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Passionate about AI4Code Curr: Gen AI @Zomato Prev: | Program Synthesis with LLMs @Microsoft @ProseMsft | Built systems @prodigaltech

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Saksham
2 years
I have gotten lousy with the things I learn. So I think every day I will try to share the papers I read, and on the weekends, I will try to share some progress on things I build and implement; I hope this tweet helps me feel accountable!
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2 years
Here’s your daily dose of Linkedin Cringe
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2 months
My team is looking for kick ass Research-engineers working on building AI first products. Feel free to DM me with your resume!
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Saksham
3 years
@KyleMorgenstein Kyle can we have a yt channel where you give a review of rocks after licking them!?
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Saksham
4 months
Took my first interview and copied @prajdabre1 's question of discussing how a transformer works in depth, not only did the candidate fail to answer the question they even couldn't tell me what recursion is, and btw they are an AI Scientist at some startup lol.
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4 years
All kids idealising Google(Yes FAANG hype I am talking about you), should clearly see how amazing the company is.
Meg Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team has been fired. She got an email to her personal email. After locking her out for 5 weeks. There are many words I can say right now. I'm glad to know that people don't fall for any of their bull. To the VPs at google, I pity you.
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3 years
Reasons why people love delhi. We have culture
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3 years
Coming from a university where many things are hidden behind black boxes, I wanted to share some insights on how to grab and find opportunities to work/intern at unique places.
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Saksham
2 years
On some days I wish I was blind
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3 years
Yo Amazon everything okay?
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Saksham
2 years
After a fantastic time at @prodigaltech , where I learned so much from everyone and built out cool things, I am stoked to announce I am joining @MSFTResearch as a research fellow on the @ProseMsft team. Massive shoutout to @gustavoas and @SumitGulwani for giving me a chance
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Saksham
3 years
As someone who would be applying to grad schools this year. I wanted to make a 🧵 for the resources, I come across
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Saksham
5 months
Just started MiniTorch lecture series by @srush_nlp and it's so cool. I love the emphasis on DL testing and how to integrate testing into building good DL systems The desire to learn comes from the fact there is so much alpha in writing good ML code for research ideas ;)
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1 year
Hey Friends, I am looking for a new role as a Research Engineer/Associate Researcher, MLE or even a SWE(I think I am pretty good!). I have had the chance to work @Microsoft as a predoctoral research fellow and @prodigaltech as a SWE.
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Saksham
3 years
Greek god summer incoming
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1 year
My self group on WhatsApp has become a collection of interesting papers I found on Twitter 😭
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1 year
Small and a little late announcement, My work on improving low code automation @ProseMsft was published @ICSEconf (Industry Track). Our work tackles the problem of next action recommendation in low code automation platforms using Personalized Transformers
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2 years
SF is wild. I love the vibe here
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Saksham
6 months
After a quick contractor role at Boson where I worked on improving VLLM's I am in the market. I am looking for Research scientist/ Applied Researcher/ MLE roles I have trained cool models for code generation @ProseMsft and also have one pub at ICSE.
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Saksham
8 months
Just saw a car with an attached orange flag blocking their entire windshield view. Apparently India and the car have much in common
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Saksham
2 years
You will never have as much time as you have in college, go learn as much as you can. It's much easier compared to when you step out
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Saksham
2 years
This was my last Sunday in SF and I decided to do something fun. I love running, walking and going to parks so I decided to go run to as many parks I could in a period of 1 hour. All I needed was a pack of gummies and my thoughts 1/N
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Saksham
3 years
Sometimes I feel, college was not that bad after all
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3 years
Someone I know lost their parent today, and they sadly had to worry about submitting their lab midterm. Why is this semester still going on, just give me one god damn reason
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Saksham
2 years
Every time I open Twitter someone on the TL is joining either @DeepMind or @OpenAI
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Saksham
9 months
Why are people so misogynistic? And for fucks sake, if you are so amazing how about you tell me about each symbol here, and If you know the symbol what is stopping you from getting an internship at an Amazon research lab? Your tweet just shows you are salty and incompetent
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Saksham
2 years
I am seeing a lot of layoffs. In case you have been affected by a layoff and are looking for new roles let me know. - I can ask my friends to refer and refer you myself ( Idk if it’s extremely effective but it can’t hurt) - I can help with Leetcode Mocks - review your resume
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Saksham
2 years
Visited Jaipur. It’s a pretty place
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Saksham
2 years
While talking to a friend yesterday, he claimed, "Who is passionate about their job anyway." I further realized he isn't really passionate about anything, or so it seems, and I feel that is a poor way to think. A thread on finding passion and why it could be nice 1/N
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Saksham
11 months
I was at Starbucks talking to a founder who said he was solving zero to one problem by working on poop time optimisation using LLM’s and RL. The barista proceeded to give me this cup
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Saksham
2 years
It’s 6 PM on a Friday evening you finished all your work. You take a BART to Mission and have your headphones on, you walk to the Boba guys and get a large strawberry fields and go sit in Dolores. Life is amazing. I am missing so many things right now
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3 years
I think they need an ambulance 😭😭
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Saksham
3 years
bestie @tiwary_siddhant got into @Penn for CS, fucking goat
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Saksham
2 years
With my specs gone, I can finally fulfill my dream of having shades like @Casey Just need to scratch these tho!
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2 years
There was a time when I was cringe. I used to like Elon Musk
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2 years
Why is everyone from my college climbing on the fucking tank. The only thing the college did was tank your career bro
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Saksham
3 years
Offer time baby, that was fast 😂
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Saksham
3 years
Snowflake interview tomorrow, getting a strong feeling I'm going to ace it, how to remove this feeling tho xD?
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3 years
Rip
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Saksham
2 years
One of my friends is looking for a new role as a Software engineer. He is working at a high growth startup( 1 year Work Experience) and has worked extensively with writing back end systems in Python. Let me know if you want an intro, Retweets are appreciated
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Saksham
3 years
Everyday I open Linkedin, I regret having functional eyes
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Saksham
3 years
Can you all manifest for me, it might work
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3 years
Wait, how many of you didn't know Cisco comes from San Francisco, and their logo is the golden gate bridge.
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Saksham
1 year
Has anyone tried feeding an entire codebase to a LLM model? I think it would be particularly interesting to gain insights as it could help someone just getting started understand the entire workflow, not sure if any work like this already exists
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Saksham
1 year
Some of you all get hired at one place and your entire personality is that company
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Saksham
2 years
Going to pull an all nighter just to see if I have it in me
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Saksham
2 years
You’re a 10 that’s it. That’s the tweet, you can do whatever you want ✅
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Saksham
7 months
It’s absolutely funny how mid my undergrad institute is. Kids whole aim career wise is to max out to 12 LPA after graduation and many fail at doing that also. Cherry on top is an absolutely trash alumni network.
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Saksham
2 years
The best thing about writing code is often having just a vague idea of what you want to do and as you write more code you end up solving the entire problem and that is beautiful. There are obviously design principals that you need to take into account. Kinda mimics life?
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Saksham
7 months
I feel one of the best ways to understand big code bases for me is: 1) Start by looking into the code’s call stack manually and then use grep -rl to find specific module and function calls -> helps me create a mental image 2) Open a debugger and step through the code
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Saksham
3 years
Have zon Dublin interview tomorrow 3 hours will decide if I join them or not xD. Manifest for me besties
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Saksham
3 years
So today I received a rejection from @getpostman and I would like to point out their poor recruitment process A 🧵
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Saksham
3 years
Throwback to the time when I had long blue beautiful hair. You do you fam.
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Saksham
3 years
Got the worst gpa ever in any sem until now, Bro everything around me is a Random Number Generator.
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Saksham
1 year
Found a cool thing while making a document on @NotionHQ If you right click on a code block in Notion you get a link to their careers page. I love easter eggs, and I wish more companies would add such easter eggs :)
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Saksham
1 year
I hate Python Notebooks with a passion, as soon as I reach a huge chunk of code I regret even starting with a notebook :/, I should have just written a neat script
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Saksham
3 years
Inverse Pomodoro in action. 5 minutes code 25 minute procastination
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Saksham
2 years
Okay, time to leave almost every chat on WhatsApp with a reaction lfgoooo. No need to reply to anyone
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Saksham
2 months
Okay high-time to put my money where my mouth is Need to be a 10X Cuda engineer as well
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Saksham
3 years
Exam is in 30 minutes, someone asked me what’s the syllabus. Relieved to know there are at-least 2 people in my class who don’t have any idea of what’s going on
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Saksham
3 years
Bro idk can freshers not google stuff, someone just asked me to explain what Github, Hackerrank and chapters are all in one go, and asked me to not ignore their messages this time.
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Saksham
2 years
The only reason I don't like winters is because my typing speed definitely goes down because of how cold my hands are
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Saksham
2 years
You know the most cringe thing today is the 100’s of tech twelebs posting random ass announcements 😭. Can you guys stop with the clout chasing for one day? I haven’t even opened Linkedin but I am sure it’s filled with this shit only
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Saksham
2 years
There are just so many cool papers I want to read, I start reading something, I am like ooo I need to read this also now. How do you guys find time to read while doing your own research :/
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Saksham
2 years
@qvinnh Why would anyone say no? I hate people who are this competitive and for no good reason. Like no one is going to take your spot and even if they do there are so many opportunities. The goal is to grow together and cheer loudly for your friends success is how I think about this
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Saksham
2 years
Saturday was great
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Saksham
1 year
My gf planned an entire surprise trip for my birthday to the T which was perfect. So feels like 23 is perfect so far 🥰
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Saksham
3 years
And now you can say, grow up, stop crying. I would say if no one calls out companies in India for not being a little more empathetic towards a candidate just because there are several candidates then you don't understand how important time is 5/5
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1 year
@augustradjoe I really don't think this is true. For every red t-shirt engineer, you stated I feel there is an equivalent engineer in SF doing the same or more :) Unless what you said was sarcastic xD
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Saksham
2 years
@samridh29 @notmaddyfosho Family plan with friends for any subscription is always much cheaper than Buying it on student discount. Similar observations with YT premium
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Saksham
1 year
I just realized to save a small amount of money I have given up on experiences I shouldn't have (Seeing Coldplay, seeing Post Malone) which is extremely sad. I am now slowly prioritizing experiences in life over saving just a hundred dollars (Not relevant at all in the long run)
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Saksham
6 months
Gonna run a 5K in 10 hours. Tweeting so I hold myself accountable 🥰
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Saksham
3 years
Just left the Internship to work at a startup and I am enjoying and learning a lot of new stuff.
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Saksham
3 years
Got a shit team at my internship, damn what do I do, for sure can’t change my teams at this point 😭😭😭 (Feels more like IT work). To anyone who went through this how did you make the best use of the opportunity
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1 year
Going to be in the bay from July to August who wants to grab boba and talk about AI 🥰
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2 years
You know you are in Silicon Valley when you see this
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Saksham
3 years
Someone spelled Turing machine as Tiring machine and I think it's beautiful
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2 years
The only good thing about Bangalore
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6 months
Why don't I see more of @LightningAI code, sometimes @huggingface is just too much abstraction and I get why people go for it, but yeah seeing some good old pl code is just fun. Also easier to understand since less abstraction?
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Saksham
2 years
What is the point of investing if you are not investing into yourself? Investing in yourself is always a positive sum game. Invest money, time and more it is worth it!
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Saksham
2 years
Switching between a mac and a windows machine is all fun and games until you start pressing control instead of command and vice versa
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Saksham
3 years
Just used my stipend to pay the fees for my last year of college and damn does it feel good. The only thing I am happy about after 4 years is how economical this decision has been for me, and this is the only thing I don't regret after coming to this place.
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Saksham
2 months
Also some requirements: 1) You have written Pytorch/JAX/Tensorflow extensively and can explain/implement architectures 2) You have played around with tools like Hugging-face accelerate/Deepspeed/FSDP 3) You love problem solving OR 4) you love learning and are enthusiastic.
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Saksham
2 years
If I sleep, I should be able to find the bug, right? RIGHT?
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Saksham
2 years
Got 12/50 on my first test in discrete mathematics and graph theory, Ended up with an A at the end of the semester tho ✅
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Flex your lowest academic low score. To remind us that almost everyone fails at some point in life but it isn't the end of the road. Just a memory in the end. Mine was 27/100 in Engineering Math 2, just a year after I'd scored 99 in 12th boards. Much needed kick in my butt.
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3 years
When I said I want recruiter DM's I meant people who work in tech companies, not marriage recruiters bro
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Saksham
11 months
Work sponsored ChatGPT Plus hits different :)
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Saksham
3 years
Damn did you guys know NoSQL was just a Twitter hashtag 12 years ago for a meetup on opensource,distributed, nonrelational databases
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Saksham
3 years
I love how the Indian media is portraying Mirabai Chanu, but few months down the line they won’t even talk about the sport let alone the athlete.
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Saksham
3 years
Got a shit team at my internship, damn what do I do, for sure can’t change my teams at this point 😭😭😭 (Feels more like IT work). To anyone who went through this how did you make the best use of the opportunity
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Saksham
3 years
@UrviGoel3 if you don't use Spotify a lot then YT premium is what you should go with it has music as well, and you literally pay 30 per month if you get a family plan. Although the FOMO at the end of the year without Spotify will be an interesting factor xD
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Wanted to be a pro gamer and then a physicist. Ended up majoring in CS and working in ML :)
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what was your dream career as a kid and what did you end up majoring in? i wanted to be a doctor growing up and I've a degree in economics now lol
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Saksham
2 years
Left a meeting early, took an auto to the gym only to find it closed great day
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Saksham
3 years
I realised the easy part of our lives is mostly over at-least for most of us( I am coming from a position of privilege so I haven’t struggled a lot) 1/n
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Saksham
3 years
😂😂😂😂😂
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Saksham
2 years
Finally, the current year has been a rollercoaster ride for me; from being rejected by every grad school to learning so much at a high-growth startup to finally getting a chance to work in CS research full time, this has been an experience that has taught me many things.
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Saksham
3 years
Yoo Twitter besties P.S Who wants to make a better @chirpty_team
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Saksham
3 years
I hate winters, my hands are cold and I can't type fast enough
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Saksham
3 years
Bro MITACS is not paying me enough for the work I am doing, I am not a Ph.D. so why do I have full ownership of the research project, ngl I feel powerful, but I can't do this much as an undergrad. Paper, Simulation, Code, Literature review, Comparison and all this in a new field
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