Aug 17Antaragange Caves Trek — An offbeat trek near BengaluruWhat is strange is that strangers are nicer than friends — — Mahmoud Darwish, The Stranger I think what Mahmoud Darwish probably meant when he wrote this line, as he explored themes of alienation, identity, and the complexity of human connections is that sometimes, unfamiliar faces might be just a…Trekking7 min readTrekking7 min read
May 1Magical MunnarI just wrapped a magical weekend at Munnar with Tripbae community. This is a simple journal entry which I plan to revisit a few years from now to relive the magical weekend. Journey Begins — Bangalore Pick up was delayed, however, I met some of the other folks travelling to Munnar while I was…Travel7 min readTravel7 min read
Apr 6Goa — A Journal Entry (Part 2/2)In Goa — A Journal Entry (Part 1/n), I captured the different beaches I explored in Goa. In this article, I will try to do justice to the different cafes, bars, pubs and local alcohols that I tried during my week-long workation at Goa. …Beer11 min readBeer11 min read
Apr 6Goa — A journal entry (Part 1/2)I am currently working at Walmart, and Walmart recently made it mandatory for its associates to work 2 days a week from their offices, from April, 2023. So, I pulled off a week-long workation at Goa in the last week of March. This article is my journal entry, and in…Goa11 min readGoa11 min read
May 28, 2022Using PyTorch with M1 Chips on GPUOn 18th May 2022, PyTorch announced support for GPU-accelerated PyTorch training on Mac. It will be made available with PyTorch v1.12 release, but is available in the Preview(Nightly) build right now. I tried it out on my Macbook Air M1, and decided to share the steps to set up the…Pytorch2 min readPytorch2 min read
Dec 18, 2020SamplingIn Machine Learning we often need to work with very large datasets, which sometimes may be computationally expensive. During these times, it makes more sense to create a smaller sample of this large dataset and train or models in this smaller dataset. While doing this it is important to ensure…Sampling3 min readSampling3 min read
