> cat about.txt
I'm Aditya — Blazzey to most people online. I'm a third-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. IIT Mandi's Himshikhar program reinforced that — daily quizzes for fundamentals, labs to actually make things. Now that loop runs in the field at AGT Maps, where the gap between a paper result and something that works on real 2.5cm aerial imagery is very honest feedback.
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.