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Skill Trees for Hierarchical Learning

The full investigative report – http://rishubjain.github.io/skill-trees-hierarchical.pdf

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Happy Father's Day

How do traditions get made? What should they signify? Circa 1996, one day my mother was asked to stay back in school at pick up time since the teachers wanted to have a word about me with her. It was sort of an intervention, one where they expressed their frustration at how, for the life of me, they could not get me to pay attention to anything at school.  The problem was that I would steal…

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A Eulogy for my Grandmother

June 6, 2018 Every year since 2018, June 6 marks the death anniversary of my grandmother. In 2017, around this time I had to cut short my visit to India and I never got to say goodbye to her. This, I suppose, is me processing that loss and making peace with it. A few years before my grandmother’s death, in a rare moment of candidness, my father asked, “Jija, thane kai badalno veto aapne jeevan…

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The Diplomat S1E7

t is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it portrays how…

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The Diplomat - S1E6

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat S1E5

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat S1E4

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat S1E3

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Half of It

“Note the lack of fire and brimstone in No Exit, ‘we are the source of our own hell'” while underlining quote from Jean Paul Sartre: ‘Hell is other people’. “You’re his (my father’s) favorite heathen. He can’t handle mediocre accompanists. Even if they are saved”. “The Remains of the Day, all that barely repressed longing.” “Don’t plagiarize ‘Wings of Desire‘ from Wim Wenders.” ‘In love one…

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An Emergency Room Thanksgiving

Everything about the arrival of our baby in my life has been unusual. Like the fact that I was admitted in an emergency room (ER) on this exact day 2 years ago (Thanksgiving 2021) when I found out I was expecting, while being checked for if my life was at risk.  How did this happen? We were on a marriage anniversary roadtrip to San Diego. I developed a sick stomach after dinner at a restaurant…

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Turing vs. Oppenheimer: Trysts with Evil

Inspired from the movie Oppenheimer.Is it just me or did we notice the fact that the reason the atomic bomb eventually became unnecessary to defeat the Nazis was that there was another group of scientists trying to defeat the same evil with a radically different approach. In the end a few mathematical models and computation won over the sheer brute, explosive force of nuclear physics. It is now…

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An "Alien" of Extraordinary Ability

I’ll pick up this post exactly from where I left if off on LinkedIn: Sometime last year, a small little envelope arrived in my mailbox. It was thin, light, unassuming. Its physical appearance not at all representative of the freedom it was about to unleash in my life.  The card inside the envelope goes by many acronyms: EB1A, GC, PR etc. (If any of these sound familiar to you, you might want to…

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The Lifecycle of Open Source Projects on Github

The Lifecycle of Open Source Projects on Github

Aaksha Meghawat, Chris Bogart, Carolyn P. Rose In 2016, I started out with the goal of using natural language processing & discourse analysis to improve developer productivity on Github. Thanks to early success in our computational approaches, we were soon asking the question of whether we could predict if an open source project was on the path to failure or success. This was further motivated…

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Github Conversations: Characterizing Framing & Measuring Openness

Github Conversations: Characterizing Framing & Measuring Openness

Aaksha Meghawat, Steven Moore, Qinlan Shen, Steven Dang, Carolyn P. Rose Prologue Who decides what is right? Who decides what is a ‘best practice’? The way open source developers, teams and software organizations deal with these questions is crucial to their success and the community as a whole. The research I document in this post was carried out by me and a few of my amazing lab mates in…

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Select Additive Learning: Representation Learning for Small Datasets & Identity Bias Mitigation

Select Additive Learning: Representation Learning for Small Datasets & Identity Bias Mitigation

Summary Poster: Select Additive Learning for Representation Learning in Small Datasets & Identity Bias Mitigation

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