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Hello, I’m Mitanshu Sukhwani, creator of PaperMatch (https://papermatch.me/) with a Master’s in Physics from IIT Madras. I’ve worked at IISER Tirupati on EEG data, network science, and brain modeling. I enjoy exploring ML, Linux, and the intersection of neuroscience, software, and data.

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You can read it in light mode too! Try looking at the text from an extreme angle and the text underneath will show up.

Thank you for your post! It's only through yours I got to know about the posted article. Your efforts on the exploded view are mind blowing!

Yes! I related a little too much with the blog post. My grandparents were Sindhi and they had to flee from Pakistan to India during the partition. As refugees in India, they had to start their life basically from scratch. Now I get why it's ingrained in me to be frugal, and even take pride in it when there's none. I see the very same behaviour in my Sindhi friends when they feel bad for spending money on essentials like hospital visits.

I agree with this so much! I've found that going to people and initiating is the only thing you can do. How people respond varies a lot and you have to be resilient to rejection.

There was a post[1] sometime back about just having coffee in the afternoon outisdes and how that brought in more people.

I also write about it here [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473618

[2] https://blog.papermatch.me/html/Wheres_the_human_touch

While I enjoy (and crave) the waves (of time) that make my brain obsess over things which bring me immense joy to the point I neglect essentials (food and water), what follows is a hard learned crash where I have no energy (or dopamine) left to give to anything!

While mapping vector embeddings of arXiv abstracts, I came across some surprising clusters that I hadn’t seen before. This post is an attempt to dig deeper into what they might represent.

I recently got to know about this[^1] paper that differentiates between 'uh' and 'um'.

The proposal examined here is that speakers use uh and um to announce that they are initiating what they expect to be a minor (uh), or major (um), delay in speaking. Speakers can use these announcements in turn to implicate, for example, that they are searching for a word, are deciding what to say next, want to keep the floor, or want to cede the floor. Evidence for the proposal comes from several large corpora of spontaneous speech. The evidence shows that speakers monitor their speech plans for upcoming delays worthy of comment. When they discover such a delay, they formulate where and how to suspend speaking, which item to produce (uh or um), whether to attach it as a clitic onto the previous word (as in “and-uh”), and whether to prolong it. The argument is that uh and um are conventional English words, and speakers plan for, formulate, and produce them just as they would any word.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00100...

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