The day I met my Nemesis - The Math behind Machine learning
There I was. Sipping my coffee and enjoying a TV series peacefully. When I heard it. I pretended to not hear anything and went back to doodling on my notebook. But then I heard it again. The most annoying voices of my roommates shouting from the other room, "Results are up". I got up and sighed, "It's just a mid-term. What's the big deal". Annoyed, I opened up the results and I felt the wind wooshing through the screen like a dramatic scene in an Anime. 25%. That's it, I got the only 1/4th of the right answers. How is that possible. Were the questions that difficult?. I stared at my friends, I realized that I was the only one with the lowest marks. A million thoughts rushed to my head. Maybe I am not fit for ML. Maybe I should just stick with Software engineering. Big deal! Maybe I was never good enough at Math. Through all those voices, one big voice bore existence. I was looking into my subconscious state like the scene where Naruto talks to the nine ...