A bit of motivation

I got my first paper accepted today! It's only at a workshop, so it's not very significant, but I'm still happy. (For context, in machine learning there are a few top conferences --- ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS --- and each conference has several smaller themed workshops to submit preliminary work to. The workshops have much higher acceptance rates because they have a much less stringent review process.) In any case, it feels nice to finally finish a project and have it recognized; I also did all of the writing and maybe 70% of the coding, so the paper feels mostly like my own work. The final submission is due in two weeks, so I'll post a link eventually if any of you are curious :P

I'm planning on writing a longer post soon about my thoughts about various ideas / philosophies / lifestyles I find interesting. But don't hold your breath for it lol.

Also, thank you all for the well wishes in my previous post :)) I'm doing a lot better now. Hormones are definitely annoying though (too easy to get interested in other people :(()