i bought a 600rs plant.
i recently felt a need to write again. there are a bunch of reasons for it i think;
i feel like i have things that i am excited to talk about.
i wish to update the friends and mentors in my life regularly.
writing weekly is a good way to remember things. weeks go by fast and memories tend to mush together, especially after a few months.
i feel like i have projects i’m actually excited to talk about!
gm and happy monday!
here’s a non-chronologic, non-ordered list of events.
moved to ‘uru.
decided to take a break from jobs and started studying maths from scratch. daily.
started building epoch 0. a discord server for people to learn together.
started freelancing to ensure i don’t make the same mistakes as last year again.
started contributing to a research paper.
started my quest to discover my north star. a difficult problem i want to spend a lot of time working on.
declared social bankruptcy from X.
set up with 600rs plant.
the only downside of having my fingers in so many pies is that i’ve been context-switching. a lot.
this is something i need to fix. instead of doing many things in one day, i’m planning to do one thing at a stretch and switch out context after 2-3 days.
i spent the majority of my last week filling out the application form for the interact fellowship and writing out my personal statement for the cohere ai scholar program.
both of them took a lot of effort. too much self-introspection in one week.
for interact, the question that stumped me was:
“Talk about a time a piece of writing, movie, conversation, art project or other life experience changed your mind. How did your perspective change and why?”
i’ll share my answers sometime in the future maybe, but this question was really helpful in solidifying my perspective around personal north stars, ambition, jobs, and hard problems.
my personal statement is still a work in progress but i’ve already gotten my first draft ripped apart by a handful of people. if you’re one of the people reading this, thank you ;)
i also came across a paper that discusses problems that still need to be solved in LLM and NLP research. i’ve summarized it here.