, ‘Good Night’ wishes from them and some small chat on unrelated subjects. This takes you off guard…

Nowadays, we are drifting from buying products to buying experiences. Welcome to 'Experience Economy’. A majority of young people don’t buy products/ services just to satisfy their needs, but to get a good experience. All these musical festivals, concerts, amusement parks are based to provide us a great experience. Take a look at tourism, what does it sells - experience. Even in restaurants, people look for ambience, music and then taste.

The world we live in is largely dependent on electrical energy, which, still majorly relies on outdated techniques like burning of fossil fuels. Fortunately, many people are accepting the fact that this system isn’t sustainable in the long-run. Even if air pollution wasn’t a huge factor, the shortage of these…