🙃 Sandeep Avula

Research Scientist @AmazonScience. Day dreamer. Information Retrieval. Most importantly: I love to laugh, especially at myself.

[AK @_akhaliq]

Learning to Move Like Professional Counter-Strike Players

discuss: https://t.co/5uCK3a2wVW

David Durst (the first author) plays with and against MLMove bots. The video is from David's perspective. The MLMove bots synchronize their attack so two of them fight David at the same time.

[Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr]

Publicly shaming an Ivy league school for claiming credit for the success of a women scientist whose work it disrespected and rejected is one of the best uses of community notes I’ve ever seen.

[UNC Police @UNCPolice]

!Alert Carolina!
Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows. https://t.co/7frHnEuMIU

[David Mimno @dmimno]

This is not sad, this is a warning. A company did everything (mostly) right: created a vitally useful free service, worked hard to keep it healthy, shared data for research. Then another company swooped the data and made it compete against itself.

[🙃 Sandeep Avula @lolthyself]

@_Guz_ @tudelft @wisdelft @CharlotteHase Congrats man, well done!!!

[🙃 Sandeep Avula @lolthyself]

@NilavraB @jaceksg @UTiSchool Congrats! Well done!

[🙃 Sandeep Avula @lolthyself]

What the actual F

[𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗦𝗔 🌹 @WorcDSA]

Five Democrats have lined up for HD.3822, a bill in the MA House to allow the state to harvest spare organs and bone marrow for as little as 60 days off a prison sentence — a policy that would disproportionately impact people of color already overrepresented in prisons. #mapoli

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Here's what out-of-control bureaucracy looks like. The Green card application today (all those pages on the left) v. 2003 (those 4 pages on the right). Understand this: We got no new laws during this time. We just got new bureaucrats https://t.co/9hN6ZOQJsU

[ACM Digital Library @ACMDL]

Learn about "The Effects of System Initiative during Conversational Collaborative Search," by @lolthyself , @BogeumChoi , Jaime Arguello, an Honorable Mention from CSCW '22: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing: https://t.co/AvfjpCXpvr #ACM #computing

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Appasaheb Pawar died yesterday. You are not likely to know him.

But you should.

He had been fighting for his land rights in Maharashtra's Beed district for about 10 years.

He knocked on all concerned doors. Wrote multiple letters to multiple authorities.

This is his story:-

[ACM CSCW @ACM_CSCW]

Let us introduce t/ other newly introduced recognition type,𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - awarded for strong examples of work that includes well developed, explained, or implemented methods, n/or methodological innovation,
This award goes to..
Congratulations authors!

[🙃 Sandeep Avula @lolthyself]

@samirpassi Thanks Passi :)

[🙃 Sandeep Avula @lolthyself]

Excited that our work on Mixed-Initiative Interactions to support Collaborative Search has received two recognitions at #CSCW2022: Honorable Mention and a Methods Recognition!!! Very happy with this recognition for my dissertation research :) https://t.co/wYeJ8OMiHT

[ACM CSCW @ACM_CSCW]

𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝟵 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗖𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸.

[🙃 Sandeep Avula @lolthyself]

Work done with @BogeumChoi and Jaime Arguello

[Michael Sentef @sentefmi]

Just a quick reminder that you can win a Nobel with an h-index = 29 (according to the usually inflated google scholar). Quantitative measures of scientific output are not the way to go to a bright future for humanity.

[joyojeet pal @joyopal]

We systematically studied the #BoycottBollywood activity on social media with attention to drivers and network characteristics.

TL;DR:
1 Ideated by key RW influencers
2 Trended by Sushant Singh Rajput fans
3 Presents South film industry as morally superior

Thread / full paper

[🙃 Sandeep Avula @lolthyself]

aight, watching this definitely made me happy 😆

[translated cats @TranslatedCats]

Arguably the most beautiful jump in cat history

[Python Coding @clcoding]

Day 90 : Whole Year Calendar in Python https://t.co/E57OteNAmK

[🙃 Sandeep Avula @lolthyself]

@TopsonDota We gonna see some real awesome Dota now!

[ACM CHIIR 2026 @ACM_CHIIR]

CHIIR 2023 will be in Austin TX USA 19-23 March 2023 Co-chaired @jaceksg @riehsooyoung Hosted at @UTAustin @UTiSchool Dates Oct 5 abstracts, 12th full, perspective papers, workshops, tutorials, 26th short papers, demos, DC papers #CHIIR2023 @ACMSIGIR @IXlab_UT #inperson #remote