hari, now in virtualized private form

PhD student • UCSC 🇺🇸 • Inria 🇫🇷 • edge AI & networking • higher ed • marimba enthusiast • screaming into the void about tech ethics & better communities

[hari, now in virtualized private form @hardkombucha]

I told my students they shouldn't call me Professor Kuttivelil bc I am not a professor, I don't have my Ph.D. degree. I said they should call me Hari or Mr. K.

It's Week 6, and they've converged on Professor Hari, and I'm tired of correcting them.

It's me, Professor Hari.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

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[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

pure focus. just living in the moment

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

timeless

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

I'm having a similar issue.
On the one hand, I could work at places where I make at least $1M a year.
On the other hand, very few people are integrated within tech companies to help prioritize addressing *fundamental issues* in the ethics of AI. (1/)

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

10k ppl have been killed by israel in the last 30 days. 4k of them are kids. the un calls gaza a graveyard of children. what is our government doing?

finding money under the mattress for more bombs to kill kids with & censuring the only palestinian congresswoman. moral depravity

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

I was on that bridge today, and while I can only speak for my own experience, I saw: 1) Many Jews proudly marching, and centering their religion 2) The crowd of Muslims and Christians around them responding with love and appreciation every time they did so

[Native Santa Cruz @NativeSantaCruz]

I’ve shared these before. This was 3 years ago today and I was in San Francisco when the sky turned an otherworldly orange due the widespread wildfire fires burning. These photos were all taken around noon and lights are on all over. Combined with deserted streets, this may have been the most surreal moment I’ve experienced

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

Fascinating that Tesla is using a train instead of a one-way car tunnel with neon lights

[hari, now in virtualized private form @hardkombucha]

@transitlanta it's a fake account can you do a 3-second search or not

[hari, now in virtualized private form @hardkombucha]

@YIMBYLAND That's an imposter account pretending to be the actual NotJustBikes guy, who left Twitter awhile ago. This account just trolls and y'all fell for it and spreading the misery

[François Chollet @fchollet]

To be clear, at this time and for the foreseeable future, there does not exist any AI model or technique that could represent an extinction risk for humanity. Not even in nascent form, and not even if you extrapolate capabilities far into the future via scaling laws.

[hari, now in virtualized private form @hardkombucha]

free the kei trucks

[hari, now in virtualized private form @hardkombucha]

Hmmm I’m considering getting an espresso machine for the lab, at this point it would pay for itself in under a month

[Alaina @alaina_pitt]

Kinda want to expand/pontificate on this from my POV:
I studied abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France for a semester in 2010. I instantly loved it -- walkable, charming, lots to see and do, local & long distance mass transit (I went to Paris twice on a student budget!). 1/?

[hari, now in virtualized private form @hardkombucha]

Giving away those physical webcam switch things for laptops should be a crime. They damage your laptop because you can’t close it properly, just use tape or literally any other method but just don’t use those plastic things. At the very least it’s completely unaesthetic

[hari, now in virtualized private form @hardkombucha]

To a degree it’s societal isn’t it? Does this look the same in other societies? In the US, most Americans are forced to move into suburbs and commute via cars making it unlikely for ppl to bump into friends and more difficult to hang out with friends. We end up almost isolated.

[George Mack @george__mack]

"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75"

Why?

4 reasons and solutions:

[hari, now in virtualized private form @hardkombucha]

@mynamesN0Trick A take: light ice should be default so I can ask for light ice and it would mean lighter ice

[Christine Mai-Duc @cmaiduc]

Students living in campers, 7-to-a-house, in garages or trailers parked in driveways. Here are some of the scenes I encountered exploring the student housing crisis in Santa Cruz, the nation's 2nd priciest rental market per @nlihc https://t.co/BANw342RAG

[California YIMBY @cayimby]

What happens when a college town makes student housing illegal? It becomes the least affordable small city in the country, with the highest per-capita rate of homelessness. https://t.co/KziCvWHF2S