Putting Together a Deep Learning Rig
Building a PC amidst the RAMageddon is as fun as it sounds.
Alan's Space
Posts, projects, and photos from Alan's Space
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Album: Ba Vi
Where, instead of the wilderness of a national park, I found two temple peaks.
Don't fall for GPUs on the internet you might get scammed
I wasn't planning on building a PC, but then I found cheap GPUs! Were they too good to be true? Yes they were!
Album: Night Walk in Batumi
Few hours were spent searching for the rooms we'd booked, giving up, then finding new ones.
Notes on neural net initialization
Notes from trying to understand how neural network weights are initialized
Album: Around Stepantsminda
Our host handed my brother two chocolates for being a good boy.
Quick intuition on LLM hallucinations
A workable analogy on why they may occur
Album: Towards Santa Barbara
Many miles down the PCH, only to hit a closure. We knew it'd be there.
Album: Afternoon in Solvang
The nice man at the skydiving place said that Solvang was a tourist trap, I did not feel trapped.
Album: A Short Stroll in Saigon II
We returned, once again searching for a drone shop, this time with a broken drone.
Album: A Short Stroll in Saigon I
Sleep deprived, we went looking for bánh mì and a drone shop.
Album: Liminal Like
Resorts have liminal like spaces, it is rare to find them devoid of people.
Album: Mold
I wanted to test for mold, but I ran out of petri dishes.
Album: Colaba
Black and white, or blue and orange shots from Colaba.
Album: Creature Portraits
Black and white portraits of creatures (non human).
Album: Untitled II
Two photos from a walk near my house.
Album: Near the Mangroves
High tide explains some of the strangeness.
Album: Seawoods
Photos from walks around Seawoods.
Album: Untitled I
Three photos from a walk near my house.
Album: Ladakh
Photos from a miserably fantastic trip to Ladakh.
Album: Clouds
Mostly monochromatic but differently done shots of clouds from a window seat.
Project: Frappe MCP
MCP spec implementation that allows WSGI servers to serve MCP requests
Archiving Strawberry
A bittersweet experience that impelled me to write
Project: bm_exp
An experiment in Go to see if multiple Frappe apps can be installed concurrently
CODE_READABILITY.md
A document on code quality and readability inspired by the frustrating code I've encountered recently
Project: fex
A command-line file explorer in Zig that prioritizes quick navigation
Project: asyncpy-server-benchmarks
Synthetic benchmarks of Python WSGI and ASGI apps and servers
Building a Frontend Framework; Reactivity and Composability With Zero Dependencies
Or how hard is it to build a frontend framework with only Web APIs and no dependencies?
Project: Strawberry
Zero-dependency, build-free framework for the artisanal web
First Attempt at a Complete Rewrite
Doing a complete rewrite of Frappe Books has been on my mind for around a month, so I thought I'd give it a shot
Enabling Translations
Not everyone knows English, and it is generally the least favorite language of polyglots (don't quote me on this). Suffice to say translations are important
Refactoring Charts
I had to rewrite the charts in Frappe Books. This seemed like the only option. Well almost
Misanthropy Thwarted
A serendipitous reminder to douse the cynic
AGI in T Minus Ten Years
What I think about AGI arriving soon and you should too
Project: zettel.vim
A Vim plugin to hyperlink files
Project: Frappe Books
Free Desktop book-keeping software for small-businesses and freelancers
Post Zero, Why?
Finally, a digital domicile just for me
Mumbai University, Everyone Cheated
The plot in the banner image of this post shows two histograms. These histograms substantiate the claim in the title
Making A Synth With Python — Controllers
Part of a series of posts on making a synthesizer using Python. This one covers controllers
Making A Synth With Python — Modulators
Part of a series of posts on making a synthesizer using Python. This one covers modulators
Making A Synth With Python — Oscillators
Part of a series of posts on making a synthesizer using Python. This one covers oscillators
Project: synth
An attempt at making a synth using Python
What The Fuck Is Biting Me?
Eleven something AM, woke up feeling like shit. My mental state mourning the cessation of an another failed attempt at good sleep
Project: concurrent_inference
An example of how to use the multiprocessing package along with PyTorch
Project: CoveragePathPlanning
Code pertaining to coverage path planning and area division
Project: fitloop
➰ fitloop trains Pytorch models
Project: fetzen
A workout tracking web app