Rule Book for Learning


  • List of to-do Goals
  • Deliberate Learning Investments Everyday
  • Plan out learning, Deliberate Hands on Coding Everyday
  • Read a few new books every few weeks, Recurring Investment on Learning and Books
  • Journal your life and focus on getting better every day
  • Empty space for learning, development of ideas, cultivation of state that drives efficiency
  • Develop Slow hunches for breakthrough ideas
  • Conversation on Ideas
  • Solve problems as they arise
  • Embrace a learning lifestyle


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Happy Learning!!!


The Art of Learning the mind


Mind like Deep Learning builds its memories, emotions based on its experiences. The memories turn into the mood, temperament depending on the duration of the life of emotions. A strong trauma or failure prepares a long memory that remains in us and makes us continue living in the memories.

To break the habit depends on understanding the network of thoughts and breaking the thoughts by applying the right activation functions. Gradually we also need to alter the inputs and the weight (thought) factor to change the output.

To break the network we need to apply the reverse psychology thought, Do something that creates opposite reaction. Our brain is just a collection of events, perspectives, and thoughts.

Feeding the brain with knowledge, making it think is more important than judging. This is all what people do in meditation. Another way to look at it as the engineering of our brain to understand it to handle things better.

Keep tuning your neural network for positive emotions.

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Happy Learning Emotions!!!

The dark night with Dying Battery and High Spirits


I am posting this note in a race against dying battery. After a lot of failures in 2017/2018. Today is a day to remember for the motivation and perseverance to continue to focus rigorously on Analytics.
Apart from personal ups and downs, emotional issues, there is a constant battle to live up to our dreams and principles.

I am indebtly thankful to many kind people in my circle.

Stay focused and continue going forward
Feel the regret / pain and let it heal
Become the best in things that you do
Stay humble and have empathy
A little short frame of life, Make it more meaningful and beautiful

Thank you for the blessing I got today. It motivates me to be better.

Midnight Thoughts

Certain things in life need to be handled at a personal level to safeguard our emotional and mental health

Do not seek validation from the world - Many times our decisions may conflict with people/relationships around us. We cannot ask for an explanation nor accept people opinions. For whatever decisions you take after clear thoughts, restrict yourself to focus on moving forward. We live for a short time. We cannot wait for people to understand us always

Keep Moving forward - The end maybe tomorrow or today. The unpredictability does also inform us to make use of the remaining time. It's better to plan the rest of the time to make the most out of the remaining time

Resilience - A lot of mental strength comes from solitude, learning and maintaining private space for yourself. Build the best version of yourself every single day

Keep Going!!!

Critical thinking

I have always been dependent on someone at any point in my life. I still remember depending on my dad for his comments on studies, debating, arguing for marks/ranks. As every Indian mom handling both home chores and kids was always a challenge for my mom. It's all like growing up from a middle-class family. School tuition marks grades. A few moral stories and importance of education did help to continue to focus on education. But lately, I understand critical thinking is more important than test-taking skills. I really admire Geoff Hinton for his decades on focus on AI. I would rather lean on critical lifetime thinking than being a Ph.D. or publishing papers.Emotionally too we need to be independent. I felt this dependency on people always made me keep someone in my circle to fit the emotional needs. Getting the freedom in life to be totally alone without anyone to look up is a blessing. It took a lot of time and energy to be totally alone emotionally and practically.

Being logical and the emotional is a critical trait. It takes years and ages to master oneself. We need continuous focus and persistent efforts to be in a really self-sustained mode.

Focus, passion, relentless focus on learning and keeping the end goal in mind is super critical to be good and best on what you do. Becoming Buddha in corporate life is not easy but focus on truly independent in everything and still have the critical thinking ability matters.

Time to go back and start learning. Laser focus, determination, time-bound goals and inner peace matters in life.

Happiness Redefined and Re-loaded!!!Happy Learning!!!

Father of AI - Geoff Hinton AI - Career and Life


A life for learning!!!

Stay Motivated, Keep Learning!!!

Ride Sharing - Lessons

Today I got a ride to work. He was in the Late 20s driving past 13 years. He was aggressive, fast, alert driver. Alongside he was watching Telugu tv programs, sharing his experience. 

Riding for many years makes them quick to decide, overtake, take the risky overtaking that novice drivers would avoid.

The same applies in Coding, Life. Some coding and learning we do today might simplify reduce our time for future projects which we do. 

Today's emotional problems, the loss makes us prepared to address similar issues for our family, friends. Pain makes you stronger, Experiments give you experience and experience gives you wisdom. Learn from the Experience of Life. Come out of the comfort zone, accept this life as a blessing, accept the failures with an open heart, Optimism on failure, reality over emotions, do not glorify failures, Simplify them into lessons.

For every negative emotion, we face there is a positive signal present in the emotion. Learn to extract the signal of optimism. This damaged life with experiments might turn into a lesson for like-minded people. 

Love Life, Learn Everyday, Code every day, Have an emotionally happy life...

Happy Life!!!

Quest for Knowledge

We achieve based on what we focus. Hope one day we see
  • Most Libraries in this country
  • More Innovation coming from Rural Part of the country
  • More Equity to every citizen in the country
  • Move beyond man-made barriers of caste/religion
  • Education that makes you think than pick the best answer
  • Education that encourages experimentation with Learning
  • Emotional Wellness, Mental Strength, Consistent thinking Patterns, Individual Development, Knowledge-based decision making
#Quest

Rolling in the Deep

Everything that kills you makes you Stronger
Everything that failed once will succeed one another day
Every broken heart will find someone who can exactly fix the broken pieces
Kindness is the most beautiful language in the world
Learning with passion is the lifetime hobby that has both knowledge addition and a healthy mindset
Some long days at work make you feel alive
Some long days in life may you feel awake
Some days in life make you hope for better tomorrow

The Story Continues...

Code - Keep Coding

After a long time, working on some ML work with a deadline. Seems every few months the packages/code fixes need to be done. Yea, ML training takes time...Up today long day but yea learning is only when you stay awake and meet your plans, goals.

Quiet office, Peaceful atmosphere @ 12.40AM...That's why more productive late nights, You can focus and work for long hours. Remember my days of weekend complete night-outs / 24hours deployments. Those long days and nights made me what I am today.

GoodLife!!!

Re-focus

This Video is a good motivation to understand. Lex is a familiar name in Autonomous vehicles course. The fundamentals like 'You are not special until you work hard for your way up. You have to work harder than anyone else in the world'.


Have a fantastic week ahead!!!

Keep Learning, Keep Growing!!!

The lonely night


Last night was much on the highway with my colleagues. It's now a consistent pattern of driving. In a way driving provides more satisfaction seeing the world and does provide an outlook to the world.

Today, Again back to home chores. Sometimes we hear perspectives which give us a quick transformation. After a long time spoke to one of my best pals.

Certain things which did strike me are

  • For things which didn't work, finding reasons for it is meaningless as anyways, it didn't work
  • Put energy on doing new things than on failed things
  • Always give space to someone who finds every reason to travel with you in spite of obstacles
  • Instead of focusing on GATE I am going to re-focus on few more Deep Mind papers / Core ML Research papers and understand them
  • Need to do more extensive tensorflow coding, Planning to experiment with DIY kits in coming days
Focus on sunshine, Have a brighter tomorrow....

#30's and Life

30's and Life has a lot more positivity. It's more independent than 20's financial, Emotionally it's a big learning curve. Being Single makes you emotionally independent.

At times there is a distraction between goals vs people. Many short-lived relationships make us feel, you are good until someone better comes between the two.
Letting go people/parents opinions/friends advice becomes part of life. Higher studies and Gate are like going and learning formulas to crack the fill the blanks of GATE. This method is important but again I feel this time i Ian use to read a few more research papers.

Learning cannot be quantified based on choose the best answers. Learning has to be based on experimentation / failures / different techniques that was learnt during the experiments. Unless we move out of question-based to experience based we will never learn anything in the context.

These days my schedule shifted to a night own schedule. Long drives / Long walks / Reading / A bit of solitude and loneliness. Embarace Life, Move on, A lot of dreams and a lot of hope.

Let the hope drive peace and hardwork. 

#Keepgoing

Move on Life

Emotional Intelligence can be interpreted in several ways
  • Self-awareness - Our beliefs and values, it's working on growth-oriented mindset 
  • Empathy - Understand your duty vs choice in managing parents and relationships
  • Communication - Effective / Frequent communication, Willing to work on finding meaningful solution matters
  • Face the truth - Accept the consequences of decisions rather than blaming anyone. Sometimes we end up in wrong situations for our choice of people/ kindness/empathy. Playing with people emotion is a hard game. The more you play the worse it will end
  • Regret and Move on - A period of regret/retrospection is important to understand failures and learn from it
  • Connect with the right people - Connect with people with similar values/ mindset/perspective, We live for a limited circle. Having the right relationship will help us do well in our life.
  • Never Ending Struggle - Balancing between health, having a good lifestyle, living life vs winning battles, Enjoying the moment with the best of what we can do, Leaving the past to grave, Planting the seeds of peace and happiness for future, Watering it and be patient for a beautiful present and future
Keep Learning!!!


Good Motivation

Live Now

What you can do *now* is better than what you can do tomorrow
Whatever you already lost is *past*, Build your present
Whoever has *left* you have left you a lesson
When you are alone, remember to treat yourself you are *special*
Focusing *now* prepares for better *tomorrow*
Be *kind* to yourself, accept *everything* that is beyond your control
Be patient in *present* moment else be a patient of past moments
There are no wrong *decisions* they are learning moments in life
For the *fearless* everything is an adventure
Let the journey begin and pick itself from the broken pieces

"This is your life and it is dying this moment now" (Remember the FightClub Movie)

LIVE NOW

Celebrate Diwali


Yea Diwali is festival of lights. I celebrated Diwali with my 4K contribution for Udhavum Karangal. I am just posting it to encourage this and celebrate the festivals along with the unprivileged children...



#HappyDiwali

Routine Everyday - Relook Life

The typical routine for me recent days is

  • Reading ML papers
  • Experimenting Code
  • Bit of project handling and tasks
  • Bit of personal time (Reading)
  • Driving
  • Foodie of UberEats (Almost stopped cooking)
  • Some sleepless / self-questioning moments

It's a different feeling when you look at your phone and have no calls / no messages and no one is waiting to hear from you. Probably this is what prepares someone personally and emotionally to a newer version of self.

This life is a journey and a succession of battles. Focus / Re-Focus on life and reset priorities going forward.

The past has to be buried. Risks have to be taken, Future has to be built. 

#HappyLearning

The fundamental flaws of Education

I am working on learning for GATE. More than concepts you need to solve the problems. I don't remember any single day focussing in details of those detail level problems.

I have a few challenges
  • Reading research papers understand AI / ML
  • Daily work + Coding
  • Experimenting AI / ML Projects
  • Logical pet projects
  • Other personal issues / Life perspective
On top it problem solving GATE question is a challenge. I am still trying hard for it.

Education has to be evaluated based on
  • Learning Concept
  • Doing some projects
  • Connecting all the different subjects
  • More experimentation based than written exams / solving like a formula
It takes years of research and passion to make something big. Focusing on formula-based learning vs experimentation based both are two different strategies.

I rather believe learning is continuous and does not depend on finding the best answers or recollecting formula. Unfortunately, with so much competition these are ways to filter out candidates.

Let the struggle keep going, Let the knowledge keep growing!!!

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#TheJourney
Emotional - How much we trust the person. What level of comfortable / uncomfortable conversations you can have
Intellectual - What drives similarities outside romance
Values - The fundamentals of trust, loyalty and perspectives in kids, finances, lifestyles

Outside this ability to think through, setting aside astrology and working meaningfulness to sort differences, patience.

Key Lessons
  • Trust
  • Negotiation
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Shared vision of future (Kids / Able to share responsibility)
Able to do things with them independent of Romantic thing, Some Similarity in personality style. Super agreeable / Super-Disagreeable is important to find someone who has a balance of both.

Happy Living!!!
"Fight for you. Believe in you. Bleed. Cry. Conquer - Dan Waldschmidt"