Mallika Parulekar

cs @ uc berkeley / stanford | everything's not a game but most things are game theoretic

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@JayadityaSethi bagal mein joota

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

anyone ever see a really good reel on instagram that spurs them to stop scrolling, but now im wondering whether that’s training the algorithm to not show me tho reels because i leave the app after them…

how to fix 🤔 ur annual why is social media broken complaint

[Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj]

Looks like Dishoom is expanding to the US.

First US location expected to be in NYC opening next year.

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@themeghamachine truly 😅

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

murati’s thinking machines potentially being named after dune’s thinking machines is wild

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@iyoushe03 NO FR ‼️

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

not stressing about things outside your control somehow doesn’t extend to when you’re waiting for tests to run and you keep check whether 1/100000 failed flakily

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

subway truly felt like a portal to another world with the weather yesterday. step in it’s sunny, step out it’s thunderstorming 🤧

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

subway surfers but u get off at the wrong stop (on purpose ofc) and explore random parts of the city on your walk back 🫶

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@michelllepan so cool!!

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

this has been the semester of using Grounding DINO + SAM2 for open vocabulary object segmentation in images 😂. Curious if anyone has other recs for text input -> segmentation?

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

sometimes u can tell how fun of a time you had hanging out with a friend by what music you want to listen to after

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@Jayyanginspires @hardeep_gambhir or perhaps the thinking machines 🤔

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

full context: you can find a solution to a pertubation-stable min vertex cover in polynomial time, but the general min vertex cover problem is NP-hard

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

wild takeaway of the week from algos class: for some hard problems, it’s significantly easier to find solutions with stronger guarantees than to solve the general case

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@daryakaviani hahaha nice

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@JayadityaSethi sports n math :)

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@aniruthn miss that era 😢

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

recently realized that policy debate and the startup pitching process are kinda similar:

harms - what are you solving for, inherency - why hasn’t it been solved yet / why now?
solvency - how do you solve the harms

[Mallika Parulekar @mallikathinks]

@endlessgit love to hear it