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Agile was invented to solve a specific problem: software development was slow, expensive, and wrong.

Oh look another nerd deciding to waste more internet bandwidth on all the wonderful virtues of Jujutsu VCS.

In 2024 Apple released an ad for the iPad Pro.

In AI research, scaling laws are gospel.

The UI Moment, Again In November 2022, ChatGPT's launch felt like a paradigm shift.

The Vibe Coding Automated Programming Revolution Software engineering is fundamentally changing.

Waypoint Transformer The Waypoint Transformer was published at NeuRIPS 2023 by Badrinath et. al. and is a new method for Reinforcement learning via supervised learning (RvS) that builds on the prior Decision Transformer and is conditioned on automatically…

Building CLIP from Scratch to Classify Pokemon Prior deep learning approaches to performing image classification frame the problem as given a dataset of image, label pairs, learn a mapping between the image space and the label space using a neural network…

This week has been weird to say the least.

Sections 1 and 2 are motivation and background if you care, Section 3 is the real meat of the essay.

A Procedurally Generated Mountain Town I spent the fall learning about computer graphics and OpenGL, a topic which I didn't get to cover in my undergrad.

In the practice of developing machine learning models, there are few tools as approachable as PyTorch for developing and experimenting in designing machine learning models.

Dumping Facebook Sophomore year of college I started becoming more aware of the all the data I was posting online, mostly because I realized how much time I was spending on Facebook in the first place.

I wrote a post for the NVIDIA Developer Blog on how we implemented real-time autonomous vehicle perception using the specialized hardware available on the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Self Driving Computer.

A portion of the Twilight Installation in the office of ACM@UIUC Twilight is a concept for self organizing office lighting based on similar ideas to my work on the Amorphous Facade.

ACM@UIUC GPU Cluster In order to effectively work with deep learning a GPU is required.

When one thinks of neural networks, probably the first thing they think of is a deep learning framework like Tensorflow or PyTorch.

Thoughts after running Experience for HackIllinois 2016 about growth and direction of HackIllinois and Hackathons in general.

In 2016 interestingly enough Anheuser Busch sponsored a hackathon in the ECE Department.

The impetus to create such a framework stems from the reality that the majority of developers who work in our development group, will not be there in 4 years (and most will leave earlier).

Weave The potential of IoT in the mid 2010s was really embodied by Nest, a company founded by the same people who developed the iPod and ultimately was bought by Google.

This work was done during the Greylock Hackfest 2016 We entered the 2016 Greylock Hackfest and for the first couple hours didn't know what to work on.

From video to 3D model automatically During my time working in the UIUC Vision Group with Prof.

This work was done during the 2015 Greylock Hackfest Coming to a hackathon with no idea what you want to work on is always leads to the same thing.

Something unique about UIUC is that they let a bunch of undergrads try to and teach a course in the form of the CS Department's Freshman Projects Course.

I gave a TEDx Talk on my work at NOAA on climate modeling, CU on swarm robotics and Design and Developement work for my High School and how you can use design thinking as a framework to approach for interdisiplinary studies.

For 2013 and 2014, I spent a good deal of my free time and all of my summer working on research in Swarm Robotics at the University of Colorado Boulder in Professor Nikolaus Correll's Lab.

Transcription of my IB Math HL Paper from 2013 Google being a leading company in the technology industry in order to remain competitive needs to find the best talent in computer science, mathematics and the hard sciences.