Deepak Subramani
@deepakns
PhD, @MIT. BTech, @iitmadras. AI, ML, Climate, Upskilling, Education. Views are my own.
In my strong and not so humble opinion, all asynchronous gamified learning systems are not good for education. They are for entertainment.
In my personal experience with Duolingo, I found that it isn't an education app, it's a mobile game -- it's completely ineffective at teaching languages but it's quite entertaining and it's great at making you *feel* like you're learning
I believe this is true, I used the word in my “Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs” post from 2015, and as far as I can remember I also hallucinated it.
No bro. The adoption is clear proof that we like free things.
Perplexity usage in India growing like 🔥 Keep it coming! Excited to keep improving the product and serve more people’s daily questions. The adoption is clear proof that search has changed forever.
BREAKING: we've partnered with @metaai and @paperswithcode to build a successor to Papers with Code (which was sunsetted yesterday) PWC, founded by @rbstojnic and @rosstaylor90 has been an invaluable resource for AI scientists and engineers over the years (and an inspiration…
Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities, but you can't get your college years back.
I stopped my subscription to X. Over the last year, arbitrary posts got viral. And actual contributions that must have been viral, stayed with 100 views. So I have concluded that X is not the right platform for me to post educational and AI/ML content.
Please note, we're not able to reproduce the 41.8% ARC-AGI-1 score claimed by the latest Qwen 3 release -- neither on the public eval set nor on the semi-private set. The numbers we're seeing are in line with other recent base models. In general, only rely on scores verified by…
After the metro is operational, will I take the metro or EV taxi from airport to home? Random thoughts on the drive from airport to my home near IISc: Happy to see the rapid pace of metro construction. But, even after the metro is operational, I would likely take EV taxicab…
There are many great researchers out there. But the ones that really stand out to me are the ones who are also kind, even when they don't need to be.
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The goal of education should not be to achieve a certain population average on standardized tests, it should be to unlock the highest total individual potential out of students
At beautiful Vancouver this week for @icmlconf Started off with a double double after 14 years (last had it in Toronto in 2011)
In a parallel way, it is plausible that the primary effect of AI code assistants is to make you *feel* more productive, to gamify the development experience -- while delivering net negative productivity gains (which would explain the lack of increased output since 2022)
Like WiFi routers, a Home GPU inference unit that supports local inference at the family level. I am already doing this with two RTX unit, and I won't be surprised if we see consumer products soon with just vLLM inference engine and a simple UI that lets you select a model.
Writing a rebuttal is 30% technical and 70% reviewers' psychology.
Context Engineering "Context engineering" is a key part of agent building. We review a few popular patterns for context engineering + explain how to use them w/ LangGraph. Blog: blog.langchain.com/context-engine… Video: youtu.be/4GiqzUHD5AA
Scientists at IISc have designed a hydrogel that rapidly transitions from gel to solution when exposed to copper ions. It has promising applications in targeted drug delivery and diagnostics. Read more: iisc.ac.in/copper-sensiti… #IIScresearch @funbiomats
What is the irrational fear of flying on Boeing planes called? Also how to stop feed news of plane issues?
There’s a deep malaise in tech right now. —New grads can’t find jobs —BigTech middle managers are trying to justify their existence —Everyone not in AI wants to be in AI —Founders struggling with their startup for years see Roy rewrite the rules —Comp insecurity is at an all…
Happy to share that I spent the weekend clearing pending emails. I have a 0 inbox today morning.