Vikas Gorur

A drawing of the Mysore railway station

Engineering at Airbase, previously Twitter, Blurb, Gluster.

@vikasgorur

Machine Learning

This is my attempt to build the “tech tree” of ML, starting from the absolute basics and ending up somewhere around GPT-4.

2024-10-18 Path to LLMs
2024-09-01 Breaking Caesar Ciphers Using Relative Entropy
2024-08-31 Learning by Gradient Descent

Applied Math

2025-01-03 Chessrank: Who Should Win a Chess Tournament?
2024-07-24 Counting is hard

Annotations

My notes on papers and articles I’ve read.

2024-11-27 Why Machines Learn (book)
2024-10-07 History of Language Modeling

Programs for Humans

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Abelson & Sussman, SICP.

These are programs I write solely to understand something and maybe help another human understand it.

2024-12-22 Cryptopals: Set 1
2024-12-09 Advent of Code 2024 (Clojure)

Exercises

2024-11-02 Stats 110: Practice 1

Misc

2024-12-14 Mysore Food Guide
2021-03-16 For A Kannada Movie
2020-04-30 How to do Feature Flag-Driven Development