ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Malaya Rout

Malaya Rout works as Director of Data Science with Exafluence in Chennai. He is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He has worked with TCS, LatentView Analytics and Verizon prior to the role at Exafluence. He takes pride in sharing his knowledge and insights on diverse topics of Data Science with colleagues and aspiring data scientists.

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Malaya Rout BLOGS

  • The Payasams in our lives

    April 18, 2025, 3:01 PM IST

    He was six feet and 4 inches tall. Doors were not usually built considering people of his height. He was having to bend his head and get inside the house. The family always had a…

    April 18, 2025, 3:01 PM IST

  • The lovely imperfections

    April 11, 2025, 5:00 PM IST

    My son gets up from the audience and climbs onto the stage (half crawling, half climbing the stairs). The unscripted and unrehearsed entry surprised the performers as much as the audience. Before anyone realises what…

    April 11, 2025, 5:00 PM IST

  • Finding joy in the age of artificial intelligence

    April 4, 2025, 12:09 PM IST

    Happiness knew no bound / Be at home or on playground / Finally, life falling in place / Zooming ahead with grace. Biscuits with cream, biscuits without cream / Jar bright and tempting filled to…

    April 4, 2025, 12:09 PM IST

  • Bon app

    March 28, 2025, 2:29 PM IST

    What is the difference between causal inference and just association between variables? I LLM. How are AI and Generative AI used in detecting early signs of heart rejection in cases of heart transplants? Can we…

    March 28, 2025, 2:29 PM IST

  • When LLMs triggered reality

    March 21, 2025, 12:33 PM IST

    When eight Google scientists wrote the landmark machine learning research paper “Attention Is All You Need,” the world rejoiced. The paper introduced the transformer architecture. Experiments led to the creation of large language models, and…

    March 21, 2025, 12:33 PM IST

  • From AI to generative AI

    March 14, 2025, 4:18 PM IST

    This week, I will list twenty-one trends we observe in the industry as we shift gears from AI to generative AI. Trend 1: ML Engineering to AI Engineering: Just about half a decade ago, the…

    March 14, 2025, 4:18 PM IST

  • AI cannot replace…..

    March 7, 2025, 12:19 PM IST

    Elder sisters, the gems indeed / Elder sisters, the friends I need / Growing up in home together / Learning life this and any other. Be my sisters, next life / Be my heroes of…

    March 7, 2025, 12:19 PM IST

  • AI plus

    February 28, 2025, 7:33 PM IST

    AI Pair Programming (AIPP) has become the latest trend among developers. AIPP tools are used as a plugin in an integrated development environment (IDE) or as an IDE. An example of a plugin is GitHub…

    February 28, 2025, 7:33 PM IST

  • Large life models (LLMs)

    February 21, 2025, 2:50 PM IST

    I am planning to take tomorrow off. However, I don’t want to do that if it means a huge opportunity loss and will deprive me of the promotion at work I have always aspired to….

    February 21, 2025, 2:50 PM IST

  • The social cost of LLMs

    February 14, 2025, 4:05 PM IST

    I take great pride in my work – at least lately, if not permanently. I have information at my fingertips. I have creativity at my disposal. I have answers to as many questions as I…

    February 14, 2025, 4:05 PM IST

  • The other side

    February 7, 2025, 2:33 PM IST

    We thought we were using large language models (LLMs) to their great potential. When I checked with my dead counterpart, they said they are using LLMs for Translation, Question Answering, Text Categorization, Program Execution, Toxic…

    February 7, 2025, 2:33 PM IST

  • Building roads where none existed

    January 31, 2025, 10:21 PM IST

    It is hard not to write about deepseek-R1 this week. I ran the 32-billion parameter (number of weights in the neural network) version locally using Ollama. Mainly, I liked the availability of a 32-billion version…

    January 31, 2025, 10:21 PM IST

  • Ye kaun chitrakar hai?

    January 24, 2025, 2:26 PM IST

    Hari hari wasundhara nila nila ye gagan / Nila nila ye gagan / Hari hari wasundhara pe nila nila ye gagan / Ke jis pe badalo ki palaki uda raha pawan / Dishaye dekho rangbhari…

    January 24, 2025, 2:26 PM IST

  • Can small be bigger than big?

    January 17, 2025, 3:52 PM IST

    Things need not go the way we plan. I planned to be a founder and CEO by 40. From my set of “friends, family, and fools”, I looked hard for the fools, but in vain….

    January 17, 2025, 3:52 PM IST

  • The coder’s Kal Ho Naa Ho

    January 10, 2025, 5:18 PM IST

    Look at the following. 1) Modify the code to build a chatbot around the functionality 2) I want to store the LLM’s response in MongoDB and save it in flat files. Then, display the response…

    January 10, 2025, 5:18 PM IST

  • Taah

    January 4, 2025, 3:02 PM IST

    Each agent plays a distinct specialised role in a multi-agent system using LLMs. One agent could be the coder, another a code reviewer, another a system integration tester, and another a documentation expert, mimicking a…

    January 4, 2025, 3:02 PM IST

  • Hello mic testing 1…2…3

    December 27, 2024, 3:08 PM IST

    Today, let’s get back to basics and discuss the various steps in executing a data science project. One can go more granular than what we have in the following paragraphs. As they say, today’s content…

    December 27, 2024, 3:08 PM IST

  • Questions from the pre-LLM Era

    December 20, 2024, 12:58 PM IST

    Try answering the following. Is analytics worth the investment? What is the difference between data science, analytics and machine learning? Which one is more important – Exploratory Data Analysis or Modelling? What is the difference…

    December 20, 2024, 12:58 PM IST

  • Under the hood of finely built applications

    December 13, 2024, 2:39 PM IST

    This week, I was part of the Jury that saw college students nationwide innovating in the Smart India Hackathon finals. I am not sure about their solutions’ eligibility for patent grants, but the enthusiasm was…

    December 13, 2024, 2:39 PM IST

  • Chhota Bheem vs reagent

    December 6, 2024, 2:41 PM IST

    Last week, I spent three nights at a stretch alone with my three-year-old son. Or should I say he had to spend time with me? He fake-cried, and I real-cried. He knows that of the…

    December 6, 2024, 2:41 PM IST

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