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Ravi Mohan

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Ravi Mohan
Ravi Mohan@ravi_mohan·
I often use twitter character constraints as a structural mechanism to clarify some aspect I'm thinking about. The context is often missing. Sorry about the resulting fragmentary thoughtlets. Should scribble on paper. Too lazy sometimes
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Sidu Ponnappa
Sidu Ponnappa@ponnappa·
You are misrepresenting my argument. I have a plan to do it in 10-20 years and I am acting on it. As a fellow AI founder, and arguably one that is substantially further ahead than almost anyone in the country, do you have a plan to do it in less than 10 that you are acting on? Because I don't think "someone else should just do it in a childlike way" makes sense to me as an argument. Also - "McKinsey math"? ouch quite the insult. Subhah subha doston ke beech mein ad hominem?
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finbarr
finbarr@finbarrtimbers·
Working in ML starts out as a math problem and very rapidly becomes a distributed systems problem
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Shane Morris
Shane Morris@GShaneMorris·
Writing is going to be a superpower soon. Not literary mastery, not being Shakespeare or Wordsworth or Lewis. I mean being able to express yourself spontaneously & coherently in paragraphs (or speech!) without an automated Wormtongue in your ear telling you what to think and say.
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The Good Time Rambler
The Good Time Rambler@marvingardns·
My Passions are my Personality
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Deedy
Deedy@deedydas·
What do the smartest kids in the world do when they grow up? I did the largest study of ~18,000 International Olympiad medalists (IMO, IOI and IPhO) over the last 25yrs, arguably the sharpest analytical minds of the world in high school, to see where they ended up and traced ~50% of them. Founders of ~20 unicorns and ~7 decacorns and ~10 billionaires: OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, Databricks, Perplexity, Ethereum, Cognition, Hyperliquid, Fireworks, Modal, Quora, Parallel, Cartesia, Wispr Most kids went to MIT, a whopping 12% of them, followed by Cambridge (7%) and Sharif (3%)! The career paths they chose (of those who graduated) were: — 36% Academia (professors) — 26% Other — 22% in Software / Tech — 12% in Quant / Finance — 5% Founders! The biggest employer was Google, by far, at 6%. Others interesting tidbits were: — 47 of them work at Jane Street (#3) — 38 at OpenAI (#5) — 15 at Anthropic — 8 at Cognition — 6 at Isomorphic Labs Olympiaders were 1500x more likely to be billionaires and 4000x more likely to be unicorn founders than the average person!
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'(Robert Smith)
'(Robert Smith)@stylewarning·
I put a bounty on a Coalton issue (add syntax highlighting support in another non-Coalton project) and in less than 5 hours some unknown people started pushing AI-generated PRs to this other project. Makes Coalton look bad. Never thought I'd need to actually moderate on GitHub.
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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD@MushtaqBilalPhD·
Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.
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Audrey Truschke
Audrey Truschke@AudreyTruschke·
Long-form interview I gave in Lahore a few months ago. It was a pleasure to speak at length about my research and scholarship -- dunyadigital.co/profiles/a-wri…
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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD@MushtaqBilalPhD·
> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces > notice researchers can't read the papers they need > notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper > notice peer reviewers worked for free > notice editors worked for free > notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money > build Sci-Hub in 2011 > upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published > give it away for free > get sued by Elsevier > get hit with a $15 million judgment > don't give a flying f*ck > keep Sci-Hub up > get domain after domain seized > register a new one > keep Sci-Hub up > get investigated by the US Department of Justice > don't give a flying f*ck > get accused of working for Russian intelligence > don't give a flying f*ck > have the FBI subpoena your iCloud > get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science > get a parasitoid wasp named after you > get a deep-sea snail named after you > get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge > become a legend
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Ravi Mohan
Ravi Mohan@ravi_mohan·
@tdinkar Also,though I don't use LLMS for coding, or writing, (or proofs in my amateur study of math) and I push back a bit against the hype, I think at ths point it is clear that they are doing more than 'just' the " token guessing" of the earliest versions. Theory will catch up soon
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Ravi Mohan@ravi_mohan·
@tdinkar so LLMs solving math problems is not new, pretty common, and some top mathematicians find them very useful as assistants to their work.
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Wisconsin DB Group (@wiscdb.bsky.social)
Wisconsin DB Group (@wiscdb.bsky.social)@wiscdb·
We're thrilled to share that @HangdongZ79542 has won the 2026 @SIGMODConf Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award! His thesis "Advancing Join Algorithms for Real-world Queries" makes DB theory practical by presenting join algorithms for real-world queries. We are so proud of you!
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Vladimir
Vladimir@vlelyavin·
@ThePrimeagen ngl every day ai agents get closer to real coworkers by creating problems nobody owns
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Arnav Gupta
Arnav Gupta@championswimmer·
I stayed in India for 8 years after graduating. In those 8 years I ran a mildly successful startup, creating 70+ jobs, and a lot of taxes since we were profitable. My Whatsapp inbox from my teaching time is full of thousands of messages of people getting prestigious high paying tech jobs. After that as an engineering leader at various orgs, hired at least 50+ more people. Paid multiple crores of personal income tax as well. I did more than my fair share of creating employment, creating human capital and contributed enough to pay off my subsidised education (I’ll not deny I got more than good enough education both from school and university, both of which are partly paid for by the government) In those 8 years, of my closest 10 friends, slowly slowly I found 8 of them now have moved outside India. More than half my college group is outside. And eventually on the balance of things, it really started feeling like I’m getting the short end of the bargain and those others who left were getting a better deal in life. I had always assured myself that a) I can always go out whenever I want, I am here by choice b) I’ve consciously stuck to faster growth roles orgs but if I ever wanted to, I can go to big tech too Finally a switch clicked in the head saying if you’re so sure of (a) and (b) why don’t you really just go and see. You can always come back. In the long run I might be proven wrong (I’m aware of stories of one health scare or racism incident or ailing parents that pushes the pendulum back for many), but for now my lived experience only taught me exactly opposite of what Vembu has said below. In fact if 10 years ago I would have even slightly been convinced by the below tweet, today I’m convinced even less by it. From my perspective of the things I sought in life, the equation has only gotten worse not better.
Sridhar Vembu@svembu

Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu

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Marta Peirano
Marta Peirano@minipetite·
Me sumo a la advertencia: Sci-Hub ha pirateado más de 85 millones de artículos de investigación y ahora encima han añadido un bot que responde preguntas utilizando artículos completos y recientes. Esto es un escándalo. Dejo el enlace abajo para que sepas cómo evitarlo.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD@MushtaqBilalPhD

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

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