Sairam Sundaresan

I can't believe I'm saying this - I'm officially a published author :D After three years, my first book is out. "AI for the Rest of Us" with @BloomsburyAcad is finally in the world. I wrote it because I watched too many people get left behind in AI conversations. The gap between executives and engineers kept growing. Everyone else just nodded along, trying to translate both languages at once. So I built a bridge.

@rasbt Looks very cool!

The Redbubble poster version just arrived (redbubble.com/i/poster/LLM-A…)! This is the Medium (26.9 x 23.4 in). Font looks good and sharp, but I probably wouldn't go smaller.

I (finally) put together a new LLM Architecture Gallery that collects the architecture figures all in one place! sebastianraschka.com/llm-architectu…

Pawan Goyal, Professor, @IITKgp, in a conversation with Author Sairam Surenderasan at #ThinkEdu2026. #ThinkEdu2026 @DSaience @ashwinacharya05 @PrabhuChawla @Eventxpress @NehaSonthaliaP1 @doctorlalitha @TCS @TataCompanies @myrecchennai @IndianOilcl @SastraUniv @SSVM_Schools

“How Is AI Changing Education: What We Need to Know” An engaging conversation with Dr. V Kamakoti – Director, IIT Madras; and Sairam Sundaresan – Author Hear an examination of how artificial intelligence is influencing teaching, learning processes, and institutional practices, and what educators and students need to understand about this transition. 🗓 March 3, 2026 📍 ITC Grand Chola Be in the room where ideas shape tomorrow. Register now: eventxpress.com/thinkedu2026/u… @iitmadras @DSaience @IndianOilcl @SastraUniv @SSVM_Schools @TCS @TataCompanies @myrecchennai @PrabhuChawla @NewIndianXpress @Eventxpress @NehaSonthaliaP1 @doctorlalitha @xpressandhra @xpresskerala @xpresstn @XpressOdisha @XpressBengaluru @XpressHyderabad @samakalikam @TheMornStandard @xpressandhra #ThinkEdu2026 #EducationSummit #ChennaiEvents #EdexLive #AIinEducation #ArtificialIntelligence

“North South: One India, Many Songs” A cultural conversation with Maithili Thakur – Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Listen to a reflection on cultural harmony, linguistic diversity, and the role of music in connecting regions across India while sustaining distinct traditions and identities. “Dreamers and Doers: The New Gen Student” A panel discussion with Dr. M Jagadesh Kumar – Former Chairman, UGC; and Dr. Girija Vaidyanathan – Former Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu. Listen to a discussion on the aspirations, capabilities, and responsibilities of today’s students, and how institutions engage with ambition, initiative, and emerging forms of leadership. “How Is AI Changing Education: What We Need to Know” An engaging conversation with Dr. V Kamakoti – Director, IIT Madras; and Sairam Sundaresan – Author Hear an examination of how artificial intelligence is influencing teaching, learning processes, and institutional practices, and what educators and students need to understand about this transition. 🗓 March 3, 2026 📍 ITC Grand Chola Be in the room where ideas shape tomorrow. Register now: eventxpress.com/thinkedu2026/u… @maithilithakur @nidmmhaindia @mamidala90 @DSaience @iitmadras @NCPCR_ @IndianOilcl @SastraUniv @SSVM_Schools @TCS @TataCompanies @myrecchennai @PrabhuChawla @NewIndianXpress @Eventxpress @NehaSonthaliaP1 @doctorlalitha @xpressandhra @xpresskerala @xpresstn @XpressOdisha @XpressBengaluru @XpressHyderabad @samakalikam @TheMornStandard @xpressandhra #ThinkEdu2026 #EducationSummit #ChennaiEvents #EdexLive #CulturalUnity #OneIndia #NewGenStudents #UGC #AIinEducation #ArtificialIntelligence

@neuranne Massive congratulations 🎉

Just received amazing news… Tiny Experiments crossed 100K copies in a little under a year!! 🥳 my first book is traveling way further than I ever could have hoped and I’m so grateful to everyone who read it + shared it!

Learn ML+GenAI at @DSaience's "Machine Learning and Generative AI System Design Workshop" = 4.5 hours, Feb.28 Get 40% OFF registration fee with my discount code 'KIRK40' See many more details & register here: eventbrite.com/e/machine-lear… Hosted by @PacktPublishing @PacktDataML

Learn ML+GenAI at the @DSaience "Machine Learning and Generative AI System Design Workshop" = 4.5 hours, Feb.28 Get 40% OFF registration fee with my discount code 'KIRK40' See many more details & register here: eventbrite.com/e/machine-lear… Hosted by @PacktPublishing @PacktDataML

Honestly never had this fun building things in my life. Claude code is something else.

I’m Ken Ono. After a long stretch in university administration, I made a personal pivot: back to math, back to education, and into the AI moment with a lot of hope (and a lot of care). If AI is going to matter, it should give humans time back for the parts of learning that are deeply human. More in thread 👇

@_arohan_ The number of layers in this are naan zero for sure.

adityaarun1.github.io/assets/files/i… There is many layers to this joke. Don’t be dum

A frontier evaluation task just dropped: BiriyaniBench: A complex step by step seasoning task.

@businessbarista @lennysan @clairevo @mattpocockuk @mattyp @swyx @Austen Is there a numbered waiting list? Got 16/16 easter eggs and entered my email, but no idea when I'll get an invite to the community.

Epic day 1 for Claude Code Community. Total applications: 1,341 Accepted Members: 234 Distinguished Members: @lennysan, @clairevo, @mattpocockuk, @mattyp, @swyx, @Austen, and more As many of you know, our application is an easter egg hunt to see how big of a Claude Code power user you really are. The results (eggs found): 16🥚- 37 applicants (2.7% of total) 14🥚- 64 applicants 13🥚- 27 applicants 12🥚- 9 applicants 11🥚- 19 applicants 10🥚- 24 applicants Top use cases shared: 1) Hans K. built a 3D world visualizing all of their repos with semantic clustering + generated illustrations. 2) Paul C. is building a change log bot for CCC so every time CC drops an update, it would ping in the slack channel for others to see whats new. 3) Bek A. created Theo Prawn, a talking fish on the wall of his house trained on Theo Von's voice. "Currently getting some wheels installed, goal is to have him roam around the house talking sh*t" In case you were wondering, this is a f*cking blast.

@anilananth Amazing! Welcome to Substack :)

I'm starting a Substack newsletter, WHERE MACHINES THINK (just imagine scare quotes around the word think, to maintain appropriate skepticism). The welcome post is here: wheremachinesthink.substack.com/p/welcome-to-w…

It genuinely feels to me like GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 in November represent an inflection point - one of those moments where the models get incrementally better in a way that tips across an invisible capability line where suddenly a whole bunch of much harder coding problems open up

@businessbarista Claude

I want to start a community dedicated to Claude Code. It’s become the gateway drug to coding and experiencing the power of AI for tons of people. This will be a space for people to share killer use cases, agentic workflows, proven prompts, and connect with other CC obsessives. Comment “Claude” if you want to join.

@cwolferesearch For better. For better. It's amazing how much ground you cover on a topic. :)

@DSaience for better or worse, there has not been a sub-10K word essay in some time

Understanding vanilla GRPO is not enough. There are many tricks / modifications needed to avoid things things like training instability and entropy collapse, especially at scale. In a new blog, I outline (or at least try my best) all of the practical tricks and best practices that have been recently proposed for GRPO. The overview will be released tomorrow morning. It includes 10+ papers and is 13,000 words long. Super excited for this one!

@WHubbell80705 @gradi3nt_ascent @BloomsburyAcad Thank you! Much appreciated

@DSaience @gradi3nt_ascent @BloomsburyAcad Impressive growth across the board, congrats. The question about AI commoditizing learning is especially interesting. Looking forward to reading your take.

So grateful for this past year. 1. @gradi3nt_ascent tripled in size from 8k to 25k subscribers. 2. I published my first book with @BloomsburyAcad 3. Grew from 2k to a community of 100k followers on LinkedIn. I wrote about the newsletter journey and what's next for Gradient Ascent, writing and education, especially given how AI has commoditized learning. Or has it? Post linked below. Happy New Year!

@codeandprose @gradi3nt_ascent @BloomsburyAcad Thanks a ton, Daniel. Wish you a Happy New Year!

@DSaience @gradi3nt_ascent @BloomsburyAcad Congrats Sairam, love to see this, and Happy New Year!