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Between Sand and Syntax: HackVerse 5.0

Hi everyone. My name is Shreyas. This is my sincere attempt to share with you all my experience winning Hackverse 5.0. The journey to HackVerse 5.0 began with a simple message—a link shared by my senior Ashutosh Pandey, encouraging us to give it a try. Little did

From Vision to Victory🏆: Team LANLORDS' SIH Journey 🚀

Smart India Hackathon (SIH) - My first-ever hackathon win, and what an experience! This journey took us through months of sleepless nights, technical glitches, and moments of doubt. But it also led us to one glorious moment of victory. Here’s how we went from concept to champion: Who Am

Code, Chaos and Conquer: The Journey to SIH Victory!🚀

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." These words perfectly encapsulate our journey at the Smart India Hackathon 2024. What started as a leap of faith turned into an unforgettable adventure filled with twists, turns, and triumphs. Here’s

Hackverse Unplugged: From Beaches to Blockchain Victory! 🏆

Hackathons have always been a thrilling way to challenge myself, but Hackverse at NITK took it to a whole new level. A chance to travel, build something amazing, and soak in the beach vibes—this hackathon became one to remember. Let me take you on a ride through the journey.

How a small town boy reached Singapore Grand Finals

Back in our first year, me and my friend Abhyuday went to our first hackathon called Hackman v6. As a team of first year students, we didn't expect much other than a learning experience and free coffee. However, we ended up beating all of our college seniors and

THE MATHS BEHIND LOGISTIC REGRESSION

WHAT IS LOGISTIC REGRESSION? Logistic Regression is a Supervised statistical technique to find the probability of dependent variable(Classes present in the variable). SIGMOID FUNCTION In order to map predicted values to probabilities, we use the sigmoid function. The function maps any real value into another value between 0 and

The advent of the microprocessor: Part I

The story of microprocessors dates back to the invention of transistors and integrated circuits(ICs). Invention of transistors was one of the most important milestones in the world of technology.Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen were credited for the invention of transistors and were awarded with nobel prize in physics in

Web View Fragment [Kotlin]

Web View is a view that allows developers to display web pages and HTML strings inside an application. There are umpteen tutorials available on “Web View in an activity” . Thus, this post won’t deal with it. Here, I will share how to use Web View in a fragment, using

My Google Internship Interview Experience

This is about my Google Internship interview experience (SDE Summer Intern 2020 North America). I made it to the final round but wasn’t selected. I learned a lot from the entire interview process and I hope that you find something useful and learn something from this little experience of

Beginner's guide to Convolutional neural network

The idea of convolutional neural networks is inspired by biological neural networks. Let's break down this neural network and try to understand it step by step. Firstly the convolution is a mathematical method for combining two signals and is one of the most important techniques in Digital signal