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Trying out Cursor, Claude Sonnet 3.7, Grok 3 beta, etc.
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Spatial Vector Algebra
I’ve found spatial vector algebra pretty confusing, as commonly found in most physics engines. So I wanted to derive a few properties here for my own sanity. Spatial vector algebra combines linear and angular parts of motions, forces, and transformations into 6D spatial vectors (see Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms by Featherstone for a more comprehensive explanation). In general, spatial vectors…
3D Face
I’ve wanted to add a 3DMM of my face on this blog for a while. I wanted it to track mouse movement and be a drop-in placement for the logo. So I finally tried it out, but found it to be too creepy to put on the front page. Instead, I’m placing it in this post for your viewing pleasure lol (try on desktop). I used blender facebuilder and three js. Enjoy! Here’s a work of art that I made inspired by…
Biking in Maine
A cross country ski trip I wanted to take in Norway got cancelled due to COVID. So I figured I would go bike camping in Maine, socially distancing and getting a good break from the city. I didn’t have all the gear I would want, but after watching a few videos about Ed Pratt riding a unicycle around the world and Ryan Duzer riding a cruise bike across the USA , I realized that all you really need…
tech interviews
About this time last year, I was studying for Machine Learning Engineer (MLE) interviews for large tech companies. I received offers from Google, Facebook, Magic Leap, Twitter, Airbnb, Etsy, and Wework. I got rejections after 3 onsites (Stripe, Two Sigma, and a startup) and several other phone screens (Pinterest, NVIDIA, OpenAI, MIRI, etc). Looking back, I don’t think it is necessarily worth…
La Voile aux Glenans
La voile aux Glenans . Paris Coz Castel - La Base de Paimpol à St Malo - en deux fois Retour à Paimpol Il ne fait jamais trop chaud en mer. Bon vent et bon beurre!
Boxes
Here are some boxes drawn with html canvas. Fiddle with the settings!
The Ramen Logs
UPDATE (02/23/2020)! The first five (5) people to email me at baruch [at] tabanpour [dot] info will have the opportunity to share ramen with me at Ramen Ishida. I will pay for one bowl of ramen :D. Limited time offer! I have wanted to start a ramen log for a while now. To finally kick it off, I decided to eat 3 bowls of ramen this past Thursday. It was heavenly. In this blog post, I plan to log…
Tensorflow in Docker
Here are some snags I found when running Tensorflow models on Docker that can increase memory usage up to ~7x and increase inference time up to ~30x running on CPU. 1. CPU issues When running tensorflow in docker, tensorflow thinks that it owns all the resources on the machine that docker is running on. For example, if you run a docker container on a kubernetes node with 128 cores, tensorflow…
No free lunch
What is the No Free Lunch Theorem? The No Free Lunch Theorem was posited by David Wolpert and William Macready, which first appeared in the paper “No Free Lunch Theorems of Optimization” in 1997. The abstract says: “for any algorithm, any elevated performance over one class of problems is offset by performance over another class” If you take this statement at face value, the implication is that no…