vivek kumar

@east_bengaluru @DKShivakumar @MALimbavali Bangalore has become unliveable.

One rain is enough to expose #BrandBengaluru. Thubrahalli, Whitefield East Bengaluru—this isn’t just about population growth. It’s a result of zero public infrastructure development in our IT corridors. @DKShivakumar @MALimbavali #bengalururains

@BBMPCOMM @PMOIndia @BangaloreMirror So I live near panathur. My pregnant wife is stuck in the panathur underpass for the last 2 hours at the same place. Jai Hind!

@Oktahedro @Si_Boehm Hi - I have a noob question but still I would want to know from you at the cost of being embarrassed. Could we write the model logic in c++ instead of LLVM IR and use c++ compiler?

@Si_Boehm Well done !

lleaves is an open source, LLVM-based compiler for speeding up LightGBM predictions. It's fast, well tested & available as a Python package. I finally made a proper announcement post: siboehm.com/articles/21/ll…

@pratikagarwal96 @momentohq @andy_pavlo Thank you!

@vivek531 @momentohq @andy_pavlo You have to use Carnegie Mellon as the college name, and the code is KK5DVJ. It's mentioned on the FAQ page here under "How can people not enrolled in the class test their projects?" 15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2023/faq.h…

I recently moved to the storage team at @momentohq and have been trying to get my hands dirty with systems programming again. Having studied C++ in college, I decided to leverage it and dive into a project. Fortunately, I stumbled upon a MOOC [1] by @andy_pavlo and couldn't be happier. After working for over five years in the database/systems space, it's a joy to go back to the whiteboard. To fuel my motivation, I am submitting the MOOC projects to Gradescope, where Andy generously accepts submissions even after the course and from non-CMU students. I got a perfect score on the Primer 💪, where I implemented a thread-safe Copy on Write (CoW) Trie [2]. I can't wait to start on the next project, where I will be creating a buffer pool manager to overcome the limitations of memory-mapped files (`mmap`). I'll be regularly sharing a lot of my computer science learnings on my website: pratikagarwal.me References: [1] MOOC: 15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2023/sched… [2] A brilliant blog on CoW by @arpit_bhayani : arpitbhayani.me/blogs/copy-on-…

@GurpriyaSidhu Story of every non genius

The tragedy is that I have all the idiosyncrasies of a genius without being a genius

Enjoying Bangalore’s beautiful weather at speed of 1 km an hour #bangaloretraffic

@CalvinKlein very disappointed. Wife bought this product as a surprise gift from the store on sale and it was a size smaller. Store is not replacing it for the right size even though they have the size.

@livspace Thanks for a great post service!

“Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.” — Haruki Murakami

Thing learned at school that I’m still unlearning: 1. You only have one chance to do anything, and if you fail you’re either stupid or lazy 2. Asking questions gets you in trouble 3. There’s only one correct way to do things, and it’s up to authority to decide which way it is

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

@jmtomczak Hi - Just went through your post. It is very good. But the first two equations doesn’t look correct. 😏

As promised, today a new blog post is out! This time, we start with the first class of deep generative models in the series: Deep Autoregressive Models. Additionally, I provide a code that you could play around with! Post: jmtomczak.github.io/blog/2/2_ARM.h… Code: github.com/jmtomczak/intr…

"We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan

@garrytan can you please follow me. I also need clubhouse invite.

Happy New Year! 2021 has a lot to make up for after 2020, so we're starting with a bang with the launch of the Oxford Online Maths Club, a new weekly maths livestream from @OxUniMaths providing free super-curricular maths for ages 16-18. Starts 7 January.  maths.ox.ac.uk/r/club

Highly recommend the AlphaSignal.ai weekly summary to keep up with the field of ML. They're using AI to identify the top publications and breakthroughs, it's a game-changer.

One of my goals for 2021 is to spend more time examining ideas from intelligent people who have very different beliefs/opinions than I do. I want to escape my own echo chamber. What/who should I read/listen to? I’m a secular liberal globalist.

I just subscribed to Halfspace! buttondown.email/j2kun

@jeremyjkun Hi - I have been thinking of doing the same exact thing for few weeks. Still figuring out how to get started like courses, blog posts etc. Please post your progress on this here. Thanks.

I'm gonna buy an Arduino kit and learn me some microcontrollers. Anyone have examples of cool projects I could get inspired from? I'm interested in getting started with model predictive control.