A blog of curious observations among other things

Scalars as Circles: A Geometric Path to Fourier Regression

python
machine-learning
Fourier
time-series
interpretability
regression
How representing numbers as complex rotations leads to a simple, interpretable model that beats neural nets on periodic data — derived from scratch.
Mar 26, 2026
Pratik Kulkarni

Finding the Perfect Price: A Data-Driven Approach to Product Pricing

Market Analysis
Pricing
Pricing your product is one of the most critical decisions you’ll make as a business owner. Price it too high, and you’ll scare away customers. Price it too low, and you’ll…
Oct 15, 2025
Pratik Kulkarni

Reversible Cellular Automata: A Novel Framework

Reversible Cellular Automata
Traditional cellular automata are fascinating computational models where cells evolve based on local rules. However, most CA are irreversible - once you’ve computed the next…
Aug 1, 2025
Pratik Kulkarni

Physics-Inspired Machine Learning: The Gravity MNIST Method

Machine Learning
MNIST
In the world of machine learning, the MNIST dataset of handwritten digits has become something of a “Hello World” example. Everyone who’s dabbled in ML has probably trained…
Mar 10, 2025
Pratik Kulkarni

Evolution of Heuristic

Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem: From Heuristics to a Potential Polynomial-Time Breakthrough

Travelling Salesman
Computer Science
Hamiltonian Cycle
Combinatorial Optimization
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) has been a central topic in computer science and operations research for decades. Its seemingly simple question—finding the shortest…
Nov 27, 2024
Pratik Kulkarni

Unlocking Efficiency in Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem with Exact Visibility-Based Edge Elimination

Travelling Salesman
Computer Science
Hamiltonian Cycle
Combinatorial Optimization
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) stands as one of the most enduring and challenging problems in combinatorial optimization. It seeks the shortest possible route that…
Nov 3, 2024
Pratik Kulkarni

Building Soupknit: The Journey from Idea to a No-Code Machine Learning Platform

python
react
no-code
machine-learning
Soupknit started as a small idea. There were four of us, all developers, and we were constantly frustrated by how tedious building machine learning models could be. Even for…
Oct 17, 2024
Pratik Kulkarni

Hacking Wordle using Probability

python
wordle
regex
Wordle is a simple word guessing game. You have to guess a five-letter word in six attempts.
Jun 18, 2024
Pratik Kulkarni

Welcome To My Blog

news
This is the first post in a Quarto blog. Welcome!
Jun 15, 2024
Pratik Kulkarni
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