Genesis at MSG
vishwanath I’ve enjoyed the different eras of Genesis regardless of the Peter Gabriel-era prog-rock or the later more commercial Collin-era hits. Regardless of the timeline, the Hackett-Rutherford guitar soundscapes made me…
Zone of Proximal Development
Essentially ZPD is the place where once cannot progress in their learning without the interaction of a person who is high skilled at that learning objective. In a group setting,…
Merkle Trees for Comparisons – Example
A hash-based comparison approach like Merkle tree would help quickly compare two copies of a range of data on different replicas. This is also a core part of blockchains like…
First Principles – Replay
First Principles is a collaboration between Bass Player/ Composer Arjun Raghuraman and Guitarist/Composer Vishwanath Subramanian.
Prisoners of Geography – Book Review
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall is an enjoyable read that traces the worlds geography and its impact on today's geopolitics. I…
Text Summarizer on Hugging Face with mlflow
Hugging Face is the go-to resource open source natural language processing these days. The Hugging Face hubs are an amazing collection of models, datasets and metrics to get NLP workflows…
Spotify Recommender API Call
One of the key things here is to generate seeds for the recommendations, this can be done by using endpoints like Get a User’s Top Artists and Tracks to obtain…
First Principles – Blue Nile
Blue Nile Lead Guitar used: Ibanez RG3550 Galaxy BlackPlugin for lead tone: Neural DSP Plini Plug-in SpotifyApple
2020 in Books
I usually set reading goals at the beginning of the year to counter the array of distractions that have dented my reading habit over the last few decades. goodreads is…