Published in Curious·PinnedHow You Can Have Sustainably High Levels of DopamineResearch tells us how we can have a healthy relationship with dopamine that increases our motivation, focus and happiness. Here’s how. — Dopamine is essential for getting anything done. It is responsible for all energy and movements. The dopamine cycle is intricate, but its understanding is crucial. Everyone has a baseline level of dopamine. Whenever you do something enjoyable, the dopamine level rises and drops below the baseline, returning to the baseline…Mental Health5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·PinnedAre You Aspiring To Be Tim Denning or Zulie Rane?Here is how you can make it possible — The number of people who are unhappy with Medium is amassing into a skyscraper with each passing day. …Writing5 min read
Published in About Me Stories·PinnedAbout Me — Tarun GuptaI am a storyteller trapped in the body of a Data Scientist — Bio I am not a wannabe writer or a person pursuing writing. I am a writer. There, I said it, PHEW!! Given, I started writing consistently only about four years ago since 2017. I still wander in and out of worlds in my imagination. I create worlds and try to play…About Me3 min read
Published in Humans Are Stories·6 days agoHow Do You Define Hate?Have you ever sat down and thought about hate? I did, and this is what came out. — Through my experiences, I believe I have reached a point in life where I am sitting with myself without the distractions of the internet and the external world to think about a few important questions that matter and would help me make a better person. I recently pondered over how…Life Lessons2 min read
May 96 Pieces of Advice to Remember You Are a Human Being, Not a MachineThere is overwhelm in trying to do everything — Life has weird ways of sneaking up on us. You never know where the next bout of inspiration might come from, the inspiration you didn't know you needed. The same thing happened to me a couple of days ago. The eye-opening ideology I stumbled upon allowed me to put everything…Advice2 min read
Published in Humans Are Stories·Apr 19How Do You Define Love?Have you ever sat down and thought about love? I did, and this is what came out. — Through my experiences, I believe I have reached a point in life where I am sitting with myself without the distractions of the internet and the external world to think about a few important questions that matter and would help me make a better person. I recently pondered over how…This Happened To Me2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Mar 28Why Being in a Caloric Deficit Is Not Enough to Lose Fat?Research tells us how to lose fat without gaining it back immediately and sustain a healthy body in the long run — First, let’s differentiate the terms weight loss and fat loss before discussing the science behind achieving a healthy and aesthetic physique. Our body weight consists of many individual components: muscle mass, body water, body fat, and bone mass. The term weight loss equates to losing all the above components, whereas…This Happened To Me6 min read
Mar 20You Are Setting Yourself for Hurt by Expecting Help from OthersTry to ask and see the number of people rushing for help — It’s second nature for human beings to expect their friends and family members to come running while in distress without explicitly mentioning the current stresses. There is an innate optimism in this expectation for the most part. When we are close friends with someone, we adapt to the inherent assumption…Life3 min read
Mar 12Intro to Neural Networks Implementation in PythonUsing scikit-learn — A perceptron is the fundamental unit of any Artificial Neural Network (ANN). It is a supervised learning method for binary classifiers. They can solve linearly separable problems, but a group of perceptrons can solve non-linearly separable problems. This implementation uses the iris dataset. The dataset has the following characteristics:Data Science2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Feb 28If You Are a Writer, Stop Reading Stories About Success on MediumBreak free from the insecurities instilled in you by the other so-called writers — Medium is great. It allows people to add value to their lives by reading and sharing stories that instill inspiration and allow learning. At least, that is what happened till before the pandemic started. Ever since Covid-19 welcomed itself into our lives and allowed people to have extra time to think about, many…Writing3 min read
