Surya Prakash Jayanti

In August 2018, I embarked on a personal challenge: to run 100 kilometers each month. What started as a personal goal soon became a journey of resilience, determination, and consistency. Despite the unpredictable nature of life, I committed myself to this endeavor, pushing my limits and striving for excellence month after month. Since then, I have maintained a rigorous schedule, lacing up my shoes and hitting the pavement regardless of the weather, my schedule, or any obstacles that may arise. Running 100 kilometers per month equates to roughly 3-4 kilometers per day—a manageable yet demanding target that requires dedication and discipline. Admittedly, there have been months where completing the 100 kilometers seemed insurmountable. Life's challenges, unexpected events, and moments of fatigue tested my resolve. Even in those challenging months where I fell short of my target, I would make up for it in the subsequent months. In reflecting on the journey, I must acknowledge the trial...

Here are some interesting things I read and learned from the book "Artificial Intelligence for Thinking Humans" by Melanie Mitchelle. Solve intelligence and solve everything else with that.  Neural networks are more important than the atom bomb.   Writing rules is difficult, we embed commonsense which is hard to code.   A pile of narrow intelligence will never achieve general intelligence. Integration is key.   When a machine feels things, it's conscious.    Simulation of thinking and thinking are not the same.      We should be more worried about machine stupidity than Machine Intelligence,  Where machines are trusted with something they don't fully understand.    When we will have AGI? Take your answer double it,   Triple it, and quadruple it, that might be the answer.   We humans overestimate AI and underestimate our own knowledge.    AI labeled men standing in the kitchen as women, as t here were more im...

Life 3.0 is an interesting book about AI and its philosophies. Here are a few quotes that hit me. Technology is giving life the potential to flourish life like never before or to self-destruct. Hydrogen given enough time turns into people Hardware is the matter, software is the pattern. Matter doesn't matter. Intelligence doesn't require flesh, blood, and atoms. Interacting with people and social intelligence, unpredictable environment, creative. Boredom, vice, and need are kept at bay by work. If not everyone's job needs to generate money, then the sky is the limit to creativity. People, unpredictability, and creativity are what AI is bad at, for now, kids you may want to choose those professions. There are 3 kinds of problems: PHP: Pretty Hard Problem: conscious vs unconscious EHP: Even Harder problem: Individual subjective experience. RHP: A really hard problem. why anything conscious If it's NOT falsifiable, then it's unscientific.  Homo sentience vs homo sapien...

This book "Grit" by Angela Duckworth is a really interesting and engaging, that reiterates passion, perseverance, and Grit. Here are a few quotes that are really interesting to me. Our potential is one thing and what we do with is completely another.    Striver with 4 years of more experience rates equally as a Natural genius.  People are more biased about Natural genius than Striver.   Remember  Effort counts twice.   Talent X Effort = skill. Skill X Effort = Achievement Time and energy are limited, you decide what to do by deciding what not to do.   The bigger the surface area(investments, commitments, projects) more stress you have.   Green Beret (US military force) Motto is Improvise, adapt , overcome .   Grit consists of interest, practice, purpose, and hope.     Passion follows three stages: initial discovery, a long period of development, and then life-long deepening.     One study has shown that children find sc...