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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thestatesman.com | Bob Woodward |Deep Halder |Avishek Biswas |Abhinav Pandya
Inside the crossroads of powerWoodward became famous for his exposes on the Nixon Watergate scandal in 1972, and has published many books since then. Concluding his recent lengthy book on US policies, the Russia-Ukraine War and Israel’s unchecked massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and taking the war into Lebanon, Woodward makes his views on the White House occupants since 2016 known.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
towardsdatascience.com | Avishek Biswas
A visual tour of what it takes to build production-ready LLM pipelinesIf you have worked with Large Language Models, there is a great chance that you have at least heard the term RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. The idea of RAGs are pretty simple — suppose you want to ask a question to a LLM, instead of just relying on the LLM’s pre-trained knowledge, you first retrieve relevant information from an external knowledge base.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
towardsdatascience.com | Avishek Biswas
Simplifying the neural nets behind Generative Video DiffusionWe’ve witnessed remarkable strides in AI image generation. But what happens when we add the dimension of time? Videos are moving images, after all. Text-to-video generation is a complex task that requires AI to understand not just what things look like, but how they move and interact over time. It is an order of magnitude more complex than text-to-image. To produce a coherent video, a neural network must:1. Comprehend the input prompt2.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Avishek Biswas
Nvidia10 hours agoNvidia Is Yesterday's News: These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Are Poised to Skyrocket Up to 1,050%, According to Select Wall Street PunditsThe Motley Fool - Sean Williams • 10hAre these two high-growth artificial intelligence (AI) stocks the next Nvidia?
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
towardsdatascience.com | Avishek Biswas
Foundation + Promptable + Interactive + Video. How? Meta just released the Segment Anything 2 model or SAM 2 — a neural network that can segment not just images, but entire videos as well. SAM 2 is a promptable interactive foundation segmentation model. Being promptable means you can click or drag bounding boxes on one or more objects you want to segment, and SAM2 will be able to predict a mask singling out the object and track it across the input clip.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
towardsdatascience.com | Avishek Biswas
How do neural networks learn to estimate depth from 2D images? What is Monocular Depth Estimation? Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is the task of training a neural network to determine depth information from a single image. This is an exciting and challenging area of Machine Learning and Computer Vision because predicting a depth map requires the neural network to form a 3-dimensional understanding from just a 2-dimensional image.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
towardsdatascience.com | Avishek Biswas
The original Depth Anything (V1) model from 2023 was trained in a three-step process. Let's get a high-level overview of the algorithm before diving into each section. Step 1: Teacher TrainingFirst, a neural network called the TEACHER model is trained for supervised depth estimation using five different publicly available datasets. Converting from Depth to Disparity Space The TEACHER model is initialized with a pre-trained Dino-V2 encoder and then trained on the combined labeled dataset.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
towardsdatascience.com | Avishek Biswas
A visual tour of the greatest innovations in Deep Learning and Computer Vision. Before CNNs, the standard way to train a neural network to classify images was to flatten it into a list of pixels and pass it through a feed-forward neural network to output the image’s class. The problem with flattening the image is that the essential spatial information in the image is discarded.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
rediff.com | Avishek Biswas |Deep Haldar
'Are we supposed to look the other way as Islamists go on a rampage against Hindus and the Hasina government pay lip service to secularism?'A revealing excerpt from Avishek Biswas and Deep Halder's book, Being Hindu In Bangladesh: The Untold Story. IMAGE: Sheikh Hasina, who was elected Bangladesh's prime minister for another term on Sunday, January 7, 2024, meets with foreign observers and journalists at her residence in Dhaka, January 8, 2024.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
observerbd.com | Deep Halder |Avishek Biswas
With the upcoming elections, Bangladesh is currently going through political turmoil with incidents of violence being reported frequently. Bangladesh Nationalist Partys decision to abstain from the upcoming election and the countrys Supreme Court barring Jamaat-e-Islami from participating in the 2024 election makes the situation even more complex. Writer Deep Halder and Avishek Biswass book at a time like this puts a spotlight on one of the most important ongoing issues in Bangladesh.
