Week 14, 2021
April 12, 2021 Categories: Weekly Notes
Work
Sunverge is slowly and safely opening its SF office to employees. This week I went into the office first 3 days of the week. I ended up getting more ## work done but also more tired at the end of the day than when I am working from home. I guess I got used to working from home. I hope I adapt fast to working from office everyday. Spent some time of the week helping the customer support team with troubleshooting. Other time I was either working with the sales staff with proposals or revisiting already signed customer deliverables.
Books
Practical Programming for Strength Training | Mark Rippertoe and Andy Baker At page 154 out of 400 pages. Didn’t get to read as much this week. Just over an hour of reading split between 2 weekdays. The book is now going deeper into each of the training phases. I am reading about novice trainees. I belong to this category. It feels wonderful to read about stuff and go to the gym and execute on it. Deep Learning with PyTorch | Eli Stevens, Luca Antiga, and Thomas Viehman At page 162 out of 500 pages. Read only about 30 pages of this book. Based on my 50 pages/week target, I should have been at page 250. 90 pages short of target meaning 2 weeks behind schedule. Anyway, the book is getting interesting and intense at the same time. The last 30 pages I read talked about splitting the data into training and validation sets. It also introduced deep learning related jargons like Epochs, Hyper-parameters, Parameters, Optimizers, Learning rate etc. The book is structured such that it starts with assuming that the reader has only the basic understanding of algebra and then builds everything on top of it. I absolutely love that structure. I am sure I’ll have to revisit these chapters to practice so that I can actually use it to solve problems but for now it is beautifully building my knowledge of deep learning and PyTorch’s place in it.
Fitness
The week was not ideal ## fitness-wise. If only I had more than 24 hours in a day to hit all my targets. Gym: This week I got a chance to only spend one session each for lower and upper body. Thanks to the exercises, routines, and techniques taught in the book that I am reading that my body was able to maximize the effects from each workout session. Swimming: I went for a swim just once this week. However, I spent a lot more time in the pool as compared to last week. And when I say more time, I don’t mean waiting at the end of the pool length for rest. I swam a total distance of 350 yards which is 0.3km or 0.2 miles. It is shamefully low. But given that I am a beginner in the pool area, I’ll let it slide. Bike: I am definitely not a beginner on the bike track but I only rode 8 miles on my beautiful road bike. That’s just hurtful performance. Hope the next week is much better than the last 2 weeks.