Ankur Kalra

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@SwissGator trying to find the suite! Any tips?

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

Really appreciating this #DTx Insiders webinar hosted by @decimal_health. "It's not an app, it's a behavioral intervention. Yes it's delivered by software, but that's not the point." (paraphrased version of a key insight from Ameya Phadke of @ChiesiGroup). Love it.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@bnjmnslvr Excited for your Neurohacking class! Do you have a curriculum or agenda or something you can share? Trying to figure out how deep it gets and where it ends up.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

Much to my team's detriment, I ultimately hand wrote custom holiday messages myself. It's unfortunate because they clearly deserve the best -- and as we all know, our new robotic AI overlords would be so much better than me.

Nonetheless, human hand written cards for now!

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

You've no idea how hard it is for a keyboard-first tech guy to hand write holiday messages.

An itemized list of things I semi-seriously considered doing to procrastinate hand inscribing holiday cards for the team:

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

4. Buy an @EMSL AxiDraw to neatly yet realistically hand inscribe cards with calligraphy skills that I don't have and can't learn (h/t @aarondfrancis)

https://t.co/VjM9TMMHRJ

Okay this might have slightly been because I've always wanted an AxiDraw and needed an excuse.

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

It's Friday, so I want to share one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on.

A few years ago, I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots.

We wrote many thousands and thousands of addresses on our direct mail, and wrote personal messages for high value prospects.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@nikillinit On it. Haven't read this paper, but familiar with a lot of work in the space. At first glance, the result seems surprising, but will read the paper more closely.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

Some great sessions yesterday, but the main program starts this morning! Looking forward to the award paper orals — got an extra large coffee to make sure I can keep up. #CVPR2022

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@ihodes some random internet rabbit hole led to your 2014 blog post on NGS -- thank you so much! that was wonderful and illuminating on different levels. as an outsider, reconstructing that from reviewing literature wouldn't have gotten very far. definitely owe you a beer!

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@lisa_van_gelder I think that’s the exact challenge — successful exploratory projects don’t obviously look different externally than unsuccessful ones (pre critical breakthrough). We’re currently exploring a crit based approach, inspired by Catmull’s book on Pixar’s approach to creativity eval.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@lisa_van_gelder just saw your talk at CTO Connection’s NY Summit, thanks for some great advice! Did you have any tips on picking the right metrics for R&D teams? DORA doesn’t seem like the right fit for CV/ML research projects.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@lisa_van_gelder Thanks, I think that helps. We do that for applied ML kinds of use cases, but are a little less clear on experimental moonshot type R&D projects.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@mark_riedl @GeorgiaTech @NSF Super interested! As a GT alum, very excited by this work at ML@GT. Will the kickoff talks be recorded? Would love to attend but have a conflict.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

@neilbedwell Love your work (and your space on Edgewood). Minor heads up — the hello bar on your website 404s. Seems like an easy fix in webflow.

[ICAD2024 @ICAD_official]

ABBA (Auditory Brown Bag At home) series came back! https://t.co/0pNydMruWC Oct 27th (Wed) 11 am EDT: Sonification for Process Monitoring: Perspectives and Opportunities in Distributed Systems @AnkurHop, Hop Labs (Industry) and @DrPaulVickers Northumbria University (Academia).

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

This is why I love @MICCAI_Society. Stumbled into a talk at #MICCAI2021 where Dr Jongho Lee talks about using reinforcement learning (inspired by AlphaGoZero) for RF pulse design to streamline MRI acquisition.

[Ankur Kalra @AnkurHop]

Really appreciate @mattlungrenMD sharing the honest truth about clinical AI. Six months of data use convos are common, and even then it comes down to who sits on what board, or has a friend who is an exec, or has better mktg. Not perf based or a true marketplace. #MICCAI2021