It used to be that when we caught TV shows, we would all watch them at the same time, some prime time soap episode that would become the talk of the week if it was awesome. Then came demand TV and streaming and now we all watch whatever whenever but have nothing in common to chat about anymore as everyone’s watching something different. In my years of managing multi-country teams, one oddity of...
The Explore-Exploit Dilemma — Lambda in ML and in Life
In machine learning, there is a concept of explore vs exploit. How often do you explore versus exploit? For example, when the algorithm is doing its supervised learning, you need to know how often to actually utilize the data that you have to get the right result. Let’s say you are trying to classify animals. You collect data, like how many legs they have, whether they produce milk, or whether...
You live through the 95% of your life for the other 5%
In life and at work, 95% of the time, even if you are working on research, or operations, or software engineering, are common things you do to keep at your work. Build this widget, solve that business requirement, make this odd unclear and uncertain idea a reality. Whether it is an innovative solution, or just thinking differently to solve a day-to-day problem, these are but your 95%. Then once...
