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Kurious K
So I was searching for appropriate libraries and styles to implement a Deep Learning training pipeline 1. Earlier I had stumbled upon Flow Based Programming and Luigi. However that’s not what I was looking for. So I decided to scour the wiki page for programming paradigms and saw Aspect Oriented Programming which seems quite familiar to me having used Emacs for a while, although I haven’t used its advice system myself....Posted on: 2021-08-06, in Category: programming, tags: functional_programming apl k lisp
So you want to Sheep
I’ve been doing this Sheep Learning 1 for a while and there often I have to prescribe some references. I’ll write this in the hope that it may be useful to others. Preferably the topics should be followed in order, but one can choose to explore as they wish. A lot of people tend to jump into the whole area without minimal mathematical prerequisites. However, primarily these are statistical models with a strong focus on Linear Algebra. For undergraduate students I recommend (Hogg et al. 2019) for the bare minimum of that area....Posted on: 2021-07-28, in Category: research, tags: books references deep_learning machine_learning neural_networks
Conway’s law and communication networks
I’ve been working in this (stealth as of now) startup for more than a month now and although it’s smaller than the one where I had worked prveviously, I’m quite intrigued by the communication structures and the inefficiencies that I perceive because of them. One key difference here is that I have to coordinate across mutliple teams (two as of now) with different skills and specializations and as such, I can see certain patterns of communication emerging and which also makes me think of Conway’s law:...Posted on: 2021-07-26, in Category: startups-and-industry, tags: communication organizations startups conway's_law
About the interview with an old actor
I had this dream a while back I was interviewing an actor about a movie at a dinner hosted in his honor. He’s an old man and a few of his friends are also there, they’re also mostly old people, some actors and journalists. The film itself was directed by Herzog but he’s not there. It was based on a novel by Dostoyevsky. I ask the actor to explain the crux of the film and he’s reluctant perhaps with the thought that it’s useless to summarize such philosophy and beauty in a few sentences. The best books and films have to be seen after all, and can never be described adequately. I remember that I had only asked so that I could then present my point of view which would be undoubtedly more profound. I feel that actors less than directors aren’t given to great philosophy....Posted on: 2021-07-26, in Category: dreams, tags: rants philosophy
Sending Mail with Python and Googleapi for Emacs
So I love Emacs. Why I love it would be the subject of another blog post, but as I love it I want to do everything from it, including sending and reading mail as it is very convenient for me. Emacs can automate a lot of tasks for me. Anyway so mu4e does a really good job of indexing and reading mails in emacs. It has a good compose feature also and it leaves receiving and sending mail up to the mail client of user’s choice....Posted on: 2020-12-01, in Category: emacs, tags: mail python lisp
Songs of Love and Hate
It’s 1:30 am and I’m listening to Leonard Cohen singing “Did you ever go clear?”, looking at the fragments of my life scattered in the aftermath of a breakup. A breakup. I suppose it doesn’t behove a man of science to display feelings but we can’t help being human once in a while. “Avalanche” and “Famous Blue Raincoat” are two of my favourite songs, “If I am on a pedestal, you didn’t raise me there, your laws do not compel me to kneel grotesque and bare”. In many respects Cohen is incomparable in what he brings to music. These songs have long been emblazoned into my brain and these echoes remind me of the infinite pathos that man’s resolute soul can bring upon itself to bear....Posted on: 2020-06-05, in Category: misc, tags: random musings personal
