Saurabh Agarwal

Grad student at UW-Madison working on systems and ML. Connoisseur of hot sauce and melted ice cream

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@TaliaRinger What worked with least headache for my advisor. Give access to everything for the services they need like ec2 and s3. Create cost tags for their projects/individual grad student to track cost. Create budgets etc.

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@DimitrisPapail Some extremely large recommendation models use it. https://t.co/4vn6jYcXHQ (Section II, B) . However, more recent work is trying to move away due to potential accuracy loss. In industry from what I hear async is still popular.

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@JillWohlner A not-man sales person once told me that for saas sales call it is necessary to have a white man with salt&pepper hair to be present even when they have nothing to say.

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@molly_struve try catch blocks, in case of exceptions just continue

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@LadyAshBorg midlife crisis ??

[21st Century City @urbanthoughts11]

1970: One more lane will fix it.
1980: One more lane will fix it.
1990: One more lane will fix it.
2000: One more lane will fix it.
2010: One more lane will fix it.
2020s: ?

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

You’re telling me I have to buckle my seatbelt even though I have airbags!!! Either the airbags work or the seatbelt works but it can’t be both!!!

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@pati_gallardo I listen to them being very objective (try to it is very hard), try to understand where they are coming from. If you realize that they are right or if the request is reasonable, you apologize and make sure that it does not happen again. At no point defend yourself gaslight them.

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@IanColdwater I also have one of those. And maybe a Fedora too. As a kid back in India (early 2005s) I got my first taste of linux when one of the rich kids shared a CD which they used to get as a part of a tech magazine, I think the magazine was called digitech or something

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@LadyAshBorg Yup been a while !! Yes still in school, couple of more years I guess.

[Ilya Kostrikov @ikostrikov]

I’m excited to release my implementations of RL algorithms in Jax: https://t.co/M1b4al1P1S. On my machine with Titan X (Pascal), it works more than twice faster (4x faster in some cases) than similar PyTorch implementations. Thanks to @nikishin_evg for helping with Jax!

[Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor]

What software are people using to draw those fancy neural network architecture diagrams? Surely they aren’t doing this by hand...

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@_wangsharon Can I afford my own place (no roommates) close to the university with the stipend ?

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@fhuszar https://t.co/EFH4IArgUr

[Howard Chu @hyc_symas]

Cache Management Lessons Learned
https://t.co/9D9gWVJCZK

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@ShriramKMurthi @sibinmohan I did this until someone pointed out that my tea almost tasted like rasam. In my defense I was experimentally trying to replicate a variant of masala chai i had on trip to Himachal.

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@Peter_shirley This is the corolla of the keyboards in my opinion- https://t.co/nKWjzXaplu and dell has also has a 10$ mouse which has been working for me since last 4 years

[Saurabh Agarwal @iidsample]

@xzqx Transformers

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@OrigamiMarie @p7r @xkcdComic Saw a few when returning late from the computer lab after breaking my head on a hard assignment. Half asleep used to wonder these must be some smart kids who were able to finish their assignments quickly