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Shrey Joshi

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  • As a rule of thumb, when you look back at which projects you’ve been working on over a period of months, you should find that there have been lots of small dead ends, but the majority of your time has been directed towards projects that yielded a deliverable such as a paper or a blog post. If you look back at your time and see that a substantial fraction was spent on half-finished projects—which were not definite failures, but which you abandoned in favor of some newer idea—then you should make a stronger effort towards consistency and follow-through in the future.
    An Opinionated Guide to ML Research
  • produce human-readable results, we additionally propose CBAG, ii a technique for conditional biomedical abstract generatio
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  • system learns a data-driven ranking criteria derived from the embeddings of our large proposed biomedical se- mantic graph.
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  • advance the state-of-the-art in hypergraph partition- ing quality.
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  • latent features of graphs, and propose a new bipartite graph embedding technique.
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  • identify a new gene-treatment target for HIV-associated Neurodegenerative Disorders
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  • Most things in your life are caused by a self-fulfilling prophecy
    Delusional Self-Confidence. Seeing the world through rose-colored… | by Kyle Benson | Medium
  • You have to want the thing because you value the thing, not some kind of ego gratification the thing would give you. There are many ways to get ego gratification, so if an easier way to get the same gratification comes along, you may mysteriously abandon the goal and do that instead.
    Purity of heart: The ultimate effectiveness hack
  • Information that both Dimwits and Topwits find compelling tends to be both uncorrupted by intellectual fashions (thanks to the Dimwits), and well-vetted (thanks to the Topwits).
    How to outsmart "the experts" in any domain - by Mike Elias
  • Ultimately what we get is the following theorem. If there exists any Verifier computer program that successfully extracts information by interactively running this protocol with some Prover, then we can simply use the rewinding trick on that program to commit to a random solution, then ‘trick’ the Verifier by rewinding its execution whenever we can’t answer its challenge correctly. The same logic holds as we gave above: if such a Verifier succeeds in extracting information after running the real protocol, then it should be able to extract the same amount of information from the simulated, rewi…
    Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
  • There’s an important benefit to all this. Since it’s trivial for anyone to ‘fake’ a protocol transcript, even after Google proves to me that they have a solution, I can’t re-play a recording of the protocol transcript to prove anything to anyone else (say, a judge). That’s because the judge would have no guarantee that the video was recorded honestly, and that I didn’t simply edit in the same way Google might have done using the time machine. This means that protocol transcripts themselves contain no information. The protocol is only meaningful if I myself participated, and I can be sure that …
    Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
  • Believe it or not, this proves something very important. Specifically, assume that I (the Verifier) have some strategy that ‘extracts’ useful information about Google’s coloring after observing an execution of the honest protocol. Then my strategy should work equally well in the case where I’m being fooled with a time machine. The protocol runs are, from my perspective, statistically identical. I physically cannot tell the difference. Thus if the amount of information I can extract is identical in the ‘real experiment’ and the ‘time machine experiment’, yet the amount of information Google put…
    Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
  • In real life there’s probably a common-sense answer to this dilemma, one that involves lawyers and escrow accounts. But this is not a blog about real life, it’s a blog about cryptography. And if you’ve ever read a crypto paper, you’ll understand that the right way to solve this problem is to dream up an absolutely crazy technical solution.
    Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering