Rohit
rohitum1986.bsky.social
Rohit
@rohitum1986.bsky.social
Roboticist, PhD Student, Bonn, Germany
Books, Science, Travel, Quizzes
Left-liberal, Anti-fascist
Bombay Mallu who advocates urbanism and pedestrian rights
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I am Roboticist doing my PhD on Active Perception for Mapping and Manipulation. Evidential learning, semantic mapping, coupled active perception manipulation are topics of my interest

I am a left-liberal Bombay Mallu who likes to read, is a news junkie, likes history,economics
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US-based conferences should probably prepare to offer e.g. presentation and comms devices for on-site use by international travelers who are motivated enough to attend but who can't safely bring their devices across the border.
March 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not cities or the planet.
January 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The abortion access restrictions are also a way to deter liberals from migrating to red states
People who move from blue states to red states find a lot to like: lower taxes, cheaper housing, less regulation. But inevitably they find things they don't like. For example, if you plan on having a family in Texas, you probably want to consider the ob-gyn exodus. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202....
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.
www.newyorker.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
December 8, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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Two genocidal and begrudging allies in a slapfight (the Adani slap was clearly an unexpected sting for India).
December 7, 2024 at 2:39 PM
This is so frustrating. Like it would be peanuts compared to the subsidised parking on city streets.
Libraries and museums should ideally be free in a civilised world
Reminder: This Sunday - 1.12 - is the last free museum Sunday in Berlin 😢
November 29, 2024 at 7:50 PM
I am Roboticist doing my PhD on Active Perception for Mapping and Manipulation. Evidential learning, semantic mapping, coupled active perception manipulation are topics of my interest

I am a left-liberal Bombay Mallu who likes to read, is a news junkie, likes history,economics
November 25, 2024 at 1:14 PM
I can speak English, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi. Can understand Tamil. Can read a bit of Sanskrit and French and yet the only language I am assessed on is German.
And having been fairly good at debates, presentations, I miss not being able to exercise those skills anymore
A strange thing that living in Germany did to me is to devalue the languages I know. Telugu/Hindi are exotic and there's little use to it here. My English, which is C2 is treated not on par with Anglophone English speakers and my German, well it's German.
November 24, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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A strange thing that living in Germany did to me is to devalue the languages I know. Telugu/Hindi are exotic and there's little use to it here. My English, which is C2 is treated not on par with Anglophone English speakers and my German, well it's German.
November 24, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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November 22, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Want to work on cutting-edge research in #AI?

We have several 𝐏𝐡𝐃 & 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 in our Visual Computing & AI Lab in Munich!

Topics have a strong focus on GenAI, including 3DGs, NeRFs, Diffusion Models, LLMs, etc.

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November 21, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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3/5 I quibble with "[the] introduction of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of robotics". No, it has created a lot of research papers, but not real hardened deployments, which is acutally their point in this paper--such deployments are physically dangerous.
November 17, 2024 at 6:25 PM