I am AI engineer at palindrom, former deep learning engineer on field self-driving cars. Currently, I put together AI workflows and explore what can we do and can not do with AI. I am coding AI based tools with AI tools for people.
My full name is Fausztin Asztrik Virág and I started this blog because I wanted something that is built of my thoughts. I was that kid who answered "mathematician" for the question "What are you going to be when you grow up?". And it happened, I graduated from the university as an applied mathematician. I studied operations research, because I wrote graph and other discrete optimization algorithms since I was 13. Most of the programming competitions I attended - which I really liked - were about these algorithms.
During my university years, I started focusing on machine learning. The idea of creating something so called "intelligent" was astonishing for me. I am not sure why, but somehow the most interesting questions for me in maths were also related to this. I remember the lecture when we learnt Gödel's incompleteness theorem... It was definitely one of the biggest mind-blowing moments in my life. Or I could mention the one of my two most beautiful night from my life, when I understood the equivalence of the Zorn's lemma, axiom of choice, and well-ordering theorem. To be honest, that was the only one night when I understand that equivalence, because it was the night before the exam.
The other most beautiful night was when I started dating my wife.
Besides these things, I got such abstractions about the algorithms I used in secondary school that made my university years unforgettable. The best part of the programming for me is when I find out what algorithm solves the problem and how the code should be designed. And the fact that I can prove the correctness of these algorithms was important for me.
The continuously coming back questions in machine learning, like "Why does it work?" or "Is it sure that it works?", made me a little bit uncomfortable. Perhaps this uncertainty was the main reason why I spent so much time with the evaluation when I was working in a research team at Bosch, developing trajectory planning algorithms for self-driving cars. I tried out many methodologies from the classical software development. It was a challenging environment.
I decided I want to spend more time with my undefined questions regarding the intelligence. My goal is to reach the point after that I am able to share my thoughts or my readings with you via this blog to better understand the connection of intelligence and logic.
On the other hand I started the entrepreneur life, so I want and need to build a business. This is a new situation for me, each day I learn a lot. I shall explore a good balance between these two things: on one side, the philosophical theoretic questions, and on the other side, the programming with practical solutions that helps others to make successful businesses.