It's been one year and three-ish months since my return to academia as a Ph.D. student at Michigan! From the time I moved out of Bengaluru, I've had this mix of pressure and expectation built up on how I would fare in this world that I know is going
Chanakya was finally accepted at NeurIPS 2023! This meant preparation for the poster, the video recording, and most importantly, travel to my first big conference! Attending the conference was exciting and life-changing in unexpected ways. NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), is one of the top conferences in AI and among
(sorry for the cringe title, couldn't get more creative than this, feel free to email me about how many better titles could've existed) It has been an amazing 2 years at Microsoft Research, India - a lot of things have happened in this time: adapting to WFH moving to Bengaluru,
December has been particularly challenging, especially due to the long application submission season, and now, as I am recovering from a week-long sickness. Regardless, as all dark clouds have a silver lining, I've been provided the time to reflect on my journey, relationships, and personal self over the past few
With the past couple of months being extremely hectic, I finally decided to stop procrastinating, schedule the TOEFL exam 7 days prior to NSDI paper submission. So, how'd it go ? Pretty decent given my preparation I'd say. While I see a lot of criticisms(well deserved) over standardized tests like
Work at MSR is getting more interesting - from reading optimization-related research to learning about how AI is being used to tackle Climate Change when I'm not coding, I was feeling slightly burnt out. But then, we had a vacation! Microsoft Research graciously accommodated and arranged for all the Research
The current state of Jetson devices through NVidia's JetPack is based on Python 3.6 ( including all the pre-built wheels and docker containers ). Python 3.6 is increasingly breaking a lot of dependencies solely due to the fast pace evolution of Python every version. This post serves as a guide
Some backstory... Recently, I've shifted to a complete Windows/WSL dev environment - both in my professional and personal work, with the Zephyrus G14 replacing my MacBook Air 2015(8G+128G i5 5th gen). Hands down, the MacBook Air was and is one of the best, most reliable devices I've
Earlier last week, the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 kicked off with a lot of folks at MSR India being excited about it! I've been hearing how previous hackathon winners in various tracks have managed to turn it into an actual, actionable project which have since being continued or even completed!
Internet is a small reflection into multiple personalities that could exist when humans are exposed to different environments. That being said, a recent thought I had initiated a train of thought: what if we restarted the way internet is accessed and everyone is given a social security - an identification
How large scale language models and possibly multi-modal models can change the current HCI principles
When objectivity is clouded by itself...