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Guide to Adulting: Managing your Expenses
Greetings, weird people of the internet. It is I, your favourite blogger who has not posted anything for over 3 years. In this blog, I...

Savidu Dias
Feb 1314 min read
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Survival guide to getting settled in Finland as a student: Part 1
Hiya there! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Savidu. I am from Sri Lanka, and as of the time of writing this blog, I am a...

Savidu Dias
Jan 4, 202215 min read
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Moving to Finland: Starting the next chapter of my life
2021 has been the most eventful year of my life so far. Coming from an extremely uneventful year where I spent almost all of my time at...

Savidu Dias
Dec 15, 202110 min read
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My five-day trip to India: Navigating through incompetence during a pandemic
As of the day of writing this, I have been to 8 different countries. I’ve had unpleasant experiences in all of them, but never have I...

Savidu Dias
Oct 10, 202120 min read
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How I made two AI agents learn Chess by playing against themselves
I recently started dipping my toes into Reinforcement learning. I followed some tutorials and developed some basic applications like a...

Savidu Dias
Aug 13, 202110 min read
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Resolving Conflicts in WSO2 Updates 2.0
WSO2 is the world’s #1 Open Source Integration Vendor. If you are familiar with WSO2’s lineup of products, you may also be interested in...

Savidu Dias
Jun 29, 20214 min read
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Moon Photography: Finding the Right Balance
The 24th of June was supposed to be the only day of the year 2021 that was supposed to have a Super Moon, although I swear we had one a...

Savidu Dias
Jun 26, 20215 min read
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My Experience with COVID and Going into Quarantine
Exactly one month ago, on the day of my birthday, I woke up to some interesting news. My usual morning routine involves going through ...

Savidu Dias
Jun 12, 202110 min read
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Explaining Video Game AI: Part 1 - Bellman Equation
Let’s analyze what just happened here. Although there was a good amount of distance between me and the Creeper, it somehow managed to...

Savidu Dias
Feb 28, 20213 min read
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How I Built A Chrome Extension that Filters out Angry Tweets
Twitter is the ideal social media platform to discuss hot social issues, but lately it feels like the platform gives a bigger spotlight...

Savidu Dias
Aug 3, 20207 min read
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To Noobs with Love: Deep Learning
If you’ve stumbled on to this post, you’re most likely new to Deep Learning and are wondering what it is. As the title suggests, this is...

Savidu Dias
May 5, 20207 min read
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To Noobs With Love: Machine Learning: Support Vector Machines
Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a relatively boring machine learning model that is used to classify data into two groups. After providing th

Savidu Dias
Apr 18, 20205 min read
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To Noobs with Love: Machine Learning: P-Values and Significance Tests
The significance level is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true. For example, a significance level of 0.05 indica

Savidu Dias
Mar 27, 20206 min read
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To Noobs with Love: Machine Learning: Multiple Linear Regression
Unlike Simple Linear Regression, Multiple Linear Regression can have more than one independent variable. The goal of Multiple Linear Regress

Savidu Dias
Mar 23, 20203 min read
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To Noobs with Love: Machine Learning: Simple Linear Regression
You might be familiar with plotting line graphs with one X axis and one Y axis. The values in the X axis are sometimes called “independent v

Savidu Dias
Mar 21, 20203 min read
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Deploying Your Own VPN Server On the Cloud with Algo VPN in 15 minutes
If you wound up on this article, and somehow have no idea what in God’s name a VPN is, I’ll explain it with Romain Dillet’s analogy in...

Savidu Dias
Apr 22, 20193 min read
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Setting up WSO2 API Manager on Pivotal Cloud Foundry with MySQL
WSO2 API Manager is now available as an installation option on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). This is a setup guide on the installation...

Savidu Dias
Feb 17, 20198 min read
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Simple Guide to Setting up Pivotal Cloud Foundry on AWS
As amazing as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is, creating your own PCF setup is a rather challenging task. Speaking from experience, it...

Savidu Dias
Feb 4, 20199 min read
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Developing a Simple Programming Language - Part 5: Parenthesized Expressions
Are you excited as much as I am? Today is the day we’ll complete our calculator, and start getting into the good stuff. We’ll be adding ...

Savidu Dias
Dec 27, 20183 min read
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Developing a Simple Programming Language - Part 4: Associativity, Precedence, and Grammars
Greetings, my child. In the last chapter, we learned about parsing arithmetic expressions with multiple additions and subtractions. In ...

Savidu Dias
Dec 27, 20187 min read
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