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Mathematics is truly our 3rd eye. It allows us to extend study of beauty & structure beyond what our biological senses allow.
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Career Update (a little late!)
I’ve joined @pre6ai as a Founding Engineer(first one in the team), excited to work on something fascinating. 🤞
The irony of a drinker judging every non-drinker because some non-drinker judges every drinker?
Here's an equally silly counter-take.
Met a (fairly successful) person who was completely burnt out. But sometimes that's the only thing that helps us rediscover what really mattered.
The nature of ambition - by @grantdraws
Given how many of you seem to relate to this, pls consider supporting @grantdraws' work, if you can. His books are lovely, warm & endearing - just search for Grant Snider on your fav bookstore.
I used to cite this post to students for a long time, as an example of applying learned concepts in daily life. A classic: debarghyadas.com/writes/hack…
Didn't realise that was you @debarghya_das! I recall reading it in someplace else though at the time.
This talk by @TigerBeetleDB folks is an absolute unit. The surface area they cover on fault models, perf & other aspects of distributed systems, can keep most engineers busy for weeks digging more.
h/t @webiyo
Enggs, spend an hr of your weekend on this: youtube.com/watch?v=BH2jvJ74…
I'd bet that @ponnappa's first tweet in this thread will be proven right in a self referential fashion. Lots of truths in this thread, and some debatable opinions.
I'm trying to gather some feedback about the relevance of engineering college curriculum to industry, as viewed from a student's perspective. Can you help circulate this to the right communities?
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What a wonderful thing to do. If any IIT-D students on my TL, can you please reply (or DM) with what kinds of these sessions make the most difference?
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I feel engineering colleges should invite industry folks to come & interact with 1st yr college students far more than the final/pre-final yr ones.
So much to be gained by just a richer perspective to the subjects they'd soon be learning.
What do tiger stripes, leopard spots & other animal patterns have in common with eigenvalues & dynamic system analysis?
Cue: Reaction-Diffusion (RD) systems, first proposed by Turing in 1952
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Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern. A tiger's stripes help to break up the outline of its body and make it hard to see [read more: buff.ly/3h0yfmN]
IIRC, the underlying assumption is that a "preprint" of these equation parameters is encoded into the embryonic cells, so the development process simply follows the chemical process as governed by these params.
One can think of these params as the true "fingerprint".
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Personally, I'm not a fan of extravagance in marriages, but this thread by @jsensarma makes sense.
Perhaps we shouldn't let our individual opinions come in the way of making a modern global industry out of things that are uniquely 🇮🇳
Good talk for college students to listen to. Sunny (Shubhanjan) took the career of a product designer, even though he was studying as an engineer.
A few reasons why students should listen to this talk: 1/
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This is a common pattern I see in all of my maverick campus hires. And one of my fav activities in campus is to look for these folks.