Main target: I will try to devote at least an hour to learn or implement something in ML/DL field

This repo is about maintaing my daily activities regarding the #60DaysOfUdacity Challenge

• Make habit of working on Deep Learning
• Going deep into deep learning.
• Working on some projects and getting more experience on it.
• Getting the Nanodegree Scholarship.

Today's Progress:

• Worked on my thesis slides
• Organizing a meetup for the secure and private AI group

New thing(s) learned:

• Couldn't work any new thing as I am working on the slides.

Thoughts: Really need to finish the slides tomorrow.

Today's Progress:

• Finished my thesis slides
• Started on revising CNNs and GANs for my thesis viva
• Working on arranging some projects with BD group of SPAIC

New thing(s) learned:

• Couldn't work any new thing as I need to concentrate somewhere else. I will start working fully after 30th.

Thoughts: Will prepare for the slides tomorrow

Today's Progress:

• Defended my thesis
• Started learning from intro to pytorch again.
• Panning the meetup for 5th July

New thing(s) learned:

• Couldn't work any new thing as I was busy.

Thoughts: I will try to work much more from tommorrow.

Today's Progress:

• Read about Capsule net.
• worked on #ama_sessions as a moderator
• As I forgot some basics, I took the lesson 2 of intro 2 pytorch with DL again and took notes.
• Learning in depth on RNN and coding

New thing(s) learned:

• Learned about intuition of Capsule nets.
• Learned why perceptron algo works which I missed previously.

Thoughts: Will finish the RNN code tomorrow

Today's Progress:

• Started on Kaggle
• talking about forming groups

New thing(s) learned:

• How to submit on kaggle.

Thoughts: Couldn't do much because I was busy watching the match.

Today's Progress:

• Submitted for the first time on kaggle. Accuracy: 97% | Score: 0.9923 | Link: https://bit.ly/309E6xD | Will try to improve it more.
• Started http://fast.ai course - on lesson 1.

New thing(s) learned:

• How to submit on kaggle.

Thoughts: Couldn't do much because I was busy watching the match.

Today's Progress:

• Formed a study buddy group named Cognitive Learners
• Filled up the form for another one to form group with my fellow Bangladeshis.
• Right now working on the fastai course and taking notes.

New thing(s) learned:

• Working on communication skills

Thoughts: Love communicating with people...I get to learn so many new things from them.

Today's Progress:

• Attend first virtual meetup of #sg_cognitive-learners
• Revised the first chapter of The Algorithmic foundations of differential privacy which I have read earlier.

New thing(s) learned:

• Privacy

Thoughts: Will plan more to work on projects.

Today's Progress:

• Read this paper on hyperparameters: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09820 |
• Especially I read it to learn more about one cycle learning which helps to reduce training time for Deep learning
• Also read related articles about that.

New thing(s) learned:

• Learned about cycle learning

Thoughts: Will work more on it .

Today's Progress:

• Participated on the Women Who Code virtual meetup.
• Discussed with a teammate about our project steps.
• Started reading the related research paper for that

New thing(s) learned:

• Explored ideas about song recommendation

Thoughts: Really love attending these meetups.

Today's Progress:

• Read the first chapter of Grokking Deep Learning book by Andrew Trask to see how it is. And it seemed to be a good one | https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-deep-learning
• Finished week 1 of course 1 of Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization| https://www.coursera.org/learn/linear-algebra-machine-learning.
• Revised some data structures from geeksforgeeks.
• Finding more ways to work on the project of #sg_cognitive-learners
• First meetup with our kaggle group from #sg_spaic-kagglers
• Discussed the upcoming group initiatives for #sg_cognitive-learners
• Working on the Be a Pytorch Beast initiative of #sg_novice-ai.

New thing(s) learned:

• Maths on ML

Thoughts: Hectic day it was!!! Loved the grokking book

Today's Progress:

• Revised the first four modules of Intro to DL with PyTorch as I need to help on PyTorch Beast Weak.
• Watched some Data analysis tutorials for our project of #sg_spaic-kagglers

New thing(s) learned:

• How to submit on kaggle.

Thoughts: Couldn't do much because I was busy watching the match.

Today's Progress:

• Decided the projects for #sg_cognitive-learners. We have three tracks to work on - advanced, medium, beginner. Interested people are welcome to look on.
• Worked on a personal project for Rice Leaf Disease classification. but lacking in dataset. 😞 Help is appreciated.
• Worked on math. Needed visualization for the vectors I learned from coursera specialization. So, I checked the Essence of linear algebra course of 3Blue1Brown again. That is the best series for Linear Algebra apart from MIT 18.06.
• Worked on some data preprocessing on Titanic dataset of Kaggle.
• Discussed initiatives of #sg_bangladeshi-schlrs with a friend

6. Meetup with kaggle group from #sg_spaic-kagglers
7. Reading and trying to understand a code on BERT that my friend provided ^_^

New thing(s) learned:

• Learned a lot of libraries regarding BERT which is similar to cyclegan on NLP

Thoughts: Realized taht I love working and it's better when I wake up early.

Today's Progress:

• Read "Generative Adversarial Nets" paper by Goodfellow.
• Finalized the projects for the group #sg_cognitive-learners I'll be working on a song recommendation project.
• Meetup with from #sg_caffeine_coders team
• Meetup with #sg_bangladeshi-schlrs team
• Meetup with #sg_spaic-kagglers team
• Teamed up for emotion detection project of #sg_caffeine_coders
• Finalized the project I'll be working on for #sg_bangladeshi-schlrs. After some searching, I decided to work on text summarization.

New thing(s) learned:

• Learned about a paper which solves simple math problems via neural network.

Thoughts: -

Today's Progress:

• FInished the GAN paper finally. But needs a looot of clarification!
• A few pages of Deep Learning book by Goodfellow
• Meetup with #sg_wrldwde-women-cdrs team.

New thing(s) learned:

• Learned that I have still a lot to learn on GANs.

Thoughts: I really want to finish this book.

Today's Progress:

• Revised math concepts
• Revised basic Deep learning concepts that I read this week.
• Mostly worked on the weekly Hackathon

New thing(s) learned:

• Hackathon is a new experience

Thoughts: I decided to revise the things I read the earlier day. So, didn't read anything new.

Today's Progress:

• Read about data preprocessing for Song recommendation project
• Mostly worked on the weekly Hackathon with the awesome hackathon team.
• worked a bit more on Dog breed classification.

New thing(s) learned:

• Learned more about transfer learning

Thoughts: Love working on teams ^_^

Today's Progress:

• Did a little data preprocessing for APTOS Blindness detection project
• Finally done with Hackathon. Thanks to my best team mates
• Meetup with the amazing ones @anne @Mohona @Droid @Mushrifah Hasan @Marwa for #sg_depressn-detectn
• worked on fastai course for a while.
• Worked a little on Rice Leaf disease classification.
• Another meetup with @Mohona @Munira Omar @Shubhendu Mishra @Marwa @Richaldo_Elias for #sg_spaic-kagglers

New thing(s) learned:

• Data preprocessing on Kaggle

Thoughts: Working on hackathon is exhausting

Today's Progress:

• Continued reading Deep Learning chapter 2 along with Essence of Linear Algebra videos to visualize better.
• Reading articles for emotion detection project.
• Tried out ways to improve digit recognizer for #sg_spaic-kagglers project

New thing(s) learned:

• Maths on ML

Thoughts: Still not good at transfer Learning

Today's Progress:

• Worked on rice leaf disease classification using Fastai and now I am in love with it.
• Almost done with Dog breed identification but stuck on a weird error.
• FInished training of Digit recognizer. Will finish the inference part tomorrow.

New thing(s) learned:

• Worked on my first FastAI project

Thoughts: Would like to work more on FastAI.

Today's Progress:

• Continued with fastai lesson-3.
• looked through some kaggle kernels to get better idea of the recognizing faces in the wild project.

New thing(s) learned:

• Learning a lot through the kernels

Thoughts: Someday i want to be a kaggle master!

Today's Progress:

• Revised Lesson 6 of style transfer and learned more in depth about Gram matrix
• Finally selected for emotion detection project for #sg_caffeine_coders
• Looked through some papers for the #sg_depressn-detectn with @anne @Mohona @Oudarjya Sen Sarma @Marwa @Mushrifah Hasan @Droid
• Started working on Hackathon with @Shahana @Joy Poddar @happycoder354 and still working 😅
• Attended a meetup with @Jess @Mohammad Diab @Shashi Gharti @Joyce @Elena Kutanov @Mateusz @Venkata Rathnam Muralidharan @Erika Yoon @Temitope Oladokun @Sergio Valderrama @Dammy @Suraiya Khan @Marwa @Mahedi @Sridhar Ethiraj @Joyce Obi @Sourav @Ayesha Manzur @erinSnPAI @Ahmed MAGDY EISSA @Oudarjya Sen Sarma @Muhammad Naufil @Sarah Majors @Sushil Ghimire @yasser albarbary @LauraT@Helena Barmer

New thing(s) learned:

• Loved the idea of Gram matrix Thoughts: Really want to work more on depression deteciton.

Today's Progress:

• Mostly worked on the hackathon.
• worked on tuning the hyperparameters, learned more about scheduler.

New thing(s) learned:

• Schedulers

Today's Progress:

• Worked till 11 am GMT(5 am my time) for the hackathon..still couldn't do much
• Revising fundamental concepts of deep learning.
• Attended a meetup with @Ashish Shrivastava @Mohona @Sushil Ghimire @sourav kumar @Aarthi Alagammai @Michael Sheinman @Muhammad Wajahat @Dammy @Govind in #sg_dlstarguys| Sorry everyone for being such a shaky host!

New thing(s) learned:

• Hosted a meetup for the first time

Today's Progress:

• Went through DL interview questions.
• Checked the Style transfer code again from lesson 6 or ud188.

New thing(s) learned:

• Interview questions on Deep learning.

Thoughts: I have my first interview tomorrow

Today's Progress:

• Restarted the lesson 3 of this course.

New thing(s) learned:

• I got the job :D

Thoughts: Will be out till 28th. So I'll just try my best to do at least something to continue my #60daysofudacity streak.

Today's Progress:

• Watched 3rd video of lesson 3 of this course.
• Got this great news that we were selected as the 2nd runner up of Auto-matic Hackathon.

New thing(s) learned:

• Today I had the most breathtaking day of my life. I with my friends trekked mountains with heavy rainfall and slippery ways. It's irrelevant but still I wanted to share it here!
• Got my first ever prize in hackathon.

Today's Progress:

• Been revising differential privacy. Since I'm still out of my place, I managed to start AFDP's second chapter.

Today's Progress:

• Worked on Malaria Project with @Rishi S Rao
• Looking for picture ideas and trying them on my style stransfer implementation for #sg_project-t-shirt with @Shubhendu Mishra and @Archit
• working on the ama faq doc
• Discussed about our meetup for #sg_caffeine_coders with @sourav kumar @Sabrina @Sumanyu Rosha

Today's Progress:

• Tried to increase the accuracy a bit more of Malaria Dataset.
• Rewatched the last few lessons of Essence of linear algebra series.
• Started learning Deep learning book of Goodfellow book. Couldn't read much today. But, I decided to read this book every day from tomorrow at least for 2 hours, inspired by @Stark
• Reading research papers for APTOS Blindness Detection

Today's Progress:

• Read up to section 2.11 of Deep learning book.
• Read papers for the APTOS Blindness detection. Learning more about Cohen's kappa coefficient that I stumbled onto one of the papers.
• Had an amazing meetup with @sourav kumar @Calincan Mircea Ioan @Oudarjya Sen Sarma @Aarthi Alagammai@Archit @Munira Omar @Mohona @Ashish Shrivastava@Govind @Sharim from #sg_dlstarguys
• Had another amazing meetup with @Jess @shahnoza@AbdElrhman @Alexander Villasoto @Munira Omar@David Ashraf @Sarah Majors @Hitoishi Das @Sourav@Nouran El Kassas @Shivam Raisharma @Mahedi from #sg_dl-goodfellows. Thanks @Shivam Raisharma for hosting it nicely

New thing(s) learned:

• Using SVD and PCA along with Deep learning.

Today's Progress:

• Learned about multitask learning.
• Read this one: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1604/1604.02878.pdf
• And this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.03832.pdf

New thing(s) learned:

• multitask learning

Today's Progress:

• Learned more about multi-task learning.
• Reading this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.09414.pdf
• Attended the meetup of #sg_pytorch-robotics

Today's Progress:

• Worked on the APTOS Blindness Detection project. Reading research papers on it and implemented two of the papers according to it with @K.S.
• Discussing about depression detection project with @Mohona @Munira Omar @Droid for project showcase challenge
• Had a meetup about another project with @Stark for the same.

Today's Progress:

• Finally done reading all the expected papers for APTOS blindness detection and then discussed with @K.S. about them and next plan for the project.

2. Started watching nlp tutorial from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXD5-xhemo&list=PLoROMvodv4rOhcuXMZkNm7j3fVwBBY42z&index=2&t=0s
3. Read this Article on depression detection: https://time.com/1915/how-twitter-knows-when-youre-depressed/?source=post_page--------------------------

Today's Progress:

• Worked on Malaria Project with @Rishi S Rao
• Looking for picture ideas and trying them on my style stransfer implementation for #sg_project-t-shirt with @Shubhendu Mishra and @Archit
• working on the ama faq doc
• Discussed about our meetup for #sg_caffeine_coders with @sourav kumar @Sabrina @Sumanyu Rosha

Today's Progress:

• Completed the 2nd chapter of the Deep learning of Ian Goodfellow book and re-read the 1st chapter again.
• Read the following article and the articles attached mentioned there : https://medium.com/@jayeshbahire/introduction-to-word-vectors-ea1d4e4b84bf
• Finished the first lesson of cs224.
• Revised the notes of course 2 of DL specialization course.
• Attended the meetup of #sg_novice-ai with @Seeratpal K. Jaura @Stark @Hung @Archit @Oudarjya Sen Sarma @ayivima @Ingus Terbets @cibaca @Apoorva Patil @Alexander Villasoto @Agata [OR, USA] @Shudipto Trafder

Today's Progress: Had a really busy day...so couldn't do much at all.

• Revised about optimization, weight initialization, kl, js divergence.
• worked on an old project bug

Today's Progress:

Mostly it was a day with lots of discussions!

• Had a great meetup with @Munira Omar @Aniket Mitra@Ashish Shrivastava @Seeratpal K. Jaura@Anju Mercian @Mohona@Aarthi Alagammai @sourav kumar @Diganta for #sg_dlstarguys about math concepts.
• Discussed with @K.S. about our progress on APTOS Blindness detection. So far, we were able to work according to the papers and make our model runnable. Now, we need to work on accuracy.
• Had another meetup with @Mohona @Droid@Munira Omar @Aarthi Alagammai for our project of depression detection. So far we have scraped the dataset and our next target is to clean the data.

Today's Progress:

going through pretty busy days...so can't work much at all 😞

• Revised the course upto lesson 6

Today's Progress:

• Started Lesson 6 project finally.
• Data cleaning going on for the depression dataset.
• Had a meetup with @Aisha Khatun @Mahedi @Shudipto Trafder on GAN concepts for #sg_bangladeshi-schlrs

Thoughts:

• I really want to thank this slack community for making my birthday unforgettable 😊 I had an amazing birthday today for which a lot of credit goes to this community! I could never imagine so many people taking their time to wish me and thank you so much everyone and I had a blast!!

Today's Progress:

• Worked on promoting the math blogging competition for #sg_dlstarguys and #math_help
• Working on cleaning the depression data

Today's Progress:

• Had a meetup with @sourav kumar @Sabrina @Sumanyu Rosha about our project for #sg_caffeine_coders
• Had a meetup with @Pooja Vinod @Ingus Terbets@Shudipto Trafder @Oudarjya Sen Sarma @cibaca @Ivy@Ateniola Oluwatobi Victor @Ayushi Gupta @Stanislav Ladyzhenskiy @Mateusz@Sourav @Gogulaanand R @Sayed Maheen Basheer @Sushil Ghimire @susyjam @Helena Barmer @Frida @Abhishek Tandon @Stark @Ayesha Manzur, @Helena Barmer, @Jess, @Anju Mercian for #sg_study_jahm
• worked on APTOS Blindnes Detection and discussed with @K.S. about the same.
• Still cleaning depression dataset, it's never-ending

Today's Progress:

• Had a meetup for our depression detection project with @Mohona @Munira Omar @Aarthi Alagammai @Droid
• Worked on the APTOS Blindness detection project with @K.S. and managed to get more than 80% accuracy so far. Still working on the improvements.
• Worked on data preprocessing for the Emotion Recognition project with @Sabrina @Sumanyu Rosha @sourav kumar
• Started cleaning the depression data. Cleaning and reading the tweets giving me depression

Today's Progress:

• Almost finished cleaning the data...last 200 or some rows remaining.
• read this article: https://towardsdatascience.com/text-summarization-with-amazon-reviews-41801c2210b

Today's Progress:

• Finished the data cleaning for depression dataset finally 😅
• Read some part of this: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/05/efficientnet-improving-accuracy-and.html
• Worked on APTOS Blindness detection for the submission...will submit it after this post

Thoughts: Couldn't submit :(

Today's Progress:

• Facing and solving the probles @K.S. and I are facing to submit the APTOS Blindness Detection kernel
• Changed the architecture of Malaria Detection for better accuracy
• Read this article: https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-semantic-segmentation-with-unet-6be4f42d4b47
• Had a meetup with @SusanW and @Mohona for Depression Detection project

Today's Progress:

• Had an in detailed discussion meetup about our depression detection project with @Mohona @Munira Omar @SusanW @Marwa
• Discussed further plans about emotion recognition project.
• Worked little bit on APTOS blindness detection project..I couldn't find a way to submit the kernel while turning off the internet as I am using Transfer learning...so now I am trying a simple model and discussed about that with @K.S.

Today's Progress:

• Worked on APTOS blindness detection...still trying to improve the accuracy
• Discussed with @Sabrina about deployment of emotion recognition.
• Had a meetup with depression detection team - @Munira Omar @Aarthi Alagammai @Mohona @Marwa @SusanW

Today's Progress:

• Came out our previous depression dataset wasn't sufficient enough, so had to scrape again and now planning to use LIWC to extract the features.

Thoughts: Finally reached day 50!!!

Today's Progress:

• learned about siamese network
• Worked on depression detection Forgot to mention
• Attended #wmn_who_code meetup
• Learned about One shot learning and Zero shot learning
• Worked on aptos blindness detection.

Today's Progress:

• Corrected the dataset for Depression detection.
• Working with @Sabrina @Sumanyu Rosha @sourav kumar for emotion recognition project.
• Usual discussion with @K.S.
• Had a meetup with @SusanW @Mohona @Munira Omar @Aarthi Alagammai @Marwa

Today's Progress:

• Worked on the documentation of emotion recognition and aptos blindness detection project
• worked on solving a bug on emotion recognition project with @sourav kumar
• Had a meetup with the depression detection team

Thoughts: Couldn't submit :(

Today's Progress:

• Finished and documened Federated Blindness Detection project with amazing @K.S.: https://github.com/aksht94/UdacityOpenSource/tree/master/Federated%20Blindness%20Detection
• Finished and documented Federated Emotion Recogniton projet with @Sabrina@Sumanyu Rosha @sourav kumar: https://github.com/aksht94/UdacityOpenSource/tree/master/Federated%20Emotion%20Recogniton
• Finished Depression detection project with @SusanW @Marwa @Mohona @Aarthi Alagammai @Munira Omar @Droid: https://github.com/aksht94/UdacityOpenSource/tree/master/depression-detection

Thoughts:

• I want to thank @Soumia (you are an angel ^_^), @kkech and @Archit for the continuous help they provided me with..thank you 😊
• Celebrating and cheering my teammates @K.S. @Sabrina@Sumanyu Rosha @sourav kumar @SusanW @Marwa @Mohona @Aarthi Alagammai @Munira Omar @Droid It was an honour to work with you all

Today's Progress:

• Worked on improving the accuracy of APTOS blindness detection. Learned about using weights on loss functions...thanks to @K.S. ❤️
• Had a discussion about pytorch Hackathon with @Shivam Raisharma @Halwai Aftab Hasan @cibaca @Hitoishi Das

Today's Progress:

• had a discussion with @Ashish Shrivastava about DL related applications
• Worked on APTOS Blindness detection for getting better accuracy...this project is my favorite one...love working on it 😍
• Looking for ideas for pytorch hackathon with @Halwai Aftab Hasan @cibaca @Shivam Raisharma @Hitoishi Das
• Encouraging @K.S. @Ashish Shrivastava @Mohona @Halwai Aftab Hasan @cibaca @Shivam Raisharma@Hitoishi Das

Today's Progress:

• Studied about a new optimizer aka Ranger. Going to try it on APTOS.
• Working on the Thank you Initiative for udacity-facebook. Would love to see everyone's participation. ^_^ Here: https://secureprivataischolar.slack.com/archives/CJSCX4WAZ/p1566660348242000
• Worked for the math blogging competiton.
• Watched this video that my friend @Stark made for easy deployment of PyTorch models using Katana I think it will help many from now on...^_^ https://youtu.be/VqeD8lRhl2o

• Attended the Deep Learning with PyTorch webinar as a presenter for the first time along with @K.S. @Pooja Vinod thank you guys for the support and managing so well..you did great 💖 Link to the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1llOPlEZsMf6rPl7EJPutQvqedYyOE6sjAiCw66XxwRo/edit?usp=sharing

Thoughts: I am really thankful for this amazing community.

Today's Progress:

• Discussed about the ideas pytorch summer hackathon with @cibaca @Hitoishi Das @Shivam Raisharma @Halwai Aftab Hasan
• Worked on summarizing our projects for #project-showcase-challenge

Today's Progress:

• Went through many transfer learning articles to answer a question on #sg_novice-ai
• Attended the webinar of #sg_novice-ai | Thank you @Ingus Terbets @Alexander Villasoto for sharing your knowledge with us.
• Attended the meetup for PyTorch Summer Hackathon with @cibaca @Halwai Aftab Hasan @Hitoishi Das@Shivam Raisharma

Thoughts:

• I really really want to thank two of my friends @Stark and @Ashish Shrivastava for helping me to go on with this challenge...if it wasn't for you, I might not even complete this course! Hahah 😄
• Thanks @K.S. for the constant encouragement and support that you provided through working on APTOS Blindness Detection project...It would be really tough starting office if you didn't support