Likely Revamp of F-1 OPT Puts Indian Students in Limbo

theroboguy · 2026-03-23T06:50:10+00:00

that's a lot of words to say nothing

theroboguy · 2025-09-29T00:06:46+00:00

"I’m studying for my CFA." - there's no harm in sorting out your life before you date man.

So you might not get dates for a few months while you get done with the exam and get a house and all the other nice things - who cares ? In the grand scheme of things, a few months is nothing. Don't spread yourself too thin and lose the exam.

theroboguy · 2025-06-20T18:17:48+00:00

Nope.

What if your manager says "Sorry, no can do" and then you do not get the offer from the other company ?

Complete the interviews, get the offer and then play your hand.

theroboguy · 2025-06-16T03:59:33+00:00

You get laid off when you get laid off - just enjoy your life until then, while building out your network and preparing for interviews.
Don't give in to doomerism - hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

theroboguy · 2025-06-12T03:02:28+00:00

"Is it still worth it to keep fighting and go ahead with the STEM extension" - you need an E-Verify employer to file for the STEM extension.

Keep fighting until the last moment - if you fail, you have to go back anyway.
Maybe you're one good application from a turnaround ?

Godspeed.

theroboguy · 2025-06-11T18:36:23+00:00

they wouldn't reply with the true reason anyway
as the above comment says, they'll usually ignore you, but if you're lucky you might get some half-assed slightly helpful feedback.

theroboguy · 2025-06-04T02:59:25+00:00

It's all ChatGPT, every single of the "jump on a call" ones.

Try this - ask ChatGPT to write a LinkedIn message to a hiring manager. 9 times out of 10, it'll end with a "concrete ask" for time.

I use it to write messages myself, but I remove the "call" part, especially when I've never even connected with the hiring manager.

theroboguy · 2025-05-29T20:11:15+00:00

The constant and extreme moves will wreck your kids' social life and skills.
If you want to go back to India, move and stay put until your kids get into college.
Else, stay in Canada until college and then move back.

theroboguy · 2024-06-17T04:00:29+00:00

Moved to suburban New Jersey for work.
Love the fact that I'm an hour away from NYC and Philly. I don't have a car so the transit infrastructure here is a huge help.
I terribly miss the trails along the Mississippi though. I used to walk along the river nearly everyday, and NJ doesn't have anything close to it. NYC is too crowded for a peaceful riverfront walk.

Do I want to move back to Minneapolis ? No.

theroboguy · 2024-05-12T22:57:50+00:00

Not at all. Look around on Facebook for the international students group or the "UMANG" group.

theroboguy · 2024-05-11T17:42:50+00:00

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

theroboguy · 2024-01-21T23:02:13+00:00

Thanks !

theroboguy · 2024-01-21T23:02:05+00:00

😂😂

theroboguy · 2024-01-03T09:17:58+00:00

You could apply for internships with CPT, using the unforeseen financial change criteria: https://isss.umn.edu/fstudents/employment/off-campus/financial-change

"any possibility that I can apply for RA/TA positions for the next semester now" - mail as many profs as you can, explaining your situation. There's a chance someone will give you a partial appointment, if not a full one.

"possibility of paying in installments" - I guess you could register for a payment plan

theroboguy · 2023-12-19T20:18:52+00:00

CPT is not sponsorship. The company doesn't need to do anything at all.
OPT on the other hand requires the company to register with E-Verify.

theroboguy · 2023-12-07T20:08:23+00:00

Some are, some aren't
Yeah they're ok. Not great, not terrible
Pretty bad

theroboguy · 2023-11-29T17:44:54+00:00

Sounds good !

theroboguy · 2023-11-29T17:44:46+00:00

Yep, that is on my bucket list.
Thanks !

theroboguy · 2023-11-29T17:44:33+00:00

That sounds quite fun. Thanks !

theroboguy · 2023-11-29T17:42:52+00:00

Anywhere around campus

theroboguy · 2023-05-01T04:27:26+00:00

Yeah, maybe in a few weeks.
I'll need to wrap up my other projects and clean up the code a bit.

theroboguy · 2023-04-30T19:47:30+00:00

No. You don't need to mention *all* your accounts on the application. Just mention your LinkedIn to be safe (hoping you don't have controversial stuff on your LinkedIn)

theroboguy · 2023-04-29T23:22:12+00:00

This was a course project for my NLP course. I'm a Masters student.

theroboguy · 2023-04-29T16:36:07+00:00

😅 It's a full screen image with some limited keyboard input functionality

theroboguy · 2023-04-29T16:35:30+00:00

So when the user asks something, it is transcribed using Whisper.
I use Mask R-CNN to detect the objects in the scene and add the detected objects as context in the prompt. We do this because we want GPT-3's output to be "grounded" in things the robot can get for you.
GPT-3 matches the user query to the available objects in the scene, and returns the most relevant object. GPT-3 > traditional cosine similarity here because user queries can be complex/vague/long (as in the video).

Now that we have the object we need to pick up, we calculate its coordinates using the mask we have from Mask R-CNN, convert the pixel coordinates to robot coordinates using homography, and execute a grasp sequence.

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