So Did You Come Up With A Novel Idea?

17 Nov 2025 We throw around the phrase **novel idea** a lot, especially in tech and research. But what is novelty really, and how do you even begin to measure it? Read more

To Preserve Or Not To Preserve

14 Nov 2025 Of late, my wife has started to put these nice, handwritten notes on my lunch boxes that I really enjoy and adore. But a new challenge has come up with that: the dilemma of whether to throw them away or preserve them for eternity. Deep dive to see if and why we preserve things or not preserve things .. Read more

Are All Sports (Watching) Created Equal ?

03 Oct 2025 People have different **likings** for different sports — a lot of it depends on upbringing and surroundings. If you live in the desert, chances are your liking for ice hockey might be lower than for field hockey. But beyond your favourites and childhood familiarities, as an unbiased user are we predisposed to liking certain sports more than others just because of the sport itself? Read more

Visualizing and debugging deep convolutional networks

05 Jan 2018 Have you been ever stuck while the neural network executes smoothly across epochs but the loss doesn't decrease ? Or may be the loss decreases but not the way you would like it to ? Debugging a deep neural network is helpful if not essential for a lot of use cases. Read more

Segmenting Overlapping Chromosomes using Deep Learning

25 Jan 2017 Deep Learning has been making quite a lot of progress in computer vision tasks of late. In this post, I go on to explain how to use 2D U Net (one of the most popular papers of 2015-16 in computer vision) for segmenting out overlapping chromosomes on a slide used for cytogenetics. Read more