Blogging Again

It's a blog, ain't it?

It's been a good 2 years since I was last actively posting. So, here's a personal blog of things that have been going around with my life and with this blog, and where it's headed

I've been thinking about the direction I want to take with this blog. But first, a little bit of history

Why did I create this blog?

The motive was to teach along as I learnt. Often, the experts of the field forget the small challenges they faced when they were new to the field. So my idea was to target this and provide a beginner's perspective to the topics I was learning. This didn't work out for me because teaching any particular topic would require me to research further into that particular topic and this would take a lot of time. Time that I could invest in better moving forward in the path of learning ML. I couldn't just write what I learnt because then it wouldn't be any different from notes. So, I stopped.

Eventually, after completing many courses, making projects, and interning with a few companies, I realized just how subjective these fields could be. Data is never as clean as the examples they use to teach, and therefore, there are many different ways you could work with the same data. So, looking back now, I think I did the right thing by stopping to write, and focusing on learning.


So why start now?

Because I know more than I used to. And importantly, because I got time, and I want to. I want to put some content out there. Regardless of who it helps or doesn't. I might still learn and teach at the same time. I might just post answers to the most frequently asked questions I get. 

I plan on getting an article per week, for as long as it's sustainable. Maybe take a few breaks during exams. But how it turns out, only time will tell.

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