Reposted by Aditya SenguptaCaity Weaver @caity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comI Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in AmericaThirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf. 59550178
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaCliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026astronomy is so funny because it's this fairly niche interest for a small community of nerds and also it's 99.9999% of everything that exists 314028403
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I used to do sum(map(ord, "fun phrase of the day")) 010
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 07/03/2026i think this is basically always the case in astronomy research 020
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 06/03/2026have revised this take: i think i was underrating how much intuition building happens as part of the process of writing science code. Claude can get to many subproblem answers faster than I can but I end up feeling hollow - missing a sense of satisfaction I didn't know I had till it was gone 010
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 05/01/2026My paper demonstrating second-stage wavefront control using a photonic lantern at the Shane 3m telescope at Lick Observatory has been published in the Astronomical Journal! Good start to the year! doi.org/10.3847/1538... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social 030
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 28/12/2025as someone who may not be a researcher if not for prof layton this is so sad but also, not clear to me if this is more like "we should let ai write the layton puzzles" or "we should write the game in cursor instead of vscode" - even when specified to genai we seem to have terminology issues 040
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Minute Cryptic - 25 December, 2025 "Christmas now?" (7,3) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (38,328 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...minutecryptic.comMinute CrypticSolve a clue with a hidden meaning 000
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 30/11/2025wrote some custom curses for jet lag hide and seek on bikes in Santa Cruz! 030
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Wow look who's at the top of astro-ph.IM today arxiv.org/list/astro-p...arxiv.orgInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 030
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Presenting my new ball tampering innovation, where I add a tiny speaker that activates within an inch of the bat 000
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 21/11/2025a good amount of cricket commentary is like "you may not realize it but it'd be good for the batting side to get more runs" 141
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Haha, 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... 211008167
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I don’t even follow baseball I’m just a huge fan of absurdity 141458185
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 28/10/2025forming a strong opinion about intentional walking only minutes after learning about the concept 022
Reposted by Aditya Senguptapixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025It’s a big day for fans of baseball, or as the rest of the world calls it, “American Cricket” 772476
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 28/10/2025beginning to think test cricket's time limits are very reasonable 061
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaCatherine 🌌 @catieslaughts.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Every number's a Love number if you love numbers 3152
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaShashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 01/10/2025New 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 55011
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 26/09/2025have 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 321049249
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaArula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I 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 281
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Really wondering what AI is gonna think cricket is about 030
Reposted by Aditya Senguptaterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025drinking water >>>>> 0215
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 28/07/2025analytic and algebraic topology of locally euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable riemannian manifold 010
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Thanks Jarrod what would I do without this insight 020
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 06/07/2025the 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 3211
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 23/06/2025woke up early to watch something that'll cover the entire sky every three days 063
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaEthan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 12/06/2025another 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...ethanmarcotte.comGenerative. — ethanmarcotte.comNineteen thoughts about “generative artificial intelligence,” spanning a few centuries. 061
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/06/2025I 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? ⚛️🔭🧪 77925
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Also 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 1101
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaDevaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social · 12/05/2025It'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 💙 043
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaAstrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025From 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.orgBeyond: Why Falling Off Walls Makes Me a Better ScientistResilient researchers know how to fail. Learning how to fail, however, is easier said than done. 3356
Reposted by Aditya Senguptaterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Interesting 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/aditya-sengupta.github.ioThe Impending Rise of Vibe ScienceLLM-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... 0202
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 13/03/2025new blog post! I talk about the potential risks to science posed by "vibes-based" LLM programming, and how we could mitigate them aditya-sengupta.github.io/vibescience/aditya-sengupta.github.ioThe Impending Rise of Vibe ScienceLLM-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... 073
Reposted by Aditya Senguptaterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025If you enjoy Juxtastat, make sure to spread the word! There's not really any kind of algorithm for this sort of game so we rely on word of mouth — make sure all your demographics/geography/politics friends are aware of it! Also lmk any suggestions for improvement 1325
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 29/12/2024when you miss out on a tail end wicket because it's a no ball that's called a lagaan 040
Reposted by Aditya SenguptaDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/12/2024Solar power: it cures what ails you. www.npr.org/sections/sho...npr.orgWhy these doctors started writing medical 'prescriptions' for solar powerDoctors in Boston got tired of writing letters to power companies asking them to help vulnerable patients. Then they realized the solar panels on the hospital roof might offer a solution. 015033
Reposted by Aditya Senguptalydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 12/12/2024if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux 1717067921
Reposted by Aditya Senguptaterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024More reasons to link my medium post on this 😤 medium.com/@notkavi/sto...medium.comStop acting like AI uses a lot of waterLook, I get it. AI hype is extremely annoying, and increasingly inescapable. But that’s not a reason to take every anti-AI argument as… 0264
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I've completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8adventofcode.comDay 8 - Advent of Code 2024 040
Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 02/12/2024🎶and who deserves the credit, and who deserves the blame🎶 020
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