Husband, Dad, Academic. Software "Naturalness", AI4SE & ESE@ UC Davis. MAE, ACM Fellow, Humboldtian. ❤️s Jokes, NJ snark & the outdoors. All opinions Personal.
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I'm an experienced and well-published Software Engineering Professor. Take it from me: The best way to ship software with fewer known defects is to test less.
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பேராசிரியர் Prem Devanbu retweeted
The whole world should be paying attention to what is happening in India right now. Computer programs have been used to systematically remove huge numbers of voters from the electoral rolls. But India's Gen Z has cottoned on and the tide is turning...
Bengal is a dangerous example of how democracy was turned on its head. Of the total deleted/removed voters that appealed, 91% of them were restored on the voters list. But state election was over by then and BJP grabbed power. The Supreme Court aided this power grabbing.
How will anything change in the system if your vote doesn’t matter?
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Odd, but delightful benefit of modern water boiler in Hot Central California---shelves nearby stay cool(er)! and so become good places to stash packaged food (cans, bottles,...)
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For those just starting at @ucdavis or for those who are here and not aware of this - the UC Davis Putah Creek Riparian Preserve is a true treasure - beautiful, serene, filled with amazing plants and animals and other organisms and just spectacular.
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So inspiring to read this. I hope the RSS, Bajrang Dal, BJP etc in India also find this inspiring, and change the way they treat Christians and Muslims in India.
I’m a U.S. Army combat veteran and a Hindu American. I didn’t put on that uniform, leave my family, and go to war so some third-rate talk show guy could announce that when his side “wins,” they’re coming for my religion.
I served with Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, and other Hindus. Nobody pulled rank on God before we went outside the wire. Some of those men never came home. None of them died so you could fantasize about ravaging someone else’s faith. The people who worship in those temples pay taxes, run businesses, and send their sons and daughters into the same Army I served in. “When we win, we are tearing this down” is not patriotism. It is a threat against Hinduism itself to vandalize another American community’s house of worship because you hate the faith inside it.
If winning in America means demolishing Hindu temples, you don’t want the country I fought for. You just want a license to go after people who aren’t you. America is not your theocracy. Religious liberty does not expire for Hindus when you decide you’ve won. You don’t get to tear anything down. Not legally. Not morally. Not in the country for which I actually sacrificed.
@CoHNAOfficial @sudhaj12 @pushpita @carlwheless @shiva_makki @ShawnBinda @Cloudwatch199
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Really fun speculative fiction, set in Colonial Times, by Amitav Ghosh.
foolsgold-digger.medium.com/…
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I know X is a form for clever clap backs. But I want to have a real conversation on this. You see, Lincoln had to answer the same objections about the Americanness of recent immigrants. Back then, many claimed that those with French and German and Scandinavian blood were not American because their family did not fight in the Revolution. How can you be an American if no one in your family, not a great grandfather or great uncle, spilled blood fighting for this country?
Today the question is put to those of us of Indian heritage, or Mexican, or Chinese, to Hindus and Muslims, Jews and Buddhists. What did your family do in this country’s wars? What did they build? Where do you sit in the hierarchy of Americans?
Some tech barons would count your votes by your net worth, as if the only value that matters is what wealth you produce. The heritage school answers with a different ledger. Your standing as an American should be measured by how much your family has bled or sacrificed.
Lincoln answered the heritage school in some of the most beautiful words ever written in the English language. His speech for July 4, 1858 has more wisdom than everything collectively ever written on X, or for that matter, social media.
Lincoln said that if you believe in the Constitution, if you believe in the Declaration of Independence, then there is an electric chord that links your heart to the hearts of the men who fought in the Revolution for those principles, and that you are blood of the blood and flesh of the flesh of our founders. He articulated why our nation, unique in the history of the world, is constituted based on a devotion to a common set of ideals and principles.
I attach the text below. If even a few who engaged with my tweet read it, well, then our country would be a little better for it.
Dinesh the irony is that the President you worked for --Ronald Reagan --who gave an Indian immigrant with a thick accent a job in his White House knew this Lincoln passage very well.
Dinesh, like your daughter I was born in America & have an Indian immigrant father. I am Hindu and my mom is not white. Does that make me any less American or matter in any sense?
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Governor Newsom @CAgovernor Please sign SB 868!! Electric bills are going sky-high in California, and folks need relief! Plug-in Solar is safe, effective, and affordable, please don't stop us from using it!
#pluginsolar @Scott_Wiener
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Much bashing these days on SE conferences. Some of this is historical (PL people have for years bashed on SE conferences; ya, ok 🥱 🥱 different approaches to the same problems) But, please tell us: what specifically is wrong with SE that is NOT wrong other high-vol AI venues.
💯 - The SE conference experience (attending, reviewing, authoring) has gone totally downhill and my lab is aligning more with PL and Systems these days.
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பேராசிரியர் Prem Devanbu retweeted
Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
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Not entirely clear to me from whence such a low opinion of dogs (sp?) arises. There are surely tighter upper-bounds in the Animal Kingdom. Ontogenically speaking, Protostomia, e.g.,, would seem good candiddates.
If you are an Indian-American who spouts anti-Pakistani bigotry, you are both lower and dumber than a dog.
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பேராசிரியர் Prem Devanbu retweeted
A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home right now.
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பேராசிரியர் Prem Devanbu retweeted
Location: Mahishadal, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal
Date: September 7
VHP-Bajrang Dal members raided a private residence where a Christian prayer meeting was being held, accusing those present of carrying out religious conversions, and warned the attendees of police action.
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If you live in California--ask Gov Newsom to sign the Plug-in Solar bill. SB 868 allows cheap, DIY, safe backyard/balcony solar--that pays off in as little as 3-5 years. I'm sure PG&E wants him *NOT* to sign it... Call the guy and LHK.
gov.ca.gov/contact/
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பேராசிரியர் Prem Devanbu retweeted
The value of any formal verification is directly proportional to the size of the implementation and inversely proportional to the size of the specification.
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If all the papers I had to review from now on were written by an ACTUAL stochastic parrot....
.....that would heal me. For real.
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At this rate, yer getting off cheap on the vibe code reviewing. That's gonna be some nasty work.
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Something to ponder when hearing complaints of about too many conference submissions from certain places.
🇩🇪 Friedrich Merz, canciller alemán:
"Simplemente ya no somos lo suficientemente productivos. Todos pueden decir: 'Ya estoy haciendo mucho'.
Pero cuando regresen de China, señoras y señores, verán las cosas con más claridad.
Con el equilibrio entre trabajo y vida personal y una semana laboral de cuatro días, no podemos sostener la prosperidad a largo plazo en nuestro país. Simplemente tenemos que trabajar más duro."
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India's constitution guarantees religious freedom, but Christians are being routinely persecuted by the current government.
Please help! @FRCdc @ADFlegal @FaithandFreedom @CatholicVote @USCCB @sojourners @Faithpubliclife
Shame on @RSSorg , @BJP4India , @BJP4Maharashtra
Outside India we are all one family, in India treat Indian Christians as second class citizens.
About 4,000 churches in Maharashtra, India, are asking worshippers to sign forms declaring they attend services “purely by personal choice” as the state’s new anti-conversion law takes effect.
Church leaders say the declarations can help defend pastors against accusations of forced conversion. Dolphy D’Souza called them “the least safety measure we can take to protect us from legal proceedings.” Some churches have also installed security cameras after reported attacks and disruptions.
The law prohibits conversions involving coercion, fraud or inducement, with repeat offenders facing up to 10 years in prison. Christian groups fear it could be misused against ordinary prayer meetings and religious minorities. Similar anti-conversion laws now exist in 13 Indian states.
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