Originally published in my blog. “Tell me, what goes on in your day at work?” is one of my favorite questions to ask during interviews. In this article, I will answer this question for myself. I will discuss what it is like to be a data scientist (from my perspective)…

Originally published in my blog. Like I mentioned, here, about how I went wild with two courses this semester, I’ll talk about the heavier one in this article. Oh boy, ML CS7641 is indeed very heavy! All the fear that you hear people talk about in OMSCentral is indeed valid…

Originally published in my blog. This semester I went wild. Machine Learning for Trading AND Machine Learning — took up both these classes. I heard many question this decision commenting that it’ll be very tough, rigorous and that I’ll have no time. But thinking back, I did enjoy life quite…

Originally published in my blog. It was Artificial Intelligence for Robotics (AI4R) this summer in OMSCS, as a continuation of the AI/ML theme that I wanted to maintain with my courses. …

Originally published in my blog. As part of the Masters program that I started this year (mentioned this very briefly in my previous blog) I’m writing this review for the first course I just completed. I picked Knowledge-based AI (CS7637) — KBAI. OMSCS has an FCFS registration system every semester…

Originally published in my blog. I’ve completed an Artificial Intelligence course during my Bachelors and also referred some AI textbooks over the last few years for work. AI, while it does sound fancy and cutting-edge, is a very theoretical subject, even a bit philosophical. …

Originally published in my blog. My company — well, my team — organises what is called the Paper Reading Club. The idea is for each of us to present a paper to the entire team that we find fascinating and relevant to what we do at work. …

Automated essay scoring (AES) is the use of specialized computer programs to assign grades to essays written in an educational setting. Its objective is to classify a large set of textual entities into a small number of discrete categories, corresponding to the possible grades. But here, let’s look at it in an industrial problem setting. — You are a basketball coach. You have 40 kids under you who want to play ball. You are asked to select a team of 5 tallest kids. Pretty easy! You ask all of them to line up in the decreasing order of their heights and you pick the first 5.

Yup, this is the problem that I want to help you solve. To remove those dirty little duplicates that cause harm, hinder the efficiency of certain tasks or even pollute our systems. — deduplication /diːˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun the elimination of duplicate or redundant information, especially in computer data. "deduplication removes the repetitive information before storing it" As the definition says, the task we are trying to do is to remove the duplicate texts/sentences and so on. This is nothing but the act of checking…