It might feel like Machine Learning (ML) has been around forever, but ML with Neural Networks (NNs) only became mainstream in the 2010s. A great example is the well-known AlexNet, developed by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton, which won the ImageNet competition by a significant margin in 2012. That was a little more than ten years ago. Back in college, from 2007 to 2009, I studied linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics....
Brief Detour Into UI Development
As a software engineer with a background in large-scale distributed systems, I’ve consistently struggled to create user-friendly interfaces for my projects. In fact, I’ve found myself relying more heavily on Linux command-line tools rather than their desktop alternative. However, I clearly understand the importance of providing users with a simple and straightforward way to use my scripts, apps, or models. It’s important to present my work to friends, hackathon judges, or strangers online with a nice user experience....
Why AI Robotics?
Ever since I got my first computer and started diving into sci-fi books, the idea of thinking machines has fascinated me. In college, as a computer engineering major, I began dabbling in electronics and took classes on production line automation. ...