Desk Descriptions

It’s been one week since I switched to a sit/stand desk setup. It’s time to report back. I’ve decided to try out a sit/stand setup for the next week. Will report back if it’s worth switching to permanently. A photo posted by Awais Athar (@awais_athar) on Aug 16, 2016 at 7:39am PDT Here are some of the points to note if you switch to a similar setup. **Comfortable shoes are a must!...

August 24, 2016

three sunsets

the same sun sets each day in different colours

October 13, 2015

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....

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