When Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered, and I saw the incredible courage of people in Minneapolis in the face of state brutality, I had to find some way to show that tech workers stand with Minnesota, even if our leaders don’t. I signed the ICEout petition, and I’d encourage you to do the same. I’ve also been talking to the press about why I signed it, and on the Wired Uncanny Valley podcast Kate Drummond asked […]
Introduction Disclaimer: This article is a cross post from Pytorch Medium Blog Post. One of the most exciting advancements, that has pushed the frontier of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years, is Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). DRL belongs to the family of machine learning algorithms. It assumes that intelligent machines can learn from their actions similar to the way humans learn from experience. Over the recent years we could witness some impressive real-world applications of DRL. The […]
According to leading management consultancy firm Deloitte, India is slated to corner a big chunk of the data centre growth and expansion happening in the APAC region, which is expected to garner an investment of $800 billion by 2030. Viewed against the challenges faced by the Indian IT sector on account of emergent AI technologies threatening to wipe out traditional avenues of revenue generation, shifting focus to becoming a data centre powerhouse might yet resuscitate the once mighty […]
arXiv:2602.16820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite growing interest in using LLMs to generate feedback on students’ writing, little is known about how students respond to AI-mediated versus human-provided feedback. We address this gap through a randomized controlled trial in a large introductory economics course (N=354), where we introduce and deploy FeedbackWriter – a system that generates AI suggestions to teaching assistants (TAs) while they provide feedback on students’ knowledge-intensive essays. TAs have the full capacity to adopt, edit, […]
arXiv:2601.15478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study multi-agent contract design, where a principal incentivizes a team of agents to take costly actions that jointly determine the project success via a combinatorial reward function. While prior work largely focuses on unconstrained contracts that allow heterogeneous payments across agents, many real-world environments limit payment dispersion. Motivated by this, we study equal-pay contracts, where all agents receive identical payments. Our results also extend to nearly-equal-pay contracts where any two payments are […]
I have been working as a Business Analyst (BA) in teams of various scales for over 7 years. During this time, I’ve frequently encountered a misunderstanding of the BA’s role and tasks from a developer’s perspective. In this article, I want to share my experience to help developers build effective communication with their BA and extract maximum value from this collaboration. 1. Introduction Throughout my professional journey, I’ve often seen the opinion that a Business Analyst is just […]
arXiv:2509.24789v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The evaluation of time series forecasting models is hindered by a critical lack of high-quality benchmarks, leading to a potential illusion of progress. Existing datasets suffer from issues ranging from pre-training data contamination in the age of LLMs to the temporal and description leakage prevalent in early multimodal designs. To address this, we formalize the core principles of high-fidelity benchmarking, focusing on data sourcing integrity, leak-free and causally sound design, and structural clarity. […]
Panasonic, once revered for its plasma TVs, is giving up on making its own TV sets. Today, it announced that Chinese company Skyworth will take over manufacturing, marketing, and selling Panasonic-branded TVs. Skyworth is a Shenzhen-headquartered TV brand. The company claims to be “a top three global provider of the Android TV platform.” In July, research firm Omdia reported that Skyworth was one of the top-five TV brands by sales revenue in Q1 2025; however, Skyworth hasn’t been […]
Venture capital (VC) investments in early-stage startups that end up being successful can yield high returns. However, predicting early-stage startup success remains challenging due to data scarcity (e.g., many VC firms have information about only a few dozen of early-stage startups and whether they were successful). This limits the effectiveness of traditional machine learning methods that rely on large labeled datasets for model training. To address this challenge, we propose an in-context learning framework for startup success prediction […]
After having gone through at least 3 rounds where I had to present research solutions for problems, I get the feeling that I’m doing free labour for these guys. They usually give you a week and given the current glut of candidates, it feels like this could easily be happening in the background. This includes Mid tech companies (not FAANG) and startups. Is there some truth to this suspicion? For the most recent one, I purposefully chose not […]