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23:30 on a Friday
You know the problem with being too curious or smart? Its ambition. The overwhelming, all-encompassing desire to do more, achieve more. Well, thats a lot of work. Why can’t I just accept being normal? Being mediocre… Lots of people are. But no, not me.
Sigh!
There I go sounding conceited and what not. But thats the context. I am bored out of my mind. Work is fine but its not enough. Its not challenging enough. Not in the way I want.
So I was looking around online for challenging things to do. There are loads of em but I chanced upon Google Summer of Code or GSoC for short. Its basically just a bunch of companies creating a project proposals and involving contributors to work on them. Win-Win.
Now this isn’t the first time I’ve come across GSoC but back then I was either not interested, didn’t have the time or didn’t think I was capable enough. Probably a combination of them all, as these things tend to be. But things have changed. I have changed. I’m itching for a challenge. As I was going through the submitted projects, my mind kept whispering “You’re not good enough”. “Drop it, play your little games”. “How about we do an easy question from Leetcode and call it a day”.
Now normally I would’ve succumbed to it. But not this time. I’m still not sure if I can deliver on these projects. They seem quite complicated. And in anycase GSoC 2026 is done. Give up?
Nah! I’d pick a project I think is challenging and do it anyways. Even though someone has already delivered it. Why? Just to prove myself. And because I think it would be fun. My definition of fun? Yea, I like Dark Souls. Iykyk.
The project I’m choosing is RobStatTM-Py: Python Wrappers for Modern Robust Statistical Estimation
And here’s the result already delivered by someone else. Credit where it’s deserved.
I like it because its related to math/statistics and python.
I’ll try to blog my way through this whole journey. But no promises.
PS. I was actually eyeing a CUDA, C++ one but chickened out. Maybe next time.
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