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🏔️📍🇩🇪 🇪🇺 PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Institute of Science & Technology - Austria. 💻🏃🏻‍♂️🚴🏻🏋🏻🏊⛷️🎸🎹📚 Webpage: https://sidgairo18.github.io/

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Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Aug 13

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The Great Depression, Recession and Stagnation in Full Historical Context

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Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Aug 13

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hope these help you as much as they’ve helped me.
📚Feel free to share, bookmark, and contribute here (github.com/sidgairo18/s...)!

P.S.: Please feel free to share relevant resources in the comments / thread and I'll add them as well 😀 (n/n)

GitHub - sidgairo18/sidgairo18.github.io

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Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Aug 12

3️⃣ How to Write Academic Papers
A practical checklist-driven guide on writing with clarity, rigor, and reproducibility. Inspired by ICML's best practices and more.
🔗https://sidgairo18.github.io/how_to_write_academic_papers.html (4/n)

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Aug 12

2️⃣ How to Review Scientific Papers
What makes a good review? This guide compiles best practices from ICML, ICLR, CVPR, and other leading conferences.
🔗https://sidgairo18.github.io/how_to_review_scientific_papers.html (3/n)

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Aug 12

1️⃣ How to Do Research
Mindset, habits, tools, writing, productivity, and advice.
🔗https://sidgairo18.github.io/notes_and_resources_on_how_to_do_research.html (2/n)

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Aug 12

🌟Here are some resources and notes about doing research that I’ve been compiling since I started my PhD.🌟

I rely on these often, and after sharing them with a few folks in my group who found them useful, I thought it could be of use to the broader community 🧵👇 (1/n)

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jul 27

www.recurse.com/blog/185-do-...

You can do more than you think: Practical principles for self-directed growth - Blog - Recurse Center

How to develop your capacity for self-direction

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Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jul 24

⏳Still need to wait for your last experiment results?
📣 We're pleased to announce that the deadline for non-proceeding track #CV4DC at @iccv.bsky.social has been extended to August 15, 2025

Looking forward to your submissions! cv4dc.github.io/2025/

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Jul 15

#ICML2025 Stats

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Computer Vision and Machine Learning at MPI Informatics @cvml.mpi-inf.mpg.de · Jul 13

Papers being presented from our group at #ICML2025!

Congratulations to all the authors! To know more, visit us in the poster sessions!

A 🧵with more details:

@icmlconf.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de

Papers accepted at ICML 2025 from the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jul 12

Submit your papers to our non-proceeding track here: cv4dc.github.io/2025/call-fo...

Computer Vision for Developing Countries (CV4DC) Workshop 2025 - Call for Papers

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Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jul 12

📣 Proceeding track's results are out.
🎉 Congratulations to all the authors whose papers were accepted. We can't wait to meet you at @iccv.bsky.social in Hawaii on Oct 19th.

⏰ Our non-proceeding track is still accepting submissions until July 20th! Details in the comments

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jul 6

Cc: @mpi-inf.mpg.de

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jul 2

Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 June-July 2025

One of the prettiest and liveliest cities I’ve traveled to ✨ 🚤

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congratulations Matt! 🔥

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jun 23

🔗Try for yourself 😃: github.com/sidgairo18/p...

GitHub - sidgairo18/probing_pretrained_models: This is a repo for basic ImageNet1K running validation eval. Additionally, also to train a classifier on top of frozen ImageNet1k features on downstream ...

This is a repo for basic ImageNet1K running validation eval. Additionally, also to train a classifier on top of frozen ImageNet1k features on downstream datasets - CIFAR100. - sidgairo18/probing_pr...

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jun 23

Easy to catch on smaller datasets / experiments (eg CIFAR100). 🚨

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨More tiny experiments that seem benign: linear probing on frozen features (but again not explicitly making BatchNorm params to .eval) can have big implications.

Best test accuracy: 71.20% at Epoch 10, for Learning Rate = 0.01 Makes a hell of a lot of difference! Almost 10% 🚨

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jun 23

Seemingly innocuous error that I see students making time and again: model.eval() or param.eval() for models with norm layers (like batch-norm) is critical. Especially when freezing ❄️ certain layers and training rest.

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · Jun 22

Classic fM is a gem to listen to great ensembles of classical music, and also get to experience the old-school radio fM vibes ✨

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Computer Vision and Machine Learning at MPI Informatics @cvml.mpi-inf.mpg.de · Jun 11

🎉 Exciting News #CVPR2025!

We’re proud to announce that we have 5 papers accepted to the main conference and 7 papers accepted at various CVPR workshops this year!

We’re looking forward to sharing our research with the community in Nashville!

Stay tuned for more details! ‪‪@mpi-inf.mpg.de‬

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · May 15

Had my older MTB catching dust in the bike room, took 2 hours to replace both tyres and tubes with brand new ones, new brakes, and chain cleaned + greased. 💥

Pretty relaxing and a nice rejuvinating break from research✨

P.S.: Once you are used to driving road bikes, MTBs seem too slow 🤪

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · May 15

Wow 🤯

Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · May 14

So I have now read the Big Three Ayn Rand Books, atlas shrugged, the fountainhead, and anthem. And I have this to say: she’s bad at writing books, so bad, in fact, that I find her popularity genuinely strange

Sid @sidgairo18.bsky.social · May 14

Given the volume & scale of new work coming out, noise is going to exist. Wouldn’t these “bad actors”/“weeds” be removed organically over time when their work isn’t built on / used further?

Also, how prevalent were such things before, potentially easier to pinpoint back then given a smaller scale?🤔