Vaibhav Thakkar

Working towards autonomous physical systems / robotics.

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"Life is made of star-stuff. We are the means through which the cosmos aims to understand itself."

-- Carl Sagan

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Failure (or non-planned exploration) is a necessity for evolution.

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Modified turing test for robotic hands: peel a boiled egg.

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We can get similar insights by studying behaviors/journeys of other humans/societies before us.

Reading biographies is like gaining data / observations about our system with different control variable inputs and possibly learning to adjust our own system.

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Some late night thoughts on why reading history is important:

Humans are complex systems, so are our societies and culture.

How do you gain understanding of any complex system?

(1/n)

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Change some control variable, see how the behaviour of the system changes. Very similar to how we debug software systems (like adding console.log or printf statements).
(3/n)

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Telerobotics, if done nicely, will be hugely beneficial. It can reduce traffic and actually globalize the workforce.

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Why hasn't the Whatsapp team built a Splitwise feature for every group?

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Imagination, if done collectively, becomes common sense, currency being a perfect example of this.

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Wrote a blogpost about some of my thoughts on self-learning: https://t.co/Dxp26j3ERz

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Perspective in psychology is equivalent to the frame of reference in physics.
Science had a hard time understanding the earth's motion while standing on it. Very much similar to how we struggle to analyze our own difficult situations than other people's.

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@MurtyNag Can it be possible due to chemical affinity? The tail/arm can be made of some material which attracts towards that object.

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It will be really helpful for senior citizens and non-tech-savvy people.

For privacy, the model should run on the edge device instead of sending data to the cloud.

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AI product idea:
Analyzing conversations during calls to alert if it seems like a financial fraud/scam.

Can help against Microsoft support scam and credit card fraud.

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Does anyone know good resources for learning about UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)? Would be great if it follows a hands-on approach.

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Best game ever. 🇦🇷 vs 🇫🇷
Messi 🐐
beautiful game by Mbappe
#FIFAWorldCup

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Lionel Messi 🙏🙏 #FIFAWorldCup

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google foobar challenge ✅

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Zero knowledge proofs are so cool

[Mina Protocol (httpz) 🪶 @MinaProtocol]

🪐✨ InterPlanetary Compute System

Decentralized alternative for ec2 instances and lambdas.

Github > https://t.co/sA5iJvC1jL

@vaithak, @RiteshGoru
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