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About Me
Hi! I’m Ameya, and since you’re reading this: a-may-yeah (as in a book, may I?, yeah sure!). “Ameya” is the sanskrit word “अमेय” approximately translating to “Impossible”. Just too full of energy as a baby, right? My parents went from “You’re impossible” to “You’re Ameya”. This github username was created when in high school, as a battle against the impossible dream of being “Dr. Ameya” (pun intended) and motivation for it. The username is not the snobbish “I’m Dr. Ameya” not “Mr. Ameya”, I never imagined I would actually make it.
Everyone has a core sthick, here’s mine: I am on a lifelong quest to execute dope projects, a.k.a. Ideas which pay rent 💖! As a personal choice, I do not theorize about the hypothetical, or getting conspicuously upset about things out of my control. I try to execute projects on areas I care about, and where I can make a difference.
What I professionally really care about is advances in our era dominated by technological progress (also mechanism design)– How to understand advances, better bake nicer incentives into technologies for a fairer world and reduce reliance on governments or big-tech. I aspire to an the ideal of “theoretically grounded approaches should go hand-in-hand with challenging practical problems” in my research: Principled approaches can accelerate research compared to extensive hit-and-try approaches popular today. Conversely, it’s important to make real-world assumptions to model computationally hard problems and side-step worst-case complexity. As Marx once famously said “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them.. well, I have others”. I work on data-centric investigations of emergence in foundation models, with a focus on getting real-world impact at BethgeLab in Tübingen AI Center!
On the fun side, I’m all about fake frameworks — after all, ontologies make everything seem so real! My academic alter ego is an ENTJ, ruled by Te and Ni in the Jungian world. If you know your Magic: The Gathering colors, I’m mostly Blue and Red with a hint of Black. I’m a voracious reader of aspiring-rationalist, effective-altruism, pop-economics blogs, but am not in any of the above communities (although I wish to be more involved!). I have heavy auditory bent for enjoyment in the auditory-visual-touch axis, and I’m heavily into Techno! I’m a semi-professional DJ, also into dancing– currently learning to shuffle. Dancing unlocks a mode of bodily expression which I am envious about! I’m passionate about animal welfare, keeping internet free, and I love and shill free and open-source culture. Welcome to my personal page folks!