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I have been hearing from many experienced researchers that research is not like coursework and is by its very nature open-ended. There is no fixed path, and even your supervisor may not have concrete answers. In fact most likely, nobody in the entire world may have the answers to your questions. If you’re doing “cutting-edge” research, then this...

While preparing for my visit to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - my first time travelling to the United States - I remembered the first image of America that I had in my head when I was around four years old. The image was of a vast hilly landscape with lush greenery and neat concrete roads. These roads would be lined with severa...

CVXOPT is a popular Python library for convex optimization, which forms the basis of Support Vector Machines (SVMs). However converting mathematical expressions into the format required by CVXOPT can be non-trivial even for a binary-class SVM. Recently, I had to implement a multiclass SVM using CVXOPT for my Machine Learning course at the Indian...

I had been staring into the mirror and I didn’t seem quite right. I supposed I need to move nearer or maybe just turn on the tubelight. I realised the mirror is stained and so I better wipe it clean. Those spots however seemed ingrained and so I replaced it with one that was pristine. But now the mirror appeared warped as the reflection...