I’m currently a Graduate Research Assistant at the LAINE Laboratories of Vanderbilt University, where I also study as a CS PhD Student. I did both my Masters in Computer Science and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Pulchowk Engineering Campus, Nepal. I have worked in the private software industry, academia, and…
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Read my manifesto on Code as an alternative to Mathematics. Code for this article can be found on this Colab Notebook should you choose to follow along. Why Kalman Filters? Kalman filters are ingenius. If you have never heard of them, then a very intuitive (and arguably reductive) way to think about them is to
Picture this, the year is 1996. You find yourself frustrated with the incumbent search engines like AltaVista, which primarily does a content-based search (it'll give you an article on "Hotels for Chickens" if you search "Hotels" because the word matches). There's gotta be a better way, right? Well, in hindsight, of…