What did I do last week ?

Well, almost everyone might have heard about the snowstorm and even felt it. I am writing this on Sunday when the snowstorm hit overnight. As one of my lab mate always says that somehow fun stuff seems to follow me around, it did find me today as well. Me and my neighbors had a false fire alarm at the apartment building due to some issues with a sensor and we all were downstairs at 8am alongside the fire department trying to figure things out.

Just when I thought this might be the only out of the blue thing today, me and my friends who are crazy enough to go for a walk around our apartment blocks decided to help out a random person stuck on the street. His car was stuck because of snow and he couldn’t get enough traction on his wheels to drive his car out. The four of us (three engineers and an architect) thought we are smart enough to figure something out within the next 10 minutes. To our surprise, we actually helped the person get his car out of the snow (three of us pushed the car and the architect who is experienced driver maneuvered the car out). The person thanked us all and left. What followed was, my friend who maneuvered the car forgot his phone in the vehicle. 

YEAH….that happened, and this friend of ours got really scared and we all tried calling his phone But, there was no reply and we thought we might have to track down the vehicle some or the other way. 

Well, just like a Bollywood film always has happy ending where things fall into place. I think life had similar plans for us because we saw the same car coming up to the traffic light around 300 meters away. We have never run so fast in our lives behind a vehicle (to make it difficult the car had snow on it read windshield and the driver couldn’t see us in the rearview mirror). But we managed to draw the driver’s attention, and found the phone under the driver’s seat. Attaching a picture below for more reference. 

A bit about research

I am currently exploring the idea of LLM convergence. Here we are trying to test the hypothesis that is that a specific number of iteration that an LLM doesn’t give any new information compared to any of the previous iterations. If yes, what is that iteration number ? Is it different for certain conditions of the prompt given to the LLM ? 

Interesting things this week

This week I want to talk about photography as my hobby, its been 11 years I have been using professional gear for photography now. However, I want to talk about how was I introduced to photography as a hobby? When I was around 5 years old and on Rakshabandhan that year, I was handed a film camera by my dad to click a picture of him and my aunt (dad’s sister). I still remember, it was the first time I ever held a camera in my hand and started clicking pictures with no regard to the film count. Within minutes the camera was grabbed from my hands and I was given a small talk on how a film camera works!!! 

Since then I always asked for the camera from my parents to click a few pictures whenever we traveled or attended any family events. This went on for a few years until my father gifting me my first ever professional camera (a Canon 200D DSLR in 2017) which I used for 5 years. I eventually moved to buying Sony a7c as my primary camera and Fujifilm XT3-II as my secondary camera over the next few years. Since then photography has been one of the activities I do almost everyday, attaching a picture that I took this week below.

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