“I looked at the screen,” he recalls. “And I’m like, ‘Oh, he can’t

7 min readDec 3, 2020

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Chaitanya, the bull had a majestic look with piercing eyes that had a lining of dark black as if someone had applied kaajal (kohl) on them. All three were creamy-white in colour with the trademark folds of skin on the neck and stood out against the green landscape.

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Thus, it’s clear that getting plenty of sleep is incredibly important. If you aren’t prioritizing it right now, set a goal to get to bed a little earlier. You might find that an extra hour of sleep each night is exactly what you need to feel your best.

I believe in editing one’s work. Some would tell you that quantity is more important, especially if you’re writing a quick story on Medium or a blog post for your website. They say that editing isn’t necessary.

“A well-designed life is a life that is generative — it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there is always the possibility of surprise. You get out of it more than you put in. There is a lot more than “lather, rinse, repeat” in a well-designed life.”

The current model with the anomaly score calculation works pretty well for catching anomalies lasting a long time (Figure 2). But, by design, potentially anomalous events that last less than three hours are not communicated to clients.

The good news is that brick and mortar and online retailers are getting better and better at weeding out sub-par tech products. They finally figured out that there’s little reason to carry a $5 wired headphone when a $9.99 Bluetooth one available.

Before I go further into my thought process of modeling, let me clarify the challenges associated with this project. These challenges are considered as the anomaly detection model that should work well with any arbitrary time series generated by metrics chosen by clients.

Figure 2. Example plot representing the reported anomalies by the current model (red shaded areas) and missing an anomaly which lasted less than 3 hours ( red circled one, FN = false negative)

Write down each tip on a lined note pad. Compare your writing with your list. Once you’ve done this a few times, your writing will improve as will your editing skills. You’ll no longer need your checklist.

I used to work under a very academic tech lead. When he wasn’t re-writing features that had been done for days or weeks to make them more perfect — from a code and file organization perspective — he was reading blog posts about design patterns and how things should be in your codebase.

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In this context, I will call these short-term anomalies false negatives (about which the clients are not notified). However, these short-term anomalies could still cause significant financial losses for the business, and could also affect user experience and brand credibility. Therefore, Lazy Lantern was interested in finding ways to reduce these false negatives and for new ways of gaining insights about how the current model could be improved.

This is the one I’m really trying to focus on right now. Some nights, I sleep great and wake up feeling well rested. Other nights, I tend to cut my sleep short so that I can get an extra few hours of work in.

His mindset had become mine and I was paralyzed by decisions that had little-to-no real world consequence and made no difference to the people paying our company lots of money.

One type of model should fit various types of time series with different characteristics such as trends and seasonalities. One type of model means the time series model with a fixed set of parameters. Although a separate model is trained using the past activity of one particular time series from each chosen metric of a website/mobile application, the model parameters can not be tuned for the trend or seasonalities of the time series. Even for one website, there are several metrics to be monitored which each has unique characteristics, so it is not efficient if the model has to be customized every time it is trained.

“All of us have access to a higher form of intelligence, one that can allow us to see more of the world, to anticipate trends, to respond with speed and accuracy to any circumstance. This intelligence is cultivated by deeply immersing ourselves in a field of study and staying true to our inclinations, no matter how unconventional our approach might seem to others.
Not long after, I was building a single sign on feature for our enterprise clients and I started waffling back and forth about the “best” way to write a very small function and where that should live. It was probably 5 lines, max.
It had been three months since the date we were supposed to ship the first version of our app and we still didn’t have anything out. While the other members our of team were busy building and shipping features for v1, he was writing and rewriting, futzing with the file structure, and trying to get everything to be perfect. Eventually our CTO got wind of this as week after week would pass and the app still wasn’t out.“If we went to one side of the field, they went to the other; we had not seen cows behaving like this in India,” said Pratibha. The cows would wait until dark and then approach the feeding area. It took weeks for the realization to dawn on them that their new owners had no intention to hurt them. “The only things they have got from humans in this part of the world are pain and suffering,” observed Abhinav. “The dehorning, the branding, the forcible milking, the slaughter — it is hardly surprising that the cows here find it hard to develop trust,” he said.Soon, Abhinav and Pratibha began posting videos and documenting their experiences on the Facebook page of Texas Gaushala which was eagerly followed by fans who wished to know what the cows were doing. The skipping and prancing of Nandini the calf won many hearts.
There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting to get leaner and fitter. Just remember to take a slow and steady approach. That way, you won’t dig yourself into a hole that’s very difficult to get out of.
On the other hand, I did find some whoppers, bad choices, and a few incomplete ideas. I also saw more than a handful of excellent gift options, some of which I may mention here as well.

“I looked at the screen,” he recalls. “And I’m like, ‘Oh, he can’t

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