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# Notes on code, models & everything else.

// essays, deep dives, and the occasional detour

Essays on machine learning, deep learning, and the occasional detour into history and polity.

prompting-as-storytelling.md
2026-03-03·~15 min read #AI#LLMs#Prompting
Prompting as Storytelling
Understanding how language models work and why the best prompts share the same principles as good storytelling - from vector embeddings to attention mechanisms, audience specification to few-shot learning.
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kashmir-part-1.md
2022-03-23·~20 min read #History#Polity
The Story of Kashmir: Part 1
From its ancient origins and the legend of Rishi Kashyap, through independence, the Baramulla massacre, the Instrument of Accession, and UN Resolution 47 - the untold story of Kashmir told through official documents and facts.
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bring-back-the-colours.md
2020-07-04·~10 min read #GANs#DeepLearning
Bring Back The Colours
Colourizing old black and white images and videos using Deep Learning - a walkthrough of autoencoders, the colourization pipeline, and results using a fast.ai pretrained model on Google Colab.
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defacify.md
2020-07-03·~10 min read #GANs#DeepLearning
Defacify
How FaceApp, Snapchat gender filters, and baby filters work - a practical deep dive into tweaking StyleGAN's latent space to generate aged, posed, and gender-swapped faces.
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style-gan-exordium.md
2020-03-20·~15 min read #GANs#DeepLearning
Style GAN Exordium
A complete walkthrough of the StyleGAN architecture - from GAN intuition and ProGAN to mapping networks, AdaIN, and stochastic variation. Includes code to generate your own faces.
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