Aditya Sengupta
@adiastra.bsky.social
Astronomy PhD student at UCSC
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Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
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I don’t even follow baseball I’m just a huge fan of absurdity
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I don’t even follow baseball I’m just a huge fan of absurdity
forming a strong opinion about intentional walking only minutes after learning about the concept
October 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
forming a strong opinion about intentional walking only minutes after learning about the concept
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It’s a big day for fans of baseball, or as the rest of the world calls it, “American Cricket”
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
It’s a big day for fans of baseball, or as the rest of the world calls it, “American Cricket”
beginning to think test cricket's time limits are very reasonable
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
beginning to think test cricket's time limits are very reasonable
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Every number's a Love number if you love numbers
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Every number's a Love number if you love numbers
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New paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry?
This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N)
arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433
This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N)
arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433
October 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
New paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry?
This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N)
arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433
This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N)
arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433
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have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you
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I actually kind of want to hear from people who dislike mathfiction.
What stops you from engaging with a story with math in it? What would draw you to trying one out?
#Writersky #Writing #SFF
What stops you from engaging with a story with math in it? What would draw you to trying one out?
#Writersky #Writing #SFF
But it will have math— that’s not going away in my stories ever. I personally think mathematical beauty is worth studying in stories, just like love, or friendship, or ambition, or cosmic awe, or death, or literally any other source of inspiration for literature.
August 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I actually kind of want to hear from people who dislike mathfiction.
What stops you from engaging with a story with math in it? What would draw you to trying one out?
#Writersky #Writing #SFF
What stops you from engaging with a story with math in it? What would draw you to trying one out?
#Writersky #Writing #SFF
Really wondering what AI is gonna think cricket is about
August 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Really wondering what AI is gonna think cricket is about
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drinking water >>>>>
August 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
drinking water >>>>>
analytic and algebraic topology of locally euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable riemannian manifold
July 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
analytic and algebraic topology of locally euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable riemannian manifold
Thanks Jarrod what would I do without this insight
July 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Thanks Jarrod what would I do without this insight
We built computers to do math for us
July 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We built computers to do math for us
the bay bridge has a bike lane but only halfway across, so if you wanted to bike from the East Bay to SF for the 4th of July fireworks you'd have to bike all the way north to Point Richmond, across to Marin, and down across the Golden Gate Bridge. But that'd be ridiculous right
July 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
the bay bridge has a bike lane but only halfway across, so if you wanted to bike from the East Bay to SF for the 4th of July fireworks you'd have to bike all the way north to Point Richmond, across to Marin, and down across the Golden Gate Bridge. But that'd be ridiculous right
![The Google AI overview window with the text
<ctrl97>tool_code
print(google_search.search(queries=["trace trap error code 8212", "what is a trace trap", "trace trap error in python", "trace trap macos", "debug trace trap error", "fix trace trap 8212"]))](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yd23clffjq2ogihyylcjercn/bafkreibxp4hd5jmi7x77rd5xyxvd26x65elsc5g7xd4hrnuy2zaoyacbie@jpeg)
woke up early to watch something that'll cover the entire sky every three days
June 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
woke up early to watch something that'll cover the entire sky every three days
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another day, another blog entry from an “ai” company’s CEO talking up their software’s ability to change the world, anyway i still feel good about this playlist i made last year ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/genera...
Generative. — ethanmarcotte.com
Nineteen thoughts about “generative artificial intelligence,” spanning a few centuries.
ethanmarcotte.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
another day, another blog entry from an “ai” company’s CEO talking up their software’s ability to change the world, anyway i still feel good about this playlist i made last year ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/genera...
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I know it's wild to ask a physics pedagogy question at a time like this but here I go:
Astro/physicists, do you have a suggested piece of reading/advice column for people who are going through the transition from lecture-based learning to self-taught learning as a PhD student? ⚛️🔭🧪
Astro/physicists, do you have a suggested piece of reading/advice column for people who are going through the transition from lecture-based learning to self-taught learning as a PhD student? ⚛️🔭🧪
June 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I know it's wild to ask a physics pedagogy question at a time like this but here I go:
Astro/physicists, do you have a suggested piece of reading/advice column for people who are going through the transition from lecture-based learning to self-taught learning as a PhD student? ⚛️🔭🧪
Astro/physicists, do you have a suggested piece of reading/advice column for people who are going through the transition from lecture-based learning to self-taught learning as a PhD student? ⚛️🔭🧪
Also experimented in parallel w this based on the same blog post and reached the same conclusion - I liked not having to do my own env setup and the odd bit of refactoring but you lose more time to it having nonsense strategies/not trying basic validation than you gain
Tried Cursor with some high hopes after reading a blog post talking it up and it's genuinely surprisingly bad. I think to some degree I'm getting a lot of the benefits of LLMs just by using GitHub Copilot, but I was expecting the agent to be able to, you know, do useful stuff
June 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Also experimented in parallel w this based on the same blog post and reached the same conclusion - I liked not having to do my own env setup and the odd bit of refactoring but you lose more time to it having nonsense strategies/not trying basic validation than you gain
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It's M.E. awareness day!
Myalgic encephalomyelitis has one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease, yet most people have never heard of it.
I've spent the last two years bedridden w very severe M.E. Most of us are bedbound/housebound.
Rt for awareness please 💙
Myalgic encephalomyelitis has one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease, yet most people have never heard of it.
I've spent the last two years bedridden w very severe M.E. Most of us are bedbound/housebound.
Rt for awareness please 💙
May 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It's M.E. awareness day!
Myalgic encephalomyelitis has one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease, yet most people have never heard of it.
I've spent the last two years bedridden w very severe M.E. Most of us are bedbound/housebound.
Rt for awareness please 💙
Myalgic encephalomyelitis has one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease, yet most people have never heard of it.
I've spent the last two years bedridden w very severe M.E. Most of us are bedbound/housebound.
Rt for awareness please 💙
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From Catherine Slaughter @catieslaughts.bsky.social : Resilient researchers know how to fail. Learning how to fail, however, is easier said than done. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/05/09/rock-climbing/
astrobites.org/2025/05/09/rock-climbing/
Beyond: Why Falling Off Walls Makes Me a Better Scientist
Resilient researchers know how to fail. Learning how to fail, however, is easier said than done.
astrobites.org
May 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
From Catherine Slaughter @catieslaughts.bsky.social : Resilient researchers know how to fail. Learning how to fail, however, is easier said than done. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/05/09/rock-climbing/
astrobites.org/2025/05/09/rock-climbing/
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Interesting article from @adiastra.bsky.social
I think my hottest take here is that we kind of already have this and it's called "getting an undergrad to do the analysis" and it's probably responsible for a bunch of errors we haven't caught yet
aditya-sengupta.github.io/vibescience/
I think my hottest take here is that we kind of already have this and it's called "getting an undergrad to do the analysis" and it's probably responsible for a bunch of errors we haven't caught yet
aditya-sengupta.github.io/vibescience/
The Impending Rise of Vibe Science
LLM-based programming is tempting for science because people mostly want to spend their time thinking about the problem they’re interested in, rather than writing code. This isn’t helped by the narrat...
aditya-sengupta.github.io
March 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Interesting article from @adiastra.bsky.social
I think my hottest take here is that we kind of already have this and it's called "getting an undergrad to do the analysis" and it's probably responsible for a bunch of errors we haven't caught yet
aditya-sengupta.github.io/vibescience/
I think my hottest take here is that we kind of already have this and it's called "getting an undergrad to do the analysis" and it's probably responsible for a bunch of errors we haven't caught yet
aditya-sengupta.github.io/vibescience/