Darshan’s blog

I think there are two ways in which people have been designing systems.

I was reading about the jacobian space and how it can be used to verbalize the intermediate activations of an LLM to decode what it is most likely going to say or is thinking about.

When I was in my UG years I always used to feel a really deep discontent with myself, whenever I used to accomplish anything I used to tell myself I can achieve even more, my potential is beyond this, I can be more ambitious, I used to vitaly belittle mys…

This is a consolidated writeup of my ECML 2026 Flatland Real-World Baselines Challenge solution that achieved rank 1 on the leaderboard.

I have been having a lot of fun on weekends writing classicial algorithms by hand without the help of any coding agents, this is an attempt of a writeup of my parallel merge sort implementation.

9:53AM: Early this morning as I walking along the streets of HSR layout I was again visited by the surprising realization that everyone around me, each and every individual that I saw today had some desire in their life or still has that and they are acti…

Time and time I have found myself at different crossroads in life.

Since the last 2 months I had to change my environment in which I used to do my long hours of deep work.

Gaussian Splatting is a fascinating scene reconstruction technique introduced by INRIA and last year I had a lot of fun tinkering with it while on my semex.

We have spent the last few years training LLMs on human conversation data with the explicit goal of making them sound like us, but we have also been training ourselves on them in return.

A couple of months back I was facing a kernel panic “Unable to mount root fs” while rebooting by ubuntu with normal mode, I found a quick workaround via recovery mode by dropping to root shell and patching some systemd files to boot with an older kernel v…