The Lucky Beginnings My journey with machine learning has been incredibly weird. Funnily enough, I was preparing for NEET (the infamous medical entrance examination) since class 10. IIIT itself was a stroke of luck, as the results for the DASA round came before NEET. I was glad to take the first escape I could, because I never really wanted to be a medical doctor (subtle foreshadowing: Precog sparked the interest in me to maybe become a different kind of a doctor, the PhD one). Okay, so now I am starting a computer science degree, but I have no clue about computer science. My first instinct is to go to YouTube,…