Figured twitter deserves a short life upd: graduated from Stanford last month (no longer in school.. it's a weird feeling), moved to work @ nyc (started work this week!), been showing dad around this past month and it's been fun af :D
Just a few days after I found out she was battling cancer again, I lost the person I loved and respected the most. I know you’ll always be watching over me, and I owe everything I am to you. She was always a fighter, but I’m glad she went instantaneously w/o pain.
RIP Mom. 🙏❤️
Celebrated my 24th birthday yday! The last year has by far been the one with the highest variance emotionally. Fun parts: interning, graduating, new job all exciting! Took my dad out to dinner before he leaves for Mumbai.
Onto hopefully a year with higher EV & lower variance 🫡
I'm finally done with my blog about my experience @ ICPC Dhaka World Finals! Link is in comments!
I talk qualifying for 3 consecutive wfs from 2 continents with 6 teammates, my team getting COVID in Moscow, getting the best rank in IIT Bombay history, and devastation in Dhaka..
@ty_johannes
Is the strength of the opposition for both significantly different? Wouldn't this impact your results? (Speaking as someone who is suspicious of Neimann, want to be sure this is not a spurious correlation)
Was scrolling through pics from WF, 2022 has been incredible for my weight loss journey😄
Left: A pic from ICPC World Finals in Dhaka (November 2022)
Right: A pic from ICPC World Finals in Moscow (October 2021)
Hopefully an even better me at ICPC World Finals in Egypt 2023!
Google Codejam and Hashcode have been discontinued after almost 20 years ☹️🥹
I skipped the last couple Codejams (I think), was hoping to actually get time to do it this year. And
@aryanc403
I guess we'll never get to go to Ireland for Hashcode 😭
Happy new year everyone!
A couple years back, I challenged
@aryanc403
to a fun race to GM on cf; the loser would have to change their fb profile to a photo of the winner.
This year, I challenge
@aryanc403
to a race to IGM, and we do it on twitter. So, what do you say?😄
@ArsenalRL
RL news tomorrow: SSG move from NA to EU to play "better competition" and play against stronger teams in a move that parallels True Neutral's story
Stanford ICPC teams at today’s regionals! Our top team, Stanford Cardinal will go to NAC this year in a bid to qualify for world finals.
Also had fun being a guest on the ICPCLive channel on the stream 😄
Follow up: excited to share that I’ll be co-head TA for algorithms at Stanford this quarter!
Can’t wait to innovate on the best way to teach students about algorithms - we have 700 enrollments currently!!
Time to make my last quarter at Stanford the best 🥰
@ChessbaseIndia
@FIDE_chess
Absolutely unacceptable management; even for local competitions I went to in India, volunteers would always be present waiting much in advance
For this to not happen for the women’s grand prix is an insanely bad look
Can’t believe I’d ever say this but I will probably not participate in ICPC world finals this year despite qualifying :’(
So many people I wanted to see again but the multiple delays just don’t work
Holy cow my airpods just passed the ultimate test: completely blocking the noise of an Indian train station 😳
That’s insanely cool and lowkey kinda dangerous
Between homework, TA stuff (finals are coming..), the codeforces round and reply code challenge, I’ve been up since the past 30ish hours (save for a couple of 30min naps). I don’t think I’ve coded this much time straight for a while..
ICPC world finals was super fun!! Got to meet internet friends once more, and experience the adrenaline rush once again. Will be back stronger next year.
Blogpost with tons of pictures coming in a couple of weeks! :)
Near the end of the quarter! TAing has been one of the most fun jobs of mine at Stanford… I can see the finish line and I’m feeling a little nostalgic already 🤧🫡
@duttagobhi
Lmao this happened to a friend (asked to a running gym date) and I couldn’t stop laughing and coming up with wisecracks
Like how do you break up?
“You know, this isn’t working out”
“I think we should run with other people”
(Sees you huffing and puffing)
“Actually, I think you
Motivation time!!
As an absolute beginner runner, I’ve been challenging myself to do 5kms recently! My times have been 31-35min indoor and 35-40min outdoor.
My first goals are hitting sub30 indoor and sub35 outdoor!
Anyone else have beginner fitness goals?
IMC Prosperity Trading Competition results are in!
We're in... 2nd place globally! 1st place is a cool 25k USD, which would have been split amongst the two of us
2nd place prize is.. so far, seems like 0$🤡 Negative EV plays huh
Reasonably happy with solving A-F today, back to IM atleast. Think I could’ve gotten G1 because I had the ideas of k=2 and pairing/finding max, but couldn’t figure out how to count pairs
Hardest part of these rounds is being awake at 6am, shows in my perf on easy probs lol
(+) Had an amazing internship at IMC, explored quant research, made tons of friends, got a return offer. Decided to join a company I highly respect (Jane Street) as a software engineer after graduation
(2/n)
@Priyansh_31Dec
Disjoint set Union. I remember the ol Codechef long challenge days.. I started reading random articles on cp-algorithms until I encountered this exact algorithm I needed to solve a problem I was stuck on. Good times!
Berkeley trading competition was super fun! I can barely walk straight right now (just woke up after 3h, 3h, 13h of sleep on consecutive days 😂) but people were amazing! And so much merch 🥰
My resolution for this year was to run a 5k within 30 minutes; something I thought would be hard but doable given how unfit I was.
Well, I did a sub-25 minute 5k today - surprises me what we can achieve when we put our minds to it 😤💪
Been looking to get my parents a B2 US visa so they can attend my graduation, and honestly visa agents are useless af
Managed to get the slots myself today, PSA for all students trying to do the same: just join telegram groups and try it yourself
@Priyansh_31Dec
The difference in US and Indian interviews hit me hard after moving lol
In the US interviewers usually asked me D2B to D2C at most in startups, Facebook/big tech
Only Jane street, IMC, Citadel, Virtu ever asked me anything above a D2C in difficulty to be honest..
Why did I go to the Central Park zoo on a snowy day, you ask?
I have no idea BUT I found a bunch of the kung fu panda villians 👍 (and a cute red panda)
I was up till 4:30am to watch this sexy beast win the triple world championship for the third time 😏
15 total championships, undisputed greatest of all time imo 🥱
Every time I fly on an Indian airline, I recall the ultimate flying experience as a kid: Jet airways 🥰
No cabin crew member gives me cool swag I can show off to other kids anymore
Always wanted to live tweet a CP contest (or perhaps commentate?). Sadly Asia West championships happened while I was asleep, and thankfully
@aryanc403
and
@Gravito841
put on some amazing commentary! Do check it out 😁
On the 3h drive to Chico state! It’s pacific northwest icpc regionals day! 🥳
One of the teams from Stanford has this as their first page of the reference document 😂😂 (the guy in the pic is conqueror_of_tourist from codeforces!)
Damn we actually live in the future :O
Remember asking about the challenges of text to video models to PhD students in this lab a year back. Looks like they were able to resolve em 🫡
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Might finally actually do hackercup round 3 after skipping them for the last 2 years (mid-weekend timings are the worst)
ironically this is the year I retire
Merch grab! Unfortunately I might have lost a couple of things in the moving around of the competition, like my Janestreet cards, but I’m going to grab a pack when I get there :)