Anurag Saha Roy
@lazyoracle.bsky.social
Fed on a healthy dose of tech, travel, biryani, rom-coms, ml and quantum.
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it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
May 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
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Q: How many images can you store on a 64kb memory device?
A: One. One picture is worth a thousand words
A: One. One picture is worth a thousand words
March 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Q: How many images can you store on a 64kb memory device?
A: One. One picture is worth a thousand words
A: One. One picture is worth a thousand words
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I’m a simple man.
I see something I don’t understand in quantum computing, I wait for Scott Aaronson’s take on it.
I see something I don’t understand in quantum computing, I wait for Scott Aaronson’s take on it.
February 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’m a simple man.
I see something I don’t understand in quantum computing, I wait for Scott Aaronson’s take on it.
I see something I don’t understand in quantum computing, I wait for Scott Aaronson’s take on it.
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Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
slate.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
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That thing where I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to phrase official emails in a way that comes off as amusingly gruff but not annoying abrasive.
February 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
That thing where I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to phrase official emails in a way that comes off as amusingly gruff but not annoying abrasive.
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In concept learning ("is a hotdog a sandwich?"), we track how rule-based approaches (“necessary & sufficient conditions”) gave way to a variety of similarity-based methods (e.g., exemplar/prototype), which then culminated in Bayesian frameworks offering the best of both worlds.
February 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In concept learning ("is a hotdog a sandwich?"), we track how rule-based approaches (“necessary & sufficient conditions”) gave way to a variety of similarity-based methods (e.g., exemplar/prototype), which then culminated in Bayesian frameworks offering the best of both worlds.
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I recently talked to someone doing a PhD in multivariate calculus.
Or, as they would call it, a grad student
Or, as they would call it, a grad student
January 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I recently talked to someone doing a PhD in multivariate calculus.
Or, as they would call it, a grad student
Or, as they would call it, a grad student
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🚀 Join the 4th SBI Hackathon! 🚀
The last SBI hackathon was a fantastic milestone in forming a collaborative open-source community around SBI. Be part of it this year as we build on that momentum!
📅 March 17–21, 2025
📍 Tübingen, Germany or remote
👉 Details: github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...
More Info:🧵👇
The last SBI hackathon was a fantastic milestone in forming a collaborative open-source community around SBI. Be part of it this year as we build on that momentum!
📅 March 17–21, 2025
📍 Tübingen, Germany or remote
👉 Details: github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...
More Info:🧵👇
January 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚀 Join the 4th SBI Hackathon! 🚀
The last SBI hackathon was a fantastic milestone in forming a collaborative open-source community around SBI. Be part of it this year as we build on that momentum!
📅 March 17–21, 2025
📍 Tübingen, Germany or remote
👉 Details: github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...
More Info:🧵👇
The last SBI hackathon was a fantastic milestone in forming a collaborative open-source community around SBI. Be part of it this year as we build on that momentum!
📅 March 17–21, 2025
📍 Tübingen, Germany or remote
👉 Details: github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...
More Info:🧵👇
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Happy International Year of Quantum 🥳 We’ve got a good feeling about this one!
To kick things off, this week we’re at the International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS). If you’re interested to hear about our work, don’t miss our demo and talks!🚀⚛️
#COMSNETS #QuantumTech
To kick things off, this week we’re at the International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS). If you’re interested to hear about our work, don’t miss our demo and talks!🚀⚛️
#COMSNETS #QuantumTech
January 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Happy International Year of Quantum 🥳 We’ve got a good feeling about this one!
To kick things off, this week we’re at the International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS). If you’re interested to hear about our work, don’t miss our demo and talks!🚀⚛️
#COMSNETS #QuantumTech
To kick things off, this week we’re at the International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS). If you’re interested to hear about our work, don’t miss our demo and talks!🚀⚛️
#COMSNETS #QuantumTech
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You still have people saying, "I don't see any evidence that Musk is a neo-Nazi." And it's like, I can't know what's in his heart, but he follows them on Twitter, retweets them, promotes their conspiracy theories, parrots their rhetoric, and now recommends their party for Germany. But who knows?
December 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
You still have people saying, "I don't see any evidence that Musk is a neo-Nazi." And it's like, I can't know what's in his heart, but he follows them on Twitter, retweets them, promotes their conspiracy theories, parrots their rhetoric, and now recommends their party for Germany. But who knows?
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Introducing CARLA Garage, a starter kit for developing algorithms for the challenging new CARLA Leaderboard 2.0!
Everything you need to step in to autonomous driving research, open-sourced: expert driver, dataset, pretrained models, evaluation, and training scripts.
🔗 github.com/autonomousvi...
Everything you need to step in to autonomous driving research, open-sourced: expert driver, dataset, pretrained models, evaluation, and training scripts.
🔗 github.com/autonomousvi...
December 16, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Introducing CARLA Garage, a starter kit for developing algorithms for the challenging new CARLA Leaderboard 2.0!
Everything you need to step in to autonomous driving research, open-sourced: expert driver, dataset, pretrained models, evaluation, and training scripts.
🔗 github.com/autonomousvi...
Everything you need to step in to autonomous driving research, open-sourced: expert driver, dataset, pretrained models, evaluation, and training scripts.
🔗 github.com/autonomousvi...
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Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.
November 15, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.
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I’d like it if people would stop using “computational” to mean algorithmic, or worse, compute-intensive. I’d rather reserve computational to mean ‘related to computational problem(s)’
December 9, 2024 at 1:43 PM
I’d like it if people would stop using “computational” to mean algorithmic, or worse, compute-intensive. I’d rather reserve computational to mean ‘related to computational problem(s)’
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One big problem with induction stoves is that you'll be trying to heat up some soup or whatever but it will keep drawing general principles from specific instances
November 18, 2024 at 5:20 PM
One big problem with induction stoves is that you'll be trying to heat up some soup or whatever but it will keep drawing general principles from specific instances
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i very much want to be in a bubble with likeminded people. i think that would be swell
December 1, 2024 at 10:37 PM
i very much want to be in a bubble with likeminded people. i think that would be swell
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"Real numbers?! I only do arithmetic in finite fields, typically 𝔽₂.
My modulo operandi, if you will."
My modulo operandi, if you will."
December 1, 2024 at 8:30 AM
"Real numbers?! I only do arithmetic in finite fields, typically 𝔽₂.
My modulo operandi, if you will."
My modulo operandi, if you will."
It feels like I am back in 2020 discussing science and tech with stranger friends that I have never met irl. The best of times.
When X stuttered, it felt gross, like a drunk boss.
When bsky stutters, it feels adorable, like a precocious baby.
When bsky stutters, it feels adorable, like a precocious baby.
November 30, 2024 at 6:49 AM
It feels like I am back in 2020 discussing science and tech with stranger friends that I have never met irl. The best of times.
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It’s so nice to be at the stage of a lifetime of a platform when everyone mostly agrees the people running it are working hard and doing a good job. Let’s enjoy that while we can!
November 26, 2024 at 3:08 PM
It’s so nice to be at the stage of a lifetime of a platform when everyone mostly agrees the people running it are working hard and doing a good job. Let’s enjoy that while we can!
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The sbi package is growing into a community project 🌍 To reflect this and the many algorithms, neural nets, and diagnostics that have been added since its initial release, we have written a new software paper 📝 Check it out, and reach out if you want to get involved: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17337
sbi reloaded: a toolkit for simulation-based inference workflows
Scientists and engineers use simulators to model empirically observed phenomena. However, tuning the parameters of a simulator to ensure its outputs match observed data presents a significant challeng...
arxiv.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:17 AM
The sbi package is growing into a community project 🌍 To reflect this and the many algorithms, neural nets, and diagnostics that have been added since its initial release, we have written a new software paper 📝 Check it out, and reach out if you want to get involved: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17337
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Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!
November 26, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!
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Want to learn / teach RL?
Check out new book draft:
Reinforcement Learning - Foundations sites.google.com/view/rlfound...
W/ Shie Mannor & Yishay Mansour
This is a rigorous first course in RL, based on our teaching at TAU CS and Technion ECE.
Check out new book draft:
Reinforcement Learning - Foundations sites.google.com/view/rlfound...
W/ Shie Mannor & Yishay Mansour
This is a rigorous first course in RL, based on our teaching at TAU CS and Technion ECE.
November 25, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Want to learn / teach RL?
Check out new book draft:
Reinforcement Learning - Foundations sites.google.com/view/rlfound...
W/ Shie Mannor & Yishay Mansour
This is a rigorous first course in RL, based on our teaching at TAU CS and Technion ECE.
Check out new book draft:
Reinforcement Learning - Foundations sites.google.com/view/rlfound...
W/ Shie Mannor & Yishay Mansour
This is a rigorous first course in RL, based on our teaching at TAU CS and Technion ECE.
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from a side project I'm working on: the shallow water equations are a system of hyperbolic PDEs that describe the movement of water when the depth is much less than the horizontal dimension. you can solve them pretty easily in julia. here's a 1D tub of water being shaken sinusoidally.
November 22, 2024 at 5:38 PM
from a side project I'm working on: the shallow water equations are a system of hyperbolic PDEs that describe the movement of water when the depth is much less than the horizontal dimension. you can solve them pretty easily in julia. here's a 1D tub of water being shaken sinusoidally.
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What is a paper that has changed your view or direction research?
I am searching for inspiring gems.
For me, it was the 2013 IBM paper on Computational Creativity. It showed that computers can be used in entirely different ways in Science, which was a complete eye-opener:
arxiv.org/abs/1311.1213
I am searching for inspiring gems.
For me, it was the 2013 IBM paper on Computational Creativity. It showed that computers can be used in entirely different ways in Science, which was a complete eye-opener:
arxiv.org/abs/1311.1213
A Big Data Approach to Computational Creativity
Computational creativity is an emerging branch of artificial intelligence that places computers in the center of the creative process. Broadly, creativity involves a generative step to produce many id...
arxiv.org
November 27, 2024 at 5:26 AM
What is a paper that has changed your view or direction research?
I am searching for inspiring gems.
For me, it was the 2013 IBM paper on Computational Creativity. It showed that computers can be used in entirely different ways in Science, which was a complete eye-opener:
arxiv.org/abs/1311.1213
I am searching for inspiring gems.
For me, it was the 2013 IBM paper on Computational Creativity. It showed that computers can be used in entirely different ways in Science, which was a complete eye-opener:
arxiv.org/abs/1311.1213
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We are organizing a workshop on ML for quantum matter in Dresden in February 2025. The application deadline is Nov. 30, apply! www.pks.mpg.de/mlqmat25
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Machine Learning for Quantum Matter
www.pks.mpg.de
November 27, 2024 at 12:44 PM
We are organizing a workshop on ML for quantum matter in Dresden in February 2025. The application deadline is Nov. 30, apply! www.pks.mpg.de/mlqmat25
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An introduction to graph states.
An introduction to graph states - Peter Rohde
Quantum computer scientist, Physicist, Mountaineer, Adventurer, Composer, Musician, Cryptoanarchist, Mental health advocate, TEDx speaker
peterrohde.org
September 5, 2023 at 9:33 PM
An introduction to graph states.