Smart People

Inspired by: I like smart people. — Firuza Pastakia (@firuzap) January 6, 2015

January 6, 2015

A survey on Nastaleeq Font preferences for Urdu

tl;dr - A survey I carried out shows that 55% of the respondents considered Jameel Noori Nastaleeq to be the most readable out of six commonly used Urdu fonts on the web. Update: These stats were updated on Aug 4, 2015 The data below is from a small survey I carried out in order to learn about font preferences of Urdu readers on the Internet. Here’s how it was conducted. ...

December 7, 2014

Sninner

 Sninner: (noun) - A snack between lunch and dinner that makes you too full to eat dinner.

November 16, 2014

When the minion rules…

Might look like a 3-D rendered image but it’s a real-life chess board and toy.

July 7, 2014

Washes the grave with (dried) silvery tears…

May 30, 2014

LDA-Based Topic Modelling in Javascript: An Update

I’ve just pushed a Javascript version of LDA on my github account. It’s based on my no-longer-functioning earlier work. For testing, I use a subset of the SMS Spam Corpus available here (and thus take no responsibility of the inappropriateness of the text within :) ). Each topic is represented as a word cloud; the larger a word, the more weight it has in the topic. The source sentences are displayed again with a bar which shows the percentage distribution of topics for that sentence. Hovering on each area in the bar would show you the words in the topic. You can of course replace it with any other text, change the number of topics using the slider, and press the ‘Analyse’ button to see it work. ...

April 19, 2014

beach blues

holding hands in the blue-grey sea spring is here #haiku

April 5, 2014

haiku

bright yellow seeds dropped on the table mat ’quite corny, eh?’

November 17, 2013

Stuffed Animals are Always Right…

November 5, 2013

Sundown at Hiran Minar

October 19, 2013