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msaharia

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About msaharia

Professor @ IIT Delhi. Engineer. Interested in EdTech.

hydrosense.iitd.ac.in

msaharia[a]iitd.ac.in

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    Comment #37670907

    Exactly - I can tell you an example from India. India has the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) precipitation dataset. Even if your estimates are more accurate, no company wil…

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    Comment #37670553

    The UI is fantastic . I don't think there is anything wrong with the website. The reason you are not making a sale has probably nothing to do with UI. I think you should concentrat…

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    Comment #37210874

    They couldn’t come because of any number of reasons: there wasn’t enough time to apply for visa because you issued the letter 1 month before the meeting, didn’t get visa, didn’t ge…

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    What things did you purchase that enhanced the quality of your life in 2022?

    Would love to know things that enhanced your work or personal life.

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    Comment #33544247

    Dragon speech? I used it quite a bit 10 years ago!

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    Comment #33092996

    So, this is like netCDF format?

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    Comment #32829654

    Would you tell us more how that training translates in business/management? Are there good training materials we could look at online?

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    Comment #32658389

    UPI exists in India. And m-Pesa in Kenya. Neither are small countries or lightly regulated. At this point, US digital infrastructure is just objectively behind everyone else.

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    Comment #32537939

    How about a control function on human population? (For nature as a system, it might as well count as a benefit)

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    Comment #32316181

    I think this article is confusing the discovery of an inscription of zero to the concept of zero. The latter would predate the former.

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    Comment #31664438

    You should definitely read about Ancient Indian drink Soma. Soma had a cognate Haoma in Persian as well. And psychoactive sources have a long association with gods such as Shiva. T…

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    Comment #30966084

    I returned to India after close to a decade in the US, during which I got a PhD. Loved living there and was fully integrated. But felt like I could make a much bigger impact in Ind…

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    Comment #30886998

    Hi, is there a wordpress theme with this design system that we could drop in an existing website and benefit from it?

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    Comment #30766974

    Not a lot of people would realize that Hadley is a minor celebrity in many scientific fields due to Tidyverse! Thanks for all the work.

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    Comment #30160655

    This is perfect for a Desktop Wallpaper. Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #30004595

    Looks cool! What kind of models are you using? I would have thought this is a very tight space. Did you develop the models yourself?

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    Comment #28646675

    Can you link me to that book? P.S. I used to work in NASA Goddard. Very brand conscious agency.

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    Comment #28108047

    What a blast from the past! I used runasdate to run a Neural Network software using time-lagged RNNs beyond the trial period. In my defense, I was a poor undergrad and couldn't aff…

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    Comment #27053685

    That is awesome. I work in flood forecasting and previously worked in NCAR/NASA. If you would be so kind, feel free to share any white papers, links etc to the project you are refe…

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    Comment #27051301

    Hi, I am a hydrologist. Would love to hear about what you have done using TimeScaleDB

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    Comment #26000747

    Would you be publishing your research or data or both? Would you be interested in sharing it privately? I would love to know more!

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    Comment #25413719

    This system has tremendously impacted my academic research productivity. Thank you.

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    Comment #25176405

    EdTech in India is a predatory environment midwived by unscrupulous VCs. Please raise your against it if you can. And this is not an Indian problem. These companies are making thei…

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    Comment #25005077

    No worries. I meant in the Indic language family, not Dravidian. The Tamil version definitely preceded that.