Last week I decided to do something fun with AI. I trained a small Recurrent Neural Network to generate random names of species as per the Binomial nomenclature (e.g Homo Sapiens) using GRU based RNN and Tensorflow. The name of species for training was taken from Uniprot’s website : https://www.uni ...

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As a ML practitioner, I am always on a lookout for cheap and easy ways for hosting my model. Google Cloud Functions can be a great option in such cases. In this article I will discuss some advantages of hosting your models for inference using Google Cloud Functions. Why Serverless / Google Cloud Fun ...

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I used Twitter Streaming API to collect around 272300 tweets in a duration of 24 hours starting July 14 2020. I wrote small piece of code using tweepy python library and stored them to a sqlite database. This video contains results of a datascience experiment which I performed on tweets containin ...

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Last year, I was introduced to a wonderful scientific instrument called the ‘Foldscope’. I have spent hours observing things with it. One of my favorite past times is to observe ciliates using the Foldscope. Ciliates are very simple single cell organisms which are easy to find and come in numerous s ...

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Like everyone else I studied ‘stomata’ when I was in school, however never got to see those till I purchased a Foldscope. The Foldscope is an amazing instrument and can be a great teaching aid in classrooms. Capturing stomata images can be very tricky. You need to be able to take an epidermal peel f ...

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Pollen grains are some of the easiest and most interesting objects for observing under a microscope. I have observed many different types of pollen grains using my Foldscope. Here is a small summary of my findings: Pumpkin PollenPumpkin pollen grains are somewhat bigger in size. Using a foldscope yo ...

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Last week I published a small book on Amazon titled : Student’s Manual of Job Interviews: Advice on cracking job interviews for technology students Frankly speaking there are many books on resume and job interview preparation. This book however is specifically written for technology students, engi ...

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Every since I got my hands on a Foldscope, I have been pretty much obsessed with it. I have used the Foldscope to see and discover many interesting things. One fun activity, I am sure every Foldscope user must have tried, is observing insects using a Foldscope. If you have ever tried observing inse ...

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Since a long time I wanted to create something cool using LEDs and Arduino for Diwali. For those who don’t know, ‘Diwali’ is known as ‘festival of lights’ in India. During Diwali you will see houses and buildings decorated with earthen lamps (called ‘diyas’), lanterns and LED lights. Shown below is ...

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In my previous articles, I had written in detail about creating wifi enabled temperature and humidity logger using ESP8266 + NodeMCU and configuring a NoSQL(CouchDB) database to store data transmitted by it. In this article, we are going make our IoT device tweet temperature and humidity readings us ...

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