The conflict between self and “right” For some time I had been searching for an opportunity to explore a hitherto unsolved but hugely important question, without the answer to which I did not feel...
Scalable generative AI tools
Jinifai MVP Jinifai is a side project I worked on, to play with diffusion models and microservices. It is a scalable web application offering generative AI tools for creating images. It is build...
NYU 2021 Deep Learning course overview and notes
TLDR With one word, did I like it? Absolutely. In my opinion, the most important benefit from the course is LeCun’s distilled wisdom. You will understand the current state of deep learning espec...
My Notes Collection
I have created a lot of notes over the years for a wide array of topics. Here I share a few of them. They are quite large so use the Document Outline for convenient navigation. Line...
Satisfaction Unit Parity
Purchasing power parity While I was thinking about the pharaoh and the millionaire, a major issue that troubled me, was to fundamentally understand a way to measure and compare wealth across time ...
Bitcoin in the west
Hedging against hyperinflation and authoritarianism Appreciating the value proposition of bitcoin is much easier if you are a citizen of a failed state. Environments where the local currency is co...
The pharaoh and the millionaire
A dynamic limit to the top A few weeks ago as I was scrolling on twitter, I came across this tweet from naval, a person I greatly respect. It deals with an issue that made quite a noise, the iss...
Animations with d3 and react
Learning React and its ecosystem Well, after the unpleasant experience of creating a single page web application without using a front-end framework, learning one, was a top priority. Since I real...
Thinking about intelligence
Investigating my intuitions Motivated by the mysterious nature of human reasoning, during 2019, I found the time to start exploring the world of artificial intelligence, choosing though a rather ...
Zakanda technical overview
Introduction zakanda is my first entrepreneurial endeavor which… failed miserably. You can read the juicy details in my epic fail as a sports betting entrepreneur story. It was aspired to be a sp...