Blog posts

2020

Reimagining the world in 2050

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In 1990, when my father was turning 20 he had several aspirations about how life would change after 30 years. He envisioned a better quality of life for his family, technology-oriented world, better purchasing parity and growth-oriented employment opportunities. Needless to say, many of his aspirations and wishes turned out to be true. Similarly in my 20’s, I cannot help wonder how aspects of life would be different in 2050

Education Coronafied: How the pandemic is changing student lives

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Just like every other demographic, the student community has been affected in several ways due to the coronavirus pandemic. Even though young people are least vulnerable to the virus, the fallout from the pandemic including recession, school closures have brought permanent changes to certain aspects of everyday student life. Some of these aspects include

My Udacity Pytorch Scholarship Challenge Experience

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Udacity sponsored a Challenge Program to select students for its Deep Learning with Pytorch Nanodegree.The following article enumerates my experience during the Challenge Program and tips for future students who might qualify for this challenge. The Challenge was announced at the first ever Pytorch Developer Conference by Udacity in collaboration with the Facebook.The aim was to select 10,000 students initially offer them an initial course material along with community support on Slack.The top 300 students would then be selected for the Deep Learning Nanodegree sponsored by Facebook.The Selection process involved filling out a standard questionnaire on the basis of which a global pool of 10k students were selected.