PinnedAkash ShastriinTowards Data ScienceAll the ways to initialize your neural networkIn this article, I evaluate the many ways of weight initialization and current best practices.Oct 30, 2020Oct 30, 2020
PinnedAkash ShastriinTowards Data ScienceRegularization. What, Why, When, and How?In this article, I want to take an in-depth look at regularization.Oct 24, 20201Oct 24, 20201
PinnedAkash ShastriinTowards Data ScienceCross-Entropy Demystified.For the longest time, I had not completely understood Cross-Entropy loss. Why did we take exponents (softmax)? Why did we then take the…Oct 6, 2020Oct 6, 2020
Akash ShastriWhen your idols come crashing downA story about my relationship with my fatherSep 8, 2021Sep 8, 2021
Akash ShastriinTowards Data Science3 neural network architectures you need to know for NLP!In this article, I will discuss what I think are the three most important architectures to be aware of for NLP.Nov 25, 2020Nov 25, 2020
Akash ShastriTax Jargon for Millennials.This is a beginner blog post for people who don’t know anything or know very little about the tax system.Nov 24, 2020Nov 24, 2020
Akash ShastriinTowards Data Science3 decision tree-based algorithms for Machine LearningIn this article, I will discuss some of the most widely used DecisionTree-based algorithms for machine learning.Nov 18, 2020Nov 18, 2020
Akash ShastriinTowards Data Science5 Neural network architectures you must know for Computer VisionIn this article, I list my top 5 neural network architectures for computer vision in no particular order.Nov 10, 2020Nov 10, 2020
Akash ShastriinTowards Data ScienceWhy I use Fastai and you should too.This is part 1 of a multipart series: The things I love the most about my favourite deep learning library, fastai.Nov 10, 2020Nov 10, 2020
Akash ShastriEasiest Fastai installation for windowsThe easiest installation of windows I have found is with Anaconda. Anaconda is a Package manager that helps you install and maintain the…Oct 4, 2020Oct 4, 2020