3rd Year, Conundrum & Neural Ordinary Differential Equations David Bowie (for those too tired to click the links) David Bowie disappeared from music (to indulge in other creative avenues) for nearly a decade before returning with The Next Day , everyone thought it was the end but he had Blackstar scheduled for his 69th birthday. Who would have thought that would become the permanent end of his legacy? I admire him far too much to initiate that release schedule, so here's a post after only 1 year of disappearance, not ten. Somewhere between entering in second year, juggling different technical fields and trying to understand what exactly I'm doing with my life, writing quietly dissolved into the background (or did it ?). But unlike vanishing gradients, this disappearance never fully converged; somewhere underneath all the noise, the loss was still propagating. Bowie might not have had the opportunity to properly bid farewell to his listeners, but I apparently have ...
"April came in like a lion, and left like a lamb" I was supposed to write this over thirty days—I did it in three. Not because I was efficient, but because I wasn't. This isn't about the three. It's about the other twenty-seven (and other unaccounted fourteen days). So here goes nothing—and maybe everything Colors of holi faded away with sun overworking his hours, April came in with a gentle slide of quizzes and schedules(nothing to worry about). Like a lion creeping behind his prey, before making a move; these quizzes were thoughtfully lined up - to mask the real predator, down the road: End Semester Exams ! But in classical engineering fashion, I kept studying at bay and more important things - like Valorant and Badminton - had my attention, while the lion kept closing in. An ignorant prey always stays oblivious to his predators presence, till the time it finally pounces and makes it his meal. This may have something to do with my exam schedule which g...