Here's what actually sparked my interest in Attention Mechanisms Back in 2021, I was working on a research study - "EEG Emotion recognition using DEAP dataset" EEG (Electroencephalogram) - if you haven't heard of it, is basically a way to record electrical activity in your brain ,you wear a headset with electrodes, and it captures your brainwaves in real time. The DEAP dataset is a collection of EEG recordings from 32 participants who watched music videos, with their emotio

It was 3 PM on a Tuesday when Rashmi, my lead, messaged me: Can you send the top rented movies report again , but only for Store 1? I already knew what that meant. A long SQL query Multiple JOINs across film, inventory, rental, and payment Copy, paste, tweak, run, export Five minutes later, another message : Oh exclude staff test rentals too. That's when it hit me. I wasn't analyzing data anymore. I was rewriting the same logic again and again . There had to be a better