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May 3, 2024

Courage to Learn ML: Tackling Vanishing and Exploding Gradients (Part 2)

A Comprehensive Survey on Activation Functions, Weights Initialization, Batch Normalization, and Their Applications in PyTorch

Courage to Learn ML: Tackling Vanishing and Exploding Gradients (Part 2)

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Feb 29, 2024

An Unfiltered Review of My Parenting So Far

And it’s been good.

An Unfiltered Review of My Parenting So Far

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Jan 9, 2024

Courage to Learn ML: A Detailed Exploration of Gradient Descent and Popular Optimizers

Are You Truly Mastering Gradient Descent? Use This Post as Your Ultimate Checkpoint

Courage to Learn ML: A Detailed Exploration of Gradient Descent and Popular Optimizers

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Jun 5

Gen AI Myths Busted: A Quick Guide for Engineers

A super simple and quick guide to how generative AI works, the myths around it, and why it won’t replace engineers anytime soon.

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Apr 3

Feedback Loops, Bias, and a Very Hungry Horror Novel

A Book Review (Yes, Really), A Dispatch from 44% In, and Mildly Unwell About It

Feedback Loops, Bias, and a Very Hungry Horror Novel

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Sep 8, 2025

What I Learned About AI by Forcing It to Write a Novel

Why LLMs struggle with storytelling and how I accidentally found ‘impressions’

What I Learned About AI by Forcing It to Write a Novel

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Jun 27, 2025

A Small Reflection on How We Work (and How Agents Might Do It Better)

Reverse-prompting as a working human

A Small Reflection on How We Work (and How Agents Might Do It Better)

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May 18, 2025

My learning to being hired again after a year… Part 2

One Year Later: What I Learned Still Matters

My learning to being hired again after a year… Part 2

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May 7, 2025

Being My Kid’s Second-Favorite Mom

And Why That’s the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

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Mar 17, 2025

Keep Learning Like the AI Models Do

After being a TA at OMSCS for nearly four years, this is what I wish every ML learner could hear

Keep Learning Like the AI Models Do

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Tech, life, and the chaos in between—fueled by curiosity, caffeine, and a toddler 🍼☕🐾 Want more? My newsletter -https://theamyma101.substack.com

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