- need to port the blog to a future proof platform
- the current tech stack it's based on (Jekyll, markdown, ruby) is
a little sloppy
- will upgrade to something that can natively parse org without
any intermediary
- will probably stop blogging about what goes on in my head
henceforth
- will continue with my philosophical pursuits privately
- will soon archive these streams
- too much psychological inertia as to how things should be
- isn't helping me focus
- I'm back to evil emacs
- everything else is just a big compromise now
- regulating my workloads
- was overstretched lately
- need some work life balance
- Have a definite gym membership and will be able to workout
regularly now
- expecting a small productivity recession
- the whip lash is gonna be amazing though
- not using good reads anymore
- will be blogging about the books directly here
- have chalked out a gaming strategy that'll accelerate my
learning pursuits further
- will be writing about that tonight
- reinstating the intellectual pre-workouts
- toning down the caffeine usage
- need to regulate sensitivity levels so that I can exploit it
when I really need it someday
- getting back into jumping rope
- weighted and speed
- gonna level up the tricks
- finally decided to buy a fat bike
- will write about that at length sometime soon
- dollar cost averaging my crypto investments
- I'm a hodler
- no high frequency trading : I'm too lazy for that
- instead, levelling up my fitness pursuits
- gonna do full body stuff everyday with a core powerlifting
routine
- also ramping up on weighted calisthenics
- need to find a good pool
- swimming does help relax
- would start reading text books for fun again
- Next in line :
- Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
- have been living a very unhealthy lifestyle lately
- no particular routine and I'm working anytime during the day
- need to improve my work life balance
- need to catch up on sleep and hydrate more
- have been through this several times before
- getting back to my full potential shouldn't take more than 2 days I guess
- Sleep, nutrition, exercise and fun
- that's how I work
- The equation has been pretty unbalanced lately
- gotta bring in some discipline and clean my room
- I always forget to clean my room
- gotta clean my room.
- also gotta learn the local lingo
- Expecting everyone to know my language is downright ignorant
- gonna dive into sanskrit again for real this time
- have done latin previously
- now, given that I'm in south india
- The time could never be perfect to learn sanskrit
- would help me direct the delivery guys better and also be able to order food with the right accent
- Anyway, this was on my studying bucket list
- gotta keep on improving though
- I did latin for the romance languages
- I grew up learning english and french
- I'm gonna do German some day cause I like the cars they make
- Now, I'm gonna do sanskrit cause I'd like to give the vedas a serious read
- But, before that, I'm gonna sleep and drink some water and exercise a little
- Taking a break from all forms of social media
- will continue writing about my life updates as that helps me keep track of all the things I'm up to
- taking an indefinite exile from fiction
- getting back into reading philosophy and "How to" books
- thinking of getting a mountain bike instead of a motorcycle
- will be learning how to maintain the bike and exploring its limits safely
- reinitializing the youtube channel
- ramping up my writing pursuits: still a lot more to document about this world
- Haven't used Lisp in a while and missing it a lot
- Kaggle challenges with Hy might just be the sweet spot to be able to practice all that I like at once
- Workouts are taking shape
- Found a good MMA gym and my old college friends to have as sparring partners
- Will be getting into Fundamentals of Music Theory again
- Finally want to be able to compose pieces of my own that reflect my mood without the need to speak
- I could be a very good conductor
- reinitializing the bullet journals
- Feels relaxing to be able to just lounge anywhere and write/draw about whatever you see in front of you
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[My Bachelor's - Simulated]({% post_url /updates/2022-04-24-bachelors-simulated %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- finally updated my "About Me" page
- normalizing frequent smaller updates along with the long posts
- both have their own benefits
- initalizing "the TAP of ..." streams
- this is "metaTAP" : will maintain the names as macro and auxilliary
[I'm an ÆFRAISK]({% post_url /updates/2022-04-17-aefraisk %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[Neosociosophy]({% post_url /society/2022-04-14-neosociosophy %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[Dissociative Identity Order]({% post_url /meta/2022-04-11-dissociative-identity-order %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[Convergence]({% post_url /meta/2022-04-10-convergence %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[Raw Recreation]({% post_url /meta/2022-03-25-raw-recreation %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- the indefinite visual and auditory entertainment abstinence is over
[An End]({% post_url /meta/2022-03-21-an-end %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[Gnomenphomania]({% post_url /observations/2022-03-08-gnomenphomania %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- injured
- writing more
[The Polymathic Life]({% post_url /meta/2022-02-23-the-polymathic-life %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[The Consumer Returns ...]({% post_url /updates/2022-02-19-the-consumer-returns %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[The Disclaimer]({% link _pages/disclaimer.md %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[Reading an Author]({% post_url /books/2022-02-01-reading-an-author %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[The Theory of Agnostic Perspectivism]({% post_url /observations/2022-01-23-agnostic-perspectivism-index %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- Have accumulated a fair amount of personal jargon that is not
part of the English language
- will be initializing a new stream to keep track of all such
words that new readers would like to know quickly about
- I'm officially a tea-person now
- to be more specific, I'm (+ caffeine L-theanine) person now
- was just a caffeine person before
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[Consumption Update]({% post_url /books/2021-12-14-ConsumptionUpdate %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[6 months of Emacs]({% post_url /tech_stack/2021-12-14-6MonthsOfEmacs %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- I realized that I haven't been using footnotes and that I could
use them
- I do have a lot of sub-prime information that could assist
the post without getting in the way of the reader
- I do feel I'm going to overdo it
[Consolidation]({%post_url /meta/2021-11-08-consolidation %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[LSP-mode: Clangd configuration - Compilation Database]({%post_url /tech_stack/2021-10-30-CFam-lsp-mode %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- been some time for a technical post
- first elisp-automation
[Complacence]({%post_url /meta/2021-10-12-complacence %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- beginning my first read of "The Divine Comedy"
- To be more aware of how I grow up: beginning to date my posts
with the number of days I've been alive as well.
- a difference of ~400 days feels longer to me psychologically
right now than one year. Imagine "I'm a year older" v/s "I'm
365 days older".
- I personally don't know Jesus and I get that societal
cooperation depends on everyone agreeing on common standards but
that feels personally detached
- Consequently, will continue with the conventional time stamps as well
- day-stamps change at my birth time (1930) and include the
present day : to be treated as the running day
- technically should be stamping as 7826th but that is ugly
[Chasing Lucidity]({% post_url /meta/2021-09-14-ChasingLucidity %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
[(Major) Cumulative Updates]({%post_url /updates/2021-08-29-new-academic-year %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- have been using `r!date` since 2nd August 2020 (3 days in to the
start of this blog) : served me well
- now that I've migrated to emacs, shifting to "C-u M-x org-time-stamp"
- binding to "C-u C-c !" globally
- a couple more keystrokes and goes through a selection menu
but much more inclusive
- All time stamps hence forth would be readily parsable in
org-mode
- the beginning of migrating from markdown to org-mode as my principal
writing markup dialect
- would explicitly mention time-zone differences ; IST is a redundancy
- beginning to incorporate a more project based approach for all
that I do :
- actively logging (quantitavely and qualitatively) about the
finer details in my org-roam knowledge web
- this seems to be my final root setup for logging given
all the other platforms I've tried over the past two years
(Notion, Obsidian, VimWiki, One-Note, Notebooks only .
- the most powerful(flexible) yet the most simple and
elegant way
- still do have a notebook on me all the time
- serves as an immutable store without any
garbage-collection : no deletions, only condensations ...
- prominent ideas are regularly assimilated in the knowledge web
- should be intriguing to revisit them after significant intervals
- assuming infinite supply
- would rather have a "notebookshelf" than a bookshelf
[GS internship review]({% post_url /updates/2021-07-25-gs-summer-intern%}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- beginning regular updates again
- some good first-hand observations regarding effects of a cold on
speech have been noted
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[Speed Reading Logs]({% post_url /meta/2021-04-10-speed-reading-logs %}){: .btn .btn--inverse} [Speed Reading Closure]({% post_url /meta/2021-06-19-Speed-reading-closure %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- done with a week at Goldman Sachs as summer analyst
- catching up with the updates
- my first corporate experience has been interesting so far
- Also done with 2 weeks of retraining back up to a baseline level
of strength after the lockdown.
- will be revising the plan for strength and mobility for the
next phase.
- Segregated the auxiliary streams from the minor(now auxiliary)
and the auxiliaries now renamed to micros
- this is the macro.
[Vim to Emacs]({% post_url /tech_stack/2021-05-19-vim->emacs %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- got my first double under yesterday
[Fitness Log 005 : first double under]({% post_url /fitness/2021-05-12-fitness-log-005 %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- Emacs has been daemonized;
- is self-documenting now
- A good 6 days of minor discomfort and I'm already experiencing a productivity boost due to coherence of all the utilites
- beginning my stay with emacs soon; the soul of vim continues to live on within Evil.
- vim has given me a lot and my time with it shall never be forgotten.
- beginning a Latin only stream: where I write only in Latin; should accelerate the process and I'm genuinely excited to write within the linguistic bounds of a 4-year old again.
- Idea is to capture my progress with latin.
- Today I begin with the shortest sentence I know:
- I am.
- When I die, I'll schedule a push for an:
- I was.
- sounds fun.
- have quit social media(deleted accounts : facebook and instagram)
- had already been off the platforms for a couple of months so this isn't cold-turkey
- this did put a smile on my face : unexpected energy surge immediately after the deletion
- ofcourse, other more active forms of leisure are being incorporated
- also quit television and all other forms of visual entertainment (2 days in now)
- this is cold turkey
- plan to stick to this for a long time but hard rules are good to avoid loopholes and gray areas
- no visual entertainment for 30 days : that's pretty simple
- followed by one movie every weekend post that first phase of weaning off
- only if I feel like it
- life does seem a bit more boring, which is expected and good
- Sleeping patterns are healthier and lucidity levels are rising fairly rapidly
- more stable dreams and generally more aware of the REM phase without any surplus significant efforts.
- as expected, a lot of time has been freed up
- the key, now, is to mindfully slot in productive activities
- bad week(month?(year?)) sleep wise : need to get that back in check
- starting a log stream for any skills I want to pick up
- streams are the way to go for intermittent updates and staying on track
- began with the speed reading log today under the meta category
- not going to post the links for such streams on the major or minor stream
- so consider yourself lucky if you chance upon them
- finished the project log for CVPR 2021 workshop : AUTONUE after a long time.
- this had been enqueued quite a while ago, need to expedite my execution to logging pipeline.
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- setup fitness log series with a base post stating my history.
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[Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker]({% link _posts/books/2021-01-17-WhyWeSleep.md %}){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- started with my 6th semester and pretty excited about the courses lined up.
- Also began SICP with Hy, will be posting a lot of updates soon.
- initiating the minor stream today with a bit poetic computer science.
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- blogged on recent semester project : wdgaf
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- have been drilling speed-reading lately
- seeing improvements : amped up to read more papers and books
- observational notes do feel good : the kind of general insight I've seemingly developed feels awesome
- drew my left hand with my right hand, just out of curiosity probably the first time after kinder-garden
- they definitely had something right cooking with the kind of stuff they made us do
- shifted to using the mouse with my left hand - full time
- slow but definitely improving incrementally: frees up my right for some doodling
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- initiated a separate ML and mathematics blog
- will be talking about the research that I consume
- also thinking of some fun personal projects : thinking of some EDA on my Fitbit data
- recently have started being active on kaggle; excited to get into competitive machine learning
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- checked out diskpart today.
- used to optimize virtual hard disks
- will have a post sometime soon regarding WSL with GUI
- Been some time
- finally done with campus interviews for internships (summer 2021)
- got an offer from Goldman Sachs (Summer analyst) : stoked to work with them next summer
- interview experience following up as a post
[Tech stack update]({% post_url /tech_stack/2020-08-17-techstack %} ){: .btn .btn--inverse}
- initialized the tech stack today with the bare-minimum
- change CDN to google photos; code stays on github and photos from google photos.
- finally done with DesCartes' error.
- review linked above : nice one overall.
- WebAssembly led me to new horizons:- stack machines and s-expressions
- leading me to their alma-mater : Lisp
- Meta-Programming looks very promising and I'll soon have a post(rambling)
- I'll be proceeding with Racket
- first tech post today
- setup categories and tags.
- pretty excited to gain some momentum on this.
- tech stack coming up soon
- no sun rise today, rainy day; the hike was even better
- a walk in the clouds.
- as I was going to get into javascripts, basic research led me to the idea of
- WebAssembly
- Edge Computing
- writing Web Apps in native code (C,C++,Rust) rather than javascript dialects
- very interesting, and definitely getting in on that
- though learning javascript will still be useful
- the idea of serverless serving is very intriguing though.
- thinking of creating a separate stream for my learning log and my generic log so that things look more structured.
- started working on a personal full stack deep learning project
- will learn a lot about a range of technologies and tools in the process
- first book review coming soon: Descartes error is turning out pretty good albeit felt like a slog at a point of time
- started solo hiking 2 days ago; tomorrow is the second day; targeting to scale the peak before 0615 IST(before sunrise)
- decided to add a couple of tool stacks to my repertoire soon:
- javascript and soon its relevant dialects:- they're ubiquitous and will help me understand a lot of the web and build stuff
- assembly:- I was smitten after I checked a blog post about compiler optimization just cause how elegant it was
- modern C++ :- already have a head start on this and yes, it's a different language from C++ 11 onwards; the power it gives the programmer is just amazing. What people say is true:- the worst part is that it's too low a level and the best part is it's too low a level.
- specifically because it's a multiparadigm'd language, I'm interested how a functional approach plays out here
- getting familiar with it's type system and the idea of perfect forwarding:- the code just feels so much more expressive now.
- setting up some smooth navigation and a way for intermittent updates
- I'm not peculiar, just lazy... ; started using r!date
- probably will create a dynamic tech stack page soon
- will set up individual, bare-bones sites for the individual projects and repositories in the projecs if necessary
- site live, running
- ready to start kicking out content
- minor tweaks still needed
- resume and project pages need to be updated
- also will setup subdomains for some pages
- bought domain : rajpatil.dev
- gTLD with enforced https, plus pretty cheap
- SSL certificate from "Let'sEncrypt" under process (integrated with github pages)
- may take upto 24 hours for the site to be live