Anshul Toshniwal

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Performance Hints

Over the years, my colleague Sanjay Ghemawat and I have done a fair bit of diving into performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document a couple of years ago as a way of identifying some general principles and we've recently published a version of it externally.

We'd love any feedback you might have!

Read the full doc at: https://t.co/jej95g236P

[Anshul Toshniwal @toshniwal8]

@vfsglobalcare
Hello,
There has been a new form of visa approved for Indians visiting Schengen area and is called as the visa 'cascade' regime. This option is not available on the vfs website. How can an Indian national apply for this?

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

In April, '17, @jsomers of @NewYorker reached out & said he wanted to do a small profile of me & my longtime colleague Sanjay Ghemawat, watch us work for a few hours, maybe dinner, etc.

It came out today. I think it captures our working style really well. https://t.co/cRSMiFfwAP

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[CWI @CWInl]

Congratulations to our CWI colleague Ronald de Wolf, and to Samuel Fiorini, Serge Massar, Sebastian Pokutta, Hans Raj Tiwary, and Thomas Rothvoss, for winning the prestigious 2023 Gödel Prize! 🎉https://t.co/ugs6gjmRdA @sigact @QuSoft @UvA_Amsterdam

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

Great thread on Hinton's infamous prediction about AI replacing radiologists: "thinkers have a pattern where they are so divorced from implementation details that applications seem trivial, when in reality, the small details are exactly where value accrues."

[World Bank Group @WorldBankGroup]

The Executive Directors of the @WorldBank today selected Ajay Banga as the President of the World Bank. Mr. Banga begins his five-year term on June 2, 2023.

Read the news release: https://t.co/xeSDLCwGUn

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

AR-LLMs can pass the bar exam, medical licensing & MBA exams.
But on the IIT entrance exams they perform badly on chemistry, horribly on physics, and terribly on math.
They are good with rote learning & fluency but bad with building mental models & reasoning with them.

[sunny @thePiggsBoson]

After winning the Nobel Prize in 1979, Dr. Abdus Salam had requested the Indian government to find Professor Anilendra Ganguly, who had taught him mathematics in the pre-partition era at the Sanatan Dharma College in Lahore.

[Anshul Toshniwal @toshniwal8]

@KCLDisSyst @Institut_IHES Despite Apratim Kaviraj being the first author, the article mentions 'Slava and coworkers'. Amazing how biases creep in even in scientific reporting !

[EPFL @EPFL_en]

At 37, Maryna Viazovska becomes the second woman in history to receive the prestigious #FieldsMedal🏅, widely described as the Nobel Prize of #Mathematics. #FieldsMedal https://t.co/yl9uZ826Vv

[Anshul Toshniwal @toshniwal8]

@pmddomingos It is studied by Performative prediction if I am correct.

[IIT Delhi @iitdelhi]

Congratulations to Dr Anirudh Devgan, President & CEO, @Cadence

Dr Devgan received a #BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from #IITDelhi in 1990.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

VACCINE RISK
Even if vaccines have not been around for long, the sample for the Covid vaccines is so yuuuuge that we can already see what risks they don't have & proceed by elimination.
This is not a precise estimation but the framework to work with.

[Anshul Toshniwal @toshniwal8]

@EPFL_en @zurichfilmfest I want one :P

[Dhiraj Hazra @dhirajhazra]

Today we have lost a giant pillar of cosmology -- Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan of IUCAA. The whole community is shocked and saddened by this news. He was the supervisor of my supervisor.

[Luca Dellanna @DellAnnaLuca]

WHY IS ERGODICITY IMPORTANT? AN EXAMPLE

My cousin was born in a mountain village in the French Alps. Like many there, he learned to ski before reading.

I am a good skier, but I remember the humiliation when I was 14 and he was 6, seeing him surpass me, swift as a bullet.

[Anshul Toshniwal @toshniwal8]

@kunalb11 This is the reason that stand up comedies, which are insufferable, flourish in India.

[Anshul Toshniwal @toshniwal8]

@edanderson101 This is completely ridiculous!
Even I don't like idlis and there is no shame in that

[Anshul Toshniwal @toshniwal8]

Just setting up my Twitter. #myfirstTweet