– Kurian Benoy

When I was using fastai library along with weights & biases callback to track my model training, I noticed a strange error when inferencing the same models created with…

Kurian Benoy

Jul 26, 2022

Getting featured in Spaces of the week and my latest two gradio spaces

huggingface

Deep learning

fastai

I recently created two gradio based webapps, and one of my spaces - Paddy Doctor got featured in list of hugging face Spaces of the week.

Jul 6, 2022

How to approach learning Vim - tips from two monks

opensource

fastaicourse

terminal

Vim is a powerful text editor and can be used for data wrangling. Two monks shared resources and their thoughts on how to learn this tool.

Kurian Benoy

Jun 27, 2022

Building a baseline model for Malayalam Text Classification

Simple baseline model with Logistic Regression gave an accuracy close to 87-89% validation accuracy in a private dataset.

Kurian Benoy

Jun 4, 2022

Starting an open-source project - Malayalam Text Classifier

TLDR: Kurian has committed to start an open-source project for Text classification tasks in Malayalam which is going to build as an open-source project under SMC community.

May 30, 2022

Installing Python Packages & setting up libraries for Data Science - the right way

Jeremy has been conducting these official course walk-thrus which started on May 27, 2022 for students of fastaiv5 course. The idea of these course walk-thrus were “going to…

Kurian Benoy

May 28, 2022

Quickly trying out a NLP model for Kaggle Competition

This is my attempt to see how well we can build a NLP model for Natural Language Processing with Disaster Tweets.

Kurian Benoy

May 23, 2022

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 4

fastai

fastaicourse

This blog-post series captures my weekly notes while I attend the [fastaiv5 course conducted by University of Queensland with…

Kurian Benoy

May 19, 2022

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 3

fastai

fastaicourse

This blog-post series captures my weekly notes while I attend the [fastaiv5 course conducted by University of Queensland with…

Kurian Benoy

May 10, 2022

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 2

fastai

fastaicourse

This blog-post series captures my weekly notes while I attend the [fastaiv5 course conducted by University of Queensland with…

Kurian Benoy

May 3, 2022

Music genre classifier using fast.ai

fastai

fastaicourse

A side-project done while attending Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course

Kurian Benoy

May 1, 2022

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 0

Last few weeks, I enrolled for the live cohort of Deep Learning For Coders with fastai Couse which is going to be taken by Jeremy Howard. It’s’ a previlege at the same time…

Kurian Benoy

Apr 26, 2022

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 1

fastaicourse

fastbook

This blog-post series captures my weekly notes while I attend the [fastaiv5 course conducted by University of Queensland with…

Kurian Benoy

Apr 26, 2022

Building a fine-tuned translation system for English-Malayalam

Hey, everyone. We all are familiar with translation systems like using google translate. So today, let’s build a fine tuned translation system for converting text from…

Kurian Benoy

Mar 13, 2022

A sneek peak into implementing QuestionAnswering With HuggingFace (inprogress)

huggingface

NLP

fastai

Encoder-only models like BERT tend to be great at extracting answers to factoid questions like “Who invented the Transformer architecture?” but fare poorly when given…

Kurian Benoy

Feb 27, 2022

First Vacation Experience

Travel

Life

I had taken my longest vacation from work in past week for four days. It was really enjoyable, and I was planning to do that for a long time. Yet due to Covid lockdown and…

Feb 16, 2022

Conversation with Vue.js Core Developer Ben Hong

Vue

Interview

1. Will class based components supported in Vue3? What is support of it?

Dec 25, 2021

Learning Tamil and weird things in Malayalam

tamil

Life

Thanks to Sankar M, I have been learning a bit of Tamil.

Kurian Benoy

Nov 11, 2021

Messy git commit relation with master and develop branches

git

In github, there are usually dev and main branches. Usually developers advocate protecting branch features, to avoid any of user to not merge directly without commiting.

Sep 24, 2021

Week 12 - What is Convolution? Looking into CNNs

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

The first section covered about filters. We used kernel which is a little matrix that is applied to the image which is used as a feature engineering step.

Sep 1, 2021

Week 10 - Embeddings & Recommender systems, Learning FastBook along with Study Group

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

Consider the case of buiding a movie recommendation. We usually use collabrative filtering technique to recommend a specific movie to a user of XYZ platform. Yet how will we…

Aug 25, 2021

Inputting String in C programming language

TIL

In C programming language, the strings doesn’t have a special data type on it’s own. So it’s usually represented with characters itself. Usually an array of characters is…

Aug 22, 2021

Week 8 And 9 - Learning FastBook along with Study Group

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

So, let’s start another week of learning logs:

Aug 12, 2021

Understanding get_image_files in fastai

In fastai library we use Datablocks like the below example for loading datasets, and to train models. The below code is DataBlock, which is used to load a dataset of various…

Aug 7, 2021

New adventure begins with MTech

Life

myself

I will be starting my persual for a 3 year MTech for Working Professionals (AI and Data Science) in IIIT Kottayam. I am looking forward to it and hope it paves a wonderful…

Aug 7, 2021

Log7- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

In week 7, we covered the second half of lesson 5 and started with lesson 6 on Other Computer Vision problems like Multi-Label classification. We have covered so far almost…

Jul 28, 2021

Why should NPM packages be as small as possible?

TIL

javascript

Jul 25, 2021

Regular Expressions in Python

In Python, regular expressions is a very powerful gun. Let’s look what these gun can do:. I first learned about regular expressions in Theory Of automate(TOC).

Kurian Benoy

Jul 21, 2021

Log6- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

So as always, let’s start with a quick recap of what was covered during the session:

Jul 18, 2021

Resizing an image to smaller size

TIL

Python

Resizing images to smaller dimension to satisfy the file size or height/width requirements is something we have faced multiple times. Most of the online tools which I…

Kurian Benoy

Jul 15, 2021

Log5- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

Just a quick recap In the first chapter, we learned Arthur Samuel mentioned the following:

Jul 14, 2021

Log4- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

The topic covered for this week in the study was chapter 4 of the book Deep Learning for Coders on going deeper into computer vision with MNIST dataset to build a Digit…

Jul 7, 2021

How to selectively allow multiple URL origins in flask?

If you already don’t know what is Cross-Origin Resource Sharing(CORS). Please check out the below links:

Jul 4, 2021

Log3- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

Let’s dive deep into DataLoaders. In fastai dataloaders, there are generally four things it does:

Jun 30, 2021

Log2- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Mentoring ML students in Tinkerhub

Tinkerhub

Deep learning

TinkerHub recently conducted a Build From Home initiative to encourage college/school going students to build from selected project. I got an opportunity to be a BFH sponsor…

Jun 20, 2021

Log1-Learning FastBook along with Study Group

fastbook

myself

Deep learning

I am sharing a few advice shared by Jeremy in the Lesson-0 of the fastai course and the introduction section of the book:

Jun 16, 2021

Log 0- Learning FastBook along with study group

fastbook

myself

I have been recently planning to delve more into learning deep learning and doing more machine learning projects for some time. As a first step, I am excited to share about…

Jun 10, 2021

Do no harm - COC for programmers

The above video shows how a Junior Doctor has been attacked in Assam, India. It’s very unfortunate to see doctors, attacked like this and we have seen even things worse than…

Jun 5, 2021

Trying out ngrok

ngrok is a cross-platform application software for enabling developers to deploy or expose their web applications from locally with a associated website url. This works due…

Kurian Benoy

May 23, 2021

Notes on Javascript Asynchronicity

A few points to remember about JavaScript:

Kurian Benoy

May 17, 2021

Untitled

Hello, I am sharing a bit about the unusual time period we are now in. We are now in a triple lock down situation here in Ernakulam. It is a quite unusual situation now…

May 11, 2021

Few Vue concepts

Wish me luck in diving more into Vue

Apr 24, 2021

Some Financial Lessons(not advisory)

Life

finance

Hey, I thought about sharing a few lessons which I learned about finance:

Apr 18, 2021

An Issue I had with fetching data with Axios

coding

javascript

I was working on building Camunda- formio Tasklist as part of my work. In the Javascript ecosystem, a lot of folks use the Axios library to work with fetching data from…

Apr 11, 2021

Static type ecosystem - python types & Typescript

Shutdown Routine

Life

work

It was a casual Saturday morning, and I was waiting in front of an Akshaya Center to get my Aadhar Card photo updated. Even after one hour, the line hadn’t moved much. So I…

Mar 30, 2021

5 qualities I learned from great software developers

coding

Life

I am pretty new to the field of software engineering and my journey as a developer has just begun. Yet in my short time, I have got to work with awesome developers both in…

Mar 21, 2021

Untitled - Random thoughts on my Supplies

Hola!

Mar 19, 2021

Hosting your website 🌐 with Github pages

coding

frontend

Webdev

Disclaimer: This may not just be the first blog post on this topic, yet we are not merely talking how to do it only but also why part which will delve a bit into some…

Mar 6, 2021

🏠 WFH for 6 months

Life

WFH

It’s been 6 months since I joined AOT Technologies as a SE-Data scientist and due to Covid -19 pandemic, on the day of joining itself, our director said this year you won’t…

Kurian Benoy

Mar 1, 2021

Learning Vue.js Part 2

Learning frontend is a superpower. Even Eugene Yan wrote in his blog post How to win a Data Hackathon in conclusion:

Feb 22, 2021

Learning Vue.js Part1

Why learning Vue.js?

Feb 15, 2021

What are Parameters and filters in Redash?

redash

coding

Let’s start with what are parameters in Redash. Parameters are useful for providing user interactivity for analytics, where they can pass interactive queries. Usually, we do…

Feb 4, 2021

3 Python libraries to make your code more pythonic

coding

Python

Python is one of the most used programming libraries. It is important to follow proper decorum while coding in Python by following rules such as PEP8. Today I am going to…

Jan 21, 2021

Books read in 2021

books

This a continution where, I jot down the books I have read so far:

Kurian Benoy

Jan 1, 2021

Advent of Code - Day 1 to Day 5

coding

Advent of Code is a yearly contest for programming puzzles which is being held every year. I would like to thank Eric Wastl for making Advent of Code quite awesoeme.

Kurian Benoy

Dec 20, 2020

Introducing Reading like AI

Reading like AI is a python package inspired from the below meme:

Nov 30, 2020

How I lost almost 4Kgs in 3 weeks - my wegiht loss Journey

Haven’t you all seen advertisements which say you can lose 6 kilograms per week. Today I am going to share my journey on how I lost nearly 4 kilograms in 3 weeks and lost…

Nov 22, 2020

Various Python Distributions

Python is infamous for being slow usualy. A lot of people with other language backgrounds complain Python is notoriously slow. And to be honest there is some merit in there…

Nov 16, 2020

My Visual Studio Setup

coding

Life

setup

It’s 1AM in the morning, and I am about to call it for the night. I realize if I don’t write this piece, it’s never going to be in my blog ever. We all know Inspiration dies!

Oct 13, 2020

Pycon India 2020 Highlights

conference

coding

Pycon India is one of the conferences which I like to attend every year. The reason is something deeply emotional because Python is the language which hooked me into…

Oct 5, 2020

Notable quotes from Mind master - Viswanathan Anand

books

Hello all, I am back with a few notable quotes from Mind Master by Viswanathan Anand. I am not a chess expert and know some of the basic moves. I recently picked up chess…

Kurian Benoy

Aug 9, 2020

TwTw-1(July 3 - July 8)

myself

TWTW

I started to become interest in TWTW after reading more than a year of blogpost from my friend Joel the week that was posts, which he picked up originally inspired from Sijo…

Kurian Benoy

Jul 9, 2020

CS229 - Lesson Notes

myself

This is just a post for myself to write notes while watching videos, so it may contain lot of typos and some mistakes.

Jun 9, 2020

Books read in 2020

books

The books I have read so far in 2020 are:

Kurian Benoy

Jun 1, 2020

Ideas for ML computing

Malayalam

SMC

Disclaimer: ML stands not for machine learning, but for Malayalam

Jun 1, 2020

Colorising old black and white images with Deoldify

coding

Life

A few day’s back, bunch of old photos was posted. It was a perfect opportunity for me to explore about Deoldify, a software used to colorizing and restoring images & Videos…

May 21, 2020

Bengali AI Competition Experience

coding

kaggle

Thanks to Kaggle and Bengali AI for organising this competition. I would like to congratulate all the winners of this competition.

Kurian Benoy

Mar 21, 2020

Exploring a new language - Swift(Part 1)

I usually pick up a new language, every 2 months and explore new things - Kushal Das

Kurian Benoy

Mar 14, 2020

Books- January and February

books

The seven habits are: - Be Proactive - Begin with the End in the Mind - Put first thinks first - Think Win/Win - Seek first to understand than to be understood - Synergize -…

Kurian Benoy

Mar 7, 2020

Replace one host name with another host name in Javascript

Problem: You are given a host name, and from it you want to replace host name of one website with another which follows the exact Url pattern

Feb 26, 2020

My 2020 resolutions

My new year resolution is to work more harder and be more organised. In this post I will be sharing some of my goals for new year.

Kurian Benoy

Jan 13, 2020

Attending an Aws meetup

I recently attended AWS re: Invent reCap organised by AWS User Group Kochi. One of the exciting announcements during the program was about AWS Inferentia chips which is…

Kurian Benoy

Jan 8, 2020

First thoughts on Swift

Swift

Deep learning

According to Chris Lattner, swift is promised as an infinetely hackable language. I recently binge watched two lessons of FastAI part2 which covered about new language for…

Kurian Benoy

Dec 19, 2019

Devsprints Experience

community

fossmec

Devsprints is an event unlike in Hackathon, you start working in established projects which are usally FOSS/Open source. @MEC our Devsprints was planned to be a one day…

Kurian Benoy

Nov 3, 2019

How to go beyond Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest

opensource

Lot of folks I know are Open source contributors because of one crazy reason, Hacktoberfest. It’s perfectly okay to get a cool T-shirt shipped from America, grab swags and…

Kurian Benoy

Oct 1, 2019

Pinch of old project

Deep learning

So our projects aim was to create an app which was to:

Kurian Benoy

Sep 29, 2019

Speaking style adaption in text-to-speech synthesis usng sequence-to-sequence models with attention

TTS

Tactron

Please note: I am writing this research paper summaries in mind to build an advanced(State of the art) Text-to speech system for Malayalam, as a FOSS project for SMC. I…

Sep 23, 2019

Break the Half-way mark(0.52 LB score)

kaggle

Data Science Network(DSNet) organised a Kaggle competition as part of Kaggle days workshop. This competition will be a beginner friendly competition aimed at helping you get…

Sep 22, 2019

Literature review for my project

TTS

Audio

Abstract:

Sep 21, 2019

Float/decimal points precision in C++ and python3

Python

Manipulating and printing outut format with specific no of digits in precision is necessary for many cases. This kind of questions are sometimes asked in Coding interviews…

Kurian Benoy

Sep 17, 2019

Best slack communities for Machine Learning

community

So this has been a blogpost to give a shout out to all these amazing Machine Learning Communities is immense.

Sep 15, 2019

Research paper Summary

Audio

TTS

In this paper we discuss about neural network-based system for Text to Speech(TTS) synthesis that can generate speech audio in the voice of different speakers, including…

Kurian Benoy

Sep 11, 2019

FOSSMEC Report(1/n)

fossmec

opensource

So in a land alien to me, I recieved this news about being made a Chairman of FOSSMEC for the coming academeic year. Let me document what all activities had taken place at…

Kurian Benoy

Sep 8, 2019

What is the difference between Open stack and AWS EC2?

AWS

Openstack

containers

Cloud computing is one of the buzz words of today. Today there are a lot of cloud operators in the market like Amazon, IBM, Google Cloud Platform and other associate…

Kurian Benoy

Sep 3, 2019

ആർട്ടിഫിഷ്യൽ ഇനറലിജൻസും കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റ് പച്ചയും

Machine Learning

Malayalam

This is a blogpost which is not written by me. This was orginally written by GopiKrishnan.

Gopikrishnan Sasikumar

Aug 14, 2019

Deep Learning for Japanese Classical Literature-Paper Review

research paper summary

academic

Deep learning

This blogpost is a short summary of the research paper authored by Tarin Clanuwat, Mikel Bober-Irizar(18 y.o Kaggle grandmaster), Asanobu Kitamoto, Alex Lamb, Kazuaki…

Kurian Benoy

Aug 10, 2019

Final Year Project Abstract

academic

According to our teachers before doing a project. The following premilinary works needs to be completed:

Kurian Benoy

Aug 7, 2019

Seminar ideas for project

myself

We are currently working in projects and works with greater impact: - CNN(can even beat a human in Imagenet challenge) CNN is an architecture in my opinion which uses Max…

Aug 2, 2019

About Malayalam Computing

Malayalam

conference

SMC

During MEC.Conf, we had one of of our keynotes by Santhosh Thottingal, Developer Wikipedia and active contributor of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing.

Jul 30, 2019

What is DevSprints (MEC.conf)?

fossmec

opensource

Has contributing to Open source projects been one of those plans for you that just remained a plan? Or did you try contributing to an Open source project but got lost…

Kurian Benoy

Jul 25, 2019

Emacs vs VIM war

Emacsvim

Emacs and vim are arguably among the best text editors of all time. You may occasionally find war tweets like this:

Kurian Benoy

Jul 23, 2019

FastAI Lesson-7 Notes

fastai

Resnets came from one amazing researcher intution Kamming who understood that Conv nets can be made better by stacking things up together.

Kurian Benoy

Jul 21, 2019

Thoughts on linux distros

linux

dgplug

Linux comes in different variants based on your taste, interest and system design choices. Some of the most notable ones are: Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, Debian, Arch Linux.…

Kurian Benoy

Jul 19, 2019

Brownie points on Single Shot Multibox Detector

Python

linux

Deep learning

In this article, I am going to talk about Single Shot Multibox Detector(SSD) which one of the algorithms which does object detection. SSD is known for detecting objects in…

Kurian Benoy

Jul 14, 2019

Jewels from DGPLUG training

Dgplug conduct awesome FOSS training every year. I have decided to participate this years training. The following are some of the questions which have been answered during…

Kurian Benoy

Jun 26, 2019

Quotes from the book Alchemist

books

The Alchemist is written by the famous Brazilian lyricist and novelist Paulo Coelho. I recently finished reading his book and am sharing some of amazing quotes I liked from…

Kurian Benoy

Jun 22, 2019

Monoliths vs Microservices

conference

In this article, I will be talking about monoliths and microservice system architecture. Recently Hrishikesh Bhaskaran gave a talk on this topic at Facebook F8 meetup. Th.is…

KurianBenoy

May 14, 2019

FOSSASIA Summit - Day 5

conference

fossasia

Travel

For the last 4 days, I have never arrived in time for conference(the earliest I reached was at 9:30 AM. Today was nothing different except I was also having an opportunity…

Kurian Benoy

Mar 17, 2019

FOSSASIA Summit - Day 4

conference

fossasia

Travel

This was a day where things were getting a bit serious. I was in Hackathon room for almost the entire day. Being a lone hacker, you sometimes gets to a point were you change…

Kurian Benoy

Mar 16, 2019

FOSSASIA Summit - Day 3

conference

fossasia

Travel

The day started off with Workshops from IBM. The first session was about Using Kuberneetes and KNative. The workshop was lead by Sai Vennam, IBM Engineer in US. I liked the…

Kurian Benoy

Mar 15, 2019

FOSSASIA Summit - Day 2

conference

fossasia

Travel

Today was when the 4 day long FOSSASIA International Conference started. We woke up a bit late, due to some time difference. The first talk which I attended was the State of…

Kurian Benoy

Mar 14, 2019

FOSSASIA Summit - Day 1

conference

fossasia

Travel

I arrived at Changi Airport, Singapore at morning at 7 AM. I was lucky to be catered by my father’s friend. Uncle also accompanied with me to check-in RuckSackin, which was…

Kurian Benoy

Mar 13, 2019

Contributing to OpenSource With CloudCV

opensource

experience

So here I am going to describe about experience contributing CloudCV organisation. I started to know about this organisation because of my friend Adarsh S who is a perivious…

KurianBenoy

Mar 1, 2019

What is SVD and NMF? (Learning from Computational Linear Algebra course)

fastai

linear_algebra

Singular-value decomposition (SVD)

Kurian Benoy

Feb 11, 2019

Categories

How I ended up maintaining a python package with 1M+ downloads?

Attending Pune FOSS 3.0 Conference

I am joining as ML Engineer to build Full-Stack GenAI at Sarvam.ai

My journey with Sentient.io ends

My Advocacy efforts for Devika - Number 1 Open source AI project from India

Matching my former github streak at the age of 25

📢 Last Week in AI(LWAI) - March 11th to March 17th 📅

📢 Last Week in AI(LWAI) - March 4th to March 10th

Merging a PR after 7 years

Releasing MalWhisper models

OpenAI Whisper and it’s amazing power to do finetuning demonstrated on my Mother tongue

Chess is sometimes more entertaining than Cricket

OpenAI Whisper and it’s amazing power to do fine-tuning demonstrated on my mother-tongue

AI with Malayalam Computing!

OpenAI Whisper’s amazing power to do fine-tuning demonstrated on Malayalam

Releasing Vegam Whisper Family of Models and demoing Malayalam Speech to Text

Learning how to install malayalam fonts

Tributes to my first python teacher- Dear Jumana mam!

Malayalam Projects I am working at the moment!

I got a positive compliment

Visiting main campus of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam

OpenAI Whisper and it’s amazing power to do finetuning

Four super powers of Jeremy Howard

🐦Learning more about birds and bird calls with Merlin app

Everything is about to be changed and launch of GPT-4

My daily fitness routine

Attending MBIFL 2023, a literature festival

Welcome To My Quarto Website

How well does CLIP models classify corn seeds?

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Paddy Disease Classification competition

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Tabular Models (Linear Regression & Random Forests)

A strange bug when using fastai library with Weights & Biases

Getting featured in Spaces of the week and my latest two gradio spaces

How to approach learning Vim - tips from two monks

Building a baseline model for Malayalam Text Classification

Starting an open-source project - Malayalam Text Classifier

Installing Python Packages & setting up libraries for Data Science - the right way

Quickly trying out a NLP model for Kaggle Competition

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 4

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 3

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 2

Music genre classifier using fast.ai

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 0

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 1

Building a fine-tuned translation system for English-Malayalam

A sneek peak into implementing QuestionAnswering With HuggingFace (inprogress)

First Vacation Experience

Conversation with Vue.js Core Developer Ben Hong

Learning Tamil and weird things in Malayalam

Messy git commit relation with master and develop branches

Week 12 - What is Convolution? Looking into CNNs

Week 10 - Embeddings & Recommender systems, Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Inputting String in C programming language

Week 8 And 9 - Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Understanding get_image_files in fastai

New adventure begins with MTech

Log7- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Why should NPM packages be as small as possible?

Regular Expressions in Python

Log6- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Resizing an image to smaller size

Log5- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Log4- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

How to selectively allow multiple URL origins in flask?

Log3- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Log2- Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Mentoring ML students in Tinkerhub

Log1-Learning FastBook along with Study Group

Log 0- Learning FastBook along with study group

Do no harm - COC for programmers

Trying out ngrok

Notes on Javascript Asynchronicity

Untitled

Few Vue concepts

Some Financial Lessons(not advisory)

An Issue I had with fetching data with Axios

Static type ecosystem - python types & Typescript

Shutdown Routine

5 qualities I learned from great software developers