Anshul Yadav

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Era of Tech wars

Jan 15, 2025

It's a pity we are already into another cold war, rapidly intensifying the conflict between China and the USA. Who knew that the poverty-stricken country, razed by intense famine, would one day challenge US hegemony?

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Can the Elephant and Dragon Tango?

Oct 20, 2024

At the beginning of WWII, Churchill called the Soviet Union "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Coming to the present, the same can be said for China. China gets a lot of coverage in the media regarding its expansionist actions, but little is known about its thinking...

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Graphical Processing Units - A Political Discourse

March 20, 2021

Technology is commonly believed to have no inherent values and thought of as politically neutral. Whether a particular technology is good or bad is decided based on how we use it and the values ascribed to our use...

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Nimoth Village

January 5, 2021

The majority of India’s population resides in its village making it crucial to develop an understanding of villages. In the light of social, political, and economical aspects, I analyze my ancestral village called Nimoth...

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Using SPSA for optimizing Neural Networks

June 21, 2019

Being a backprop ninja aids you with a powerful tool for training Neural Networks. What if the loss function is non-differentiable? or very expensive to compute? SPSA comes handy in such cases. Let's dive deeper in SPSA in this post....

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Gradient Descent vs Coordinate Descent

March 06, 2019

You may have used coordinate descent for optmizing lots of ML algorithms like Lasso, L2 Norm SVM etc. In this blog we will compare coordinate descent with Gradient descent.....

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