Perpetual Learning Machine: musings of a lifetime learner

I am a chronic perfectionist. For those that know perfectionists, one of the many things that we do is never begin things. It seems counter-intuitive (if something has to be perfect, shouldn’t you begin as soon as possible? ) but in my mind, as soon as I begin something, it begins to lose it’s potential…

For this blog post I want to focus on the psychological aspects of choosing this field. I’ve been in a bit of a mental slum lately, so I started watching some psychology videos to try and change my frame of mind. I have found that this channel helped me a lot! Long story short, the…

I’ve been trying recently to get into the habit of taking notes while I learn about new concepts/technologies/languages, and thought that it might be interesting to share some of my journey and thoughts along the way. Before I begin, I must warn the reader that my mistakes are sometimes very dumb but that is the…

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe – Carl sagan Whenever I begin learning a new concept in technology, I think about this Carl Sagan quote. While doing research about machine learning/reinforcement learning, I quickly fell down a rabbit hole. What is DQN? CNN? a gym…

At the moment of this blog post being created, I have not touched anything about the UI of this website. I know that I currently have the mindset of “You’re not very good with aesthetic things. You never were very good at visual arts”. I also know that this is mainly because I know —…

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