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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 24/09/2026

Overdue career update time! I’ve moved to Toronto and will be starting graduate school (MS/PhD) @utoronto.ca & @vectorinstitute.ai, advised by Florian Shkurti! I will remain at Stack AV until the end of the year to wrap up some projects, after which I’m open for internships!👇

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 23/09/2026

Quick belated paper promotion. We had 2 papers at ECCV that I was in Malmo to present! UniFlow is a foundation model for 3D LiDAR scene flow, demonstrating zero-shot generalization across datasets and LiDAR sensors for the first time. We also showed that semantics don’t generalize the same way.

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's a common agreement among my friends not at OpenAI/Anthropic that people at the labs operate with a religious energy (Ant especially). It manifests very out of touch interactions, which carries into public comms here (e.g the recent quitting). Company cultures create this.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 02/09/2026

Agreed. I feel like I’m in loony toons land every time I see anyone talk about this. Even people who I respect are falling into this trap and it’s leaking outside the AI bubble and into the mainstream + the government. Giving legitimacy to this nonsense is damaging our field!!!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 05/08/2026

Becky chambers is the GOAT. U should read this book if you haven’t already :)

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 29/07/2026

Yeah this is a banger format

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 14/06/2026

It’s a beautiful day to make some GPUs go brr

Picture of a MacBook outside, the terminal is open on the screen and 4x GB200 are visible.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 10/04/2026

The exact number really doesn't matter here, but it's super nice to see that people are actually reading the things I have worked on :)

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 07/03/2026

Am I allowed to tell an AC that I'm too stupid to review a paper?

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 28/02/2026

Guys I never expected to go from watching this guy play minecraft as a kid (this is why I learned how to code btw) to watching him train LLMs. What the actual fuck: youtu.be/aV4j5pXLP-I?...

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I Trained My Own AI... It beat ChatGPT

YouTube video by PewDiePie

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 22/02/2026

The last time I can remember a public official who was this effortlessly cool is Obama.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 18/02/2026

Made a dedicated account for photography. Best viewed on @flashes.blue :)

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The Discord age verification discourse focuses on adults losing access to communities they have a right to access. That's important. I'm also worried, though, about the kids. They seem to be an afterthought in these conversations. They have much to lose too. 🧵 www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Age verification for all.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 07/02/2026

Inside you there is an agent swarm

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 02/02/2026

I would be deeply disappointed if Gavin is the nominee I would still vote for him, and so should you

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 02/02/2026

A surprising amount of AI fear mongering can be boiled down to this simple trope. See also: PROGRAMMER: “I gave an LLM access to launch the nukes with no oversight” LLM: “I launched the nukes” PROGRAMMER: “Oh no how could you have done this?!? AI is so unsafe”

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 20/01/2026

Guys I just read Gas Town… what the fuck?

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 20/01/2026

Yes….But also I think that this just proves programmers will still be needed… you need to acquire the skills somehow? Everyone else is just playing slots… maybe the barrier to entry for the skills is lower? Though tbh id argue for coding it was already low (see self-taught boot campers)…

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 17/01/2026

Fellow Linux enjoyers, is Gnome still the best DE with good touch support? Or is there something else I can use? (Have an older surface pro tablet I’d like to use for notes and pdfs etc)

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 16/01/2026

me sowing: "I'll just use some attention here, a bit of softmax there ezpz" me reaping: inf/0 = NaN hahahahahahahaha

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 15/01/2026

Wrote a whole ass thread om this a while ago: bsky.app/profile/isha...

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 15/01/2026

Kyle is unfortunately not on BlueSky but he wrote this awesome blog post which is a love letter to CVPR. A conference that has in many ways become our “home conference”. It’s a reflection on the past and a call to action to preserve the incredible culture of CVPR. vedder.io/misc/lover_l...

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A Love Letter to CVPR

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 08/01/2026

Some vibe-coding thoughts: I think the zero-coding-experience vibe coders miss how much of what impresses them when Claude produces what they perceive to be a fully functional app comes from the ready-built frameworks that enable the construction of such apps just by writing some boilerplate.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 07/01/2026

The biggest misconception I see online about self-driving is that end-to-end == no LiDAR (camera only). The sensor suite doesn’t determine the algorithmic approach, you can have an end to end approach with multiple sensors 😑

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 06/01/2026

Alright in the interest of creating the kind of discussion/posting I want to see on this site, I'm gonna share something that I learned in the past few weeks. Not new, not mind blowing, but I was reading the VAE and VQ-VAE papers this winter break for some projects so here we go 🧵

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 08/10/2025

Stack is going to be at ICCV with a booth! And I'm hiring interns for next summer! If you want to work on 4D reconstruction, novel view synthesis and "world modeling" for AVs come to our booth (#230) at ICCV and chat with our team! stackav.com/announcement...

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ICCV 2025 - Stack AV

Join Stack AV at ICCV 2025 - Booth #230. Explore how we're advancing autonomous trucking through world-class robotics and computer vision.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 05/08/2025

“exam maxxing kumon monsters” is sending me lmfao 🤣

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 05/08/2025

This is a real rebuttal from the papers I am reviewing at NeurIPS... the reviewer who wrote this gave the paper a 2 (reject) with a confidence of 5 (absolutely certain & familiar with all related work, the highest confidence available). What the hell are we even doing here...?

An image showing a reviewer comment of "paper does not address object detection" with the authors responding with a list of object detection metrics included in the paper...

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 09/07/2025

My team at Stack just open sourced our runtime shape checking library for PyTorch & Numpy. It's hugely inspired by @patrickkidger.bsky.social's Jaxtyping but fixes a few key issues we ran into (namely, compatibility with torch.jit.trace & torch.compile). Try it with `pip install dltype`

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 05/07/2025

JL Lemma mentioned! 😍

A paragraph from a paper mentioning the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 11/06/2025

On my way to @cvprconference.bsky.social! Catch our presentation on the 2025 Argoverse challenges at the Workshop on Autonomous Driving tomorrow at 11:30am in Grand C1!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 28/05/2025

Once again I am pleading with researchers. DO NOT HOST YOUR DATASETS ON GOOGLE DRIVE. Downloading 100s of GB from a web browser with rate limits is a recipe for disaster. Please use large file storage buckets like S3 that have a CLI 😭

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 22/04/2025

Just over a month left to submit to this year's Argoverse 2 challenges! Returning from previous years, are our motion forecasting and lidar scene flow challenges. And NEW for this year with a $10k prize pool is our Scenario Mining challenge!🧵👇

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 19/04/2025

On my way to Singapore for ICLR! If you want to chat about vision or robots, hit me up!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 07/04/2025

I apologize if you didn't follow to watch me slowly lose my mind over 3D CV research code, but holy shit guys... a coordinate transformation is GODDAMN useless with a reference frame. You can't just specify something as the "pose", it has to be "pose w.r.t. origin" which has to be explicit!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 06/04/2025

Was cleaning out some random papers from my desk and found this shipping receipt from @bhphoto.com from last year when they sent me my SD card that I left in a camera I returned. I didn’t even realize I left it in there until it showed up at my doorstep. This is why I’ll be a B&H customer for life.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 02/04/2025

People who work in 3D vision. PLEASE write your code with UNITS in mind. METRIC depth means you need to have METRIC units. So instead of writing `depth` just post-fix with the unit. For example `depth_m` or `depth_cm`. Think about how much time we collectively save, and type those extra characters.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 23/03/2025

One of those "productivity rut" days today. Sitting at my desk. code in front of me, and I just keep opening random tabs of other crap to distract myself. But alas... deadlines don't wait for motivation.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23/02/2025

Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

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NIH funding cuts could have ‘devastating impact’ on medical advancements, Chicago researchers say

The National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump announced this month that it was cutting payments covering overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 02/02/2025

I think I will write a long form blog post on my website about this... but the distilled Deepseek R1 models are blowing my mind when it comes to coding tasks. I'm using the 4-bit quantized 32B distilled model which is based on Qwen 2.5 32B & it's been on par with the free ChatGPT offering (o3 mini?)

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 28/01/2025

If you want to lead the way, then we have to restore funding for our academic institutions via NSF and NIH. You can’t cultivate top talent domestically if you don’t find science!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 19/01/2025

Domain verification works and is super sick. Just sayin’ 🤷‍♀️

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 18/01/2025

This is such an important thing to understand and unfortunately the vast majority of crypto bros I interact with have no idea how market cap works. I think in large part because the term is typically used to talk about companies which do have some tangible backing value/assets.

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 13/01/2025

Does anyone know how I can message the CVPR ACs? I spent the weekend dying of COVID and need an extra day or two to wrap up my reviews. Would like to message the ACs and give a heads up that I will finish but I cannot find where to do so in OpenReview. help me @csprofkgd.bsky.social ur my only hope

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 28/12/2024

Lots of anti-Indian, anti-immigrant sentiment in the zeitgeist recently. Will use this opportunity to post my 🔥 outfit from a wedding this past week. Plenty of my non-Indian friends wearing traditional Indian clothing as well and absolutely killing it. Why be racist when you could look this good?

Me wearing a traditional Indian Kurta & Nehru jacket with oxfords.

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