Making stones think
I'm constantly amazed and distracted by ideas simultaneously and spend considerable amounts of time, thinking or working for seemingly trivial things. I have tried many times before to adjust this focus compass but was ultimately dissuaded by this germ of an idea. Nothing is inconsequential, everything matters. In short, I’m interested in more topics than I’d like to be.I have been fascinated by the concept of a programmable machine for a long time. Like tower defence, planning for and overcoming input "balloons" was seemingly an exciting endeavor for the first-time programmer. I would spend large amounts of time, mostly in the nights with winamp playing in the background, trying to get a program to run increasingly complex scenarios. The ways I found to do this will in turn be my first lessons in data structures and algorithms. So when I decided to take it up as a profession, I had no formal training in any programming language, but the excitement of programming more complex systems was itself satisfactory. The excitement for the programming part is true to this day.
Since then, I got a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication and learned C and C++ from the legendary MLS Shastry. My initial employment in the IT industry was centered around web UI design. Since then I've been fortunate to have worked with a host of multi-disciplinary teams. I have worked in 2/3 people startups to multinational companies with a hundred thousand employees. I have worked for many startups in the past. Some of them were successful, and others were not.
I'm currently engaged in an academic pursuit of making stones think. I comprehend machine learning as a slightly more advanced tower defense game. The balloons are more plentiful and challenging and the payoff is more cathartic.
I spend my free time dreaming about AGI and what it would be like if it were realized someday.
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