> cat about.txt
I'm Aditya — Blazzey to most people online. I'm a fourth-year CS student at Manipal University Jaipur who got pulled into machine learning and never really left.
A student engineer who likes the messy end of ML — the part where real data refuses to behave and a model has to earn its keep. I build things, write about building them, and follow far too much cricket.
Because it sits exactly where I like to be: rigorous enough to be hard, applied enough to matter. A model that works in a notebook is a curiosity. A model that survives contact with real, noisy, real-world data is something else — and that gap is the most interesting problem I know.
I learn by shipping. EmotionFlow, OceanIQ, the risk surrogates — each one taught me something no lecture could, usually by breaking in a way I didn't expect. I'd rather have a rough thing that runs than a perfect plan that doesn't.
Fundamentals first, then build immediately. I trust the loop of read → build → break → read again more than any single course. Right now that loop is running hard at IIT Mandi's Himshikhar program, where the daily quizzes keep me honest about the basics while the labs let me actually make things.
I read a lot — currently working through A Song of Ice and Fire — watch more films and series than I should admit, and I'm the person who remembers the exact over a famous run chase fell apart. Music is always on; it's how I work.