Young and Bold

We only live every day once and are eternally grateful for the chance to be thinking our good thoughts, saying good words, eating good foods, and doing good things. (1) "Be happy and grateful" should be the primary goal Healthy diet, plenty of sports activity, and helping our friends and family are all part of our every day existence. But they should aid our pursuit of a happy and grateful life. We're only strong and effective (in doing those good things) when we are healthy and happy. Moderation and good balance is they key. (2) Stay calm and give others and yourself the benefit of doubt Things often work themselve out. So as long as we have a plan (and a plan B) there is no need to worry too much about the future. Give yourself and others some "margins for error" or some "breathing room". (3) Stay positive and do what you do best Success requires continual and deliberate practice, esepcially if we want to sustain that success and build on that succes...

OK, this blog is starting to get a bit philosophical. But I want to keep a record of all the new insights I have acquired. So here goes... ML/DL lesson for life too : Need a way to revise and move towards your goal (e.g. minimal loss or maximum accuracy). This means we need to find a process to assess how we're doing in life relative to our intended lifelong goals. This is a continuous process like the (- learning rate * gradient) update rule that keeps us moving towards our objective. Ask: 1. Am I wasting my time? (Am I adding value? Am I contributing towards my goals?) 2. Am I with the right people? (Are these people supporting me? Inspiring me? Teaching me?) 3. Am I trapped by fantasies, unrealistic dreams, ? (Can I continue to make progress?) You must have a stop-loss mechanism . If an activity is no longer serving you, if a friend is always giving you trouble, if you're stuck in a job you can't see yourself doing in 5 years time, you need to move on. Stop Trying in Vai...

I'm reading Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch  to learn machine learning / deep learning. And the authors inspired beginners like me to start a blog to write down things I've learned and things I've found useful. This is such a good idea. And so will mainly serve myself to record my journey in ML and DL as well as my passion in investment analysis and living a good life in general. If you happen to come across my blog, I hope you'll find useful bits of info that gives you something new to think about. Meanwhile, I'll just randomly share whatever comes to mind. There are 4 for today: (1) ML/DL: Use and Build on Others' Successful Models I guess this is like standing on the shoulders of giants. We should constantly study what works best (and what causes problems) and make it applicable to our needs. This is the idea of using pretrained models  and transfer learning . (2) Running: Know Your Limit, Take Care of Your Body and Listen To It Super slow ru...