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Life as an MDP
On one particular day when I was working towards a deadline, I ended up doing two things effectively - bunch of simulations on Markov Decision Processes and a debate with my friend ab...
In mind over matter, Jul 31, 2012Failure and the Future
Failures can be debilitating. You got badly injured while skiing and now you do not want to skii again. Your past venture into a startup was a failure and you are scared of starting a...
In mind over matter, Jul 27, 2012Dummies Guide to Erasure Coding
If you read this Wikipedia article on erasure coding, you will be more prone to a headache than a person with migraine. Fortunately, there is help. Unfortunately, this article will be...
In tech, Jul 01, 2012Reinforcement Learning
Even though I have used Markov Decision Processes and I know of the bandit problem framework, suddenly I realized that I could not relate these together with reinforcement learning. T...
In tech, Jun 30, 2012Save an applet to an image in Java
Have you ever wanted to save a frame from a Java applet to an image file? In this quick piece of code, I will show you how to save an image produced by an applet to a file. Although i...
In tech, Jun 27, 2012The road to wisdom
Piet Hein, a Danish polymath, who is famous for his short poems (also known as gruks or grooks) puts it tersely:
In mind over matter, Jun 22, 2012