Roudranil Das's personal site — posts and projects on machine learning, engineering, and math.https://roudranil.github.iohttps://roudranil.github.io/posts/2023-12-09-render-mathhttps://roudranil.github.io/posts/2023-12-09-render-mathA step-by-step guide to rendering math in Astro markdown and MDX with remark-math, rehype-katex, and KaTeX, including how to self-host KaTeX's stylesheet and fonts and swap in Computer Modern for a LaTeX-like look.Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:19:27 GMThttps://roudranil.github.io/posts/2023-12-16-about-this-sitehttps://roudranil.github.io/posts/2023-12-16-about-this-siteThis page goes into details about how i built this website, and the entire timeline of its creation. I go into details about how it was first made with Hugo, and then ported to Astro, and then how i enlisted the help of coding agents to polish it.Sat, 16 Dec 2023 05:57:00 GMThttps://roudranil.github.io/posts/2026-08-30-do-people-use-mathhttps://roudranil.github.io/posts/2026-08-30-do-people-use-mathThis post goes in depth into how undergraduate math shows up frequently and definitively in modern ML and data science techniques, and drives research forward. We can take a look at applications of Linear algebra, optimisation techniques, multivariable analysis, group theory, probability theory and how tightly they are interconnected with ML.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:06:59 GMT