Anshul Samar
my blog

April 2023: 3 year anniversary of Meditation Mondays which has now grown to a community of students, alumni, and community members across the country. See my post on wellness/mental health events we have been organizing at Stanford. Hope you all can join! Mailing list here.

Nov 2022: Our blog post on sparse GPT-3 style models via iterative magnitude pruning.

Nov 2021: It's a wrap! Thanks to the more than 350 attendees who came out to support for our sketch comedy shows! See reviews here. Was so much fun writing and producing this show and thanks to the entire cast!

May 2021: Started a "Name the Variants" petition to change the way news outlets refer to variants, see here.

Feb 2021: Performed at You & Me play reading hosted by CaLAA (California Arts Association) and directed by Richa Wadekar. Thanks for the great experience!


Musings

Pappu and Friends Nov 2021

Wellness Initiatives @ Stanford Nov 2020

Grandmother's Secret Recipe for Tadka Oct 2020

Permutations and Poetry Sept 2020

An Engagement to an Idea April 2019

Naatak Mar 2019

Intergroup Communication June 2018

9 Requests from My 9 Year Old Self May 2016

Indian Weddings May 2016

First Proof Class Nov 2012

Trancos Nov 2012

On Creativity in Schools April 2011

On Stress Jan 2010

On Vegetarianism Jan 2009


Poetry and Prose

The Chital Mar 2020

Winter Blues Feb 2020

Alfaaz Dec 2019

Grasshopper May 2016

Grandma Apr 2016

Udaipur Apr 2016

Needle and String Nov 2015

Humpty Dumpty Dec 2015

How I Write Oct 2005


Projects and Technical Writings

Wrapping up Elementeo Jan 2019

Tile2Vec on Landsat 7 Satellite Imagery May 2018

Variational Machine Translation Jan 2018

Inverse Graphics Networks and VAE Jan 2018

Decentralized Partitioning Using Paxos Dec 2017

FP32 and Alien Abductions Oct 2017

Stormtrooper Mar 2016

End to End Speech Recognition Aug 2014

Sentiment Analysis on Headlines Dec 2013

Tracking Moving Objects Aug 2013