Shashank Shekhar
Shashank Shekhar
@shashankerati.bsky.social
SF Bay Area Robotics and Software Performance Engineer
Need one more class of verbal-stories/written works:
Fiction, Selective-Fact-Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction (?)
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Winners' Non-Fiction, AI[-assisted]-Non-Fiction,
By adding 1 more category to the existing non-fiction, "history is written by the winners"

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Celebrating Stanford Engineering Centennial at the Engineering Quad Thurs 5/15/2025 #Stanford #StanfordEngineeringCentennial #StanfordEngineering #StanfordRobotics #StanfordOcean1k

engineering100.stanford.edu/stories
May 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
(10/9/24 X) Completely mind-bending awards in the arena of computational tools coming after a long history of not recognizing mathematics! AI breakthrough in protein folding and making new proteins garners yet another pure science prize after Physics prize from yesterday.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Oct 9
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to “crack the code” of almost all known proteins, the “chemical tools of life.”

Read more: cnn.it/3Yh1KJK
October 15, 2024 at 1:26 AM
(10/8/24 X) Surprised to see physics Nobel awarded to Prof. Hopfield and Prof Hinton, somewhat outside the traditional physics areas. In retrospect, the number of AI talks I've attended in World Science Festival hosted by physicist Prof. Greene should've clued me in: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/s...
Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists
With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a completely new way for us to use computers,” the committee said.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2024 at 1:21 AM
With all the good wishes to Mr. Lichtman for continuing to maintain in 2024 a 40+ years of perfect prediction of US presidential election (read it for free without a subscription.) www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/o...
Opinion | Harris or Trump? The Prophet of Presidential Elections Is Ready to Call the Race.
Allan Lichtman’s method for predicting election winners has an impressive track record.
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2024 at 8:21 PM