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10 Mistakes Every Marathoner Makes
From Training to Finish Line: What Not to Do Slowed down for a picture I’ll never forget my first marathon. The first ones are really in everyone’s memories, I feel. The weather was perfect in Namma Bengaluru, the crowd was buzzing, race vibes everywhere around, and I thought I had it all figured out. I blasted off the… — read more
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Prompt Engineering Recap Notes
From Words to Wonders, the hidden craft of designing prompts that make AI think smarter Source: Google Images Prompt Engineering — Recall Notes Prompt = The input or instruction you give a generative model to guide its output. A good prompt typically includes: instruction, context, input data, and output indicators. Prompt engineering = Designing effective prompts to get optimal, logical,… — read more
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Career Dilemma
Crossroads in life Source: Google Images I’m someone born in the 90s who was subconsciously manipulated to become a so-called “Software Engineer” just because someone in the family & the neighbourhood was earning in lakhs monthly, and enjoying their frequent trips to the US. During my school days, I didn’t even know what it meant to become… — read more
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Fantasy world of AI & LLMs
Introduction to concepts, their applications & tools Generative AI makes new content using the data it was trained on. Discriminative AI analyses and predicts, while Generative AI creates. It uses models like GANs, VAEs, and Transformers to mimic creativity. GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) create new data by having a generator make content and a discriminator check… — read more
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Goodbye Mac, Hello Windows
The Practical Reasons I Returned to the Pavilion Once upon a time, I believed the glowing Apple logo was my ticket to creative nirvana. For years, I swore by my MacBook — sleek, shiny, and supposedly the “perfect” machine. But somewhere between endless dongles, rising costs, and a creeping sense of disconnection, I started to miss something simpler.… — read more
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Living in recursion
What OCD Really Feels Like Beyond the Stereotypes Source: Google Images For the longest time, I thought I was just being extra careful or executing perfection. Careful about important things in my day-to-day life — checking if the door was locked again, re-reading a text three times before hitting send, biting nails obsessively unknowingly during important or interesting… — read more
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If I Had to Start Running Again From Scratch
Here’s exactly what I’d do to get back on track Photo by author The first time I decided to “get back into running,” either after an injury or while switching hobbies, I laced up my shoes, hit the pavement, and tried to run like I did earlier with the ego-engraved thinking — I can get back easily, I’ve completed… — read more
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4 am is your best friend
Lessons beyond Fitness, Discipline Over Desire Some people see long runs as a punishment — sweat, effort, pain. For me, those are the ones that give me my self-validation of what I am capable of. Where can I draw a line before going all out? That magic number is what I am looking for. This way, it also… — read more
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Harsh Truths I Learnt About Work
The Hard Way I used to believe that loyalty at work always paid off. So I stayed late evening. Stayed awake during the production releases. Obsessively checked analytics & monitored logs. Popped headache pills after hours of staring at the data. Skipped weekends, especially during my early years in my career, and said yes when I… — read more
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The Little Tricks That Make Exercise Stick
Choose what works for you! A minimum distance covering every week to grade yourself. 2. Reward yourself for an everyday streak. E.g.: 15-day streak. 3. Set up your workout clothes for the next day the previous night itself. 4. A little friendly challenge — same target, same time frame. Progress feels easier with company. 5. Accountability partner who… — read more
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