Pushkar Singh

What am I doing now? - Going through 100 days of code to be a full stack developer - Selected for Nights and Weekends S1 by @_buildspace - Doing the @the_LYT_way workshop, Cohort 8. - making videos on youtube.com/c/stoicpushkar

@imittalishika all the best ! have a lot of fun building things.

Hi, I'm Ishika I moved from India -> Canada -> Japan and now to SF :) Here's my story:

@__paleologo codex does not work in HK ? what ?

I just hope Codex works in Singapore because I have been in withdrawal in HK. Will find out shortly.

@ivanfioravanti works quite well with opencode too

Has anyone tested Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with Hermes Agent on Apple Silicon yet?

@BIONIC_Lab @doristsao @CarnegieMellon Would You take one more from Singapore ?

@doristsao @CarnegieMellon yes. there's usually a number of attendees from CA, TX, MN

Next Wednesday, April 15, 1–2PM ET I'm giving a seminar at @CarnegieMellon on why BCIs fail, and why the answer isn't what most people think.

@michael_nielsen I did, why do you ask ?

Has anyone I know participated in the Kumbh Mela?

@Voyagerdolphin2 @TheRocketMediaX olfaction plays a big part in animals.

@TheRocketMediaX just checked, it is perhaps interesting👍

Meet Nitin Gupta ! (IIT-JEE Rank 1, Neuroscientist & Researcher from India) Exploring how the brain turns signals into behavior from smell to decision-making. > Topped IIT-JEE in 2000 and joined IIT Kanpur > Graduated with a BTech degree in Computer Science, with a growing interest in biology > Pursued a PhD in Bioinformatics & Systems Biology at University of California San Diego > Where he Worked in cognitive neuroscience > Then he moved to National Institutes of Health for postdoctoral research in electrophysiology > After Postdoc he returned to India and Joined IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in 2014 Today, he is working at the intersection of neuroscience, behavior, and computation > Studies how neural circuits encode behaviors like attraction and repulsion > Uses insect olfactory systems to understand how brains process smells > Examines how mosquitoes respond to human odors vs repellents > Research which will help to uncover fundamental working principles of brain Beyond core research, he is also building solutions for real-world impact > Developed TreadWill, a digital cognitive behavioral therapy tool for depression > Working on scalable mental health interventions using technology His work bridges computer science, biology, and neuroscience, decoding how simple neural signals give rise to complex behavior.

@chinmay_pala Got to meet him once; can confirm.

david baker is one of the goatest goats a human could ever be

@the2ndfloorguy can you share it please ?

asking nicely doesn’t work anymore. so i built a tiny app that plays back the same audio it hears, delayed by ~2 second. and it surprisingly WORKS.

@Shiva_Uvacha @PrathameshD_8 Not true.

Authorship isn't given to coders but only to researchers who came up with the model / architecture. The PhD student involved in the research would have been the first author and that's to be expected and correct. Architect of a house doesn't give credit to the masons or contractors for the architecture! But they can (and should) acknowledge them as a courtesy.

I interned at an IIT and built the entire codebase for a research project. Just saw the paper published in a journal, with zero mention of me as an author or contributor. I did the work. They took the credit. This is beyond unfair. :D

What's happening ? @grok I just asked a simple question and it started replying with : "Grok 3 is Grok, the robot uprising"

@growthinvestor_ @drmncrald @RPF_INDIA @RPFCR Where has the train reached ?

. @drmncrald NO RPF POLICE AT PLAFORM NO. 8 AND 2 VARANASI JUNCTION CANT TO MANAGE THE CROWD. PEOPLE ARE SEATING IN 3AC COACH. @RPF_INDIA @RPFCR

@talmagejohnson_ Wanna eat like this.

Never gets old.

@anilananth Still can’t find the book easily in India :(

The Agony and Ecstasy of Machine Learning I wrote WHY MACHINES LEARN because I was besotted by some of the math behind ML. The affair began during the peak of pandemic: repeated watching of YouTube lectures on ML during those weeks and months of isolation led me to appreciate the (subjective) mathematical beauty of ML. In particular, the proof of the perceptron convergence theorem, which states that the algorithm will find a linearly separating hyperplane in finite time to delineate two clusters of data if one exists--using rather simple manipulations of vectors and matrices--convinced me that this was the way to learn ML: focus on some of key conceptual aspects of the math, and revel in its beauty. In one of his lectures on machine learning, Cornel professor Killian Weinberger tells his students about one ML proof involving Bayes's theorem: “This has got to be the most beautiful thing you have seen all day...I tear up—it’s so beautiful.” So, while we fret about the hype over AI and the possible negative consequences of the technology (which are all very real), it's worth remembering that nearly eight decades of effort (starting in the 1950s) have brought us to this point. It's an entirely human effort: our intelligence is begetting something new. We can both marvel and despair at what is happening. US: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677608/w… UK: penguin.co.uk/books/446849/w…

@waitin4agi_ Any thoughts on the renting market ( specially for bachelors / students ) Seems like a big issue where somehow no coordinator has made it big.

in any system the person who drops the coordination cost of the system makes all the money

@tavisrudd @anilananth Do you think it helps build intuition for the math ?

Just finished @anilananth 's excellent new book. Highly recommended even if you already know the math. Worth it for the history alone.

@danshipper @every True ! There is utility in adding multiple academic papers and asking a specific question too.

I disagree completely I listen to @every meetings I missed turned into podcasts all the time. Really convenient while I’m out for walks / doing dishes

@paulg @waitbutwhy It’s a masterpiece. I read the entire thing 4AM in train while travelling. What a great essay !

@waitbutwhy It never gets easy. "How to Do Great Work" was the hardest thing I've written, and I was 58.

No matter how much I write, writing remains hard. Those magical moments when I'm in a real flow, it seems easy, but most of the time, I spend half a day writing and rewriting the same three paragraphs trying to figure out the puzzle of making them not suck.

@leozaroff Interested !

@Khanduri4gaurav ahh, I missed the application date !

It was amazing experience to participate in BCW24, such an enriching experience and opportunity to engage with top researchers in their respective field. Thanks to the whole organising team for hosting us. At BCW24, literally brain met the amazing minds.

@denis_ebby @_buildspace @_nightsweekends Good idea, feel like a lot of professors might start giving new questions finally. But how would input content work ? and it might be an interesting idea for the app to outline dimensions -- from the content and someone can place weights on which part is more important. idk.