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zainbabar/README.md

hey, i'm zain.

mathematics student at the university of waterloo. i'm interested in ml, deep learning, and ai, from the math underneath to the systems built on top. lately that's meant implementing things from scratch and training models to see what actually happens.

to find out more about me, you can check out my personal website here.

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