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Wavering Back and Forth

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When looking forward to the great expanse that I envision lying forward in the future, I feel awestruck imagining the range of possible outcomes that exist. On the one hand, I imagine how if I put my best foot forward and dedicate myself wholeheartedly to the pursuit of my ambition, with the help of luck I might find myself in the position of just having found a top job at a large company. On the other hand, I imagine myself allowing things to slip by and not endeavoring to find a good job and not practicing the skills needed to find one, but instead slacking off and investing suboptimal effort in pursuing my duty. Comparing these two drastic alternatives, I can see that the long-term effects of both are drastic. One the one hand, I can work my way into finding a respectable position in society. If not, I might find myself bereft of a job, straggling to keep up with the lower ranks of the software engineering competition. However, more important to me currently than achieving either of...
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Studying and Sports

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Inspired by the web series Gullak , I have been thinking about a sportsman-like attitude to studies, academia, and preparation for the workforce, where an attitude of a game is taken towards the whole enterprise of studying hard, getting good grades, maintaining good extracurriculars, having good references, maintaining achievements, and securing good placement in schools or jobs. That being said, there are varying degrees of the serious-ness of attitude that people take towards sports, but they are surely not awarded the same degree of seriousness as practical life affairs, such as marriage, divorce, birth, illness, death, divorce, politics, arguments, or careers. All the way from middle school, or perhaps earlier, starting in elementary school, to college and beyond, developing individuals typically have the opportunity to be immersed in a school-type setting in which there are students, resources, hope, motivation, and a range of attitudes and feelings. While there are some for whom...
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Chiraq Addresses

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There are two implications to being young. In the first place, you have time to grow and think and mature and you have a daily routine to follow. Second, however, there is little importance or urgency in your life alone so you can while your time away easily. And yet, there is a deep resentment no matter which attitude is taken so that the developing individual is encouraged to ignore the minutiae of one's daily routine as a consequence of the imposing nature of the mirages of the stages of life through which one progresses. Given the gun problem in Chiraq, fingerprint-based biometric authentication is a good solution to ensure that only the individuals who are judged as being competent users of the weapon use it. Because of the danger of guns, another possible enhancement to them is the installation of a small user-facing camera, microphone, screen, and speaker on the gun so that it is possible to legally mandate LLM-enabled therapy with the user before the user is allowed to pull...
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West of Eden

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John's Steinbeck's masterpiece East of Eden  takes place in a region that symbolizes the land where Adam and Eve were driven out to after eating the forbidden fruit. It is a place of labor and difficulty, in contrast to the idyllic paradise of Heaven. It is a matter of interpretation whether the stories of the Bible can be compared to true stages of development that humans encounter in life and whether the fall from paradise can be likened to a barrier from what was formerly perfect that is temporal, spatial, generational, technological, or biological. The East, being the place from which the sun rises, represents a solar injunction to the duty of one's day at daybreak, and as the day carries on past midday, the sun casts shadows upon people and disappears past the horizon of the West into shade. But can we humans, knowing now as we did not know previously at the time of the writing of the Bible, that the Earth is round and not flat, attempt to reenter paradise by circumnav...
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Thoughts on LLMs and Modeling

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I am sharing here something I have written about LLMs and modeling. Most of it leans towards the science-fiction side, but it is at least partially based on reality and hopefully it will serve as a foundation for some future research ideas. Hope you enjoy! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1He_KZDnfAaKOfcLkrfY_XVwMsHLmdhHK/view?usp=drive_link
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My Summer

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So today is Saturday, October 7th. Yesterday was the end of Week 1 of the quarter, meaning that we have about 10 more weeks before Winter Break, which doesn't seem like a lot. Summer this year was eventful. Firstly, I joined Smash Gyms for about two months, which I attended in the evenings after coming home from my internship. I attended the Muay Thai and Strength/Conditioning classes mostly. Secondly, I interned this summer at the same place I had interned at last summer, Cadence Design Systems. I enjoyed my time there and I didn't feel very stressed. Thirdly, during the last three weeks of summer break, which were also roughly the first three weeks of September, my parents went to India, leaving me and my brother to take care of the home, which we did. Now that I am growing older, I feel that I should be more careful about the words I choose, particularly on a public-facing blog like this one. There are pros and cons to this blog being public. The self-critical voice inside m...
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A Realization

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I just realized something that is simultaneously great and terrible--that hard work is the key to satisfaction. It is great because it means that if you work hard, life will be better. But at the same time, it is terrible because it means that you have to work hard even if you don't want to. I woke up around 8:30 full of fear, worry, and frustration. After I finished a long day of work (~10 hrs work at least I think), however, I feel satiated and fine. I still have a lot of work, but I feel a little calmer. I also had a random thought a few days ago that I thought I would talk about. Religion seems like not just one thing but rather a combination of multiple things. It is the stories and literature or mythology that comprise the story it tells. E.g. The Ramayana It is a set of rules by which you must live your life and tells you your values. E.g. The Ten Commandments It is your personal relationship with God. It is a source of comfort and love to help you get through tough times an...
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