minor fixes

Author: alekdimi

_config.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ last_name: Dimitriev
 email: dimitriev.aleksandar@gmail.com
 description: > # the ">" symbol means to ignore newlines until "footer_text:"
   Alek Dimitriev's personal website.
-footer_text: asda # >%Powered by <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio">al-folio</a> theme.
+footer_text: # >%Powered by <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio">al-folio</a> theme.
 lang: en
 icon: 📖 # the emoji used as the favicon
 url: https://alekdimi.github.io # the base hostname & protocol for your site
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ og_image: # The site-wide (default for all links) Open Graph preview image
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Social integration
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-github_username: alekdimi
+github_username: # alekdimi
 linkedin_username: alekdimi
-scholar_userid: # xgmZn70AAAAJ
+scholar_userid: xgmZn70AAAAJ
 twitter_username:
 gitlab_username: 
 medium_username: 

_includes/social.html

@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@
             {%- if site.stackoverflow_id -%}
             <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/{{ site.stackoverflow_id }}" title="Stackoverflow"><i class="fab fa-stack-overflow"></i></a>
             {% endif %}
-            {%- if site.rss_icon -%}
+            <!-- {%- if site.rss_icon -%}
             <a href="{{ site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}/feed.xml" title="RSS Feed"><i class="fas fa-rss-square"></i></a>
-            {% endif %}
+            {% endif %} -->

_pages/about.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ social: true  # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
 
 I'm a machine learning engineer at Google, working on [Gemini](https://gemini.google.com) finetuning and inference for teams across [Alphabet](https://abc.xyz). I've been fortunate to work on a wide range of problems, ranging from multimodal capabilities augmentation, to non-generative tasks like text embedding, to automating model hyperparameters and sharding to improve training and inference efficiency.
 
-Before Google, I did my PhD in machine learning at the [University of Texas at Austin](https://www.utexas.edu/), advised by [Prof. Mingyuan Zhou](http://mingyuanzhou.github.io/), where my research was focused on [gradient estimation for discrete variables via dependent Monte Carlo samples](https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/b2924809-2671-48ba-b004-5e509f50bcc0). I also hold an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in computer science from the [University of Ljubljana](https://fri.uni-lj.si/en).
+Before Google, I did my PhD in machine learning at the [University of Texas at Austin](https://www.utexas.edu/), advised by [Prof. Mingyuan Zhou](http://mingyuanzhou.github.io/), where [my dissertation](https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/b2924809-2671-48ba-b004-5e509f50bcc0) was focused on gradient estimation for discrete variables via dependent Monte Carlo samples. I also hold an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in computer science from the [University of Ljubljana](https://fri.uni-lj.si/en).
 
 <!-- I'm a machine learning engineer at [Google](https://about.google/), working on large language models. Before that, I did my PhD in machine learning at [UT Austin](https://www.utexas.edu/), advised by [Prof. Mingyuan Zhou](http://mingyuanzhou.github.io/), where I did research in backpropagating through discrete variables in deep learning. I also hold an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in computer science from the [University of Ljubljana](https://fri.uni-lj.si/en). 
 Before starting my PhD, I worked on applying machine learning to different domains. 

_sass/_base.scss

@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ blockquote {
 .social {
   text-align: center;
   .contact-icons {
-    font-size: 4rem;
+    font-size: 3rem;
     a {
       i::before {
         color: var(--global-text-color);
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ footer.sticky-bottom {
 // Publications
 
 .publications {
-  margin-top: 2rem;
+  margin-top: 0rem;
   h1 {
     color: var(--global-theme-color);
     font-size: 2rem;