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I'm a self-taught AI enthusiast, currently a Research Scholar at IIIT, Bangalore. My area of research broadly falls into the category of AI Safety. Working with various kinds of CNNs. I am generally interested in the Safety, Alignment and Privacy considerations of AI. Other than that, I have a great deal of interest in the field of Complex, Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, along with Cellular Automata and Artificial Life. I enjoy learning about ideas that occur at the confluence of two or more fields, Neural Networks are a prime example of that. There are a lot of unorthodox ideas that do not neatly fit into specialist boxes and have the capacity to be entirely revolutionary all on their own. Above all, I love venturing into subjects that narrate a great story. I love hearing well-told, intriguing stories.
I primarily code in Python, sometimes C. I keep switching between Windows and Linux based on what I need to do, most of which is done through the terminal. I like implementing theoretical models, running simulations and being surprised by unexpected results. I am enthusiastic about space exploration and planes. Heavier-than-air flying-machines has to be one of the best inventions of mankind, closely following thinking machines.
I enjoy sketching and writing when I'm not trying to work, I enjoy sketching more as I have a veritable pile of manuscripts that are in a perpetual state of disrepair. Besides that, I do enjoy reading too, although the amount of books that I used to read on a yearly basis has drastically reduced. I mostly like to read Julian Jaynes, John Searle, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel and the like; I would also like to believe that I understand atleast some of it.
You can read more about my random musing at my bearblog page electric brains 🧠. Still in its nascent stages, it is a messy personal blog that mostly has byte sized chunks of exposition along about all the unrelated scatered stuff that comes to my mind. You are just as likely to see a poem about cobblers next to analyses of particular convex sets.
You can also check out my Research Blog that has more long-form technical content.
Sporadic list of topics I'm interested in
Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, AI Alignment, Convolutional Neural Networks, Artificial Life, Non-linear Sciemces, Chaos Theory, Cellular Automata, Stochastic Processes, Genetic Computation, von Neumann Cellular Automata (vNCA), Collective Intelligence, von Neumann Universal Constructors, Neural Cellular Automata, Swarm Intelligence, Nobili Cellular Automata, Complex Adaptive Systems, Category Theory, Graph Neural Networks, Automata theory, Compilers, Evolutionary Computation...