Introduction Light rail (or LRT) is a type of transit which uses street-running, at-grade trains to transport passengers. It’s been seeing a growing surge of interest in American cities over the last few decades, and politicians across the country are proposing light rail as a solution to their cities’ transit Read more…
I have a lot of experience watching bad presentations, starting right from elementary school, and going all the way through undergrad, in industry, and in my PhD. This is almost certainly true of everybody reading this right now as well, and you might have some specific examples or memories of Read more…
Recently, I started a mini-project to write a Python script for transliterating the Tamil Script, since I couldn’t find a good one which already existed. Transliteration (also known as Romanization) simply means taking the native Tamil Script, which looks something like தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி, and turning it into something a phonetic Read more…
A few years ago, I wrote in a blog post that I would start working more on Tamil again, and while I was able to read through the Colloquial Tamil book and pick up some grammatical concepts and vocab, it wasn’t really useful by itself, and I wasn’t super satisfied Read more…
In 2022, I published my first ever, first-author publication as a PhD student — How Does Predictive Information Affect Human Ethical Preferences?, which was published at AIES 2022. Since then, I’ve been meaning to write a blog post version of the paper (as advocated for by Rachel Thomas and others) Read more…
One of my current research projects deals with applying elements of Curriculum Learning (CL) for designing real-world human learning curricula. In the last few weeks, I’ve read a number of CL papers, and in this blog post, I’ll summarize two of them. The first is the "original" paper on this Read more…
A few months ago, I started using RevealJS to make presentations instead of Powerpoint. RevealJS is “an open-source HTML presentation framework”, with the idea that you can write your presentations programmatically, using HTML and JS, rather than manually putting everything you want to show in the WYSIWYG interface. Philosophically, it’s Read more…
Yesterday, I finished my first ever NeurIPS conference. It was a great experience, as I got to present some of my recent work and get feedback, meet friends from around the country, learn about awesome research in many fields, and listen to some of the foremost minds in all of Read more…
In this post, I’ll give a step-by-step tutorial on how to get started running Deep Learning code using Pytorch, Tensorflow, and JupyterLab on the GPUs available in the WashU RIS cluster. Getting Access First, you will need to get access to the RIS Cluster. Each faculty gets 5TB of free Read more…
You can jump straight to the interactive visualization here. Details on how I implemented this project is available in the Github repo. Growing up, whenever my family used to take airplanes, I was always drawn to the airline route maps that were in the seat-back magazine. I loved going Read more…