I’m currently sipping on some citrusy Ethiopian espresso in Bangkok. I’ve been doing a bit of traveling since I last blogged. After several months of morning to evening machine learning/math/computer science studying holed up either on my couch or an office in Palo Alto I needed a change of scenery. I did visit …
Christmas
I’ve been having a harder time blogging lately and I had to think about why. Was it because I’m too busy with career stuff? Definitely not, I still have chunks of time nightly where I catch up on sports and other time wasters. Do I have nothing going on that is super interesting in my …
Pre-Holiday Reflections
“Life is not a punishment, it is a reward, it is a gift. Befriend it totally. The moment you start befriending life you will be surprised by how beautiful it is, how poetic it is, how musical it is.” -Osho I spent a week in LA again as I had a break after …
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wishing a happy Thanksgiving to the little patch of the internet that reads my blog. A lot of people I hang out with weren’t born in America and perhaps only have an association with Thanksgiving that you get a few days off from work, but I still think there’s a warm element that must rub …
Getting More Serious with Meditation
“We have only forgotten; it is just a question of remembrance. It is there in the deepest core of our being. Call it truth, God, bliss, beauty: all those things indicate the same phenomenon. There is something eternal in our beings, something immortal, something divine. All that we have to do is to go deep, …
Interviewing and Back to Normal Life
I’ve been on a blogging hiatus as the past month has been spent finishing my AI project that generates human-quality Yelp reviews (https://github.com/ajmanser/Yelp) , giving presentations of this project across Silicon Valley, cramming for technical interviews, and then interviewing. Not blogging has definitely been a nagging pain point for me that I could no …
End of Week 3
As I noted in a previous post my brain cells and time on the weekends have been lacking. I just finished the 3rd week of my program at Insight AI, and it's going great. I have been building out my version of a recent research paper generating realistic human (restaurant) reviews, and it works! I …
Week 1
I'm not sure that I'll update about the program every week, but I just finished the first (4-day due to Labor Day) week of Insight AI. I had pretty much no clue what the program entailed outside of building an applied Artificial Intelligence project. One of my friends had done the program in the past …
AI Fellowship
Apologies to people who regularly check this blog and find no updates. I have been pretty deep with my studies the past month, and have had little creative brain energy to write. I'm pretty excited to announce that I interviewed for, got offered, and accepted a fellowship at Insight in Palo Alto for Artificial Intelligence! …
Leveling Up This Week
Had a good well-rounded week here in Silicon Valley. I’m pretty conscious each week to not neglect my career, relationships, and physical/mental health. I have a hard to fix habit of both aggressively scheduling my accomplishments for the day/week, and also stumbling onto new and improved things to do. Overall though if I can slightly …
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