Prakrat Agrawal

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@v_kethana this sounds really cool but making progress towards an open problem in 48 hours is hard, infact you might spend 48 hours just understanding the problem and reading previous work

here is how it would work: - contestants are posed with a challenging open problem in math - they have 48 hours to produce some attempt at a solution - ai tools, computers, internet use are all permitted

imagine if we had hackathons for math

@stevenlu0 @NSF congratulations!!

very excited to share that I was awarded a 2026 @NSF graduate research fellowship :))

@AmmannNora These are the results from the experiments I ran. Claude seemed to be the most robust to the framing in the prompt. Note that I only ran the evidential emphasis framing for Gemini

Has someone ran experiments about whether (and when) Claude is a 1 boxer or a 2 boxer?

@Tim_Hua_ my guess is that it’s trained on Claude’s constitution?

GLM-5 believes it is also Claude from Anthropic.

@v_kethana what’s your forecast for when this will happen?

robotics is going to have its ChatGPT moment eventually. perhaps in the not-so-distant future.

@DhravyaShah erm

I got an even better idea my gf disapproves of it though to prove her wrong, the first five people to comment get one shipped on their doorstep ™ SF is so ready for Suprememory underwears

@jasminexli gonna borrow this!!

gonna start adding 'emotional status' to the top of my writing docs (like epistemic status but for how much joy i felt while writing!!)

@fatimahs_tech goat

Had lunch with my UC Berkeley CS professor who teaches over 10k students and basically built Google Translate Old people are so cool man

@hyusapx @kaime the D is google deepmind

@prakrattt @kaime no google?

has anyone coined a faang type term for the frontier labs?

@cory @reply will be there

visiting Berkeley this week. we're hosting a small builder meetup. @reply or DM if you're there!

@Sonith_Sunku5 @reply will be around!

Heading to Berkeley Wed at 2 PM - who's around? Bringing some ZF merch :) @reply or DM

@floguo @perplexity_ai @nextjs @v0 @cursor_ai i like this a lot!!

✐ᝰ.ᐟ concept: @perplexity_ai notebook ✎ ˚ ༘ ⊹ idea → prototype in 12 hrs w/ @nextjs @v0 @cursor_ai !

@rtaneja_ i see! would be even cooler if you could build and give out MVPs for those ideas using claude/cursor for a “pro” subscription. not sure how you’d automate that tho

@prakrattt The whole process is automated actually! I have spiders that scan for new apps, and am using GPT-4o for analysis

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@ady_mehtaa what are u cooking adyboy

Anyone know of a space that could be a hackathon venue for 3 days on Feb 14th? Anywhere in SF/Bay Area (House, building, coworking space, etc)

@nikitabier another banger

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@samdape @alec_dilanchian would pay for this

@kylejeong don’t edge me like that

@prakrattt yeah for sure they're both in

also SF