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The Math behind Netflix
The math behind Netflix, YouTube, Amazon recommendations
Samvar Shah
May 172 min read


Math and Silence
Arithmetic Function Trees and Jordan's Totient
Samvar Shah
Apr 241 min read


Escher and Tessellations: Artistic geometry
Understanding Escher's work Reptiles through Tessellations and Math
Samvar Shah
Mar 42 min read


GNNs and Transformers in AI
GNNs & Transformers: 50th Post on this Blog! In AI, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers are both widely used but they are designed for different types of data and problems. GNNs are designed to work with graph-structured data. For example, recommendation systems (users connected to products). GNNs work by passing messages between connected nodes. Each node updates its representation (vector) based on information from its neighbors. Transformers are neural networks d
Samvar Shah
Feb 201 min read
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