In this post, I will be explaining everything you need to know about the Language-Based Audio Retrieval architecture. This architecture is designed to retrieve audio clips based on natural language queries. It uses a combination of audio and text encoders to achieve this.

TL;DR — From TikTok’s ‘For You’ feed to your favourite delivery app, recommender systems decide what you see next. This post walks absolute beginners through six classical techniques—no PhD jargon, just intuitive visuals and a single running example.

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger W. Dijkstra

I began my career in software development as a self-taught web developer. My only motivation for learning React to begin with was to understand React Native, so I could then use it to make mobile apps. Now, I have been working as a professional web developer using React every day at work for a couple of years.

However, like many others, I never really took the time to understand how React actually works and why we even use it. So I decided to take a deep dive into the Virtual DOM, and I now believe that this understanding needs to be part of many web development curriculums.

This is a summary of a paper called Machine learning in construction: From shallow to deep learning published in 2021.

The Goal is to solve a simple 4x4 sudoku using Propositional logic.