Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न

Data Science/Decision Science/Machine Learning. Tweets: Science, Literature, Art, Arch, Design. English/हिन्दी.

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

The real problem is not that we are ignorant. The real problem is that we are more ignorant than we think we are.

[Eric Horvitz @erichorvitz]

Discussion on causal machine learning with
@yudapearl @Susan_Athey Yoshua Bengio https://t.co/CIqaB2Es7P Panel at Microsoft Research Summit @MSFTResearch #causality #ML #DNN

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@karanvasudeva Haha, thats cool! Caught this link from the article https://t.co/XHFsfSlP5w

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

Fun tidbit: Faggin so enjoyed the design, he included his initials 'FF' in the layout of the 4004. See if you can spot it :)

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@trengriffin Faggin, newly hired, got assigned a neglected project (Intel focused on memory, not logic at the time), an impossible schedule, and an angry, screaming customer (Shima/Busicom). Talk about necessity mothering the mother of all inventions :) #4004
https://t.co/WMt8aeh6R1

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@trengriffin There's a fabulous video of Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff at the Computer History Museum reminiscing about how they (together with Stan Mazor and Masatoshi Shima of Busicom) designed and architected the 4004.
https://t.co/6ZzP9mB4Ys

[Tren Griffin @trengriffin]

"The world changed on Nov. 15, 1971, and hardly anyone noticed. It is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Intel 4004 microprocessor..." https://t.co/i86kE4iDbH

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@Kamal_t Lot of science books too!
https://t.co/ZzfTBjO0Pa

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

Lovely accounts of the impact of Soviet publishers and (affordable) books on a whole generation or two of Indian youth.

Vividly remember the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and books flooding into my hometown - glut of awesome science books available for a dime!

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@DecaroliChiara This looks interesting! As an utter black thumb, I've actually been waiting for a book like this :)

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@davidlnoll Definitely talk about categorical imperative before they hit voting age :):)

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@Bobin_James I take it that eyes itching has won over mouth watering :)
Seriously though, WTF!

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

“... Which is that we are a collection of fragile beings taking care of one another, and that those who do the lion’s share of this care work that keeps us alive are overtaxed, underpaid, and daily humiliated.”

A very nice profile, incl. his last days :(
https://t.co/ndmyQaWJ6B

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

Prof. Bradley Efron has written a lovely article about statistics in the age of deep learning.

I hope this becomes essential reading for anyone engaged in machine learning.

https://t.co/2AqdWANGFg

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@arghya_dutta_ @GururajanMP This was a nice read! And in character with his cross-disciplinary interests. I remember back in grad school he'd come to give a colloquium - i think it was on charge density waves or something - and ended up being about freak waves in oceans, and his art etc. Pretty amazing!

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@_onionesque Yeah, and another thing that's contra MATLAB in this environment is that its not free.

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

Does anyone use MATLAB anymore?

(Honest question prompted by genuine nostalgia!)

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@_onionesque I wonder how much scientific computation is still done in MATLAB.

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

@_onionesque Last time I used it (cant even remember how long ago) in industry was to do signal processing stuff with Simulink and some interfacing with finite-element simulations. Its pretty nifty that way, but given Python's dominance now all across the high-level stack /

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

Like some way to quantify the economic impact of DFT, or Wavelet transform, or other compression algorithms, error correcting codes, optimization algorithms etc. would be super interesting imo!

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

A characteristically nice piece on recent developments in cubic optimization.
Got me thinking about a different issue: I wonder if anyone's done a study on cumulative economic impacts of various algorithms? (obviously motivated by the staggering $$$ impact of linear programming)

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Suppose that a car company makes only two models. How many of each should it build to optimize profit? https://t.co/bSkfq9wj9a

[Pradyumna Singh | प्रद्युम्न @pradyu_singh]

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