What if we reconsidered the approach to reading? In this article, I have penned down some of my notes on how I think habit of reading and concentration needed to read can be developed using some of my own time-tested standard practices.
This is a synopsys of the talk given by Dr. Richard W. Hamming at Morris Research and Engineering Center on March 7, 1986 as a part of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Series. I have adapted it from J. F. Kaiser's "Richard Hamming: You and your research." Simula Research Laboratory (2010): 37-60.
This is my take on the term 'Hardware Lottery'. Introduced by Sara Hooker, it is the unintentional prejudice observed historically towards certain research ideas in computer science that succeed, not because they were far superior to others but due to how well-suited they were for the available hardware and software of the time, often creating a 'noise' to the interpretability of new research directions. What is missing in this puzzle? Let's take a look.
In modern Deep Learning accelerators, the computer architecture used to train a deep learning model affects the model’s accuracy, speed and even its ability to generalise to new data. This creates a massive multi-dimensional design space to find pareto-optimal configuration per use-case. Additionally, new ISAs need new software and compilers. How do we navigate this maze of infinite possibilities? What is Agile development for hardware all about?
Some time back, I shared my experiences with undergraduate students of my bachelor's university as an Alumni. In the past few years, I got to learn under eminent scientists in 4 different countries. So looking back, there are surely a bunch of thoughts I would have shared with my younger self. This article is my attempt to share some of my insights with the current students in India by sharing some lessons learnt as a Non-IIT Bachelors Student from India.
I wrote this article when I was working as a part of the Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) Team. I was responsible for designing the electronics systems for the flagship sounding rocket of that year, Stratos-III, that was being developed to break the then European altitude record for the student-built experimental sounding rocket.
