A year back, just to cope up with official pressure (?) on up-skilling, I took up Azure Fundamentals course from Microsoft and as a natural sequel, I also took up Azure AI Fundamentals. Amongst an array of courses offered by MS why I did choose AI ?
Mainly because I felt AI could alone capture my imagination - the faculty that kept me going until now in spite of growing old - year after year.
Yep.. without having a clue on what AI is capable of, I just picked up a single criteria for choosing to get into it - it sounded creative from my layman's view.
Well, as I look back the past 1 year, I was taking up one course after other from a reputed university (Coursera - who has a tie up with Stanford University) where I learnt pretty much of conceptual knowledge during past 7- 8 months continually. after the MS AI fundamentals course. Every single concept of AI/M I learnt left only with awe and admiration.
Today as I look at this brief journey that I have completed so far, I find myself lot more humble with my learning than feeling "fullness" of what I learnt. May be because, i had a very scientific approach in my learning ? Lemme explain...
As I was understanding the concepts of AI from the soft-spoken and pleasant-faced Andrew.NG - an expert at Coursera, I was also exploring specific nuances at more detail with the help of Chat GPT and other popular models, I was also trying my hands with Python with a feverish aim to "understand" the codes if not write them myself, I was taking assistance from an overseas nephew who is an AI Engineer and also had the patience to educate me on my silly doubt. Above all, I had the guts to watch Andrej Karpathy's you tube videos which literally made my jaws wide open. I did not understand every thing he spoke about, but I was drawn helplessly towards his "Zero to Hero" series which showed me the peak of what I am trying to attempt with my baby steps.
May be this kind of varied approach of learning made the entire experience so far quite a joy and instilling me a craving to march further and farther.... and when the time came to take some decisive steps towards my dreams, I am helplessly drawn back to blogging.
Yes around 17-18 years back when I first started my blogging experience with a senior cousin he rightfully titled it as "Jolly Musings" and then I launched this very blog for myself by end of 2008 to continue my tantrums about the existence - so I titled it appropriately as "AGANDAM" - which in Tamil means vastness.
I was dishing out random thoughts, writing poems, wrote film reviews, giving my pearls of wisdom on little things about life but as I see those posts now, I can see it was rudderless. It contained lot of energy and sparks of intelligence, but it was not going any where tangible. Well, Sort of stopped writing 3 years back but then I got reminded today to re-start my blogging - to share my delight on my AI learning, shout out my bliss moments and move towards next plane of my "new" learning endeavour.
Here I am writing this at 1.45 AM on ShivRathri (a day before New moon day) which is meant to be the darkest night of entire month. Yes...Let the blog restart like a spark in this dark night and glow bigger and bigger with sure-footed march ahead !!
I am re-christened the name of the blog as "AI alias Agandam" which is just an extension of what I used to brag about my erstwhile name "Agandam". Well, scope is going to be narrowed down now - neigh - rather going to be more focussed
Krishnaarpanam - As always
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