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 so or maybe you did but you didn’t like the experience! The days aren’t far when customer support will be provided by dedicated bots built using cutting edge ML techniques and backed by state of the art NLP research. If you have been following the latest trends in software industry. Bots and VR are the thing as echoed by a lot of big shot companies and tech evangelists. I mean just look at these crazy articles on techcrunch. Bots have been the talk of the town since some time now and developers are taking a fair advantage of this rise in attention for promoting their own bots in the market. ...

June 25, 2016 · 4 min · Tasdik Rahman

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, etc: what about this existing format? Contributing to existing projects is often impossible if your vision is different from those of the maintainers, your changes are too large, or they’re absent. Even if a problem is “solved” by an existing project, it can often be solved better, faster, in fewer lines of code, or with more documentation. ...

April 24, 2016 · 3 min · Tasdik Rahman