Author: Aaksha Meghawat
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The Diplomat S1E1,2
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…
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The Half of It
Noteworthy quotes from the movie “The Half of It”
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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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An “Alien” of Extraordinary Ability
A candid story about EB1A – legal immigration to USA.
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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.
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The Future of Work, but first Now & the Near Future
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.
