Biren

Learner | Teacher | Researcher -- all for a better world.

(Research fellow, Monash University)

[CPI (M) @cpimspeak]

CPI(M) Polit Bureau Statement: ECI Statement Fails to Address Issues Raised - CEC Must Go

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The most popular programming languages since 1965 to 2022

[🎞️ DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

[Kerala Tourism @KeralaTourism]

‘A LONE MUSK’?
No, that’s a spotted deer in the wilds of Wayanad.

[Biren @birenjith]

@DivyaBiren Nice.

[Matt Henderson @matthen2]

drawing a fractal path

[IEEE Information Theory Society @ieee_itsoc]

#ISIT2021 has eight great tutorials planned, and all are included in the registration fee. Tutorial T-4 is "Bias and Unfairness in Data from People: Challenges, Models, Solutions, and Open Problems" presented by Nihar B. Shah. Coming on July 17. https://t.co/jQnUcuCeM3

[IEEE Information Theory Society @ieee_itsoc]

#ISIT2021 has eight great tutorials planned, and all are included in the registration fee. Tutorial T-6 is "Introduction to the Information Theory of Covert Communication" presented by Boulat Bash and Matthieu Bloch. Hope to see many of you there! https://t.co/jQnUcuCeM3

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

I’ve never seen a graphic so wrong but so useful

[Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre]

Oldies but goldies: Joukowsky, N.E., Über die Konturen der Tragflächen der Drachenflieger, 1910. The Joukowsky conformal map solves airfoil design in the pre-computer era. https://t.co/FFEypwJ8W1

[taapsee pannu @taapsee]

If one tweet rattles your unity, one joke rattles your faith or one show rattles your religious belief then it’s you who has to work on strengthening your value system not become ‘propaganda teacher’ for others.

[Boaz Barak @boazbaraktcs]

Wrote a blog post - "machine learning theory with bad drawings".

Mainly to organize my own thoughts towards the seminar I'll be teaching, but will appreciate comments!

https://t.co/DXz1AvX8o4

[Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown]

New video(s)! A discovery-oriented introduction to Hamming codes.

https://t.co/k9ZaiqAZmh

[Biren @birenjith]

Railway stations and trains. Two things that never lose its romantic fervor.

[N.S. Madhavan @NSMlive]

Historical Mankara Railway Station was closed down by the Railways in 2017. This station was constructed in 1915 by then viceroy of India, Lord Chelmsford, for a member of his Executive Committee, Sir C. Chettur Sankaran Nair, to come to his home by train. 1/3

[Biren @birenjith]

On Kalman filtering.

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

1/4 Kalman Filter was once a core topic in EECS curricula. Given it's relevance to ML, RL, Ctrl/Robotics, I'm surprised that many younger scholars don't know much about it.
KF seems messy & complicated; but it doesn't have to be. Intuition behind it is invaluable & worth learning

[Biren @birenjith]

Our survey article on codes for distributed storage.

[Alex Dimakis @AlexGDimakis]

A comprehensive and updated survey on Coding theory for Distributed storage, a topic very close to my heart since my PhD. Beautiful combinatorial constructions and real impact in systems like Hadoop HDFS, Azure cloud and Ceph. https://t.co/5YUqn9QEp4

[Advaid അദ്വൈത് @Advaidism]

The Lebanese - Kurdish Dabke, a folk dance from Levant. ❤️

One of the best cultural dance in the world, just dope.

[Greg Yang @TheGregYang]

1/ The nonzero singular values histogram of a large square random matrix looks like a "quarter circle", sticking to the y-axis. However, if the sides are not equal, then the histogram "buds off" from the y-axis. In any case, we still can calculate the asymptotic shape of it!

[Biren @birenjith]

As heavy wind and rain lash out here, somewhere there is a no-wind place.

[Greg Yang @TheGregYang]

1/ You can't comb a ball of hair without having some hair sticking up -- this is known as the "Hairy Ball Theorem" (no joke). Since wind on earth is like (the projection of) hair on a ball, this theorem implies that there is always a place with no wind! Let me tell ya why ↓

[Biren @birenjith]

@rajeevtk @achakrava :(

[Sayema @_sayema]

Wo kaghaz ki kashti, wo baarish ka pani yaad hai?
This ghazal also belongs to #SudarshanFakir
Wo mazhab ko kya samajhte the, jaaniye unhi ki zubani.
#poetry #UrduPoetry #sayema