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The Diplomat S1E7

t is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it portrays how…

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The Diplomat - S1E6

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat S1E5

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat S1E4

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Diplomat S1E3

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

[aaksha]

The Diplomat

The Diplomat is a thoroughly engaging series that had me hooked from the get go. It is such a well crafted show that I wanted to create a place where I could index its subtly epic dialogs (and share it with fellow Diplomat fans). I have watched the series “cover-to-cover” a couple of times now and here’s why I highly recommend it: The show is not only entertaining but also educational, as it…

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The Half of It

“Note the lack of fire and brimstone in No Exit, ‘we are the source of our own hell'” while underlining quote from Jean Paul Sartre: ‘Hell is other people’. “You’re his (my father’s) favorite heathen. He can’t handle mediocre accompanists. Even if they are saved”. “The Remains of the Day, all that barely repressed longing.” “Don’t plagiarize ‘Wings of Desire‘ from Wim Wenders.” ‘In love one…

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An Emergency Room Thanksgiving

Everything about the arrival of our baby in my life has been unusual. Like the fact that I was admitted in an emergency room (ER) on this exact day 2 years ago (Thanksgiving 2021) when I found out I was expecting, while being checked for if my life was at risk.  How did this happen? We were on a marriage anniversary roadtrip to San Diego. I developed a sick stomach after dinner at a restaurant…

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Turing vs. Oppenheimer: Trysts with Evil

Inspired from the movie Oppenheimer.Is it just me or did we notice the fact that the reason the atomic bomb eventually became unnecessary to defeat the Nazis was that there was another group of scientists trying to defeat the same evil with a radically different approach. In the end a few mathematical models and computation won over the sheer brute, explosive force of nuclear physics. It is now…

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An "Alien" of Extraordinary Ability

I’ll pick up this post exactly from where I left if off on LinkedIn: Sometime last year, a small little envelope arrived in my mailbox. It was thin, light, unassuming. Its physical appearance not at all representative of the freedom it was about to unleash in my life.  The card inside the envelope goes by many acronyms: EB1A, GC, PR etc. (If any of these sound familiar to you, you might want to…

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The Lifecycle of Open Source Projects on Github

The Lifecycle of Open Source Projects on Github

Aaksha Meghawat, Chris Bogart, Carolyn P. Rose In 2016, I started out with the goal of using natural language processing & discourse analysis to improve developer productivity on Github. Thanks to early success in our computational approaches, we were soon asking the question of whether we could predict if an open source project was on the path to failure or success. This was further motivated…

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Github Conversations: Characterizing Framing & Measuring Openness

Github Conversations: Characterizing Framing & Measuring Openness

Aaksha Meghawat, Steven Moore, Qinlan Shen, Steven Dang, Carolyn P. Rose Prologue Who decides what is right? Who decides what is a ‘best practice’? The way open source developers, teams and software organizations deal with these questions is crucial to their success and the community as a whole. The research I document in this post was carried out by me and a few of my amazing lab mates in…

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Select Additive Learning: Representation Learning for Small Datasets & Identity Bias Mitigation

Select Additive Learning: Representation Learning for Small Datasets & Identity Bias Mitigation

Summary Poster: Select Additive Learning for Representation Learning in Small Datasets & Identity Bias Mitigation

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The Future of Work: A Vision

The Future of Work: A Vision

COVID-19 has forced us all to rethink many aspects of our lives. Job losses, stimulus checks, 0% interest rates and stock market turbulence dominate conversations when avoiding the more morbid topics of death and disease. Most large scale systems are struggling to deal with this pandemic in a coherent way and these struggles offer a rare lens into what we value as a society. As I work longer and…

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Assault

An unfeeling world A cage Could you escape?

Conform conform conform To an older man’s importance Could you escape?

Some want sex Some want beauty And some want duty Could you escape?

Tie you in shackles of righteousness If you tried But who should you abide?

That people exist with no questions, Sheep That people exist unanswered, f&#$!! (bleep) That rebels exist, wallowing, deep

Why must some…

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The Buddha Theme

I was an artist before I became an engineer.

This was possible because of the brilliant art centre set up at Sahyadri School where I had the opportunity to explore several artistic cultures and techniques. In my 2nd year of this exploration, I found myself very inspired by Asian art revolving around the Buddha. Having worked on a batik piece, creating ‘Mohini’, I decided at the time to create a…