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All the ways to initialize your neural network

In this article, I evaluate the many ways of weight initialization and current best practices.

8 min readOct 30, 2020

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All the ways to initialize your neural network

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Regularization. What, Why, When, and How?

In this article, I want to take an in-depth look at regularization.

5 min readOct 24, 2020

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Regularization. What, Why, When, and How?

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Cross-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…

5 min readOct 6, 2020

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Cross-Entropy Demystified.

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Akash Shastri

When your idols come crashing down

A story about my relationship with my father

6 min readSep 8, 2021

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3 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.

6 min readNov 25, 2020

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3 neural network architectures you need to know for NLP!

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Akash Shastri

Tax Jargon for Millennials.

This is a beginner blog post for people who don’t know anything or know very little about the tax system.

5 min readNov 24, 2020

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Tax Jargon for Millennials.

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3 decision tree-based algorithms for Machine Learning

In this article, I will discuss some of the most widely used DecisionTree-based algorithms for machine learning.

6 min readNov 18, 2020

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3 decision tree-based algorithms for Machine Learning

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5 Neural network architectures you must know for Computer Vision

In this article, I list my top 5 neural network architectures for computer vision in no particular order.

7 min readNov 10, 2020

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5 Neural network architectures you must know for Computer Vision

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Why 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.

7 min readNov 10, 2020

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Why I use Fastai and you should too.

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Akash Shastri

Easiest Fastai installation for windows

The easiest installation of windows I have found is with Anaconda. Anaconda is a Package manager that helps you install and maintain the…

1 min readOct 4, 2020

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Akash Shastri

Akash Shastri

I love anything that makes me think. Check out my github here: https://github.com/akash-shastri. Get in touch with me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in

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