Almost a Data Scientist

 I started this blog 1 year ago here because I wanted to be anonymous. Because I thought Blogger is now a dead platform and not a lot of people use it now. But do I still want it? I created an account on Substack hoping to find a way to notify my 3 readers. But the more I think about it, the more I feel that I am only making excuses to myself. The real reason is that somewhere somehow I want more people to know me, and help me refine my ideas.  Afterall, who does not like fame?   I think with the rise of AI, one common thing is that everyone has become a writter and I have started to see so many blogs! Even the most nonchalant poeple I know have started their own. Just Correlation or Causation? And, I have begun to wonder if me being famous would be more important than the kind of skills I prosess? Do skills I need to code without AI still matter? AI is genuinely good, and I can do so much stuff in so little time. Just last week, I shipped 25 major 1000 lines+ PRs al...

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...