Turing Hut Newsletter #4: Editorial for Project Halloween Round 1 and 2

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Highlights

Participating in HackWithInfy 2022

HackWithInfy is a coding competition for engineering students organized every year by Infosys. It involves a coding assessment followed by a hackathon for the shortlisted participants. A. Rukmananda Reddy, a final-year CSE student was one of the students to qualify for the hackathon. For the hackathon, his team worked on Drone based Bio-Diversity Management using machine learning. The team secured fourth position in the hackathon. He says it was an invaluable experience from traveling to a new city to learning with his team and mentors.

Editorial for Project Halloween (Round-1 and Round-2)

We are delighted by your participation and enthusiasm in Project Halloween and we hope you continue the same in future events. Here are the links to the problems and editorials.
Round 1: Collecting the weapons
Round 2: Map the Graveyard
Editorials for rounds 3 will be released soon.

Good Reads

Keep it simple! How to understand the Gradient Descent algorithm

Many machine learning techniques from linear regression to neural networks use optimization algorithms to minimize a loss function. Gradient descent is the most commonly used optimization method, hence having a basic intuition of it can help in understanding many ML and DL techniques. Read more here

Introduction to Vite: The Next Generation Frontend Tooling

Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. It can be used for different framework templates like react, vue and vanilla. Replace CRA in your future projects with vite for faster server starts. Read more here

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Here's a problem chosen by our problem setters for you to try: problem link

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Thanks to Bharath, Rukmananda, and Akash for contributing to the newsletter.