Akashleena Sarkar

Robotics by passion and profession and dance in free time | I do Deep learning for robots | Love to blog ✍️ and meet new people in my profession over a tea

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

Messy cable management but let's roll with the mess

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

My favourite entrepreneur -- Ratan Tata ❤️

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

Loom and https://t.co/Iy9DJy9gY6 rolled into the ROS 2 Kilted Kaju tutorial party on my behalf like lifecycle nodes in 'active' state. I just hope they don’t ban me for failing to remap my params.
@OpenRoboticsOrg #ros 2 #tutorialparty

PS: deleted all ai notes

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

Came across this post by Prof Fei Fei Li
It's so helpful https://t.co/R06XmyWKCj

[Jia-Bin Huang @jbhuang0604]

How to come up with research ideas?

Excited about starting doing research but have no clue?🤷‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️ Here are some simple methods that I found useful in identifying initial directions.

Check out the thread below 👇

[Love Work Hate Work @vanjajaja1]

I think about this moment frequently, it changed the way I train & eventually the way I think about life

"training should be addictive"

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

You knew in high school who you were and you let go off some of that for lots of reasons- people, situations, college.
And once you learn to re-be the girl you were in high school is when you can grow into the full women that u could be.

~Melinda Gates

#melinda

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

How did computer scientists come up with DeepLab and Unet or transformers for that matter? I know my pytorch and i know how to implement a deep learning research paper but I don't get the intuition to come up with my own deep learning architecture.
#deeplearning #cnn #fcn

[Mike Hoffmann @MikeHoffmann]

8.

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

@Kirti_Lodha_ Workout in the mornings or else back will hurt a lot

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

@KrishAryan3612 @Immortal_abdul Can u suggest global remote startups which ha ve a good pay?

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

@PahwaGinni I wanna join

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

@chrisdonahuey @CSDatCMU specially intersection of ML and dance

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

@chrisdonahuey @CSDatCMU Hello Prof, Will you be open to hiring international RAs? I am interested in the intersection of ML, robotics and creativity.

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

@SSCorg_in My friend Sunita Kumari's form was rejected inspite of her uploading all the required documents correctly. She tried reaching the committee via mail and over phone call but no-one is replying. The exam is scheduled on Nov 14. Plz help her asap.
#sscexam #sscadmit

[Shivam @shivamnow]

If you don’t give yourself a break, your body or mind will take one for you and it probably won’t be at a convenient time.

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

Hey(with the intention of practicing gre questions mostly verbals together)
#gre #grepractice

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

Lovely! Beauty
#3blue1brown #ramanujan

[Akashleena Sarkar @akash13leena]

Proof in comments
Ramanujan's works are mind fucker and amuses me a lot.
#mathandmusings #ramanujan