On this particular night in late January, I was trying to read for my Human-Computer Interaction exam the following morning. I had written three exams before that night. I had six more exams (including my carryover course) to complete my BSc in Computer Science program at the Federal University of…

Introduction In the first installment of my articles on how I “found” myself in a PhD program at one of the world’s best computer science (CS) research institutions, I talk about my background and the experiences that shaped me and my trajectory into this current state. Here is a disclaimer: this…

Introduction In this article, I talk about the application process and how my application efforts in my first trial in the fall of 2021 and the second trial in 2022 differ. It is important to reiterate my focus on PhD programs in computer science at US schools. …

I initially talked myself out of writing a reflective article for several good reasons. For one, I am (finally) wrapping up my undergraduate degree in less than three weeks, and I am struggling to work on my thesis and prepare for my finals. Secondly, I thought that whatever I wrote…

Disclaimer: This is not a year in review. This is a weekly-monthly summary of stuff that had happened to me since the last time I published a similar article, as penned down in my journals. Sequel to my last mountain article detailing my struggles, a few people have asked me…

This article assumes that you are familiar with using Streamlit for building your data apps and dashboards, or at the very least, have heard of Streamlit before. Not too long ago, I was assigned to work on a dashboard that’d automate part of my company’s development workflow. And being a…

I recently used it in my Sign language-to-speech project and my, it was awesome! Why I needed a Text-to-Speech conversion library I had a little dilemma recently while working on my Sign Language-to-Speech project. I was able to convert signs to speech via the Objection Detection API of DeepStack. …

Hello everyone! It’s being a while. :) I just finished the TensorFlow — Advanced Techniques Specialization and I want to share a review of what I learned, including the best and worst highlights of the specialization. …

E2E ML Application Development Process Walkthrough. — Okay. Let’s just get down to it! If you’re wondering why we’re just getting down to it, maybe you should read the overview article first. This is the second article in the series (Building an apartment rent pricing app end-to-end) where we’d cleaned out the data collated via web scraping. …