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Implementing KNN From Scratch

Mar 6, 2025

Learn how this simple algorithm machine learning algorithm works and implement it from scratch in python.

Starting afresh but because of a twist

Mar 5, 2025

Refreshing my site and reinstating my blog here, but for a different reason.

Building With AI-SDK 2

Feb 15, 2025

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To predictably handle the structure of the content generated from LLMs, let us take a look at structured outputs.

Building With AI-SDK 1

Jan 25, 2025

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Let's explore building with Vercel's AI SDK. In this part, we are just getting started with getting plain text responses from LLMs.

Backup Script - Backing up my machine

Jan 19, 2025

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A solution to backing up my machine when I am doing fresh reinstalls. This works across drives and preserves file permissions something which always gets messed up.

Profiling zsh and speeding up shell startup

Dec 29, 2024

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By doing a bit less and switching to some rust based tools, based on profiling, how I brought down shell startup of >1.5s to ~0.2s

Linear algebra pops up in Advent of Code 2024

Dec 27, 2024

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As soon as I figured out that the problem statement is just to solve a system of 2 linear equations, I thought this would be a chance to put that college degree to use and learn some numpy!

Implementing Recursive Comments View

Dec 1, 2024

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We explore how to render comments and their replies, and replies to replies, and so on.

Abstractions in Computing

Nov 29, 2024

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Why abstractions are everywhere, how much of it is useful, and how it has become an integral part of our lives.

It's about time to go on linux

May 2, 2024

What it was like to finally move on to linux after some uncertainty.

Dotfiles and how I manage them

Jan 22, 2024

A resource/guide to how I setup dotfiles on my system

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