https://saurav.no/Recent content on Saurav PandeyHugoenMon, 21 Sep 2026 15:11:52 +0200https://saurav.no/posts/coding-is-solved-the-hard-part-starts-now/Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/coding-is-solved-the-hard-part-starts-now/Coding is, more or less, solved. That is what people closest to the work are saying now, and I think they are broadly right. Some context before I go further. I spent the last few months at Turing College on AI Ethics. Roughly 160 hours across fairness, causal interventions, governance, and production deployment. So what follows is not theory. What is interesting is what is not solved. What is left in AI What is left in AI is two things, and only one of them is hard.https://saurav.no/posts/ai-discrimination-norwegian-hiring/Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/ai-discrimination-norwegian-hiring/AI is changing how companies hire people. It’s happening everywhere, including Norway. Despite Norway’s reputation for equality, NAVIGATE, a research series at UiO shows clear evidence of discrimination against ethnic minorities in hiring. Now, as companies increasingly use AI and machine learning to screen job applications, there’s a serious problem as these systems learn from the past and the societal data from past is now transformed into digital present with the same bias.https://saurav.no/privacy/Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/privacy/Privacy Policy Last Updated: November 16, 2024 Introduction This website is a personal portfolio and blog operated by Saurav, based in Oslo, Norway. I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). What Data We Collect This website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand visitor behavior and improve the site. The following anonymous data is collected: Page views and visits - Pages you view and session duration Referrer information - The website you came from (e.https://saurav.no/posts/eu-ai-act-2024/Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/eu-ai-act-2024/In May 2024, the European Union formally adopted new regulations under the Artificial Intelligence Act that sets out rules for how AI can be sold, used and monitored in the EU and bans certain AI practices. Initially proposed in April 2021, it aims to promote use of AI that is safe, respects human rights, protects health, safety and the environment. The regulation applies to anyone who makes, uses, imports or distributes AI systems in the EU regardless of where they are based.https://saurav.no/posts/future-of-commercial-real-estate/Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/future-of-commercial-real-estate/Over the past two decades, only 1,501 new offices and business buildings have emerged in the Norwegian market. I was surprised to find this number to be so low. In an era of rapid technological advancement one might expect a boom in commercial construction but this stagnant growth seemed as an anomaly compelling me to dive deeper into finding underlying factors. Spoiler: Myself being from a tech background, I suspected technology, or the lack of it, played a significant role in this slowdown.https://saurav.no/posts/evolving-ai-on-human-race/Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/evolving-ai-on-human-race/Impact of evolving Artificial Intelligence on the future of Human Race Saurav Pandey September 4, 2020 Abstract Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly and it is bound to impact the way we humans live. This paper attempts to highlight our general perception towards Artificial Intelligence and how it is changing with time. It investigates the history, status quo and future of artificial intelligence and pinpoints its association with human life. The article cites several sources such as research papers, journal articles and domain leaders.https://saurav.no/posts/pandas-optimized-snippets/Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/pandas-optimized-snippets/Here are the pandas snippets that will make data cleaning easier. These will make the process easier and faster. #Note: I will gradually update the list 1. To clean numbers and text inside brackets from a column using regex import pandas as pd import re df = pd.DataFrame({"Code":["EE","NP","USA","ES"],"Country":["Estonia{EE}","Nepal123","United States Of America(USA)","Spain"]}) df df['Country'] = df['Country'].replace(r"[\(\[\{].*?[\)\]\}]|[^a-zA-Z ]", "",regex=True) dfhttps://saurav.no/posts/polyphasic-sleep-cycle/Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/polyphasic-sleep-cycle/Sleep is one of our basic daily needs. We all spend a substantial amount of our lifetime sleeping. For a common person, one-third of our overall lifetime is spent sleeping. While it is a physical need and keeps us healthy, too much sleep can be a barrier in our productivity and what we can achieve in our life. Most of us people follow the traditional eight hours of monophasic sleep cycle.https://saurav.no/posts/tesla-and-wireless-electricity/Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/tesla-and-wireless-electricity/“Why dont we have wireless electricity yet?”, the question bother me now. Nikola Tesla, a fascinating name and an enigmatic person. Until recently, I always portrayed him as a mad scientist and a thinker. A man sitting under the wWrdenclyffe Tower always popped up in my brain. Apart from other things, he is ubdoubtedly one of the greatest minds the world has witnessed since its inception. He patented an idea in 1905 titled “ART OF TRANSMITTING ELECTRICITY THROUGH NATURAL MEDIUM”, more than a century later we still have not been able to implement it.https://saurav.no/posts/knn-classifier-from-scratch/Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/knn-classifier-from-scratch/KNN is a supervised algorithm that classifies new cases based on similarity measure from its neighbors. Please refer the notebook below for its detailed implementation and understanding from scratch.https://saurav.no/posts/virtualenv-virtualenvwrapper-in-ubuntu/Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/virtualenv-virtualenvwrapper-in-ubuntu/We all must have faced the situation where version of our packages don’t match and takes up hours of our time to get solved. A virtual Environment is an isolates working environment of a Python project so that other projects aren’t hampered. So, lets start the configuration with virtualenv. To install it via pip $ pip install virtualenv See, it is as simple as that. Now, you can work in an isolated python3.https://saurav.no/posts/introduction-to-the-column/Sat, 22 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/introduction-to-the-column/This post marks the initiation of the random column. I am starting this column to share interesting concepts, ideas and mostly my perceptions towards things. This will be a weekly column.https://saurav.no/posts/unfolding-blockchains-social-aspects/Sat, 22 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/posts/unfolding-blockchains-social-aspects/With Facebook’s Libra, the crypto-community around the globe has yet more things to talk about, if not be hopeful. The crypto-currencies as well as its underlying blockchain technology together is slowly yet steadily penetrating human life, at least in terms of things to keep an eye on. The same way e-commerce websites were making buzz in the 90’s. If you don’t know already, blockchain is just an open, distributed ledger that hosts growing list of records linked together in such a way that they are append-only and can’t be modified or tampered with.https://saurav.no/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/about/I am a backend engineer who moved into AI. Based in Oslo, Norway. What I do Currently at Izy I work on both halves of the stack. The production backend serving Norwegian commercial buildings, and the AI running on it. Computer vision self-checkout for workplace canteens, and demand forecasting so kitchens buy the right amount of food. Both in production, both in daily use. Keeping a heavy system running is a different discipline from building a model.https://saurav.no/ai-consulting/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/ai-consulting/I help engineering and product teams apply AI across the software development lifecycle, and keep it defensible when someone asks hard questions about it. Most AI work fails in the same three places. The data does not hold up, nobody scoped the operational load, or the system cannot be explained to the people who have to sign off on it. What I work on AI in the product Forecasting, computer vision and LLM features that survive real users and real volume.https://saurav.no/ai-konsulent-oslo/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/ai-konsulent-oslo/Jeg hjelper utviklings- og produktteam med å ta i bruk kunstig intelligens gjennom hele utviklingsløpet, og med å gjøre det på en måte som tåler ettersyn. De fleste KI-prosjekter stopper opp på ett av tre steder. Datagrunnlaget holder ikke, ingen har tatt høyde for driften, eller systemet lar seg ikke forklare for dem som skal godkjenne det. Hva jeg jobber med Kunstig intelligens i produktet Prognoser, datasyn og språkmodeller som tåler ekte brukere og ekte volum.https://saurav.no/contact/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://saurav.no/contact/The fastest way to reach me is email: post@saurav.no If you are writing about an advisory engagement, it helps to include what you are building, where it is stuck, and roughly when you need it resolved. See AI consulting for how engagements usually work. Elsewhere LinkedIn, the best place for a quick conversation GitHub (https://x.com/pysaurav) Medium Based in Oslo, Norway (CET). I work in English and Norwegian.