We sleep, with the tasks of tomorrow in our minds, so much so that we dream about them. We go on vacations with knowledge of a return to the routine. We yearn for those summer days from school where we thought of ways to occupy our days. Escaping daily trials…

How to make sense of data (or lack of it) — when it behaves, and misbehaves — “Cogito, ergo sum” “I think, therefore I am” - René Descartes Thinking or solving anything requires some kind of framework that we either consciously or subconsciously follow. …

Vir Das, a comedian at the vanguard of the Indian standup comedy circuit, has been a little provocative — spotlighting the good, bad and the ugly of the land he calls home. Or has he? In a six minute monologue at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Vir Das managed…

Here is how I leveraged Machine Learning, NLP, and Twitter to have my own digital newspaper delivered daily. — His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. “Listening to the news! Again?” “Well, it changes every day, you see,” said Harry. I like reading the news — a lot. I endlessly scroll through Twitter and Google News daily in the quest to read better news. …

A brief history of how I jostled, fenced, and scrambled my way with Twitter to mine replies to a tweet — Twitter’s API is loved by all of us, isn’t it? It gives us access to a treasure trove of information, misinformation, disinformation and whatnot- almost in real time. It feeds the beginner NLP Engineer/Data Scientists dream of collecting processable data efficiently. And it is ridiculously well documented by enough of…

A brief history of my startup’s time. There is no TLDR version of this post, because this by itself is a TLDR version of the story. I will try to keep it as short as I can, without losing the story’s essence. To keep a long, happening, tedious, tense, and…

How I miss you, poetry little describes. A decade and a half, and then we haven’t met, leaving me with your dirty nemeses instead. How I long to hold you again, to walk into trials unscathed, unhindered, and unhinged. How I yearn for your companionship, to conquer and not make conquests. How I crave your mere presence, one that permits reckless, careless, and carefree. How I seek you, faint hope a guiding light through caves of nothingness.

“Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.” — David Letterman — I have had the opportunity to have some really-very-different kinds of coffee and all that I look for before the aftertaste even leaves my tongue is the next opportunity to have a coffee. The only thing other than coffee that I am addicted to is failed attempts at giving it…

A recent incident brought into public view, a long standing societal practice in India. Growing as a collective entity is something we have done in leaps and bounds, especially when adapting to practices which we appreciate from elsewhere, certain chains still hold us back, to surprising, rather shocking extents. Raja…