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Sunday, January 22, 2023

The Music Teacher


One night I was out with my own thoughts.

I walked past posh clubs to reach where I got to be

A local bar where I was comfortable holding a beer alone

I was swaying to music and the honesty the place held


Someone later came and sat next to me

She was swaying to music like she really gets it.

I was intrigued and I was eager to talk more

I made an excuse and that was the spark that lit the fire for the night.


We spoke for hours and we spoke passionately

We spoke as if we knew each other for years

We spoke as friends who were long lost.

We spoke our heart out as if only us can understand us.


We talked about our unpleasant upbringing

And how the trauma it inflicted upon us, harmed us.

How our fathers were not kind to us

How we had to scrape the years of abuse to be where we are.


We talked about power of therapy

We talked about our privileges 

We talked about inhuman medical insurance that held people hostage

We talked about how your math wizard brain can take you only so far.


We laughed on simplicity of life and how we fuck it.

She shared her fears and I shared mine

She listened more... I talked more,,,

The night came to and end.. We hugged and parted ways.


Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Max Tegmark : Let's tackle Artificial General Intelligence.

Max talks about AGI, is this world a simulation and many interesting topics. I had a ball listening to it and I look forward to reading Max's book "Our Mathematical Universe" soon.


Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Could this video motivate me to go back to Gym.. Check with me next week..






So here are the results:-

11/27/2018 : I went for a quick 30 min workout to gym. Just did treadmill because for me breaking the habit was the biggest challenge today. It felt good.

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Why America is politically correct?

This was just a thought in my head and I was like.. "Let's see what the internet thinks about this?" and I came across a very promising results .

Google Search Results



When you see that you are no alone thinking this manner, it does give some relief that it is a common thought and that to question it is important instead of following it blindly.

I have some examples (Dunkin Donut Lady etc) which I would like to talk about in detail here but keeping it as placeholder for now due to my other priorities. I am leaving you with this thought so that we can have a far deeper conversation when we both come back with little bit more time and clear thoughts.

Best
Amit

Friday, August 5, 2016

Quality of Life in Software Engineering World

What does it mean to have a Quality of Life (QoL) for a Software Developer?

Until now, I say I would say.. be able to balance work and personal life.. be able to have a free weekend with family and friends is what would constitute QoL. Well, I have learnt some lessons today.

I am working on 4 node cluster which I need to work through deployment process for all of them. Means.. run the same bunch of scripts through all 4 nodes. In my old world, I would have done it like grandfather style by going to each terminal one by one and then executing them. I can say.. a ten step would effectively be 40 steps. You will be spending N *  # of Steps times the amount of time doing the same thing.

Today I discovered CSSH : Cluster Administration Tool. As usual when I first came across it, I tried and it didn't work. My first thought was, "Will get back to you later". Then, I realized that I need to finish this task before I move on to others and that made me go look back the installation steps again. I found few Perl packages where missing. I was again feeling annoyed but chugged along to get them all install one by one. When I finally got it all done, I wasn't feeling superbly great. Then I played with it for a while and suddenly realized that the tool is a great comfort and big time saver when it comes to doing the kind of task I am doing right now. My whole processing took less than 30 mins and I already feel very comfortable using it. I don't think I can go back the old model unless I am forced to.

I also learnt that even though I have to spent some time to get the QoL tool setup, this is a big saving in future. Maybe looking at it more small cost for big saving is the way to look at it. This saving of time can be employed to other task and make myself more efficient.

Enough about it now.

Bye now.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

How can I say something silly?

Yesterday at dinner time, myself and my parents where having dinner and that's when a thought came to me that I knew would make my mom smile. My mind said.. No you cannot talk silly stuff. My other mind said.. Well, if its going to bring a smile to my mom's face.. why not. I looked at her having dinner in quietude and said to myself that I am not going to lose this moment of happiness and blurted out. Both my mom and dad laughed out loud. I enjoyed it too and the dinner became much more delicious and lively.

Pay attention to mind.. it plays with you even when you have no idea. It is not you.. its someone else who is there making you do stuff your other self may not wish to do. Don't follow your thoughts blindly because it could be the other mind speaking to you at the moment :).

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Wrote on 23rd Nov 2013

Repeated attempts to Forget you But I have not succeeded For I keep coming back to you It is in you where I feel comfort Often I make a resolution I chain my mind not to think of you I sometimes punish it by clinching my fist But It is in freedom, It is in your thoughts That I feel joy, That I desire to live

Sunday, November 17, 2013

What is Success?

SUCCESS

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child a garden patch or redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


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"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." Facebook feed.