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Hello, I am Shubhamkar Ayare. My work may be summarized in terms of two main spheres of life.

Primary sphere of a graduate student. Currently, I'm pursuing my PhD at the Central European University in Vienna, Austria. I am looking forward to work under Prof. Jonathan Kominsky as part of the Causal Cognition Lab and, more broadly, the Cognitive Development Center. I completed my Master's in Cognitive Science from IIT Kanpur, working under Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava as part of the PLATIPUS Lab.

My primary sphere is largely driven by a quest to put the unknown unknowns relevant for building machines with human-like general intelligence into a more-or-less consistent framework. See what research areas this has touched so far.

CogSciLounge is my attempt at providing a discussion platform not limited to the restrictions of (i) spatiotemporal locality that real-life discussions require (ii) the non-public nature of emails. r/cogsci is a potential alternative.

Secondary sphere of a Common Lisp Enthusiast. This mainly began around my undergraduate days in Computer Science at IIT Bombay. It has been motivated by a search for a powerful practical yet stable programming platform for long term projects. This sphere contributes to my primary sphere every now and then, but it may be understood independently. See what projects this sphere had led to.

Besides these two spheres of life, I keep reading and sharing links to interesting, useful, or silly articles I run into or, sometimes, write. Upon a friend's recommendation, I'm maintaining them here.