🐦Learning more about birds and bird calls with Merlin app
0 min
kaggle
experience
Travel
I recently went for a bird watching adventure in Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary, Thattekad Kerala, India. During that time, my guide was very proficient in identifying birds by just hearing sounds. In Salim Ali…
Kurian Benoy
Mar 20, 2023

Everything is about to be changed and launch of GPT-4
2 min
Deep learning
NLP
coding
There has been a lot of buzz about GPT and ChatGPT in specific. Tom Scott, a youtuber recently published a video…
Kurian Benoy
Mar 15, 2023

My daily fitness routine
1 min
myself
Hello everyone, I just thought of sharing my daily fitness routine which I have been following for the past 1 month. Previously I had written about How I lost almost 4Kgs in 3…
Kurian Benoy
Mar 6, 2023

Attending MBIFL 2023, a literature festival
3 min
Life
Travel
conference
Since I am a frequent book purchaser from Mathrubhumi book, in January I got a notification to buy early bird tickets for MBIFL 2023. I immediately bought 4 day’s tickets to attend the literature festival. When it came to February, I realised due to some commitments at home and work, I couldn’t attend…
Kurian Benoy
Feb 5, 2023

Welcome To My Quarto Website
0 min
TIL
This is my first post in a Quarto blog. Welcome everyone to my new blog.
Tristan O’Malley, Kurian Benoy
Dec 18, 2022

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Paddy Disease Classification competition
0 min
fastai
fastaicourse
This blog-post series captures my weekly notes while I attend the [fastaiv5 course conducted by University of Queensland with…
Kurian Benoy
Aug 4, 2022

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Tabular Models (Linear Regression & Random Forests)
2 min
fastai
fastaicourse
This blog-post series captures my weekly notes while I attend the [fastaiv5 course conducted by University of Queensland with…
Kurian Benoy
Jul 28, 2022

A strange bug when using fastai library with Weights & Biases
1 min
fastai
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
0 min
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
6 min
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
3 min
malayalamtextmodels
malayalam
NLP
opensource
ML
Deep learning
SMC
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
4 min
malayalamtextmodels
malayalam
NLP
opensource
ML
Deep learning
SMC
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
6 min
fastaicourse
terminal
Python
setup
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 explain exactly…
Kurian Benoy
May 28, 2022

Quickly trying out a NLP model for Kaggle Competition
0 min
kaggle
fastaicourse
NLP
huggingface
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
5 min
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
3 min
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
4 min
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
3 min
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
1 min
fastbook
myself
ML
Deep learning
fastai
Last few weeks, I enrolled for the live cohort of Deep Learning For Coders with fastai Couse which…
Kurian Benoy
Apr 26, 2022

Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course - Lesson 1
4 min
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
1 min
fastai
huggingface
translation
fine tuning
malayalam
Hey, everyone. We all are familiar with translation systems like using google translate. So…
Kurian Benoy
Mar 13, 2022

A sneek peak into implementing QuestionAnswering With HuggingFace (inprogress)
1 min
huggingface
NLP
fastai
Encoder-only models like BERT tend to be great at extracting answers…
Kurian Benoy
Feb 27, 2022

First Vacation Experience
1 min
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
1 min
Vue
Vue3
Interview
1. Will class based components supported in Vue3? What is support of it?
Dec 25, 2021

Learning Tamil and weird things in Malayalam
0 min
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
0 min
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
3 min
fastbook
myself
ML
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
2 min
fastbook
myself
ML
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
2 min
TIL
C
In C programming language, the…
Aug 22, 2021

Week 8 And 9 - Learning FastBook along with Study Group
6 min
fastbook
myself
ML
Deep learning
So, let’s start another week of learning logs:
Aug 12, 2021

Understanding get_image_files in fastai
8 min
TIL
Python
fastai
fastbook
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 types of bears…
Aug 7, 2021
 
New adventure begins with MTech
0 min
Life
myself
I will be starting my persual for a 3 year MTech for Working Professionals (AI and Data Science)…
Aug 7, 2021

Log7- Learning FastBook along with Study Group
1 min
fastbook
myself
ML
Deep learning
In week 7, we covered the second half of…
Jul 28, 2021
 
Why should NPM packages be as small as possible?
1 min
TIL
javascript
Most of the popular NPM packages are very small in size, as it’s a crucial thing that affects the npm packages. Let’s look at why it’s a crucial thing:
Jul 25, 2021
 
Regular Expressions in Python
1 min
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
5 min
fastbook
myself
ML
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
1 min
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
2 min
fastbook
myself
ML
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
5 min
fastbook
myself
ML
Deep learning
The topic covered for this week in the study was chapter 4 of the book Deep Learning for Coders on goi…
Jul 7, 2021

How to selectively allow multiple URL origins in flask?
7 min
coding
experience
Python
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
5 min
fastbook
myself
ML
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
4 min
fastbook
myself
ML
Deep learning
Video Link
Jun 21, 2021
 
Mentoring ML students in Tinkerhub
0 min
Tinkerhub
ML
Deep learning
Hello world…
Jun 20, 2021

Log1-Learning FastBook along with Study Group
3 min
fastbook
myself
ML
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
1 min
fastbook
myself
I…
Jun 10, 2021

Do no harm - COC for programmers
6 min
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
1 min
ngrok is a…
Kurian Benoy
May 23, 2021
 
Notes on Javascript Asynchronicity
4 min
A few points to remember about JavaScript:
Kurian Benoy
May 17, 2021
 
Untitled
0 min
Hello, I am sharing a bit about the unusual time period we are now in. We are now in a…
May 11, 2021
 
Few Vue concepts
0 min
coding
Vue
javascript
Wish me luck in diving more into Vue
Apr 24, 2021

Some Financial Lessons(not advisory)
1 min
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
6 min
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…
Apr 11, 2021

Static type ecosystem - python types & Typescript
2 min
coding
Python
javascript
Many of the popular languages like Javascript and Python which are being used by millions of developers are dynamically typed…
kurianbenoy
Apr 7, 2021

Shutdown Routine
3 min
Life
work
It was a casual Saturday morning, and I was waiting in front of an…
Mar 30, 2021

5 qualities I learned from great software developers
3 min
coding
Life
I am pretty new to the field of…
Mar 21, 2021
 
Untitled - Random thoughts on my Supplies
1 min
Hola!
Mar 19, 2021

Hosting your website 🌐 with Github pages
4 min
coding
frontend
Disclaimer: This may not just be the…
Mar 6, 2021
 
🏠 WFH for 6 months
3 min
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
3 min
javascript
frontend
coding
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
3 min
javascript
frontend
coding
Why learning Vue.js?
Feb 15, 2021
 
What are Parameters and filters in Redash?
1 min
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 most of the analytics based on certain…
Feb 4, 2021
 
3 Python libraries to make your code more pythonic
2 min
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 introduce a few libraries for formatting and making…
Jan 21, 2021
 
Books read in 2021
1 min
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
8 min
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
0 min
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
4 min
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…
Nov 22, 2020
 
Various Python Distributions
2 min
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
1 min
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
0 min
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…
Oct 5, 2020
 
Notable quotes from Mind master - Viswanathan Anand
5 min
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)
1 min
myself
TWTW
I…
Kurian Benoy
Jul 9, 2020
 
CS229 - Lesson Notes
1 min
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
0 min
books
The books I have read so far in 2020 are:
Kurian Benoy
Jun 1, 2020
 
Ideas for ML computing
1 min
Malayalam
SMC
Disclaimer: ML stands not for machine learning, but for Malayalam
Jun 1, 2020

Colorising old black and white images with Deoldify
0 min
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…
May 21, 2020
 
Bengali AI Competition Experience
2 min
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)
3 min
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
1 min
books
The seven…
Kurian Benoy
Mar 7, 2020
 
Replace one host name with another host name in Javascript
0 min
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
0 min
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
1 min
I recently attended AWS re: Invent reCap organised by AWS User Group Kochi.…
Kurian Benoy
Jan 8, 2020

First thoughts on Swift
8 min
Swift
Deep learning
According…
Kurian Benoy
Dec 19, 2019

Devsprints Experience
2 min
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 event on November 3, even though we would have loved to make the event duration…
Kurian Benoy
Nov 3, 2019

How to go beyond Hacktoberfest?
0 min
Hacktoberfest
opensource
Lot of folks I know are Open…
Kurian Benoy
Oct 1, 2019
 
Pinch of old project
1 min
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
4 min
TTS
Tactron
Please note: I am writing this research paper…
Sep 23, 2019
 
Break the Half-way mark(0.52 LB score)
0 min
kaggle
Data Science Network(DSNet) organised a Kaggle competition as part of Kaggle days workshop. This competition will be a beginner…
Sep 22, 2019
 
Literature review for my project
6 min
TTS
Audio
Abstract:
Sep 21, 2019
 
Float/decimal points precision in C++ and python3
0 min
Python
C
Manipulating and printing outut format with specific no of digits in precision…
Kurian Benoy
Sep 17, 2019
 
Best slack communities for Machine Learning
0 min
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
3 min
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…
Kurian Benoy
Sep 11, 2019
 
FOSSMEC Report(1/n)
2 min
fossmec
opensource
So in a land alien to me…
Kurian Benoy
Sep 8, 2019
 
What is the difference between Open stack and AWS EC2?
1 min
AWS
Openstack
containers
Cloud computing is one of the buzz words of today. Today there are a lot of cloud…
Kurian Benoy
Sep 3, 2019
 
ആർട്ടിഫിഷ്യൽ ഇനറലിജൻസും കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റ് പച്ചയും
1 min
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
8 min
research paper summary
academic
Deep learning
ML
This blogpost is a short summary of the research paper authored by Tarin Clanuwat, Mikel Bober-Irizar(18 y.o…
Kurian Benoy
Aug 10, 2019
 
Final Year Project Abstract
2 min
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
1 min
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

Malayalam Computing(Highlight from talk by Santhosh Thottingal)
1 min
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)?
1 min
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
0 min
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
2 min
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
0 min
linux
dgplug
Linux comes in different variants based on your taste, interest…
Kurian Benoy
Jul 19, 2019
 
Brownie points on Single Shot Multibox Detector
2 min
Python
linux
Deep learning
In this article, I am going to talk about…
Kurian Benoy
Jul 14, 2019
 
Jewels from DGPLUG training
3 min
Python
linux
Life
dgplug
Dgplug conduct…
Kurian Benoy
Jun 26, 2019

Quotes from the book Alchemist
2 min
books
The Alchemist is written by the famous Brazilian lyricist and…
Kurian Benoy
Jun 22, 2019
 
Monoliths vs Microservices
3 min
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 talk inspired me and changed my thoughts about both. So I…
KurianBenoy
May 14, 2019

FOSSASIA Summit - Day 5
1 min
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
0 min
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
1 min
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 way he took sessions and he personally cleared a lot of my doubts about Kuberneetes. The amount of preparation he did for workshop was amazing. Usually most of…
Kurian Benoy
Mar 15, 2019

FOSSASIA Summit - Day 2
1 min
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
1 min
conference
fossasia
Travel
I arrived at Changi Airport, Singapore at…
Kurian Benoy
Mar 13, 2019

Contributing to OpenSource With CloudCV
1 min
opensource
experience
So here I am going to describe about experience contributing…
KurianBenoy
Mar 1, 2019
 
What is SVD and NMF? (Learning from Computational Linear Algebra course)
2 min
fastai
linear_algebra
Singular-value decomposition (SVD)
Kurian Benoy
Feb 11, 2019
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