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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 4d

Yeah the problem isn't that value won't be generated by AI, I just personally think that the quantity of investment (without diligence and based on nonsensical false promises) isn't commensurate with the value that will come from the tech.

Self-driving already went through this exact cycle imo.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 4d

We're doing cutting edge work on dynamic reconstructions and deploying this technology as the basis for our data pipeline at Stack. If you want to do amazing research that has real world impact, on a team with insanely talented people then you should join us!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 4d

Stack is going to be at ICCV with a booth! And I'm hiring interns for next summer! If you want to work on 4D reconstruction, novel view synthesis and "world modeling" for AVs come to our booth (#230) at ICCV and chat with our team!

stackav.com/announcement...

ICCV 2025 - Stack AV

Join Stack AV at ICCV 2025 - Booth #230. Explore how we're advancing autonomous trucking through world-class robotics and computer vision.

stackav.com

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Sep 2

We must hit some balls while we talk about RL next time I’m in NYC!

Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Aug 16

Not to toot my own horn or anything but I’d like to think I did this for multiple papers at NeurIPS this cycle 🫡

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Aug 16

Yeah, isn’t asking for experiments explicitly not allowed though? I usually try to limit my requests to different kinds of metrics or analysis of existing experiments/results.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Aug 16

Now you’ll get to enjoy the feeling of wanting to play when you’re away and don’t have a piano, while not playing as much as you should when you’re at home and do have a piano.

Ask me how I know 🫣

Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Aug 5

Yup! I’ve already written a comment to the ACs to this effect :)

If the reviewers and ACs are engaged during the discussion phase, that’s the best mitigation for these kinds of issues in the review process!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Aug 5

“exam maxxing kumon monsters” is sending me lmfao 🤣

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 2

Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.

Some Asian people posted a photo of themselves having dinner. It reads: "Went to a fancy dinner in SF and everybody went to Harvard (or Stanford)"

The next day, the followed up with a tweet that reads: "Almost all of us are Americans. FWIW, More of us are Americans than Asian."

Two quote tweets. The first has a racist drawing of Asian people and it says "I rent to fancy dinnah and everybody rent 2 Havah (or Stanfah)."

The other shows Yale's Skulls and Bones society in the 1940s, where a bunch of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant men in suits are composed for a group photo. An Italian man writes: "This is what Ivy Leaguers are supposed to look like."

Two quote tweets. The first reads: "Foreigners post stuff like this and then act surprised that GenZ males are so far right they'd make Rush Limbaugh blush. I hope they realize Trump is their last chance for a moderate solution."

The other reads: "I’m so glad that 17 Americans didn’t get to go to Harvard or Standford because these peoples parents spent $10,000 on SAT prep"

Two quote tweets. The first reads: "Living exclusively around these people for over 15 years is what turned me into a nazi. They're like this all the time."

The other reads: "Not going to lie, very depressing to see our hallowed western university system turn into a network of Striver Universities for intellectually incurious exam maxxing Kumon monsters"

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Aug 5

I am fuming on behalf of these authors. This review is complete and utter trash. Whomever wrote it should never be allowed to review again at an ML conference.

It's okay to not be familiar with a field. It's not okay to pretend like you are while spewing nonsense.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Aug 5

This is a real rebuttal from the papers I am reviewing at NeurIPS... the reviewer who wrote this gave the paper a 2 (reject) with a confidence of 5 (absolutely certain & familiar with all related work, the highest confidence available).

What the hell are we even doing here...?

An image showing a reviewer comment of "paper does not address object detection" with the authors responding with a list of object detection metrics included in the paper...

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Jul 9

We also support pydantic base classes and dataclasses so you can use those for strong typing & strong shape checks.

Check out the source code here: github.com/stackav-oss/...

Feedback & comments are welcome. Happy shape-checking! :)

GitHub - stackav-oss/dltype: Deep Learning Type Library

Deep Learning Type Library. Contribute to stackav-oss/dltype development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Jul 9

My team at Stack just open sourced our runtime shape checking library for PyTorch & Numpy. It's hugely inspired by
@patrickkidger.bsky.social's Jaxtyping but fixes a few key issues we ran into (namely, compatibility with torch.jit.trace & torch.compile).

Try it with `pip install dltype`

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Jul 4

JL Lemma mentioned! 😍

A paragraph from a paper mentioning the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma

Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Jun 10

Yeah I'll be bouncing between the two autonomous driving workshops (WAD and DDADS), so I'll try to catch you during the day!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Jun 10

On my way to @cvprconference.bsky.social! Catch our presentation on the 2025 Argoverse challenges at the Workshop on Autonomous Driving tomorrow at 11:30am in Grand C1!

Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Jun 10

Woah awesome, we should meet up!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · May 28

Also @hf.co exists if you want a nice UI!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · May 28

Even with gdown (which is unofficial) there are still download rate limits for files!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · May 28

Once again I am pleading with researchers. DO NOT HOST YOUR DATASETS ON GOOGLE DRIVE.

Downloading 100s of GB from a web browser with rate limits is a recipe for disaster. Please use large file storage buckets like S3 that have a CLI 😭

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Apr 22

Our goal with the scenario mining challenge is to make it easier to identify scenarios and actors in safety critical situations in order to build out a set of scenarios for validating the performance of AV systems.

Check out the challenge website here: www.argoverse.org/tasks.html

Tasks

Public datasets supported by highly detailed maps to test, experiment, and teach self-driving vehicles how to understand the world around them.

www.argoverse.org

Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Apr 22

Drago once said that "There are two main challenges in autonomous driving - one is to build a system that can handle real world complexity and edge case complexity, and there's a second challenge which is to evaluate and validate the performance of this system..." - youtu.be/dtMMW0kTXIE?...

Behind the Innovation: AI & ML at Waymo

YouTube video by Waymo

youtu.be

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Apr 22

Given a natural language text prompt Ex: "vehicles slowing down for a jaywalker" the goal is to identify, detect & track the relevant actors in the scene. All sensor & map data can be used, and we encourage teams to use pre-trained models as well.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Apr 22

Just over a month left to submit to this year's Argoverse 2 challenges! Returning from previous years, are our motion forecasting and lidar scene flow challenges. And NEW for this year with a $10k prize pool is our Scenario Mining challenge!🧵👇

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · Apr 19

On my way to Singapore for ICLR! If you want to chat about vision or robots, hit me up!

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