Decorators 101 - A gentle introduction

Decorators you say If you are familiar with python, chances are that you might have already seen the decorator syntax. It comes off as a simle concept when being used,...

Margo: An opiniated Slack Bot for SRMSE's Slack channel

Bots: Before and Now When was the last time you were having a conversation with a computer before? Most of us will come into the category where we haven’t done...

Simple lessons learned while building things - My open source journey so far

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes a good idea One of the stock critiques for any new project is that it’s been done before. You’re working on a new module, format,...

Extraction of text from image using tesseract-ocr engine

This post was long overdue! We have been working on building a food recommendation system for some time and this phase involved getting the menu items from the menu images...

Trying out Oculus Rift: Development kit 2

I woke up and found myself inside the elevator. A rather spooky one I would say. Questions like “Why was I inside an elevator?” would come to your mind. I...