Almost a Data Scientist

I am writing this blog just days after my grandfather passed away. Strangely, this isn't really a blog about his death. It's about a question I've been asking myself for months: do I actually like chaos, or do I just use it to avoid being alone with my thoughts? He lived a fulfilling life. But to his son, my father, it is still an unbearable loss, and it makes him very sad, although my dad is trying his best to keep everyone around him happy by making constant jokes.  Life lately has been so chaotic that I don't even know where to start! I am divided between so many things, and I complete none. I am surprised how fast life changes.   I don't feel alive till there are 10 things I am doing or thinking about at any given moment! It could be work or personal. I lived in such chaos that there was literally everything I ever needed within one arm's distance of me, so that I never had to leave my desk.  At first, I loved it, super productive, but gradually, it became d...

I am  was almost a data scientist. I feel imposter syndrome creeping in on me more and more every day, and today I want to talk about it.  It is 2026, and LLMs are mainstream now. Almost everyone uses them.  I am sure my entire team and I would hesitate to write an email without using any of these LLMs. I have seen people use it to frame even WhatsApp messages now. My brother often tells me stories about patients who have a very down-to-earth lifestyle, often small farmers using ChatGPT to come up with a diagnosis of their problems before reaching the hospital.  I see people blindly trusting it, and why shouldn't they? It makes them feel better! I make a living out of telling people how to use these LLMs the right way, how they hallucinate, what not to use them for and how LLMs phrase sentences that are aimed to make you feel better. Yet, I used it for analysing my birth chart a couple of days ago (call it irony, call it hypocrisy, I don't know, I slept through my En...

 The last time I wrote was a month ago, well, one day less than a month. Which is a win for me nonetheless! XD As for the reason, I can blame a lot of things that went wrong OR went well. But I am not going to. I promised myself to write once a week, and it is not a huge goal to achieve!  Still, in my defence, a lot of bad things have happened in the past month. A lot of "financial" loss. I have put financial in quotes here because a lot of my dear ones have said that all is okay till you and your dear ones are fit and fine. And no, I do not disagree, but I am really, really stressed!  This is that time of my life where I can make the best of it! Either I can enjoy my young self, or I can change the destiny of my family. Since I am not much of a party person, I choose the latter with pride, and I work my ass off. No, literally, I work till I stop feeling my ass on the chair.  And when you work so hard, you start having expectations, from everyone and everything! I tr...

What is FOMO? FOMO is short for Fear of missing out.  FOMO is why I started to write this blog, and FOMO is what pushes me out of my comfort zone to learn new things! I mean, you can tell by the name of this blog how badly I am affected by FOMO and Imposter Syndrome. XD It is not necessarily a bad thing, but in this fast-paced world, it is very easy to fall prey to this newly introduced "disease". Rather, I think it's all perception! It's all fun and games till you use it to grow, but it can get depressing real fast!  Much like my generation**, I am addicted to social media, and it is the first thing I do after waking up. Everyone is doing so much! You open LinkedIn or Twitter (X), and almost everyone is doing better than me!  I see 21-year-olds launching startups and becoming millionaires, people publishing groundbreaking research, and my peers getting hired at a much higher package than me. And no matter how nonchalant you try to be, these things are bound to affect...

I have been leading teams even before I graduated college! Yeah, no kidding.  I was about to go into my 2nd year when COVID-19 came, which is also when I had my accident. And, if you read my previous post, that is also when I got serious about what I wanted to do with my life.  Well, I got so serious that I started leading teams while in my 3rd year itself! My father, being a victim of early-bossism himself, showed a little remorse and wanted me to work under guidance for a little more. But, being the kid that I still am, it was a dream too good to give up!  It was not too long before I started to understand my father's feelings and why he felt it was too early for me. Leading a team means that you always have to be careful, presentable, available and most difficult of all, serious while making decisions. This does not end here, and in addition, you always have to " know"  when your stakeholders have questions or when your team is struggling with some technology and ...

It is 2025 already, and I know that I am a little too late to the party. But I do not care since I want to do it for myself and this blog is never meant to be found! Hi, I am Anchit, I am 24 and I am almost a data scientist. This is the first time in years that I am writing something for myself! Even though I have spent the better part of my previous 5 years reading and learning about AI & Data Science concepts, I am not even close to becoming an expert. Hence the name, Almost a Data Scientist . But, recently, when my AI team (I lead AI at Joget) was recognised globally by reputed analysts, I finally gathered the courage and motivation to write.  I have always wanted to write. In fact, I loved to write. And no, I am not talking about the typical "completing homework" kind of writing. In fact, I have always been famous in my school for never maintaining a complete notebook. Back when I was in 8th grade, I started writing a novel story... which eventually remained inco...