When the search of destination leads to the path itself and you realise that the destination is completely different from what you imagined

Quotes

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
Aitken Roshi

कभी तकरार
कभी इन्तिज़ार
कभी ऐतेबार

किसीसे शिकायत
किसीसे आशिएँ

और कूदसे ?

रोका क्यों जब बढ़ना चाहा
और जब फिर रुकने को दिल चाहा, तो रह चुनने की समझ दी 

State of head

named entity recognition, entity resolution, disambiguation, query expansion, spell checker, topic area, taxonomy, matrix calculation, semantic tagging, enrichment

Strange but true

Journey of life can hard on those of us who travel alone.
--Poirot

Notes - Lean Architecture

Great design is finding just the right solution that let's you have your cake and eat it too, but competent design is realising when the business just won't allow such magic, owning up to that realisation, and making hard decisions based on the consequences of that realisation.

This is probably the most difficult thing to do if you are a perfectionist and it takes a toll to continuously keep doing this. Together with this should also go a warning that know what is your compromise limit.

Notes - Lean Architecture

A culture of stopping or slowing down to get the quality right the first time to enhance productivity in the long run

"Software has no equivalent in laws of physics" this doesn't sound right....

Roots and wings

it is a name of a book... about women engineers in India. And the title is so right.

current mind map

relevancy, ML for learning to rank, share data pipeline, streaming data updates, shared code vs shared infra vs shared data, cost and team organisation, entity recognition, courage & decline, and writing again

after ages

after ages back on dance floor... music and rhythm and beats and expression and emotion and so much more... yes it was simple and easy but to feel it coming back it has been a pleasure... don't forget this feeling!

social media & opinion

I tend to go on and off social media and I have never given it much thought why... I suspect there is a reason, must be.
Last couple of days I have randomly scrolling media (social and otherwise)... and something struck me, everyone has an opinion and everyone wants to say something talk about something. I always thought to have an opinion you have to be well read, understand the subject matter, understand the audience, understand situation and even understand opposing point of views. Opinion was expressing yourself in context of what you know about and be ready to change it as more information comes your way. But it isn't the case anymore it seems everyone "wants" to have a opinion as soon as the first piece of information comes our way. The word opinion has become almost same as random thought with no or almost no knowledge.

Opinion, leadership and confidence were meant to have depth... and come from a genuine place of knowledge.
The world could do with little less opinion and a lot more living by example.

random thought

To discover oneself is as important as anything else in life and so is to accept oneself. 

फिर से वक्त भरना है,
उन पतली गलियों से गुज़रना है,
कुछ टूटी आदतें जोड़नी हैं,
फिर से नई धुन गुगु गुनानी है,
कुछ नए सवाल सुलझाने है,
कुछ पुराने खयाल भुलाने है,
फिर से वक्त भारना है।