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Uncertainty-Guided Data Augmentation for Engineers | Deep Dive - Yongmin Kwon

Uncertainty-Guided Data Augmentation for Engineers | Deep Dive - Yongmin Kwon

This session details a data-efficient method for training engineering surrogate models by using uncertainty quantification (UQ) to guide geometric data augmentation. Instead of random deformations, the approach lets the deep ensemble model identify its own knowledge gaps (epistemic uncertainty), then uses Free-Form Deformation (FFD) to generate new shapes specifically in those uncertain regions. This ensures every expensive simulation run yields maximally informative data, significantly improving model accuracy for a fixed computational budget across domains like structural mechanics and aerodynamics.

Q-learning with Flow-Matching Policies

Q-learning with Flow-Matching Policies

This talk explores methods for optimizing expressive, multi-modal policies, such as those based on flow-matching, with off-policy reinforcement learning. The speaker presents two novel algorithms, FQ-RL and CAM, designed to overcome the instability of backpropagation through multi-step generative models, enabling effective online self-improvement and adaptation for robotic manipulation tasks.

Graph Neural Networks Explained: A Clear Guide to GNN Basics & Models

Graph Neural Networks Explained: A Clear Guide to GNN Basics & Models

An introduction to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), covering fundamental concepts like nodes, edges, and embeddings. This post delves into the core message-passing mechanism and provides a detailed overview of key architectures including GCN, GraphSAGE, GAT, GIN, and Graph Transformers, explaining their unique approaches and mathematical formulations.

Artificial Intelligence

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Builders Unscripted: Ep. 4 - Pietro Schirano

Builders Unscripted: Ep. 4 - Pietro Schirano

Pietro Schirano, Founder & CEO of MagicPath, discusses his pioneering work with GPT-5.5 and Codex, transforming creative ideas into software and hardware solutions. He details using advanced AI for image-to-sound conversion, multi-agent workflows, resurrecting obsolete tech with new functionalities, and building his company, MagicPath, on the principle of humans directing AI agents. This interview provides deep insights into the creative potential and practical applications of cutting-edge AI for developers and entrepreneurs.

Welcome Session - Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026

Welcome Session - Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026

The Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026 opens with MSR India Lab Director Venkat Padmanabhan outlining the lab's collaborative research philosophy and Microsoft's evolution into an AI infrastructure powerhouse. He details MSR India's four core research pillars: fundamental AI advancements, specialized domain solutions, efficiency across the AI stack (including small language models), and the crucial diffusion of AI technologies for societal impact in India and the Global South, exemplified by diverse projects and collaborations.

Plenary Talk 3: Challenges and Research Opportunities for Global Hyperscale Services

Plenary Talk 3: Challenges and Research Opportunities for Global Hyperscale Services

This talk provides a comprehensive overview of cellular aging, brain function, and the mechanisms of cognitive decline, particularly focusing on Alzheimer's disease. It delves into the role of various cell types, neural communication, and methods for assessing cognition. The speaker highlights research challenges, the limitations of current pharmacological interventions, and the critical importance of non-pharmacological lifestyle interventions. A significant portion of the discussion is dedicated to the Centre for Brain Research's (CBR) multi-disciplinary efforts in India, including large-scale cohort studies, multimodal data collection, and the development of AI-driven tools and a localized foundation model for the Indian brain to address neurodegeneration.

Technology

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Full Stack Greenfield Projects : Are they still relevant?

Full Stack Greenfield Projects : Are they still relevant?

Bharat Goenka, co-founder of Tally, discusses the company's unconventional approach to software development through "Full Stack Greenfield" projects. He explains why building every component from scratch, despite being a high-risk strategy, has been crucial for Tally's success in serving the SMB market, fostering extreme customer loyalty, and aspiring to connect 200 million businesses. The talk delves into the historical context, the philosophy of questioning and choosing constraints, and the distinction between product and custom engineering.

3‑2‑1 Backup Rule Explained: Protect Your Data from Disaster

3‑2‑1 Backup Rule Explained: Protect Your Data from Disaster

Jeff Crume outlines essential data resiliency strategies, starting with the 3-2-1 backup rule—three copies, two media types, one offsite—and expanding to include immutable or air-gapped backups, rigorous testing, and encryption. He emphasizes these principles for robust disaster recovery, ransomware protection, and minimizing costly downtime, highlighting the trade-offs in achieving high availability.

The Media Game Has Changed

The Media Game Has Changed

The conversation explores the shift from legacy media to creator-led platforms, why authenticity has become a competitive advantage, and how founders can build audiences by communicating directly with customers, employees, and the public. They discuss podcasts, social media, storytelling, corporate communications, and the changing relationship between companies, journalists, and audiences. Along the way, they examine how founders can develop a public voice, why some leaders become influential communicators, and what it means to build a brand in a world where distribution is increasingly decentralized.

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Mergeable by default: Building the context engine to save time and tokens — Peter Werry, Unblocked

Mergeable by default: Building the context engine to save time and tokens — Peter Werry, Unblocked

A practitioner's guide to building a context engine, the reasoning layer that provides AI agents with the necessary organizational context to generate effective and appropriate code. The talk debunks common myths about RAG and large context windows, outlines core requirements for a robust context engine, and shares lessons learned from production.

Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl

Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl

Patrick Debois argues that as AI coding agents become more capable, the context that drives them—prompts, rules, and memory—needs its own engineering discipline, akin to how we manage code. He introduces the Context Development Lifecycle (Generate, Evaluate, Distribute, and Observe) to make context a shared, repeatable, and improvable part of software delivery, creating a flywheel effect where better context leads to better agent output and continuous improvement.

Human-in-the-Loop Automation with n8n — Liam McGarrigle

Human-in-the-Loop Automation with n8n — Liam McGarrigle

Liam McGarrigle demonstrates how to build secure, observable, and controllable AI agents in n8n. The workshop covers creating a human-in-the-loop workflow for managing Gmail and Google Calendar, focusing on n8n's visual system for tool configuration, prompting strategies, and implementing essential approval steps to prevent unintended actions.

I Gave an AI Agent the Keys to My Life (Here's What Happened) — Radek Sienkiewicz, Velvet Shark

I Gave an AI Agent the Keys to My Life (Here's What Happened) — Radek Sienkiewicz, Velvet Shark

A deep dive into the practical, long-term experience of giving a personal AI agent (Open-Claw) incremental control over one's digital life. The talk covers the gradual "permission creep," the pivotal role of an Obsidian knowledge base for providing context, the ecosystem of overnight cron jobs for self-maintenance, and the philosophy of using an agent to "optimize for your future self."

Software Engineering Is Becoming Plan and Review — Louis Knight-Webb, Vibe Kanban

Software Engineering Is Becoming Plan and Review — Louis Knight-Webb, Vibe Kanban

As AI handles more of the coding, the role of a software engineer is shifting from writing code to planning and reviewing the work of AI agents. This talk explores the implications of this shift, the new workflows it demands, and the tools required to manage them effectively.

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Notion)

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Notion)

Max Schoening, Head of Product at Notion, discusses how AI is reshaping software development. He argues that agency—the drive to effect change—is now more critical than specific skills, as AI makes the first 10% of any project 'free'. Schoening introduces his 'tiny core' theory for great products, debates the 'SaaSpocalypse', and emphasizes the growing importance of software quality and taste in an era of exploding software quantity.

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