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Library of Unloved Models Vol. 3: Weighted Subspace Random Forest
One of the quiet themes running through this series is that many models don’t disappear because they are flawed, they disappear because our habits do not change and we refuse to learn outside of the ‘cannon’. We standardize workflows. We optimize for familiarity. And eventually, certain modelling assumptions stop being questioned. Random Forest is perhaps the clearest example of this phenomenon. It is the model we reach when we want something dependable. The model we deploy w

Dipyaman Sanyal
Feb 18


Why Distilled Models Are Brittle to Fine-Tuning (Explained Through Basketball)
Or: What I learned about model compression by comparing myself to Michael Jordan The Problem Everyone Runs Into Last week, someone in my LinkedIn comments mentioned they were struggling to fine-tune a distilled OCR model. The model was excellent at table extraction with genuinely impressive performance. But when they tried to adapt it for their specific use case, it immediately overfitted and performed worse than baseline. This isn't unusual. I've seen this pattern repeatedly
Satyavrat Bondre
Feb 12


Cloud Migration – Transforming Business, not just servers
Every year, global cloud computing spending critics are watched as it races toward $825 billion by 2025, signalling that cloud is not...

Devraj Sanyal
Aug 12, 2025


Data Science Architect – Defining a ‘New’ Role
Unsplash The role of an architect in most areas of technology is well defined. For example, a Java architect will require expertise which...

Dipyaman Sanyal
Jan 21, 2025


Is AI Helping or Hurting Creativity in Cinema? Part-II
Source- deviantart.com "Sure, AI is changing the game in filmmaking, but let's take a step back and explore the darker side—could this...

Ratanpriya
Jan 9, 2025


AI—The Future of Hollywood?—Part 1
Is AI the Future of Hollywood Filmmaking? Is AI Helping or Hurting Creativity in Cinema? We’re living in a time where technology is...

Ratanpriya
Dec 17, 2024


When will the GenAI bubble burst?
When will the GenAI bubble burst? We have the definitive answer. But a quick counter-question first, “when did you last use a dot com”?...

Dipyaman Sanyal
Dec 2, 2024


No! President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump are not too Old
The news of President Biden dropping out of the race is known to all. We do not comment on political matters as an organization, but we...

Dipyaman Sanyal
Jul 22, 2024


Library of Unloved Models Vol. 2
Linear regression models are the go-to first step for most of us when we are trying to predict or understand a numerical variable....

Dipyaman Sanyal
Jun 25, 2024


Library of Unloved Models Vol. 1
If you talk about survival analysis to biostatisticians, they live and breathe this stuff. However, I know myriad data scientists who do...

Dipyaman Sanyal
May 21, 2024


From Algorithms to Affirmations: Exploring the Inclusive World of Generative AI in Mental Health
“a chatbot, a therapist, and a cup of tea walk into a bar” using imagine.art Picture this: a chatbot, a therapist, and a cup of tea walk...

Pooja Vijaykumar
Feb 29, 2024


The Grey Areas In ML-Driven Fraud Detection: Part 2
The advances in ML-AI have opened the doors to a plethora of smart and personalized methods of fraud detection. What once was an area...

AM Fabi
Feb 22, 2024


Let the Pixels Colour my Canvas
AI in reviving the dying art of India, do we need to think about copyright rather than bringing them back to life? Artificial...

Roopali Salwan
Jan 25, 2024


Can we avoid another Cambridge Analytica? (And, is AI ethics even implementable?)
Most ideas come from random juxtaposition of things or events, which in turn makes the human connect dots which were probably not seen by...

Dipyaman Sanyal
Jan 12, 2024


Corporate Governance and the OpenAI Coup
My interest in the OpenAI saga as an AI-ML professional is superseded by my interest in it as an investment researcher. This note is a...

Dipyaman Sanyal
Nov 21, 2023


How Computer see?
The world of Computer Vision (CV) is absolutely fascinating - from driverless cars to facial recognition technology, CV is now slowly...

Swastik Das
Oct 17, 2023


The Innovative Frontier of Generative AI
The tech world was taken by storm last November as Microsoft-backed OpenAI revealed the chatbot ChatGPT to the world. Even if you are not...

Deepali Salwan
Aug 29, 2023


An Independence Day Post - Soul Searching for MSMEs
Happy Independence Day, everyone in India. Without a doubt today is the most important day in our history. Yes, I know it’s thousands of...

Dipyaman Sanyal
Aug 15, 2023


"Large Language Models and...Ghosting?"
Worry not, I am obviously not talking about ghosting, the act of “abruptly ending communication with someone without explanation”. If...

Pooja Vijaykumar
Aug 1, 2023


Run, the Robots are coming!
Run, the Robots are coming! But hey, maybe they will LOVE you! It is quite fascinating to see some of the recent headlines since the...

Priyanka Pandey
Apr 24, 2023
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