Technical blogs on computer vision, geometry, 3D understanding, and life.https://arshad-kazi.com/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/what-you-see-in-a-city/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/what-you-see-in-a-city/I went to Bangalore to test an idea: that whatever you see in other people is just a reflection of you. Every encounter became a report on my own interior.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/why-high-functioning-autistic/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/why-high-functioning-autistic/High-functioning autism creates an invisible struggle. You're smart enough to act normal, but the cost of that performance is something nobody sees.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/blog/cnns-design-flaw-evolution/https://arshad-kazi.com/blog/cnns-design-flaw-evolution/How the brain's visual cortex uses two parallel streams, feedback loops, and relative perception to process vision. Everything rewritten for engineers who build vision systems.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/why-do-you-feel-like-missing-something/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/why-do-you-feel-like-missing-something/The scroll shows you lives you didn't live. But that feeling of missing out isn't insight. It's a trap built on a premise worth questioning.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/eid-sheer-khurma/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/eid-sheer-khurma/I am an atheist in a Muslim household. But Eid evening, when my mum makes Sheer Khurma, is the one time the usual friction between us temporarily stops interfering.Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/stories-we-tell-to-survive/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/stories-we-tell-to-survive/A philosophical reflection on loneliness, meaning, and the human. Exploring Camus, absurdism, and the hidden depths of everyday life.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/sign-language-recognition-using-cnn-and-opencv/https://arshad-kazi.com/sign-language-recognition-using-cnn-and-opencv/A practical walkthrough of building a real-time ASL alphabet recogniser. Dataset, CNN architecture with the actual math, and live webcam inference using OpenCV.Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/you-are-not-einstein/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/you-are-not-einstein/Einstein's genius wasn't about being smarter. It was about staring at the gap between expectation and reality until it revealed something new.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/living-to-never-feel-lonely/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/living-to-never-feel-lonely/Strip away everything materialistic and emotional from your life, and you're left with just a body, a soul, and an almost empty mind.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/blog/temporal-spatial-attention-3d-pose/https://arshad-kazi.com/blog/temporal-spatial-attention-3d-pose/How temporal and spatial attention mechanisms enable accurate 2D-to-3D human pose estimation, with a deep dive into DSTformer.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/why-should-i-write/https://arshad-kazi.com/thoughts/why-should-i-write/I'm just another Indian guy from a small town. Statistically insignificant, emotionally immature, underdeveloped as a writer. Yet I continue because I exist.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/blog/roc-curve-auc/https://arshad-kazi.com/blog/roc-curve-auc/Why accuracy fails on skewed data, how confusion matrices work, and how to use ROC curves and AUC to evaluate and compare probabilistic classifiers.Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/blog/vector-databases-vdbms/https://arshad-kazi.com/blog/vector-databases-vdbms/A technical overview of how Vector Database Management Systems work, covering vectorization, indexing, hardware tradeoffs, and the core challenges in building systems that search by meaning rather than exact match.Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://arshad-kazi.com/blog/probability-mass-function/https://arshad-kazi.com/blog/probability-mass-function/Relearning probability from a machine learning perspective. What PMFs are, how to compute expectation and variance from first principles, and why any of this matters for ML.Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT