Sameer Agarwal

Engineer at @google. Optimization ( algebra and computer vision research.

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@ShriramKMurthi @norootcause .@craigcitro introduced me to the idea of the "moral truth" of a proof/argument. Not every detail is right but enough is true to communicate what is really going on.

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

1/ Many will tell you why Python is great for teaching coding, so I'll tell you ways it's not.

State is a bad default. It should be legal but safe & rare. The arc of programming is long and bends towards immutability. Its early use creates messes (eg, "a variable is a box".) ↵

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@five9a2 If you are ever in Seattle, please do let me know, I'd love to say hello in person.

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@stephentyrone @optshiftk @ID_AA_Carmack But unfortunately not the same as zero bias.

[D Attenborough @Attenboroughs_D]

I see you baby, shaking that ass.

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@ShriramKMurthi @sg1753 My version of this is hopping from one aunty's kitchen to another and recording their recipes.

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@noyes99 @IITKanpur @karandi65 @SriSri @ArtofLiving Pretty sure some idiot in the ministry of education is responsible for this, since this is not an iitk only thing.

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@noyes99 @IITKanpur @karandi65 @SriSri @ArtofLiving Gajab.

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@tweetingsathya @ShriramKMurthi Kathi roll company is reliably great!

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@ShriramKMurthi @sg1753 I may have a few eating suggestions in Delhi too. Some of them require that you are acclimated to Delhi water though.

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@jbouie Come to Seattle! Kathakali on the Eastside!

https://t.co/8q2oY5LVVD

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

if your analysis takes you to a place where billionaire owners of capital are a proletarian class struggling against the denomination of their managers…then you’re an idiot

[Azhar @lonelyredcurl]

IIT Madras 🥰

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

a few of my favorite memories

[Serge Belongie @SergeBelongie]

With the recent burst in applications of Large Language Models (LLMs), it's worth revisiting the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect and Knoll's Law (1/8)

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@SergeBelongie I was thinking about it last night because of a thread @Michael_J_Black posted. Put another way, just like real life is full of bs artists, we are now systematizing the construction of computational bs artists.

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@noyes99 @IITKanpur @karandi65 @SriSri @ArtofLiving I had EXACTLY the same response. This is not okay @iitkanpur and @karandi65.

[Sameer Agarwal @sandwichmaker]

@docmilanfar All I hear you saying is that more people should go to grad school!