Been watching this video about Avi Wigderson, the 2023 Turing Award Winner and he very interestingly breaks down why he chose to work on the problems

youtu.be/-GQnK6ys6C0

The Solar Eclipse

Truly🤯

Catching up with awesome friends in Austin

Vaish Dwivedi Harsh Kapadia

Meeting Solomon Hykes in Austin was pretty cool, especially because I have been super inspired by his work on founding Docker Build Cloud is here! 🐳🧱☁️

Visiting UT Austin and Civo Navigate was fun!

And yes, I had to try the mechanical bull when in Texas😎

You see a nice conference - you see Marino there!

This is actually really interesting, if you think this looks expected just wait until it zooms further in!

I'm very glad to have received the T-CAIREM Award for students at University of Toronto, definitely a financial boost for my undergrad which I very much appreciate!

It was a lot of fun recently meeting and chatting with Abigail Fraeman, Jeffrey, and Bruce from NASA JPL

Also, really cool to talk about the Mars Rover and meeting an astronaut!

I wrote a blog post about a few things I have been exploring recently: about some interesting aspects of the learning dynamics of SGD and what kind of minima SGD ends up preferring

rishit-dagli.github.io/2024/01/01/sgd…

Ending 2023 reading a very interesting book, probably one of the most interesting ones I have read this year

Nice one University of Toronto

Sam was the first

What's happening?

> To create Grok, we built a custom training and inference stack based on Kubernetes, Rust, and JAX.

surprised that they used JAX and built a product so quickly!

From Geoffrey Hinton's talk today on Intelligence

Poster and talk at the PyTorch Conference went well✅

Can't believe I actually stumbled into Soumith Chintala and got to chat a bit with him today!

Met Jon Barron IRL today!

Nice choice of venue for the PyTorch Conference!

If you're around, don't forget to catch our poster on Day 1 (today) and our talk on Day 2