Srikumar
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Math, music (@patantara.com), human and computer languages, small data and natural intelligence, visiting prof of computer science at Krea University. Blog - https://sriku.org
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
![“If you want to know how a model will behave, the only way of doing it is to run it,” Mensch also suggested. “You do need to have some empirical testing, what’s happening. Knowing the input data that has been used for training is not going to tell you whether your model is going to behave well in [a healthcare use-case], for instance. You don’t really care about what’s in the training data. You do care about the empirical behaviour of the model. So you don’t need knowledge of the training data. And if you had knowledge of the training data, it wouldn’t even teach you whether the model is going to behave well or not. So this is why I’m saying it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26hkfmtr7jrchexamh7hk6rz/bafkreibp7oaeovg7xt43dlk3qtmkft6irldgf44tz75sbaiqvoqdq4kpjy@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
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PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Oh! I had no idea that a retired school principal's words on FB can have *this* much political clout to divide people, warranting a case against him.
Cachar Assistant Superintendent of Police (Crime) Rajat Kumar Pal confirmed Barbhuiyan’s detention and alleged that the man had “tried to give a political angle” to the incident.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Oh! I had no idea that a retired school principal's words on FB can have *this* much political clout to divide people, warranting a case against him.
Ad in The Hindu newspaper today. Who needs this tech?
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Ad in The Hindu newspaper today. Who needs this tech?
Sometimes I laugh hard just taking tech lingo out of context :D
I FINALLY MADE A BREAKTHROUGH TODAY!!!!!!!!!
I remembered projectiles spawned from the player are actually their children. Now, I can make progress!
Read more on the Monkanics devblog:
monkanics.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...
#Monkanics #indie #indiegames #godot #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment
I remembered projectiles spawned from the player are actually their children. Now, I can make progress!
Read more on the Monkanics devblog:
monkanics.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...
#Monkanics #indie #indiegames #godot #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment
Networked Gunplay: Part 3 - Monkanics Devlog #29 (11-9-2025)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If this is your first time visiting my devl...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Sometimes I laugh hard just taking tech lingo out of context :D
Apparently there are several fake spacex youtube channels that have a deepfake elon on them trying to shill crypto. 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Apparently there are several fake spacex youtube channels that have a deepfake elon on them trying to shill crypto. 🙄
Says he was inspired by youtube.com/@jaidenanima... - bless you Jaden for getting a kid highly reluctant to draw anything, to do a hand drawn frame by frame stick animation!
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Says he was inspired by youtube.com/@jaidenanima... - bless you Jaden for getting a kid highly reluctant to draw anything, to do a hand drawn frame by frame stick animation!
Paul Graham on Sam Altman - "Sam Altman has it. You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king. If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.)"
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Paul Graham on Sam Altman - "Sam Altman has it. You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king. If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.)"
Kid's first hand drawn frame by frame animation - youtu.be/GuO6CkZQwmo
(First animation/video) The Quest - 1
YouTube video by The Strikers
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November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Kid's first hand drawn frame by frame animation - youtu.be/GuO6CkZQwmo
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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I expect tomorrow they’ll start trying to deport Mamdani, arrest Democrats for voter fraud, make loud noises about the shutdown, and brutally arrest some more immigrants. It’s all a pro wrestling match for them. (Not for us.)
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I expect tomorrow they’ll start trying to deport Mamdani, arrest Democrats for voter fraud, make loud noises about the shutdown, and brutally arrest some more immigrants. It’s all a pro wrestling match for them. (Not for us.)
Oh yeah me too .. and I live on the other side of the planet.
I'll be honest, I'm not even sure who the mayor is of my own city, but I am very invested in this mayoral election 3k miles away from me. 👀
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Oh yeah me too .. and I live on the other side of the planet.
The kids are alright.
whoever chose the colours for this graph needs to be arrested immediately
The Voters Who Propelled Mamdani to Victory.
(Wall Street Journal-unlocked)
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
(Wall Street Journal-unlocked)
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The kids are alright.
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Read Mamdani’s victory speech here:
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Read Mamdani’s victory speech here:
Saved for the moment I suppose, though I don't know how the proportions went (ranked voting, so not seeing numbers being reported .. yet?). Congrats to Mamdani and best wishes for success during his term.
It is unthinkable that NYC might succumb to fascism - to me it is like a touchstone. If NYC falls or even if the mayoral race ends up anywhere in the vicinity of Cuomo giving competition - the US falls in my eyes. Not that anybody cares, but I'll be saddened by that.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Saved for the moment I suppose, though I don't know how the proportions went (ranked voting, so not seeing numbers being reported .. yet?). Congrats to Mamdani and best wishes for success during his term.
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So this crab jumped into our build system and things got out of hand.
End result: a brand new, super fast ReScript build system.
rescript-lang.org/blog/reforgi...
End result: a brand new, super fast ReScript build system.
rescript-lang.org/blog/reforgi...
Reforging the ReScript Build System | ReScript Blog
ReScript 12 introduces a completely new build system that brings intelligent dependency tracking, faster incremental builds, and proper monorepo support.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
So this crab jumped into our build system and things got out of hand.
End result: a brand new, super fast ReScript build system.
rescript-lang.org/blog/reforgi...
End result: a brand new, super fast ReScript build system.
rescript-lang.org/blog/reforgi...
Wat? ... from the global south.
Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Wat? ... from the global south.
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Legendary to see Blacksky represented at the IETF (internet engineering task force)
They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other
TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other
TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Legendary to see Blacksky represented at the IETF (internet engineering task force)
They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other
TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other
TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
When I saw these turn up at an #Chennai MRTS station, brain automatically played Also Sprach Zarathustra. But seriously these stones look expensive for their function. Wonder how the choice gets made. At least it is not of the kind that will prevent people from lying down on it if they need to.
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
When I saw these turn up at an #Chennai MRTS station, brain automatically played Also Sprach Zarathustra. But seriously these stones look expensive for their function. Wonder how the choice gets made. At least it is not of the kind that will prevent people from lying down on it if they need to.
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What can a German studies and gender studies professor have to say about tech and thinking? Quite a bit! Well-written and insightful, with a bit of SV "inside baseball" thrown in. The quotes at the bottom of this page are surprisingly accurate. #BookReview
www.adriandaub.com/books/what-t...
www.adriandaub.com/books/what-t...
What Tech Calls Thinking — AdrianDaub.com
www.adriandaub.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What can a German studies and gender studies professor have to say about tech and thinking? Quite a bit! Well-written and insightful, with a bit of SV "inside baseball" thrown in. The quotes at the bottom of this page are surprisingly accurate. #BookReview
www.adriandaub.com/books/what-t...
www.adriandaub.com/books/what-t...
As much as I kick and wail when I hear about AI in mental health contexts, if there is one area where it can actually help, it is to bridge language gaps in a highly multilingual place like India. peopleplus.ai/blog/sukoon-...
Sukoon: An AI-enabled ecosystem approach to India's mental health gaps - People+ai
Discover how Sukoon is using technology to make mental health support more accessible across India. This article explains their approach to creating wide-reaching solutions that work for everyone.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As much as I kick and wail when I hear about AI in mental health contexts, if there is one area where it can actually help, it is to bridge language gaps in a highly multilingual place like India. peopleplus.ai/blog/sukoon-...
What a thread! 👇
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What a thread! 👇
China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990
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China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990
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October 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990
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