konnichiwa 👋

this contains my notes, me logging my thoughts on projects/goals/life etc as i go through them along the way. it would be edited constantly & the latest log would always be on top. 1sep24 just read “the mundanity of excellence”. it gives a very detailed analysis of success in swimming atheletes but it applies to all field. the difference isn’t talent, it’s not quantitative (putting more hours), its qualitative. qualitative as in, the difference lies in the way they do things, small habits, so small that it itself is almost invisible, so the small efforts “do really count”....

i dig deep into new machine learning library for apple metal, mlx. its clean, built with pytorch, numpy design fundamental & hackable. aiming to build models on top and contribute.

i discuss my college project on using deep learning (notably, transformers’ flavours) for prediction of streamflow of river stream (here, hemavathi basin). the project involves rainfall, river streamflow & temperature data for the study area: hemavathi basin, kaveri river, karnataka, india. thanks to phd senior mukul sahu for arranging the data from India Metrological Department (IMD). The data consisted of daily data points from 2003-2020 with a total of 6575 rows each....

it was during mid-late 2023. with @sourav, i was trying for something to get off the ground. tried a prompts API marketplace, find here. got some traction but obviously no one would pay (not that i didn’t expect that completely) also tried to launch a better features chatgpt ui (it was very bad at that time). some guy on twitter launched it, was building fast & made profit, so honestly this is what i thought to replicate....

around 2021-2022, i first found blockchains and it was fascinating as a piece of technology to me and specially after you know the “satoshi lore”, how can one not be a fan? he singlehandely catalysed a financial change. bitcoin wasn’t created to create digital money and this isn’t what most people don’t understand, instead it came to exist naturally as part on how the system was architected. i’m open to learn whatever strikes my curiosity, so next thing i knew was heads down into blockchain papers....

the power and usecases of LLMs were evident when i used them. my friend and i were discussing legal arbitration issues in india because his dad had to oversee & help with documents for a few cases. it was clear that legal being the most text intensive text-in text-out business could leverage LLMs. so in mid-2023, i started skipping classes in learning all the ways to make this happen. also participated in buildspace to keep track & ship faster....

i often have periods of time where i doubt the very nature of ’life’ as we live. it happens at a weirdly strongly manner and i think too much on it (often). here, i ponder what the “why” of my life is. coming soon…