John Doe

Day 52: Kriya Yoga Practice (SUCCESS/FAIL): FAIL Sobriety Status (SOBER/RELAPSED): SOBER Overall Self-Control Score (1 - 5): 1 Productivity Score (1 - 5): 2 Overall Spiritual Progress: No progress. Comments: None.

Day 51: Kriya Yoga Practice (SUCCESS/FAIL): FAIL Sobriety Status (SOBER/RELAPSED): RELAPSED Overall Self-Control Score (1 - 5): 1 Productivity Score (1 - 5): 1 Overall Spiritual Progress: No progress. Comments: None.

Day 50: Kriya Yoga Practice (SUCCESS/FAIL): SUCCESS Sobriety Status (SOBER/RELAPSED): SOBER Overall Self-Control Score (1 - 5): 2 Productivity Score (1 - 5): 2 Overall Spiritual Progress: No progress. Comments: None.

Day 49: Kriya Yoga Practice (SUCCESS/FAIL): SUCCESS Sobriety Status (SOBER/RELAPSED): SOBER Overall Self-Control Score (1 - 5): 3 Productivity Score (1 - 5): 3 Overall Spiritual Progress: No progress. Comments: None.

Day 48: Kriya Yoga Practice (SUCCESS/FAIL): FAIL Sobriety Status (SOBER/RELAPSED): RELAPSED Overall Self-Control Score (1 - 5): 1 Productivity Score (1 - 5): 2 Overall Spiritual Progress: No progress. Comments: None.

Day 47: Kriya Yoga Practice (SUCCESS/FAIL): FAIL Sobriety Status (SOBER/RELAPSED): RELAPSED Overall Self-Control Score (1 - 5): 1 Productivity Score (1 - 5): 1 Overall Spiritual Progress: No progress. Comments: None.

Day 46: Kriya Yoga Practice (SUCCESS/FAIL): SUCCESS Sobriety Status (SOBER/RELAPSED): RELAPSED Overall Self-Control Score (1 - 5): 2 Productivity Score (1 - 5): 1 Overall Spiritual Progress: No progress. Comments: None.

Hey! I'm CS grad student here, so my opinion might be biased, but I would recommend college for getting jobs. It's unfortunate, but most entry-level CS job listings nowadays seem to require at-least a bachelor's degree. I say "unfortunate" because I feel most of my undergrad knowledge could have been gained simply from free online courses. I learned most of my Java, not from a university professor, but from a guy on YouTube called 'Derek Banas' lol. But that's not to say universities are useless, they open up other doorways - growing your network (professors, students), access to university career fairs and getting to work on interesting projects. Having said that, it's not entirely impossible to get a job without a degree. This situation is primarily due to lazy HRs who don't want to take risk, and 'meritocratic' bias. A lot of my colleagues are air-heads who get through school mainly because they're good at rote memory, that's it. True hackers are not produced in academia. All you need is a basement, headphones, a laptop with good internet connection and roaring passion. Good luck.

Day 45: Good progress.

Day 44: Good progress for one week. Surprising. Mild stagnation with Kriya Yoga practice.

@electroBeam That, and if someone is sitting on a large private network behind carrier-grade NAT, banning by public IPv4 will result in a lot of collateral damage. I'm not specifically familiar with this forum software's API, but if there is a way to combine public IP with some kind of client fingerprinting, it should be possible to ID banned users who are recreating accounts. This obviously wont work if the user knows how to mask their fingerprint. If users are using Tor, then the admin simply has to refuse connections from Tor exit nodes.

Day 37: Relapsed.

Day 36: Good progress.

Day 35: Good progress.

@Leo Gura I'm a graduate student in computer science. You won't believe how many bullshitters exist in academia. I've read papers that are utter and total garbage, yet they have gotten into reputed conferences (such as ACM-CCS) solely due to the fact that the reviewers are bullshitters themselves. I've also seen 'researchers' who cleverly mask their total non-contribution behind flowery curtains of mathematical jargon in their paper. For example, I saw one dude use the 'co-product' notation and weird non-conventional Greek symbols in places where they could simply used an x, y, or alpha. I methodically spent days unraveling these curtains only to find a steaming pile of shit on the other side.

Day 31: No progress.

Day 30: No progress for 3 days.

Day 25: Good progress for 3 days.

Day 24: Good progress for 2 days.

Day 19: No progress.

@Raptorsin7 For now, I'm just trying to see if I can consistently "do the work" every day i.e. wake up, get down to Kriya Yoga and meditation. I find this seemingly simple routine enormously difficult, basically not able to last more than a couple days. "Progress" would also entail adherence to certain rules: 1. Freezing cold showers only, every day. 2. Complete sexual abstinence - no fapping/sex at all (hard mode) 3. No alcohol/smoking 4. Letting go of fear If I succumb to any one of the above, then I consider it lack of progress.

Day 11: No progress.

Day 5 & 6: No progress. Fear.

Day 4: No progress.

A Neural Network is basically just a very very complicated function enabling domain mapping as @ajasatya has specified. It is a useful tool which can enable us to fit models which are very 'fine tuned' involving heavy parameterization. A useful statistical tool, that's about it. I see "Machine Learning" being thrown around too much these days. In many cases, simple multiple regression can do the trick, the small problem-scale doesn't call for the use of ML at all. Yet I see it being used mostly as a buzz-word. Now we have a "Mathematical Proof for God" using Machine Learning? LOL. What is even your hypothesis? What assumptions are being made? "Neural Network" is a methodology, but the OP appears to be trying to fit a problem to a tool, rather than the other way around. I agree with @ajasatya and @Leo Gura on the matter. God cannot be understood using our framework of logic/reason. I am extremely convinced with this. The universe is not confined to our Logic, it's the other way, our Logic is confined within the Universe. Take the case of the simple question, "Why does the Universe exist?" answered by Swami Sarvapriyananda on YouTube. He says that the question is simply logically incorrect - refer to the video on YouTube for why this is the case. Just one example where logic is pushed to the limit.