Dipunj Gupta

We won the third place in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Competition! 🎉🥉🕺💃 Our bot is the first multimodal task-oriented dialogue bot which has sign language instructions!! 🤟 You can try it out by saying “Alexa, open isabel bot”

Exciting news for faculty mentor Malihe Alikhani (@malihealikhani) and researchers Anthony Sicilia, Yuya Asano (@YuyaAsano47), Kate Atwell, Qi Cheng, Dipunj Gupta (@dipunj), Sabit Hassan (@Sabit_H64), Mert Inan, Jennifer Nwogu, and Paras Sharma (@ParasSharma2809)! @PittCompSci

We're thrilled to share our progress in our passionate endeavor to democratize information access and make conversational AI more inclusive. We have made it to the semifinals of the Amazon international taskbot competition. Proud of this enthusiastic and strong team of students!

Plastic bus seats should have a small hole(s) at the bottom most point of all seats to drain out water in case rain made it's way into bus through windows. @PGHtransit

I'm trying to get a team to better their systems. But they are terrified of failing. Because they do not know how to recover. Because they have no process for acceptable small-scale failure to learn from. This is the nuance in actually guiding an organization towards excellence.

You won't learn anything if you think you know everything already. Humility is necessary for growth. 🧠

“Engineers ... are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization.” - John Fowler

It's not the lack of intelligence, it's the lack of focus that is stopping you. 🧠

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

A good programmer can get more done than 10 bad programmers, but a bad programmer's code can keep 10 good programmers busy for years.

You can predict a lot about a society by seeing their obsession on nostalgia in comparison to their curiosity for future.

The price for electricity from solar declined to 6.8 US-cent per kWh (no subsidies). A 5-fold decline in just 9 years. Solar getting cheap rapidly is one of the most important developments in our time. From @_HannahRitchie's excellent work on energy ourworldindata.org/energy

2021 Roadmap for Back-End Developers💕 This 🧵 is for you👇

Instead of assuming that people are dumb, ignorant, and making mistakes, assume they are smart, doing their best, and that you lack context.

How do you feel when you enter a large code base for the first time? What tips or advice would you give other developers who may feel overwhelmed when entering a new project for the first time, whether it be for work or some open source project they would like to contribute to?

If the work doesn’t require creativity, delegate it, automate it, or leave it.

@dangoslen Used to happen with me too. Then I started meditation(5-10mins is enough to get started).You wont feel anything change immediately. Feels like waking up from sleep. But later in the day, you will have moments of consciousness which will prevent you from getting swayed away.

🙋 Looking for some help! How do you balance time on Twitter? I'll login with the intention to tweet or contribute an idea to a conversation, but I either lose track of time or get intimidated... Any tools or advice? Thanks!

@ravinwashere I'm at chapter 5 for JavaScript.info. This books straight away makes you a pro. Already feeling a lot more equipped than 2 days back. I pledge to buy this e-book to support the creators, once I start working again. Hats off to everyone who worked on it. A Masterpiece!!

JavaScript Free Learning Resources. WEBSITES > Javascript. info > freecodecamp. org > eloquentjavascript. net > read.humanjavascript. com > flaviocopes. com > xahlee. info > Javascript30. com > w3schools. com > developer.mozilla. org > theodinproject. com What would you add?

While specialists bring deep expertise to the table, generalists have the ability to make important cross-discipline connections. s.hbr.org/2HHfwAB

Learning JavaScript is unique. It isn't just about learning the concepts and constructs of JS, but also about how they came to be(the decision process) You also study a little bit of history along the way. Slowly, It all starts to look so elegant and beautiful to the mind.