Dr. Navjot Kukreja

Lecturer/Assistant Professor - Scientific Computing/Machine Learning @ Computer Science @ University of Liverpool. Opinions my own.
@[email protected]

[roon @tszzl]

imo, open source models are a bit of a red herring on the path to acceptable asi futures. free model weights still don’t distribute power to all of humanity, they distribute it to the compute rich

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

@siddharthprathm Or they came to give us LK99 🥹

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

Does anyone else find it interesting that the aliens decided to leave humanity alone just as smartphone cameras became ubiquitous? I'm glad they're back now, just in time for Generative AI.

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

Just one of the reasons I am in the last 2 weeks of my time as an academic.

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Many of you aren’t aware of what is going on at UK universities

A spiral of low pay, pension cuts and casual contracts have plunged the nation into strike

Students won’t graduate. Some of the most talented people will leave. Universities will lose accreditation

1/4

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

@jonmsterling @alpha_convert I looked into doing this for my university-bought Mac. Apparently it's not possible to remove this spyware in the latest generation macs. If you actually manage to get that far, your Mac locks down until you provide a key that the uni IT team chose.

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

Apparently Royal Mail got hacked and has not been accepting international post since last Tuesday, with no expected date of recovery so far: https://t.co/Bqwwy70Oxd

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

@nominalthoughts There's probably a sweet spot somewhere because if you're using too much maths, you could be an academic making minimum wage.

[Simon Waldman @simon_on_energy]

Hands up who has a project or a paper like this? 😅

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

@leouieda Sad to see you go, but I'll see you on the next one anyway.

[Youssef Ibrahim Yazbek 🇱🇧 ☭ @RorschachProdu1]

Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today.

Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

No Portuguese speakers were consulted in the naming of this place.

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

I recently fell for a phishing attack. Early morning email apparently from my HoD (using his name), asking me for my phone number because he wanted to speak to me urgently. I replied with my phone number. Not my proudest moment.

[Taylor Poindexter @engineering_bae]

Got an email saying that I had browsed restricted websites on my company laptop and it wouldn’t be tolerated. Confused and panicked, I desperately tried to think of what site it could have been.

Only to realize it was a damn phishing email before the holiday 😭 goodBYE

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

I can't seem to decide whether this is funny, sad or scary.

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

@walkingrandomly Thanks for this! Yes I'm just trying to make a decision based on which server's local feed might be the most relevant.

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

I might finally bite the bullet and check out Mastodon. Any suggestions on which server?

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

@samharrison7 Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for since the thing Twitter gave me was discovering academic papers/conversations that I might not otherwise hear of.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

What a weird one life to have lived

[h/t @HistoryInPics]

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

@andy___jones @ypriverol I've been using those "bone conduction" ones. They work well for podcasts but too tinny a sound for actual music.

[Dr. Navjot Kukreja @TheKreja]

"Those who can, do, those who can't, teach." What does that say about those who teach (us) teachers how to teach?