Monday Jan 27, 2020

Dear “me after 5 years”,

Today, I tried to implement agile way of software development using online tools like JIRA, Git, Circle CI, Heroku. My first step was to call a REST api from an Angular client and allow users to mark favorite photos to create a moment. Using VS code, I installed angular cli & dotnet core framework. I spent a couple of hours to fix the CORS error; I referred the code here and resolved the same.

I have to submit three assignments in the week-2 of Machine Learning in Coursera. I am a very big fan of Andrew_Ng and started following Rachel Thomas and Jeremy Howard. I am learning new concepts in Machine Learning and also finding time to build an app. Planning to dockerize the micro services and deploy it in my local Kubernetes. In Machine learning, I understood the concept of feature scaling using mean normalization. In the review test there is a question to find out the normalized form of x(i, j) I was getting confused with ‘i’ and ‘j’ as former stands for rows(input) and later is column(feature)

I need to return to Kaggle competitions but can’t find enough time, seems there are lot of excitement and fun. I have completed micro courses in Python and Intro to Machine Learning. As there are lot of materials around machine learning sometime getting diverted. I decided to focus on the Coursera and completed the certification after week 11 will resume Kaggle. I have submitted Kaggle’s Titanic Machine Learning Competion and my current leader board ranking is 6813. I will find time to improvise this in the first quarter. Also I am half way through the Google Crash Course but put on hold as its kind of diversion now.

I am trying to prepare myself to learn 6 hours a day, but unable to make it. I know I need to organize myself and pick one topic evolve from it. As I see lot of technology growth, I fear that I will be left behind if I don’t find space with it. I dream of a day where I just code and checkin to git, its get deployed to Heroku via Circle CI. Today I have a couple of errors and one dream, hope I could get it done by end of this week.

Yours Sincerely,

Rajesh Radhakrishnan