I'm Lavanya Basavaraju, a student of technology and a practitioner of machine learning, AI and data science. Here you'll find long-form paper reviews, engineering guides and notes from talks, written to make ideas in AI, mathematics and applied economics accessible and fascinating.
AI & MLPaper review
MatFormer nests smaller feed-forward blocks inside larger ones, so a single training run yields hundreds of accurate submodels you can pick from at deploy time, with no extra training.
Read the reviewBrighter thoughts for darker days. A growing collection of words that help.
An engineer's guide to sync vs async design and to API frameworks, from REST to Flask to FastAPI.
Dare. Strive. Create. You belong in the arena.
Notes and opinions on Andrej Karpathy's keynote on how software is changing again.
Bridging System 1 and System 2 thinking through transformers.
Paper reviews, model architectures, lectures and the engineering it takes to ship ML systems. Robotics, too, as it comes.
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How machine learning is used in markets, risk, fraud and banking operations, and where it breaks.
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Clinical AI, medical imaging, health data and the evaluation and safety questions that come with them.
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Resilience, craft and what it means to keep showing up. This section was called Mindset Reset on the old site.
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