Week 13, 2021
April 5, 2021 Categories: Weekly Notes
Work
This week I learned that as a data analyst/scientist, it is better to be doubtful and right than be confident and wrong. It saves a lot of time of other teams/employees when you don’t submit confident and wrong assignments forward. Performed some exploratory analysis along with asset monitoring and providing research support for writing business proposals. A busy week at
work.
Books
Practical Programming for Strength Training | Mark Rippertoe and Andy Baker This book got really interesting and useful this week. I am at about 130 pages out of 400. After introduction to the human anatomy, chemistry in the muscles and hormonal changes that come with weight training, the authors dived into types of exercises to train with. They also talk about number of reps and sets and the time gap between them. Before reading this book, I was heavily reliant on training individual muscle groups using sophisticated equipments in the gym. Now I know that only a few exercises, like Bench Press, Deadlift, Chin ups, Pull ups, Squats, Power Clean, are sufficient to build proper functional strength. Only that I should increase the intensity of those exercises as I go along my training. Looking forward to more wonderful reading. Deep Learning with PyTorch | Eli Stevens, Luca Antiga, and Thomas Viehman This week I read about 20 pages of this book. I am at page 133. I am making very slow progress with this book. The target I set for each week was 50 pages and ideally I should have been at page 200 by now. Despite the slow progress, I learned wonderful things in the 20 pages that I read. My reading was mostly about preparing tensors for different types of data, from Images, time series data, to text representation. I need some hands-on practice to cement all that knowledge.
Fitness
Gym: Spent just over 3 and half hours in strength training at the gym. I introduced bench press in my workout routine. It felt very effective. Swim: The gym that I go to opened the swimming pool for everyone. Luckily, there aren’t many people swimming at any time of the day. At least for now. I went for a swim once. Given that it had been over two years since I last stepped in a swimming pool, I was really bad at swimming. I couldn’t even cross one 25-yard lap without taking a break. This week I swam once. I have a steep learning curve ahead of me. Bike: A terrible week for biking. I barely touched 10 miles. And all the biking I did in this week was to and from the gym. With this abysmal performance, I have broken a wonderful biking streak. I better make the next week record breaking to make a great comeback.