Prashant Mahajan

"Self-help books aren't designed to help you, they're designed to help you feel good" - George Hotz

"I just wanted to build something where you can type in a person's name and get some information" youtube.com/watch?v=xFFs9U…

After 4 great years at @Affectiva, I have now started SureStart with a bold goal to provide high-school & college students with an equal #opportunity to be an AI builder thru #training, #support + #network. mysurestart.com #Diversity in #tech #Careers + #internships

I finally had time to reflect on #TheSocialDilemma and as someone who has worked on tech policy issues throughout my career, had many, many thoughts. 🧵 (The following are entirely my personal views and don't in any way reflect those of my employers past or present.)

Apple now has an AI/ML residency program! I'm looking forward to working with our first class of residents.

Sometimes finding a new error feels better than solving the old one

Today is fast.ai’s biggest day in our four year history. We are releasing our new course, fastai v2, fastcore, fastscript, fastgpu, and the official launch of the book. 1/ fast.ai/2020/08/21/fas…

Eternal struggle in 20's - Finding a switch to go from a depression to the transmutation.

Cost of distracted work outweighs doing no work at all.

New hire embarrassing moment: The code which wan't working for hours starts working in front of your mentor.

@YashHaritwal As long as they are your own

Expression of thought > synthesis of thought ?

Pro-Gyan: Thought Synthesis > Image/Audio/Text Synthesis

Software Development progress: 80% - why isn't this working? 20% - how did I miss this?

College teaches you how to code. Experience, how to debug.

It's been a month at my first job and I realized how hard it is to ask dumb questions.

Feels like I'm walking on a tight rope ice.gov/news/releases/…

Log off and breathe.

Large neural networks can be made to sing! :)

"I am, whatever you say I am. If I wasn’t, then why would I say I am?" - Eminem explaining commitment and consistency bias

Today I had a 100m sprint race with my friend. I came second to maintain social distancing.