Author: Aaksha Meghawat

  • Alpha and Beta: A Risk Framework for the Age of AI Agents

    Alpha and Beta: A Risk Framework for the Age of AI Agents

    Why the survivors of the AI race will think like portfolio managers, not software engineers

  • Skill Trees for Hierarchical Learning

    Skill Trees for Hierarchical Learning

    Using Mujoco to study RL algorithms, specifically skill trees for hierarchical learning.

  • A Tribute to Prof. Arvind P Kudchadker

    A Tribute to Prof. Arvind P Kudchadker

    There are people. There are institutions. And then there are people who are institutions. In August 2024, several people spread across the US and India lost such a person with the passing away of Prof. Arvind Kudchadker (whom I fondly referred to as Aajoji). Aajoji had a multigenerational impact on my family, first as my…

  • Happy Father’s Day

    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…

  • Agentic Design Patterns, A Survey

    Agentic Design Patterns, A Survey

    I recently gave a talk on “Agentic” design patterns. Here are the slides:

  • A Eulogy for my Grandmother

    A Eulogy for my Grandmother

    June 6, 2018 Every year since 2018, June 6 marks the death anniversary of my grandmother. In 2017, around this time I had to cut short my visit to India and I never got to say goodbye to her. This, I suppose, is me processing that loss and making peace with it. A few years…

  • The Future of Work, Techsparks 2020 Interview

    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…

  • The Diplomat S1E7,8

    The Diplomat S1E7,8

    The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now…

  • The Diplomat – S1E6

    The Diplomat – S1E6

    The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now…

  • The Diplomat S1E5

    The Diplomat S1E5

    The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now…

  • The Diplomat

    The Diplomat

    The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now…

  • The Diplomat S1E3,4

    The Diplomat S1E3,4

    The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now…