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One good thing I did this year. #goodreads #books

Just finished my favourite course at UT Austin, and the prof melted my heart by awarding students for their efforts in the course! 🥹

My favourite fiction writer (and football enthusiast) consistently winning the best book in non-fiction category is a treat to my eyes. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social #goodreads

"This is a fantastic and crucial question, that goes to the very core of our approach"

With students coming back to campus, I'm already missing how peaceful everything was over the summer!

On a gloomy day, posts from @postcrossing.com bring a smile on my face

For cat in a box, we should be able to do both... #Schrodingerscat

I recently decided to paint my dear plants with my favourite movie characters. Guess which movies I saw recently?

After having sent around 20 postcards to strangers on @postcrossing.com (& other), I am surprised that many people don't like self-made personalized cards and prefer printed ones. I can never understand this! In what world is a mass-produced postcard more liked than a personalized card?

Every once in a while, I install Instagram to share something with friends. Being away from it, hits how insanely addictive the reels are. It's almost like frog in boiling water effect where using it daily makes you accustomed without realising the effects it has on the health.

Getting a new plant this Earth day! 😃 #EarthDay

Pretty cute, and overall impressive!

Lo and behold, 'anger' takes over Riley

I made a starter pack for researchers in probabilistic machine learning. DM/reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/DuCtJqC

Here it is! Signed in blue, means it's in the first 20k signatures by part-time writer and full-time book signer @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

It's happening! I can't remain calm! @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Sometimes I create calendar events for trivial reminder tasks for myself (like cooking, or watering the plants). At this point, I'm basically Google's unpaid data entry clerk. "Here's my life data, no need to spy!"

Looking at stars, and just the night sky is one task that makes me extremely happy. The Austin Public Library organized this event of stargazing for sxsw, and I'm glad I could attend!

While waiting for my model to finish training, I watched inside out 2, and decided to paint my pot with joy... The idea of anxiety taking over your body and changing your sense of "self" from "I'm a good person" to "I'm not good enough", hit really close to home.

ACM A.M. Turing Award Honors 2024: Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton Recognized as Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

Turing award: Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win for AI training trick todayheadline Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto made key breakthroughs in reinforcement learning Dawn Gaves, University of Alberta/Zinj Guo, University of Massachusetts Amherst Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024…

#MikeWazowski on my succulent pot! 😁

University events will tell you they serve vegetarian food, and then feed you a bunch of leaves wrapped in a tortilla 😞

Wowww... This is huge. Congrats to Gukesh for becoming the youngest chess world champion!

no pain au chocolat, no gain au chocolat

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖

Me: Oh this extension seems nice. Let me add it to Firefox The extension:

Hi everyone! I am Raghav Arora (sometimes "aurora"), an MS ECE grad student at UT Austin. I am studying and learning Machine Learning and its applications to Robotics. Previously, I worked at Robotics Research Center, IIITH where we researched how robots could reason and plan in an unknown home.

I did a starter pack of ML/AI people at @utaustin.bsky.social Please distribute and feel free to self nominate! go.bsky.app/QLQznZg