Notes on chasing the frontier in the digital realm. Warning: might contain sci-fi tangents.
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft (Tasks Management Services). Building agents in Teams for task management. Processing PBs of User logs using spark for Business metrics. Built REST APIs, messaging systems to enhance shared task lists across distributed instances, using ASP.NET.
Am learning about VLMs, contributing to HuggingFace LeRobot. Learning robotics.
Was a hobbyist Game developer, huge fan of single player experiences. Experienced in Unity3D. Dabbled in Artificial neural networks and Deep Reinforcement Learning. Used Pytorch, Unity ml-agents.
Made Augmented Reality apps using ArCore in Unity. Deeply interested in Mixed Reality, bullish on its ability to replace the smartphone.
Bullish and interested in projects on
- Learning based approaches for automation. Robotics changing the home
- Automating drudgery and mundane workflows
- Information rich, 3D virtual simulation of the world. I love games
- tackling real-time synchronous internet
- Creator Economy, power to the masses!
Books:
- Profiles of the Future
- Creative selection
- The Dream Machine
- Dune
- Inside the Googleplex
- The Things We Make
- Competing Against Luck
Games:
- Age of Empires II
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Half Life 2
- Undertale
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Doom Eternal
- Deathloop
- Cyberpunk 2077
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Elden Ring
Media
- Three body problem
- The paper
- Mad Max Fury Road
- Better Call Saul
- Attack On Titan
- Parasite
- Dwarkesh Patel ...