Posts – Dao of Sai

A Guide to the Cross Entropy Method (CEM)

A deep dive into the math with code examples for the Cross Entropy Method (CEM).

Augmented Dreams: Data Augmentation & Self-supervised learning with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Improving sample efficiency of Model-Based Reinforcement learning with data augmentation and SSL.

Sai Prasanna, Karim Farid, Diego Fernandez

When BERT plays the lottery, All Tickets are winning!

My first major conference paper and change in research journey towards robotics!

Efficient Dynamic Batching of Large Datasets with Infinibatch

Learn how to efficiently batch large datasets with varied sequence length for training using infinibatch.

Roam Research - Software for building a Second Brain

Roam Research is a revolutionary note-taking/knowledge management software. It is designed with the idea that data structure for a second brain should be associative…

Neural Module Networks

Research Paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02799

ACL 2019 Conference Summary

My colleague Ananda and I attended ACL 2019 conference at the enchanting city of Florence. All the accepted papers can be accessed here. Here’s the summary of interesting…

Semantic Legion

I am guilty of spamming people in the degree one of my network with too many links in topics that fancy the Legion of varied interests that haunt me. Following the…

SemEval 2019 - Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Suggestion mining

SemEval Workshop regularly has been conducting tasks in NLP to evaluate the progress in the field.

God’s own Programming Language

Found this interesting blog post explores why many programmers hold a high regard for an ancient programming language which you might not have heard about or use daily.

Learning Longer-term Dependencies in RNNs with Auxiliary Losses (ACL 2018)

Paper by Trieu H. Trinh, Andrew M. Dai, Minh-Thang Luong, Quoc V. Le

Neural Open Information Extraction (ACL 2018)

Paper by Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Dependency Injection - What, Why and How?

We are going to explore dependency injection with emphasis on swift iOS development. But the concept applies to most object oriented languages. We will also see some…

Manjaro Linux - My current daily driver arch based distro

The partition having arch in my secondary hard disk had died. The invisible grime which settles in your mind because of using non free windows and osX at home and work had…

Crashes are Optional! && Write Less, Do More

It was a boring tuesday/wednesday afternoon, co-worker Giridhar pinged me. He was the organizer for Swift India meetups. He invited me to give a talk. As I am in trying to…

Open for Collaboration, Closed for Disturbance

I have been working at open office environment for past 1 and a half years. The first office was a semi open one where workspaces had some degree of separation, not exactly…

Creation and Consumption

The amount of content available for consumption in our digital age is staggering. Movies, TV, video games, videos, blogs, emails, chat messages all compete for our limited…

Function Currying, Composition in Redux Middleware

I am new to functional programming paradigm, though I do understand something about closures ,pure functions and have used some programming structures related to functional…

Speed up iOS dev using XCode Injection Plugin

Injection for XCode.

MIT OCW 6.006 Algorithms Course

MIT OCW course is one among the best introductory algorithm courses online. It introduces techniques to analyse, and understand how algorithms work.

Blog using Github pages

Github.com allows us to upload just templates, config and theme for jekyll static blog generator, and it generates a static website for you.