How is he so successful? Just was reading today on how Musk shut down entire twitter office after his take over- not to mention the barrage of lay-offs. Honestly, I still didn’t know much about Elon Musk until yesterday. …

Disclaimer: All of this is completely my experience. Yours might be same or different. I intend no offense to you. — I was born into a Catholic family. And I left it the first chance. Here is why. If conservatives have a political party, Catholics will be the MAGA of them. Now if you thought the version of Catholicism they sell in the U.S is strict, you should see the version…

“And nowwwww to the hosssst of Jeopardy….Alexxxxx Treeeebek” Every single time I hear Johnny Gilbert say that, it gives me goosebumps in anticipation.. Weird people have weird idols and dreams (Do androids dream of electric sheep?). Alex Trebek was one of my idols and one of my biggest dreams ever…

(This is about the German TV series Dark) If you are expecting to get what you normally get at a massage parlor, you will be despaired and disappointed. After all the series IS called Dark. Having said that I must say it is a fun filled journey, at least till the end of season 2. Makes you wonder about many things which are not limited to things time travel, space, time, higgs “bosom” , reflective journalism, trumps asshole etc…

A conversation I had long ago with one of my Professors, himself a PhD. Me: I am not sure if I am smart enough to do a PhD. Prof: Oh, don’t worry about that. You are not smart if you are doing a PhD. In fact you are really dumb…

Annual conferences of the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL) is one of the (if not THE) top most conferences in the field of Natural Language Processing. — This year ACL was conducted in Seattle amidst heavy rain and fan fare…. Ok, just kidding, that was just to get your attention…. It was conducted virtually, like most conferences these days (All hail King Corona- or was it coronation of the King. I keep forgetting).

So these are things I have experimented/learned in the last 6 to 7 years of my grad(masters+PhD) life. You probably don’t have to follow any of these, but this is what I did to save money/ keep sanity in Grad School. …

These are stuff I did/learned from my mistakes in Grad School. Jotting it down just in case it helps someone. Well, I don’t usually pull ranks, but just in case this helps motivate you to read it: these have helped me maintain a 4.0/4.0 even after 5 to 6 years…

Now that today is 4th of July and my four pawed pet darling is lying next to my feet since hours, makes me wonder: why are dogs afraid of fireworks?…From newborn pups to older dogs, all of them are scared of fireworks- more importantly the sound than the visual. Now…