Mass content engaged zombies

Time wasters / Dopamine boosters

• Inescapable Internet / Constant Content Engagement / Content amplification Systems
• Inescapable Youtube / Whatsapp / Facebook / Telegram / Instagram / TV
• Content for all age group / genders
• Crave for new content every day - Programmed by Constant Usage
• End up consuming more unwanted content and less quality content

What do we think/feel is right?

• Slim body
• Acne free skin
• Attention seeking machines

Results of Social media 

• Depression / Anxiety
• Deep Dive Engagement 
• Addiction

Loss of Personality

• Manipulative / Biased / Personalized targeted ads
• Exploit human tendencies of feedback / Sensitized to bias 
• Top 10 Happiest Countries <> Top 10 Countries spending time in Social Media

Social Media can be an addiction, It can make you feel lonely. We are not monitored for mental health. Talk more, Walk more. Quit Social Media!!!!

Happiness is not spending time on Social Media or watching others' Lives

mere-exposure effect

• The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. In social psychology, this effect is sometimes called the familiarity principle.
• The fact that you liked a song because of mere exposure to it, is something that products all over the world is trying to leverage
• Higher the frequency of the usage -> higher the familiarity -> higher the likeness of the product -> higher the ‘share of mind’ of the user -> higher the ‘share of wallet’!

Ref - Link

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— Siva (@sivaram2k10) May 4, 2023

Agile = Clarity = Experience = Experiments

Basics

• Can you develop something perfect in 4 weeks?
• What determines your estimates ?
• How well you know things you are doing ?

Depth of learning comes from

• How to use / How it works
• What are the pros and cons
• What are other alternative approaches
• Know-how, How a Tool/Language works
• Experiments and lessons learned from implementation

Good estimations come with experience and clarity

• Clarity comes from awareness and connecting different learning
• The ability to learn a new topic and find the relative comparison or connecting dots is key

Being agile is not about pressure and deadlines, It's more about clarity, prioritizing over priorities on what to learn, focus and continuous experimentation, reuse your experience to build basics right.

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Retrospect / Connect your work

To understand how much Am I aligned in my current role/competency. A few questions :)

• Projects - Clarity towards how it aligns with product/ customer /org needs
• New ideas/initiatives - Did I pitch / experiment / got support/time to work on it
• Conversations - Task focused conversation vs personal learning discussions with mentors 
• Recognize situations when you were struck what I reflect upon it, Ask for help / Support / Learning outcome?
• How do I balance/align towards increased workload/urgency / Am I able to manage WLB / learning?
• What work I do not feel comfortable doing
• What recent work I like/feel happy about from tech skills/outcome

What got you here, won't get you there

Every next level needs the next version of you

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Elon Buys Twitter

• He is visionary, Twitter will transform into a competitive challenger for social media platforms
• Twitter spaces would evolve into a more collaborative platform
• The Twitter edit option will become a reality :)
• More than Twitter, Facebook would be worried about this deal :)
• This may leave some users worried with constant experiments but Twitter may evolve into something more engaging/collaborative platform
• Twitter shareholders would see more returns in the coming months as Elon himself is a brand :)

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Roles vs Contributions vs Experience vs Collaboration

Sometimes you need titles to influence/evangelize a decision
Selling bottom-up has lot more challenges, You have to convince every level
Ideals will get transformed based on the buyer's mindset
In many cases, startup is the best way if you truly believe in your ideas
Learning needs time, Expertise needs a lot of experiments, Selling needs MVPs and Influencing needs collaboration and connections
Balancing code vs ideas vs prototypes vs unblocking needs different mindsets and multiple learning goals
Every Level can influence up to +2 levels and beyond that, it's really tough :)

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Scrutinize, Prioritize, Focus

Invisible Trap of Time wasters

• Inescapable Internet / Constant Content Engagement / Content amplification Systems
• Inescapable Youtube / Whatsapp / Facebook / Telegram / Instagram / TV
• Content for all age group / genders
• Crave for new content every day - Programmed by Constant Usage
• End up consuming more unwanted content and less quality content

Reality

• We have limited time
• Picking the right items to focus
• Deep Dive Engagement 
• Iterations of Learning
• Focus, Build your perspectives

Think Again

• Employed vs Employable both are different
• Expertise vs Familiarity both are different
• Awareness vs Opinion is different

When you recognize you will know you need to spend time on collecting more experience/experiments not on watching things. Be aware/alert and change your habits/focus/priorities. Mass thinking machines or Mass content engaged zombies, Whar are we?

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Vision Object Counting - Line based counting

These two ideas and the key technique 

• Region / Line-based counting
• This is much easier to avoid duplicates
• Count items crossing the line
• Eliminate duplicate dedication by centroid tracking. The movement of the center point of the image. 
• Less than the midpoint, After the midpoint
• Sample every second to avoid duplicate
• The crux is the field of view and how you track / vertical or horizontal line for the need / How we remove duplicates crossing the line, tracking that region to avoid duplicates
• If tracking is enabled, Centroid > midpoint track
• Centroid < midpoint - new item arrived, Enable Tracking

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AWS Lambda Day #1

Basic example getting started with AWS lambda.

Goto AWS Lambda functions

In AWS Lambda console

Pick from Template of Examples

Select the Test Code

Demo Test Results

This is a basic example. Need to put few more posts with Vision Examples!!!

Deploying FastAPI on AWS as a lambda container image

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MediaPiple - Explored

Many interesting examples have been posted in mediapipe. Google Vision library for many vision tasks.

Bookmarking python examples link

• Mediapipe Objectron provides pre-trained models for shoe, chair, cup and camera
• Mediapipe pose estimation
• MediaPipe Face Detection Solution API
• mediapipe_face_mesh - Face Landmarks

Example Code 

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Guide / Mentor / Manager - Discussions, Deliverables, Alignment, Vision

Taking inspiration from link

Adding my perspectives/answers for the questions

1. First question is always: “What do you think?”

• Get all perspectives

2. Frequently called upon to be coach, sounding board, or devil’s advocate.

• Data-Driven Decisions

3. Has shipped code with different development processes.

• Waterfall
• Weekly Sprint
• 3 Week Sprint
• 3 Month Cycle
• Customer-focused releases

4. Has examples of things that have failed but they’ll try again.

• Data Issues
• Lack of coordination between Teams

5. Has strong opinions but is willing to change their mind.

• Data Driven
• Referenced Answers not opinions
• Tried opinions vs Read Opinions

6. Unblocks all issues (not just engineering ones).

• Need to be a Review / Idea provider
• Ask first principles deep questions

7. Regularly identifies and destroys time wasters.

• Pick priority items from a list of priorities

8. Says things like “This will take three weeks, but if we make this change we can test in two days.”

• In consulting its all hacking work, So yes time vs delivery is a key

9. Lets the customer own the problem but take ownership of the solution.

• Think of a long term cascade effect not a short term fix

10. Takes all of the blame and none of the credit.

• Failure teaches more, It's ok to fail

11. Available during a crisis.

• Consistent connect to explore / discuss options

12. Can dive deep into a few things per quarter.

• Build on your core interests and deliver quality ideas/patents

13. Can try solutions to problems they’ve never encountered before.

• Many times had to stretch its ok to try new avenues

From Link 

Liked this key definition

• Process: What occurs when?
• People: Who’s involved and how are they motivated?
• Technology: What will we use to get there?

Career = Sum of Multiple Perspectives

• Career as Dev - Managing XBOX supply Chain DB. 1TB database 15 years back. Building Warranty Engine, Touchpoint integration
• Support - Application Support Analyst for Nestle handling 100+ Enterprise Apps
• Testing/performance - Load Testing for Holiday Season, API Testing, DB Blocking / Perf Tuning
• Data Science - Recommendations, Feature Lake, Vision, Retail, Multiple MVP
• Domains - Retail, Ecom, SupplyChain

Build your portfolio across multiple perspectives. Taking knowledge vs Field knowledge vs Willing to deep dive and solve all are different skills :)

I didn't build a career with Tools knowledge :)

Be Curious, Unlearn, Relearn and Be open to keep yourself learning new things. Be better everyday :)

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