sitting over here in the uk watching the new us administration i'm suddenly very very jealous of having competence in government in dealing with the pandemic

In case you missed it: That momentous feeling... @sidvee writes on the Brisbane win 81allout.com/that-momentous…

Most elite Indians (primarily savarna white collar urban english medium educated folks like me) land on Western shores convinced that we are just as advanced and developed as these countries as a people. It's just "corruption" in India holding us back. Then reality hits. /1

Our next talk: Jan 27: Yisong Yue (Caltech) Yisong Yue “Learning for Safety-Critical Control in Dynamical Systems” Please visit sites.google.com/view/control-m………… for more information (join the Google group for Zoom link and future announcements).

An academic horror story 👻

Extremely well written intro to the theory of ML landscape!

We are hosting a research internship in differential privacy / privacy assessment of machine learning models with hastagiri at Facebook AI Paris this summer. If you are currently pursuing a PhD and are interested in these topics, let’s get in touch!

So I’m not getting a vaccine next week - was feeling weird about why I’d been selected ahead of others so rang GP to check. Turns out they had my height as 6.2cm rather than 6 ft 2, giving me a BMI of 28,000 😂

Every demo day convo. Founder: "During my time at Uber, I led a team that built this service" VC checks Linkedin: "Uber Intern Summer 2020" VC: "Yea that checks out. How is 3m at 200m pre?"

crazy that Spain would illegally target notable academics for their vendetta!

1/ My essay "Fighting Monetary Colonialism with Open Source Code" is live. France controls 15 African nations and 180M+ people through the CFA franc currency. The details are shocking. Can Bitcoin be a way out? Farida Bemba Nabourema 🇹🇬 + Fodé Diop 🇸🇳 think so 🧵 bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoi…

Another fascinating mind-bending illusion. There is no yellow in the circle below (!). Instead, our brain very confidently fills the gap of the colour scheme. by Akiyoshi Kitaoka

If unemployment is root cause of right wing extremism why does your IIM MBA uncle privately abuse Muslims at every family gathering?

Heartbroken to learn of the untimely passing of Tali Tishby. A profound thinker and a gentle and fine human: a great loss. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_T…

On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Feature propagation in Learning on Graphs with Missing Node Features abs: arxiv.org/abs/2111.12128

Indian print advertisements over the years. A thread

We are pleased to announce that our paper - "Multilingual and Multimodal Abuse Detection" has been accepted at #INTERSPEECH2022! INTERSPEECH 2025 Interspeech2022 #ShareChatTech Kudos to the team Rini Sharon, Heet Shah, Debdoot Mukherjee & Vikram Gupta