Avishkar Gupta

Interested in AI research and infra

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

An old uncle posting a selfie in his Amazon review is a 10x more believable proof of presence than a Yubikey

[the Rich @Duderichy]

one way people seem to get screwed with new jobs

they get hired to work on one thing, with a huge vesting cliff, and then they get moved to a different team unwillingly working on dogshit that sucks, but have to stick it out for the rest of the first year

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@Mng64218162 @publicinte Anthropic's never been one to justify their pricing. It's always been "take it or leave it" with them.

[Artur Chakhvadze @norpadon]

The main goal of Bayesian ML research is to show that all methods which have previously been shown to work well in practice are somehow approximately Bayesian

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

I sympathise with the urge but seriously just get drip bags.

[ira @iraseorita]

Coffee obsession level: Bringing my own grinder and frother on the train. Worth every second!

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Is there any verification that this is not AI?

[Ryzerth 🐲 @ryzerth]

Dunning-Kruger curve updated to take into account the effects of AI use.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@raulizahi @bubbleboi @alan_shore12 Don't know about the US but AWS India takes the cake for one of the most toxic places you can be at, and they're competing with Indian companies which is saying something.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@codelikeshivi @AftabAl41302805 @Bhavana562 The guy literally just has a receding hairline y'all aged him by 20 years.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@waltjsmith @nic_carter @bryan_johnson The relevant gist of that movie is the guy's in love with the version of Summer that's in his head rather than her actual self.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@nicksummy @vxunderground Poor decision making under reduced executive function from lack of sleep gets you or others killed in any of the fields you mentioned.

Related, Exhibit A: https://t.co/qGXpF6BynX

[Parsa T @ParsaTajik]

@djcows @xai I lowkey fell asleep a few times 💀 fsd came in clutch

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@giffmana It works in the moment (sometimes), but later on if you're forced to read the code and modify it by hand you cringe at all the `except Exception as e: pass` blocks and other such nonsensical constructs it added.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

If somebody doesn't have their own boundaries they'll never respect yours. Tangentially, founding engineer in itself is a bizarre concept, the role is essentially all of the work and risk for 1-2% of the potential upside.

[Bihan @bihanmahadewa]

chat she started interviewing a founding engineer mid dinner 💀

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@suchenzang @analyticsaurabh Wdym you don't want a fleece with two disconnected zippers? It's the current thing.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@vikhyatk @fastidiant This is the way

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@huhuhaha2_0 @TheWand68425335 Do you write an apology letter and are you publicly shamed for leaving your job? Because that's exactly what happens at a "black" company in Japan.

We do have it easier than them and that's a good thing.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@giffmana It looks like they used an LLM on the patch notes, both these inaccuracies are pretty common at least in the GPT family - calling dated theory SOTA and cool sounding fabricated acronym expansions.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@janusch_patas @giffmana It's straight up a different account... the real Jessica Alba has a different DP.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

@Ar_Douillard The job market in India is different from yours. Deep tech is niche and fails to attract the kind of funding it requires. Labs like DM rely very heavily on pedigree because otherwise it's very low SNR. Immigration rules everywhere have been hardened. QT advice is very practical.

[Avishkar Gupta @beingavishkar]

Maybe AI will treat people who like brewed coffee as more than a rounding error and fix their dark roast.

[Exec Sum @exec_sum]

NEWS: Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol says the coffee giant is now “all-in on AI.”