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Reflecting on 2023: A Year in Review

This has been a year that felt both lengthy and fleeting, and there are a few standout moments I'd like to share. Financial Milestone: Mortgage Payoff Journey One significant goal has been my determined effort to liberate myself from the clutches of a mortgage within the next 2-3 years. This ambitious venture entails meticulous planning, calculating the optimal amount to allocate to my mortg ...

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Year end review 2022

I seem to be writing blogs once a year. Not ideal but good enough. So, what has happened in 2022 and what do I plan to do in 2023?1. Had a baby girl2. Invest a lot more into my lab3. Spent more time learning electronic hardware design principles4.Able to invest time and grow my you tube channel5. Got a 3d printer ...

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Year end review 2021

It has been almost a year since I have written on this blog. This year has been interesting. So what has happened?1. I got marriedThis year in July I had got married. Life does not feel different as we have been together for the last 4-5 years. Now that it is official, it makes things feel different. I need to tell people I am now married and not single. Overall this has been the highlight of my y ...

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The 3rd Week of January

17 Jan 2021 by Anthony ShivakumarThis past week or so I have been doing good energy-wise. One being, I can get up very early. Anywhere between 4:00 am and 5:00 am. I do not put an alarm. I get up organically. I love it. After I get up, go to the washroom and wash up, I then sit and do the Wim Hof breathing exercise. It is a great way to start the day. A bit of deep breathing, yoga, and some medita ...

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Client work and system identification

On Monday I was working on a bit of client work and on drone tech. I woke up at 5:00am and started to do week 2 of the wim hof breathing. It is a good start to my morning. Get my lungs moving and helps set my mind for the day ahead.As mentioned, mostly client work was the goal of the day. Monday and Tuesdays will be focused more on client work and ANTSAND, while the rest of the week will be focuse ...

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Understaning the Kalman Filter

I am writing my Saturday and Sunday Journal together and a day later.Saturday the 9thOn Saturday the 9th, I got up arund 6:30. I haev not done the Wim hof Breathing ever since I did my afternoon run and got a bad eye and head ache. I just wanted to take a day or two off from breathing. Which in the morning allowed me to spend time working. I had to reply to a friend which I did. It took about an h ...

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Headache and eye hurt

Today started off well. Got up at 4:45 and started to do my Wim Hof breathing. Then I got to work on the sensor fushion algorithm. I had breakfast at 7:45am. Around 8:30 am I had a shower. I ended it with 1min of cold water. It felt good. I still believe I have the groin cycst. The cold shower helped a bit.After which I had a meeting at 9:30 am and again go to work on the sensor algorithm. My goal ...

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The importance of priority #1. What is ANTSAND and why is it being built?

ANTSAND first started as my personal dairy to keep track of my life. At one point in time, I did not wanted to use any Social media sites. I wanted to only use the one I created. I think the creator in me thought, if I can build one, I will build one. Why do I need to use other products. This idea has still not completely grown out of me. For the most part I am vey much a maker.I have been working ...

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Progress on Drones

I did not write yesterday's journal. Today and yesterday I woke up at 430 am. This is so that I can squeeze in the Wim Hof Method in the morning. I want to get into the practice of breathing, meditating yoga, and perhaps even cold showers. My eating habits too, have been improving. Though today I did skip lunch. I had a slight headache and my left eyes were hurting. Plus I woke up at 4:30 am so I ...

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3rd day of the year

Today, I got up at 5:00. Started to do the wim hof method week 1. It is going good. I feel great after each session. I want to get up earlier, perhaps at 4:30a.m so that I can get a head start on the meditation, breathing and yoga.At 7:30 a.m I cooked Uppma for breakfast. Eating breakfast in the morning is a wonderful routine. It help me keep check of the time. This way I am aware what I am doing ...

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The 2nd day of the year

Today i woke up at 5:00 am. around 5:30 am or so I started to do the Wim Hof method. The breathing exercise, yoga and meditation. At 7 am I had to go out to get some bread for my breakfast. I then came home and prepared breakfast.For breakfast I prepared a sandwich, avocado, roasted chic peas and sprouts. With the sandwich I also had leftover butternut squash soup. It was a good healthy breakfast. ...

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1st Jan 2021

I am not big into the New Year celebration thing. It is just another day. Every day is kinda a new year. So, it is just a matter of perspective. Nevertheless, the date change does make a psychological impact. the 1st of the month, a different or new year. It is in these times we tend to set goals, resolutions, change things up for the better, make commitments, and try to keep up. I am no different ...

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My year end review 2020

The year 2020 has finally come to an end. What a year. In this blog, I want to share what I did, what I learned, what I have transformed into, and what I plan to do in 2021.The year started well, with a bunch of well-paying clients. ANTSAND agency was taking off. By March when covid-19 started to take a hit, things started to slow down. It was during this time I focused all my attention on develop ...

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A cooking day

Woke up around 6:00 am. and worked on making a proper meal plan. We then went for gorcery shopping at 8:00 am. After we came back I made myself brunch while washing some of the fruits we just bought. I did not get much work done today. I did take a short afternoon nap. I may need to drink coffeee to keep my self awake. After I woke up, I prepared to cook the butternut squash. While cooking I did m ...

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Working on ANTSAND

Today is ANTSAND day. Monday and Tuesdays is where I will dedicate my time on ANTSAND. I got up today around at 6:00am. Went to the toilet, brushed my teeth and got to work. Around 9:45 am or so, I did my TACFIT moderate intensity workout. It is always good to follow and stick to my fitness plan. In the coming new years, I will want to make fitness and my eating habits set. No more burping, fartin ...

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A lazy day

Today, I got up early and worked on some client work. I felt very bloated in the morning. A lot of burping. I also sent a mail to a potential co-founder on starthawk. I most likely will need to look for a co-founder for ANTSAND. Will need someone who can take care of sales and marketing.We then went for a walk followed by a run round the park. The distance covered was approx. 2.7 km. I beleive I w ...

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Root Vegetables

Today, the 27th of December (Sunday) was a normal day. Got up around 7. We did our recycling before I joined my mastermind. The mastermind session was good. Chill, relaxed and we just spoke on few different topics. One of the books that was recommended was Siddhartha y Herman Hesse. Another interesting blog that was mentioned was neilonsoftware.com .After mastermind, I did feel a bit lazy and did ...

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Getting the acclerometer working

Today, once again I got up early and started to work on getting the accelerometer working. I did start to get it working. Had a meeting with a friend that is likely to collaborate with me to make drones. After the meeting, we went for a walk. I had my mastermind meeting today too. I only spent an hour in the meeting. don't want to spend more than 3 hours a day on meetings.After which I did my high ...

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I2C and learn how to troubleshoot

Today is hardware day.. Woke up early and got working on interfacing the gyroscope and accelerometer. The whole morning went trying to get I2C working. The signal were just not right. It took me the whole day to realize that there was a connection isssue. Nevertheless, I got it working. A clean signal like this always feels good.Healthwise, I am feeling a lot better. No more pain as such. I did do ...

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Learning Kalman Filtering ...

Today was a lazy. Woke up a bit late, did not do any exercise and just not productive as such. Towards the evening I did spend some time learning how to use Kalman Filtering for attitude control of a quadcopter. Tomorrow, I will try to get the accelerometer and gyroscope working and see if I can start to apply the Kalman Filter.My stomach still has the left side discomfort. I did go to the toilet ...

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Recovering ... but bloated

Today, I did not want to do too much. So I spent time studying some Machine Learning Algorithims. Pretty much the whole went in learning.My health is better, though I felt really bloated after dinner. I ate a decent size meal, but the bloating is a bit concerning. Hopefully the tablets I take Ilaxatives) will help relieve some of these issues.Tomorrow, I might spend more time on ML. Perhaps work a ...

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Recovering ...

Today, I was feeling much better. I went to the doctor and they gave me a few tablets. If the problem still continues after 2-3 weeks then I need to go back. I have got most of my appetite back. I was able to eat my salmon, kale, yoghurt, naan, sprouts and avocado for lunch.I plan to now work, 3 days on hardware and 4 days on software. The 4 days of software will include working on A.I, machine dy ...

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Little Tension and a christmas tree

Today, I did not sleep too well. I work up at around 3:30 a.m. due to burping and farting. I did drink the prune juice yesterday. It might have been the cause of my discomfort. My fiance could not bear the smell, so she slept in the living room. After an hour or so, I did got to the toilet and was able to pass motion. The prune juice helped. When I got back to bed, I did not want to start working ...

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let the progress begin ...

Alright, today was just a normal day. I work up at 6:30 am. I did pass motion, so that was good. Still constipated though. Not sure what the issue is. Hope it is not something too critical.We went for a morning walk as it was bright and sunny. A walk always helps. I might need to walk more often to get my bowel movements going. Either in the morning on after lunch.Today, was also the last day of m ...

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Another slow day

Embedded system programming is tedious. Sometimes things work fast and quickly, sometimes they just take time. My progress this month has been very very slow. I have switched from working on the nrf24ap2e to the nrf24l01+. The latter is easier to configure. I want to get the radio working by the end of the month. .. Hopefully I can get something working soon.My fitness is going well. I have comple ...

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The day of ups and downs

Oh, today was an exhausting day. Not physically, but emotionally.My day started like any other day. Woke up early, passed motion, which is good. Not too constipated. Had a shower and got to work. Today is solder day. Which is, the day to solder another radio and get the two radios talking. Unfortunately, the soldering did not go as well as I planned. In 2014, I had bought enough components to make ...

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Let us get moving

Today, once again i started the day early. A bit constipated. Hopefully nothing major. I might have to do more movement exercises. If it persists for a few more days or a week, I will have to go see a doctor.Other than that, I got most of the ANT+ radio config working. I was not able to check over the air signals. I will need to solder a new radio tomorrow or by the end of the week. I also was abl ...

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More work .. but progressing

Today, once again I got up early, around 5:30 a.m. Had a shower and got to work. My goal for today was to progress more on the radio. I want to get it to start interfacing. Te protocol is a bit complicated. I hope to get it working by the end of the month.I also studied a bit from the course "Sensor Fusion and Non-linear Filtering for Automotive Systems" on Edx. It seems to be a decent course. I w ...

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Drone Specification ...

Today, was just another day. Got up a bit late, around 6:30 a.m. I did a bit of the machine learning course in the morning. After which, I did my workout. Before my workout, I was once again browsing the different courses on Coursera / Edx related to image processing, sensor fusioh etc. It is easy to get carried forward in designing a very big system. To stop my self from doing that, I spent time ...

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Getting the radio to work ...

Today, once again I got up early. Not too early, around 6:30 a.m. My plan was to work more on the radio and get it interfacing with the microcontroller. I am progressing well in this regard. Hopefully soon, I will be able to send data over the air. This will be a good achievement.I also had our mastermind session today, The discussion were good. We talked about business, ideas, philosophy and rand ...

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Another Day ...

Today, once again I got up a bit early, at 6:30 a.m. Had a shower and worked a bit on ANTSAND. There are bugs in the app, and I plan to work on it frequently. One thing I have realized today, regarding the making of the drone, is to not focus on theoretical stuff anymore. The only theory I can work on is on A.I. I will only get back to theory once I have a drone that is flying and working. It is i ...

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Let's get the drones sketched

Today, once again, I got up early, around 5:30 am, had a shower, and got down to work. In the morning, I was working on interfacing the radio with the micro-controller. I got most of the device driver working. Next, I will need to send some ANT+ commands and see if it will transmit the messages over the air. After which, I did my Tacfit Commando. Today, was a high-intensity day. I did push myself ...

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A dumb A.I.

Today, my day did not start at 5:30 am. It started at 2:30 am when a funny smell polluted our room. We woke up from the smell as it smelt like burnt plastic. We were not sure if it was caused by something in-house or it was coming from outside. We went out to check and the smell was stronger outside. There was nothing we could do, so we closed all the windows and went back to sleep.Sleep interrupt ...

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Getting Closer

Once again, today I got up early, had a shower and got straight to work. The agenda for today was to work on the radio fro 6:00am to 10:00 am. I did stick to my plan. I was able to progress further with the radio. Hopefylly by the weekend, I can get it to work properly.After working on the Radio, at 10:30 or so I did my Tacfit Commando. The exercies, the morning routine and the evening routines ar ...

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Getting the radio working - Work in progress

Today, once again I got up early at 5:30am, had a shower and got straight to work on interfacing with the radio. Embedded systems and interfacing is not particularily difficult, but it does cosume a lot of time. Espcially if you are trying to get something working with limited resources. When it comes to these types of things, the manufactuere should provide sample code. In this case, little to no ...

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Let the training Begin

My morning routine of getting up early is going well. I got up at 5:30 am, had a shower, and got straight to solving the backpropagation algorithm. Surely, in the mornings my mind reaches a new level of concentration and focus. I got the assignment working in an hour. After which I did my Tacfit commando. Today was the high-intensity day. I believe I pushed myself quite hard. I reached a heart rat ...

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Back Propogation

Today, once again, I woke up at 5:30 am, had a shower, and got straight to work. Today I wanted to get the back-propagation algorithm of a neural network to work. Unfortunately, I am still struggling to get it to work. What I did today?I woke up earlyI did my Tacfit Commando exercisseI went for a walkI took a good afternoon nap.I worked on Week 5 of the Machine learning course by Andrew Ng. I am ...

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Neural Networks and a so so day ...

Today, once again I got up early, around 5:30 am, had a shower, and got down to work on completing the neural network chapter from the course Machine Learning on Coursera by Andrew Ng. I am now in chapter 5 and need to finish the backpropagation chapter. Once I get the backpropagation to work, I will start to train the neural network to create websites. At least, this will be the 1st step towards ...

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The Radio

Today, once again, I got up early, around 5:30 a.m. I had a shower and got straight to work. My goal for today was to get as much client work done by 10:00 am, do a workout, and start working on interfacing the radio module. I had a bit of pending client work, so I tried to get as much done. At 10:00 a.m, it was a hard stop. This meant, even though I did not complete the client work, I had to stop ...

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Client work

Today was client day. I got up early at 5:00am, had a shower and got to work on client work. I am working on a website for a clinic. The design needed a few elements that were not readily available in ANTSAND. so I had to progam a few features in. I worked for a few hours before I had a call with my business partner. After which I did my cycle 3 of tacfit commando. The fitness side of things is go ...

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Machine Learning progress

Today seemed to be a good day. I got up early, around 5:30 am, brushed my teeth, had a shower, and got started working on the machine learning course by Andrew Ng. I wanted to complete the logistic regression chapter and get started with a neural network. I wanted to end the day implementing my neural network to auto-create websites. Unfortunately, I procrastinated a bit. Plus, it does take time t ...

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The Starry night

Today, I got up a bit late. Around 6:30a.m. The reason being I slept a bit too early last night and had to get up in the middle of the night. The sleep interruption offset my sleeping schedule by an hour. After getting up, had a shower and got back to work. I posted my app on product hunt and submitted ANTSAND to app sumo. A bit of marketing. Then, I did my tacit commando. After which I needed to ...

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logistic regression

Today was a slow day. I did get up early around 5:30, had a shower and got to work. I completed a few client work in the morning. I also did my Tacfit commando workout. After which I studied logistic regression from a machine learning course taught by Andrew Ng from Coursera. Around noon I cooked some fish curry and ate the same for dinner. Noon time I was once again studying the course. Tomorrow ...

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The pivot

Today was a good day. I got up early, had a shower, worked a bit on ANTSAND. Did my Tacfit Commando (high-intensity day). Then we went for a walk around the nearby park. The walk was half-hour long. After this, I had my mastermind meeting from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. I needed to install OpenCV to do some image processing/ computer vision work. I had a few issues trying to install it. Once I got it t ...

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Headaches and a dud day

Today was a slow start. Got up around 7 a.m. We went grocery shopping around 8:30 a.m. As the covid cases are rising, we were preparing to stock up on some food in case there will be another lockdown. After coming back from grocery shopping, I had a slight headache. I took a nap before having a call with one of my mastermind friends. We talked about drones and more about the ANTSAND app and how he ...

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the Dilemma

Today, once again I started the day early. Had a shower and tried to figure out what I want to do today. I wanted to get started doing some machine learning A.I. course. I also needed to work on getting the infrastructure in place. Which is the ability to get data, process data, train the A.I., and then deploy the A.I. to an application. There is a bit of backend code that is needed to be done. Th ...

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Just another day

Today, once again I started the day by getting up early, around 5:00 a.m. Had a shower and got down to work on client work. I needed to add some animation on a client website. Since all my clients website are now directly powered by ANTSAND, I had to fix a feature in ANTSAND itself. I got it working so that is good.Then around8:30 am I did my conditioning exercise. Day 5 of my program. Today was a ...

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A sore body and a semi-productive day

My morning routine is going great. I got up at 5:30 a.m, had a shower, and started to get down to work on antsand. At 7:00 am, I had a consulting call with one of my clients. At 8:15, the call ended and I got down to do my high-intensity workout. The 1st cycle of mission one is complete. Six more to go. The table below shows my performance.Day -4 Mission 1 Tacfit Commando - High IntensityExercise1 ...

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Let the exercise begin

Today, I started the day pretty well. I got up at 5 a.m., had a shower, and got right down to work on ANTSAND. Today's goal was to fix SSL or auto-configure websites for security using LetsEncrypt. Honestly, all my design ideas turned out to be fruitless. Which is to say, I would need to come back to this at a later date and figure out how to auto-configure websites for security. One of the reason ...

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Day 2 of my Journaling

Today is my 2nd day of writing. I got up early, around 5:00 am. Daylight savings did help me to get up early. Had a shower and was ready to get started programming. Being the 1st working day of the month, I sent invoices to my clients. Today, I had to work on the form section of ANTSAND. Finish up with the "don't break the chain rule" feature. While doing so, I got a chance to refactor some of my ...

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Blog writing and habit tracking

Today I have started a new blog called shivasnotes.com. This blog is to help me keep track of my journaling, habits, and accountability. I have wanted to do this for a while, but I kept coming up with excuses. Nevertheless, I am happy I got started.In this blog, I plan to write on my challenges like the 30-day challenge, rant on random topics like productivity, health, fitness, hobbies, mindsets, ...

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39+ mental tools I use to make better decisions

Are you looking to start a company, make a drastic change in your life or are you stepping into the unknown? There are forces of nature that are there to help and guide you if you look for them. It can get scary, fearful, and very daunting. As a result, I have compiled a list of things that will guide me even in the darkest moments of life and business. This is a list of belief that I use as a ...

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13 things I learnt after doing the 10-week wim-hof method

Do you get a migraine or sinus and lose a full days worth of productivity? You think yoga is for old people or it is too boring to do it? You tried meditation, and think you are better off going to sleep than sitting like a fool? Or even the thought of cold showers frightens you, why would anyone do it? Let me tell you a little about myself. I have lived with headaches like a migraine an ...

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