Day 28

Salary Day!

Fairly good day. Lot s of learning.

Started off the day with a lot of articles from Medium –

1. Our redesign of Medium’s Claps…and why they may not have chosen to do it this way

2. Choose the right VR gear for you
3. Why sleeper hits are waking up the film industry
4. The Creativity of Cameras – have to share this with Sai
5. 7 habits you need to adopt if you want to write more
6. How to create a morning routine that will make you thrive

Found http://750words.com/ along the way. Got the printer set up for my system and printed out a lot of research papers and journals. Got the timeline printed as well. ^_^

Got a whole load of stationery (whiteboard, post-its (not yellow :D) and highlighters. This couldn’t have been a better day.

Back to the Pomodoro, but it wasn’t quite successful because I was actually off the system for a while.

Called Jignesh to no reply. Called Natallia. She said we could speak after 8:30 PM.

Read and watched a lot of things related to AI.

Saw the Sirinlabs phone.

Mannu showed me Horizons on the Daydream headset.

Spent a lot of time with the Daydream headset and controller. Found a cool, addictive game called “(fill this blank tomorrow)”. It was a fighter game and crazy. Very immersive experiences. Had a bout of VR sickness after.

Watched a lot of videos:

1. Sherlock – How creative transitions improve storytelling
2. Composition in Storytelling by Channel Criswell [Primal and Artifical Control]
3. 10 Skills that are hard to learn, but will pay off forever
4. TED – Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth
5. TED – The incredible inventions of intuitive AI | Maurice Conti
   1. Dreamcatcher
   2. Google Deepdream
   3. AI’s growth
      1. 1952 – Tic Tac Toe
      2. 1997 – Deep Blue vs Kasparov
      3. 2011 – Watson played Jeopardy
      4. 2016 – AlphaGo

Things to see:

1. Microsoft’s Hololens Controller
2. Linux Phone
3. Privacy in a Virtual World

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