Hi, I'm Ankit
RSS FeedTest automation and NLP Enthusiast in Dublin. I spend my time building automation frameworks that don't rot, and lately on NLP — transformers, and machine translation for low-resource languages.
Have a look at what I've built or more about me.
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Machine translation when there's barely any data
Notes from a practicum on low-resource machine translation — why the usual playbook stops working, and what you do instead.
Recent Posts
Why Is Quantum Mechanics So Hard to Understand?
A simple, beginner-friendly introduction to quantum mechanics, covering spin, qubits, and the surprising experiment of flipping a measuring apparatus.
Attention Mechanism: A Simple Intuition
A beginner-friendly explanation of the attention mechanism using intuition, analogy, and the core ideas from the NLP-from-Scratch notebook.
Byte Pair Encoding (BPE)
A practical introduction to BPE using the code examples from the NLP-from-Scratch notebook.
A tiny tokenizer from scratch
A short, beginner-friendly walkthrough of tokenization, vocabulary building, and encoding words as IDs in NLP.