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Solving Bongard Problems using VLMs

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In 2018, this post made an interesting attempt at solving Bongard problems using deep learning. That work may have laid the foundation for further attempts at creating various Bongard-like datasets such as Bongard-LOGO¹, Bongard-HOI², and Bongard-OpenWorld³. This post is an attempt to replicate the same methodology with state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs).

A Quick Intro

Bongard Problems are puzzles formulated by Russian scientist and intelligence theorist Mikhail Moiseevich Bongard in the 1960s in his book The Problem of Recognition (Problema Uznavaniya). A typical Bongard problem consists of two sets of six images. All images on one side illustrate a shared concept that is absent from the other side.

Agentic Programming is No Fun

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This post is based on my personal experience after dabbling with AI-based agentic programming for a few days. Not that anyone actively reads my blog, but I want to document how I am feeling at this point in time, during what feels like the early rise of AI automation.

How I Use AI Today

I have been consistently using AI chatbots over the past couple of years for programming-related tasks. I barely Google error messages anymore; I just paste them into ChatGPT or Claude and move on. I am on the free tiers now, but I did subscribe for a few months after realizing Claude was better at generating code.

Elegance is in the Eye of the Beholder

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Go recently added support for a syntax that a fellow gopher had requested 12 years ago on the forum. The OP proposed a range syntax for Go that was "simpler" than the traditional C-like iteration.

The discussion that followed highlighted an interesting divide - while a few found the proposed syntax cleaner, others argued that the traditional C-style loop was more explicit and natural, especially for developers with C background. This debate about what makes loop syntax "elegant" has historical roots.