The Geek's Diary

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  • How To: Super Fast Tensorflow 2 Setup with GPU Support in VS Code

    I am publishing this article in response to a comment I received on How To: Setup Tensorflow With GPU Support using Docker article. Docker is all good and nice but all of us agree that we use IDEs (integrated dev environment – think VSCode) on our machines. So let’s say you want to get the…

  • Object Extraction using Image Segmentation: A Comprehensive Tutorial with Detectron2 and Mask2Former

    Object Extraction using Image Segmentation: A Comprehensive Tutorial with Detectron2 and Mask2Former

    Discover how to perform object extraction using image segmentation with Detectron2 and Mask2Former in our step-by-step tutorial. Learn to set up the environment, configure the model, and visualize segmentation results, extracting objects from images with ease. Boost your computer vision skills and optimize your image processing projects with this comprehensive guide.

  • Linear Programming in Python using Pulp – Part 2

    Linear Programming in Python using Pulp – Part 2

    In this article, we delve deeper into linear programming and explore how to solve a multi-objective optimization problem using the Pulp library in Python. We present a problem in which a nutritionist must find the optimal meal plan for a patient suffering from anemia, balancing the intake of Vitamin B12 and fat. We demonstrate how…

  • Goodbye WordPress!

    Goodbye WordPress!

    I have this wordpress blog running since 2016 – that is more than 5 years now. When I started this blog – like every new blogger I just started a new blog on a free wordpress plan and kept it that way for another 2 years. It was sometime in 2019 if I remember correctly…

  • Ambiguity in Scala syntax

    This post is not to say that Scala is a bad programming language it is just my opinion about how sometimes the pattern matching syntax can be ambiguous. I promise to keep it short. Let’s take an example: Based on whatever scarce documentation is around the language you would assume that the statement tagged above…

  • The Hanuman Within

    The Hanuman Within

    श्री गुरु चरण सरोज रज़, निज मन मुकुरू सुधार… बरनौ रघुवर बिमल जसू जो दायक फल चार… बुद्धिहीन तनु ज़निके सुमीरों पवन कुमार… बल बुद्धि विद्या देउ मोहि हरहू कलेश विकार… There are moments when you feel trapped in your own fears and thoughts making you feel desperate to get out but without any clue…

  • Beautiful Ways to be Broken — David Snape and Friends – The place to show off your hidden talents

    Originally posted on A Girl’s Voyage: Break, burst, splinter, fragment, divide, sever, shatter, disintegrate, crack, crash, fracture, separate, smash, snap, tear, split. So many ways to say that something’s in pieces, most with negative connotations, and yet, something broken can be just as beautiful as something whole, especially if the cause was worth… via Beautiful Ways…

  • 4 Reasons Why “Shower Thinking” is so Important — David Snape and Friends – The place to show off your hidden talents

    Originally posted on The Inquisitive Entrepreneur: “The last remaining place I’m guaranteed to be alone with my thoughts is in the shower.” -Teddy Wayne, writer for the NY Times How much time a day do you give yourself to just be alone? Sleeping doesn’t count. Nor does watching Netflix, checking Facebook, or swiping for matches… via…

  • My First Post

    My First Post

    Hello Everyone, This is my first blog post and its been a while that I wanted to start a blog and finally I decided to start one. It took me some time to take the action and setup a blog to express and share my development adventures. Well now that I am here let me…