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An “Alien” of Extraordinary Ability
A candid story about EB1A – legal immigration to USA.
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Skill Trees for Hierarchical Learning
Using Mujoco to study RL algorithms, specifically skill trees for hierarchical learning.
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Happy Father’s Day
How do traditions get made? What should they signify? Circa 1996, one day my mother was asked to stay back in school at pick up time since the teachers wanted to have a word about me with her. It was sort of an intervention, one where they expressed their frustration at how, for the life…
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Agentic Design Patterns, A Survey
I recently gave a talk on “Agentic” design patterns. Here are the slides:
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The Future of Work, Techsparks 2020 Interview
Shraddha: Very excited to be talking to you. We just recently connected and I’ve interacted with your peers and they have such a high regard for you. I know that you did amazingly well in your college and then you went on and did very well in your career. And what got us very excited…
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An Emergency Room Thanksgiving
Everything about the arrival of our baby in my life has been unusual. Like the fact that I was admitted in an emergency room (ER) on this exact day 2 years ago (Thanksgiving 2021) when I found out I was expecting, while being checked for if my life was at risk. How did this happen?…
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Turing vs. Oppenheimer: Trysts with Evil
The implications of Turing’s work as the backdrop for Oppenheimer.
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The Lifecycle of Open Source Projects on Github
Aaksha Meghawat, Chris Bogart, Carolyn P. Rose In 2016, I started out with the goal of using natural language processing & discourse analysis to improve developer productivity on Github. Thanks to early success in our computational approaches, we were soon asking the question of whether we could predict if an open source project was on…
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Github Conversations: Characterizing Framing & Measuring Openness
Measuring openness in Github conversations
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Select Additive Learning: Representation Learning for Small Datasets & Identity Bias Mitigation
Select Additive Learning: Representation Learning for Small Datasets & Identity Bias Mitigation
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Musings on a BITSian Life: Epilogue
This post serves an Epilogue for the series on ‘Musings on a BITSian Life‘. There is a time and opportunity cost attached to everything. Everything. This is probably one of the most humbling realizations of adulthood. Its probably why people came up with the proverb: “Youth is Wasted on the Young”. (Not sure why more…
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The Future of Work: An Individual Perspective
COVID-19 has forced us all to rethink many aspects of our lives. I examine deeply the relationship between the 3 pillars of the knowledge economy: Work, Education and Value.