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Hi! I'm <b>Bijay Gurung</b>, a Machine Learning Engineer and writer.
I love reading, writing and learning. I'm interested in Artificial Intelligence, technology in general and lifey-things (a vague term that means nothing and everything).

<h2> Selected Writings </h2>
<h3>Tech</h3>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/fuse-ai/ai-in-practice-part-i-2e135d1d7285">AI In Practice (three-part series)</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="{{ site.github.url }}{% link _posts/2019-08-29-nlp-summaries.md %}">Tongue-in-cheek NLP Paper Summaries</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="{{ site.github.url }}{% link _posts/2018-08-27-ludo-as-a-markov-chain.md %}">Ludo as a Markov Chain</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://qr.ae/pNmsfg">Automatic vs Numerical Differentiation</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/zerone-magazine/code-is-not-the-goal-8e2ac8ea66f1">Code is not the Goal</a></ul>

<h3>Lifey/General</h3>
    <ul><a href="{{ site.github.url }}{% link _posts/2018-02-03-on-learning.md %}">On Learning</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/@bijaygurung/shaping-the-workplace-culture-b97a1065cfb6">Shaping the workplace culture</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/@bijaygurung/twenty-something-thoughts-5e5351f5ef0">Twenty-something Thoughts</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/@bijaygurung/what-happiness-means-to-me-1d75aa8b85c0">What Happiness means to me</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/zerone-magazine/the-chicken-the-duck-and-the-filter-bubble-597c747ef349">The Chicken, the Duck, and the Filter Bubble</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/zerone-magazine/a-reluctant-goodbye-why-i-dont-feel-like-leaving-college-71b3cd844e6d">A Reluctant Goodbye: Why I don't feel like leaving college</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/zerone-magazine/the-anatomy-of-a-semester-5896c9bc48d">The Anatomy of a Semester</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/zerone-magazine/why-we-should-just-write-51559ab84139">Why we should just Write</a></ul>
    <ul><a href="https://medium.com/@bijaygurung/the-in-significance-of-our-time-b8687558423">The (In)significance of Our Time</a></ul>


<h2> Talks </h2>
<ul>
    <a href="https://youtu.be/ApR0dTzeK20">Machine Learning Projects: The Same and the Different</a>, Python Nepal Meetup 2019 [<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15Gs25FCyonZtu29JE1nbLjNhBRfpNZLkeFkWgcRPyXY/edit">slides</a>]<br>
    <i>On the Similarities and Differences between “normal” software projects and ML Projects.</i>
</ul>

<ul>
    <a href="https://bit.ly/3gKk0DS">AI In Practice</a>, GDG DevFest 2018<br>
    <i> On AI in its applied form </i>
</ul>

<ul>
    <a href="https://bit.ly/3huZGH6">Reading Research Papers</a>, LOCUS 2018<br>
    <i>On the Why and How of reading papers</i>
</ul>