TWTW — The Week That Was #1 September
September has come, Rains have subsided and life was getting back to Normal.
WIT Learning Program.
Rethink has an amazing program up and running — The Women In Tech Learning Program.

Read all about it here. I had applied to Cohort 1 and had a pleasant interview with Arya the other day. It went well, Arya Murali actually gave quite a few pointers and insights about myself that I did not know about. Thank you, Arya. Fortunately, I got in and am joining 23 other girls in Cohort 1.
We had a small task of submitting an introductory video, not a serious one, ‘a shitty first draft’. Find mine here. Forgive the shake, I was running heavy on time and was creating it at the last moment.
WeCon Banglore
WeCon Banglore was a large conclave of over 3500+ aspiring women entrepreneurs from all over India. I was sent as a representative of my college. Read all about the trip here.
Top 6 statements that hit the spot.
1.To be an entrepreneur is to have the willingness to be disruptive
2. Be emphatic to the problem statement. It is never their problem, it’s yours too.
3. Planning is 1 %, Execution is 99%.
4. Focus on the smaller problem statement, these bring effective larger solutions.
5. Women empowerment shouldn't be exclusive, but inclusive.
6. Don’t focus much on a negative comment, but emphasize it with a positive mindset of another feature to improve customer experience.
Rebuilding PEHIA

Pehia has been admittedly been down for some time now. I have spent quite some time on setting some content regulations so that the girls can share their content on our platform. I picked up some Markdown along the way and is on building a small bot for the same. Check our publication here. I’ll update the blog with the bot link as soon it is done.
We have Welcome to Cs with a very small batch of student’s tomorrow. It’s tough these days, but I’ll keep going anyway. Prioritising is the real devil.
WordRank — Reaching out for Help
I had continued my internship at TurboLab but have been stuck on one single root problem that is the solution to another whole set of problems. It basically involves finding how much an entity A is closest/associated to entity B in a given text — note that it’s associated, not similar. I was so done with everything from text search to tf-idf to glove. Nothing solved the problem nor showed any sign of doing so if done by a better-skilled person. WordRank showed a bit of hope since it was a ranking algorithm. Check out this blog for more.

Let me admit how dumb I felt since I was hitting ‘Segmentation Fault’ like 6th standard kid who doesn’t know his pointers as I tried to implement the basic form. Over that, one round of execution took such a helluva of a time! HOURS! No task had tested me to wits like this, but none has taught me so much either.
There was none around me who could solve the same or had an experience using wordrank. Would you even believe me that there is not a single question on wordrank in Stack OverFlow, the refuge of all programmers bugged by code. Googling forsook me too! I did not have the guts to ask the programmer who wrote wordrank or it’s wrapper. But Muhammed Shibin last day told me his story and some awesome tips to reach out, and I took it from there. It was worth a shot and well, she replied. Thank you Shibin!!!!

About Being Lost
I am finding myself as each day passes, feeling better. I had to say No to attending SHEROES, but okay. Learning to say No and prioritizing is a skill too essential to people who are trying to live than survive.
Next week is Birthday week, time to set another list of goals like the ones I talked about here.
Have an awesome week you people! Keep Learning, Keep Growing!
