I presented my journery through a Kaggle Competition about detecting features from satellite imagery and various techniques to score a high rank using Convolutional Neural Networks.
Asynchronous nature of Javascript is often misunderstood. I presented how Asynchronous Javascript works and compare using callbacks, promises, thunks and async/await.
The native Angular JS validations cannot be used for more complicated validations. I discussed the pros and cons of Angular style form validations, how to move validation logic out of the views, and how to develop a more declarative style of validations in services.
Taught the basics of web development, HTML & CSS to undergraduate students at American University of Sharjah in a workshop.
Led a multidisciplinary team of senior engineering students to designed and build an autonomous aircraft capable of searching for targets on the ground.
Worked on embedded systems, on-board camera, communication system, control system, path planning & ground control station.
See the presentation here that includes a flight video.
Create a Ground Control Station for autonomous aircraft to display telemetry, plan and task mission plan and tune the control system parameters.
This later evolved into the Ground Control Station provided by MARS Robotics.
Performed research on combining GPS location with accelerometers and gyro data to get high accuracy position and velocity for use in a car collision avoidance system.
Results are published here
A computational fluid dynamics simulation to study the optimal distance for drafting(slipstreaming) vehicles.
Structural analysis simulation of a Trebuchet.
Volunteered to build a formula style race-car for FSAE. Worked on fabrication of A-arms and design of impact attenuation.
A packet sniffer that shows you all IM Traffic on your network
I have now been working with Python for more than a month, here are some of the interesting patterns that I found in the language. Its a nice, clean and easy language, in particular I really enjoy the list comprehensions.
Lessons learned from a year in entrepreneurship - A brief description of things I wish I had found out earlier and as well as reminders for myself for the future.
Ever since we are little the idea of more being better is instilled in our brains. The more toys or gadgets you have the happier you would feel, the more you speak the smarter you would sound, the higher grades you get the better, the more money you earn the more successful you are.
While there are a few ready made themes available for Jekyll, if you want you site to be different its not too hard. Here are some tips to make it easier.
Here are a bunch of guidelines I think are important for creating a great user experience for your web users.
For a while I have been thinking about getting an indoor helicopter and modding it with an on board computer, camera, wifi to make it fly autonomously and do interesting things with it.
Ever since I watched a TED Talk, I forget which one, I have become fascinated by the possibilities of controlling things with thought and finding more about yourself.
I have been using wordpress to host my website for more than 5 years, its a great platform. I like it because it comes with lots of nice themes, a good number of plugins, is open source and I can freely edit and modify how my site looks.
There is a very easy way to upload files to AWS S3, however you can easily get lost with different gems and options available. My favorite way is using paperclip with aws-sdk. Here are some quick steps to get you started, look at the gems homepages for more information.
In recent months, I have been experimenting a lot with fluid width layouts. As we now have devices with a range of screen sizes, to create a good user experience across all different resolutions, I think fluid layouts are the way to move forward.
Over the last couple of months, I have realized that I have not been as productive as I would like to be. It's not that I am spending less time at work, but it feels like there is too much distraction these days. I used to be able to do things more efficiently when I spent a couple of hours doing just one thing and having a deadline for it. Now it seems that when I am working on something, new things come up, I leave some things unfinished to come back to later on and ultimately there are a gazillion windows open on my computer at some point my computer starts lagging and I decide to close everything. To be more productive, I have come up with some solutions.
I have been seeing a lot of posts about how everyone cared so much about Steve Jobs death and not Dennis Ritchie's. Thats the sad reality of life, people appreciate business people more then engineers/hackers. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zukerburg are world renowned figure because people use products created by their companies first hand on a day to day basis.
As stupid as it sounds, one of the reasons why I hate coding on Windows is because windows monospace fonts suck compared to what Linux has. I had windows ports of Gedit and Geany on my network folder but Windows fonts were just painful to look at.
I don't have too much experience in this area, but I was thinking, it would be cool to have something more higher level for programming embedded systems. It would be cool if you could write Ruby code to program a robot. There are GUIs out there that allow kids to program robots but its not really as interesting as coding.
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