Autoencoders for Seismic Waveforms: Compress, Learn, and Generate
Autoencoders learn compact representations by reconstructing seismic data. This tutorial explains their use...
Utpal Kumar, PhD
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Recent technical articles on seismic analytics, scientific computing, numerical modeling, and production data workflows.
When frequency changes signal structural damage
An unexpected drop in a building’s natural frequency is the structure reporting that it has lost stiffness — usually the first sign of damage. Here is why to...
From phase pickers to seismic foundation models
Foundation models ask whether one pretrained representation of seismic waveforms can support picking, detection, classification, and other downstream tasks—w...
Caffeinate on and off controls for macos with alfred and swiftbar
A compact macOS setup with two Alfred workflows for turning caffeinate on and off, plus SwiftBar for keeping the current status visible in the menu bar.
Automatic p/s phase picking with deep learning using seisbench
Load a waveform with ObsPy, run a pre-trained PhaseNet (or EQTransformer) model from SeisBench, and plot the picked P and S arrivals — a hands-on bridge from...
Markov chain monte carlo for geoscientists
An intuitive guide to MCMC: a walker in the fog whose footprints map the posterior. We build a Metropolis sampler from scratch, check it against an exact ana...
Probabilistic earthquake location with nonlinloc
How NonLinLoc locates earthquakes by mapping a full probability density over the search volume instead of iterating to a single point — the Bayesian idea, th...
Modern seismic monitoring systems: how ml and the cloud build earthquake catalogs
A tour of how modern earthquake-monitoring systems turn continuous seismic waveforms into earthquake catalogs — the ML pipeline of picking, association, and ...
Build a multilingual local voice journal app with fastapi and whisper (beginner guide)
A beginner-friendly walkthrough to build and run Whisper Journal with multilingual dictation, local Whisper transcription, AI-assisted title/tag generation, ...
Seismoalert: a real-time earthquake monitoring toolkit in python (codes included)
I built SeismoAlert to fetch USGS earthquake data, run statistical analysis, detect anomalies, and generate interactive maps from a single CLI.
From code to monitoring: fastapi calculator devops pipeline (complete beginner guide)
A practical, beginner-friendly walkthrough of a complete FastAPI DevOps workflow: clean code, layered testing, CI with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and runtim...
Turning your home computer into a home server you can access remotely
Turn your everyday computer into a home server you can access from anywhere using Dynamic DNS, a simple update script, and secure SSH access.
The need for structural health monitoring in the san francisco bay area
The San Francisco Bay Area combines high seismic hazard, dense urban exposure, and aging infrastructure. Structural Health Monitoring can improve post-earthq...
When frequency changes signal structural damage
An unexpected drop in a building’s natural frequency is the structure reporting that it has lost stiffness — usually the first sign of damage. Here is why to...
From phase pickers to seismic foundation models
Foundation models ask whether one pretrained representation of seismic waveforms can support picking, detection, classification, and other downstream tasks—w...
Caffeinate on and off controls for macos with alfred and swiftbar
A compact macOS setup with two Alfred workflows for turning caffeinate on and off, plus SwiftBar for keeping the current status visible in the menu bar.
Automatic p/s phase picking with deep learning using seisbench
Load a waveform with ObsPy, run a pre-trained PhaseNet (or EQTransformer) model from SeisBench, and plot the picked P and S arrivals — a hands-on bridge from...
Markov chain monte carlo for geoscientists
An intuitive guide to MCMC: a walker in the fog whose footprints map the posterior. We build a Metropolis sampler from scratch, check it against an exact ana...
Probabilistic earthquake location with nonlinloc
How NonLinLoc locates earthquakes by mapping a full probability density over the search volume instead of iterating to a single point — the Bayesian idea, th...
Modern seismic monitoring systems: how ml and the cloud build earthquake catalogs
A tour of how modern earthquake-monitoring systems turn continuous seismic waveforms into earthquake catalogs — the ML pipeline of picking, association, and ...
Build a multilingual local voice journal app with fastapi and whisper (beginner guide)
A beginner-friendly walkthrough to build and run Whisper Journal with multilingual dictation, local Whisper transcription, AI-assisted title/tag generation, ...
Seismoalert: a real-time earthquake monitoring toolkit in python (codes included)
I built SeismoAlert to fetch USGS earthquake data, run statistical analysis, detect anomalies, and generate interactive maps from a single CLI.
From code to monitoring: fastapi calculator devops pipeline (complete beginner guide)
A practical, beginner-friendly walkthrough of a complete FastAPI DevOps workflow: clean code, layered testing, CI with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and runtim...
Turning your home computer into a home server you can access remotely
Turn your everyday computer into a home server you can access from anywhere using Dynamic DNS, a simple update script, and secure SSH access.
The need for structural health monitoring in the san francisco bay area
The San Francisco Bay Area combines high seismic hazard, dense urban exposure, and aging infrastructure. Structural Health Monitoring can improve post-earthq...