It took me about a week of my Dashain vacation to make this simple captcha breaker (5 days to be exact). I had been reading Image Processing in my CS undergrad for some time then, and wanted to put my skills to use, although, I must admit, its not as overly complicated or full of image processing bits as […]
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Handwritten Devanagari Digit Recognition using Neural Network
Neural Network was one of the electives available during my 5th semester, and knowing that it was available, I was certain that I wanted to study it over any other electives. But, unfortunately (or fortunately), my college, as it is with many other colleges of Nepal, made it a compulsion to take Cryptography as the […]
Devanagari Handwritten Character Dataset
I used this dataset while doing a project for my undergrad coursework of Neural Network. We had to implement a handwritten digit recognition neural net using the MNIST dataset. Upon accomplishing it, I looked around for Devanagari dataset and found one located at CVResearchNepal.com, which seems to have expired as of this moment. If you want […]
Grab PacktPub Free Learning eBook Everyday Automatically
Packt Publishing have a lot of good premium books and everyday they put up a premium book for download for free. You could get a premium book a day by going to the Free Learning eBook page. I chose to automate the process and have the book grabbed automatically to my PacktPub account everyday. I […]
Using WiFi Metadata To See The Places You’ve Been To In The Past
I am kind of changing the way I do things here on the blog, by introducing new categories, and by maybe letting go some of the categories. Its been over 5 years, and I feel that I need to make some changes now. And so, the first of the many new fun, rookie things that […]
RSS Feed for Amazon Kindle Top 100 Free Best Sellers
SORRY THIS NO LONGER WORKS. Import.io REMOVED THEIR FREE PLAN AND I JUST COULDN’T PAY TO KEEP THIS RUNNING. Amazon has a listing of the best sellers in the Kindle Store, and the listing is divided into two types: Paid and Free. Meaning, there’s a list of top 100 best selling kindle books that are […]
List of Nepali data sources
Hi guys, its been a long time. I am tired of making empty promises (regarding posting regularly) so, let me not do it again. While I was beginning my data-science journey, I tried to collect as many sources for Nepali datasets as possible, and the following is the listing of the same. The problem is […]
Receive Notification when YouTube Views Count Increases (via Google Spreadsheet)
You can make use of YouTube API to grab details of YouTube videos. Although, more complex script requires you to setup authentication using OAuth, it is not required for simple tasks, such as collecting views of few videos. This spreadsheet sends you an email notification whenever the number of views on YouTube videos gets higher […]
How To Stop Download of YouTube Videos?
Update: Google recently removed the extension saying it has malware. I sold the extension a few months ago, and the new author seems to have put ads in place. I have re-uploaded the extension, so please use the new one. It is free from any ads whatsoever. Sorry for the trouble. Google has recently removed […]
Receive Google Adsense Clickbomb Alert via SMS
Google Adsense is what we and most of the webmasters as well as bloggers use as a main source of income of their blog. As its the main source, its necessary to keep track of your earnings regularly, to know that nothing bad is taking place. One of those bad things that Adsense publishers face […]
Receive SMS when someone comments on your site (WordPress)
I had to work on this for days and now I think it’s about time I release it. By following this tutorial, you will be able to receive free SMS alert every time someone comments on your site. This guide is specifically meant for WordPress sites, it could also be done on other sites but […]