Communicating Through Fingertips – Finger Gesture Recognition Using Depth Data
In Prof. Vishy’s ML class (cs 590 – top notch course, top notch professor), we don’t have a final and instead we are supposed to apply ML to a problem we find interesting. Microsoft gave all of us interns a Kinect this summer so I decided to put it to some use (I don’t have [...]
Problem Reductions
Prof. GNF @ Purdue provided one of the best learning opportunities I ever had in CS 381 – Algorithms. A particular section that I was particularly attracted to was problem reductions. Basically, you want to reduce 1 problem to another so you can use a previous solution to solve it. Reductions were (I am using [...]
Fixing my incompetence
Every once in a while when I am about to take off, I promptly have my wings cut – these moments have helped shape a rather interesting college life IMO. So, this semester I happened to fall in Jeff Mark Siskind’s class EE473 where we studied classical AI (stuff that was outdated by the 80s [...]
End of Semester #5
So, another semester and another time to feel excellent about myself and all that sort of thing. But first, some interesting life-updates (these just crack me up everytime I list them out). Due to some total n00b carelessness on my part, my trip to home (Singapore) got cancelled one day before I was scheduled to [...]
Trip to Omigosh… Seattle !
An interview with Microsoft (I got in!) and some other interesting developments.
Fixing Schedule
So, my plan for semester #5 seems to be finalized. I did not do too well in the Physics test out – apparently they cover less in the summer iteration of the course than they test for in the test-out. This mean I will have to take Phys 272 in semester #6 (ah well, a [...]
Summer and Fall 2010 + SURF 2010
So, 4 days into this semester I think I have decided my schedule. I am assuming I have a relatively light semester owing to some stupidity I engaged in (screw ups with the coursework). Anyway, here’s my coursework for this semester: CS 352 – Compilers (supposed to be hard) CS 314 – Numerical Methods (this [...]
Decline of Journalism
A rant on the media and its many shortcomings.