Kiran @kirancodes.me · 22h"it's only 3 months of work, how hard could it be to understand what the intern did?" ... 0161
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 03/10/2026wearing a tshirt that says "DO NOT KILL THIS HUMAN" to save myself from the uprising 0295
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 03/10/2026Should YOU do Programming Languages research in era of LLMs? Many would say NO. But I say YES! PL Research is dead? Nay! the era of PL Exploration is just beginning. Fuck the users. Fuck the applications. Let's do some fucking PL research! kirancodes.me/posts/log-en... 1593
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 01/10/2026fun fact, the letters of OOPSLA rearrange to OSLOPA. this is a subtle nod to the fact that OOPSLA is filled with slop, and I think that's a beautiful thing 390
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 01/10/2026responsible disclosure: I was a free-culture freak wayyy before LLMs you FUCK 826921
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 01/10/2026category theorists don't want you to know that category theory is dead simple if you are allowed to visualise it in 3d tear down the category cabal now!!! 319018
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 30/09/2026to know where you are going, you have to know where you have been: pldb.kirancodes.me Titles and abstracts of 22,324 programming languages papers, from the first POPL in 1973 to this year's proceedings. 84111
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 22/09/2026this may be my most important piece of art I've ever done. it's just for me. it heals me. I need it. YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE! 0100
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 22/09/2026made this the logo of my custom firefox fork for personal use but still getting mentally used to not searching for orange when I need to switch to browser 0170
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 21/09/2026Just FYI: Firefox is just one big piece of code. You can totally just go and fork and fuck with it to add whatever features you want. I love this era of infinitely personalisable personal software. 0131
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 21/09/2026don't give up kiran-kun!!! you're not alone. we (kiran) 've got your back! we believe in you! Fight! Fight! Fight! 1140
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 21/09/2026the photo of me on the leanNYC page actually goes quite hard lol 1370
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 21/09/2026I've reached a level of embedded in irony I don't even know if I'm joking anymore 030
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 18/09/2026when I'm browsing on the web, I'm not procrastinating, there are actually a bunch of lil' me's in my head working really hard: 000
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 18/09/2026I like how the author has pre-emptively piss-coloured the paper in respect for its contents 5381
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 18/09/2026lowkey a lil obsessed; never resonated more with a character. Coyote vs Acme is possibly my favourite film ever. 190
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 16/09/2026surprising: turns out doing matrix multiplication by hand is an incredible antidote to being fatigued from interacting with slopmachines 2160
Kiran @kirancodes.me · 15/09/2026petra parker drawing (mainly playing around with the inking) suggestions for what her sign should say welcome! 170
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EMPIRIC: Experiment-Driven Learning of Residual World Models for Robot Planning
Yichao Liang, Amber Li, Dat Nguyen, Emily Bunnapradist, Michelangelo Naim, Sreela Kodali, Matteo Merler, Bowen Li, Kiran Gopinathan, Yiyun Liu, Nikhil Pimpalkhare, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Adrian Weller, Zenna Tavares, Tom Silver, Kevin Ellis
A robot should be able to learn through experiments how unfamiliar objects behave and interact, then plan with that knowledge. It need not start from scratch: physics engines supply knowledge of motion and contact, but can omit entire mechanisms, such as glue curing, water heating, or wind. We present EMPIRIC, an agent that learns a residual world model: a physics engine extended with code for the missing](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i32jjsch6xqcguzsf2lgbfyu/bafkreie3wafwdrr3yqpccqxv7c45lckvjrwsznuphydm2ffh7gm2gzsbqu)
![LOUIS ROSSMANN
Known for: Louis Rossmann YouTube channel, FUTO, right to repair
Alias: larossmann
Louis is a prominent right to repair activist who runs a popular YouTube channel on the subject. He worked with FUTO, Eron Wolf, from August 2022 to February 2025, and his right-to-repair non-profit received a $1M donation from Wolf. [source][source]
On August 3rd, 2026, Louis posted a video about openly transgender Colorado state representative Brianna Titone, and in the YouTube comments posted a remark explaining his position on transgender issues, which can be paraphrased as "I think transgender women are men but I'm willing to overlook it if we have common cause" [source]
Louis has been a regular poster on the hate and harassment website Kiwi Farms, posting there from 2023 to the present under the username "larossmann".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i32jjsch6xqcguzsf2lgbfyu/bafkreievane2aetchsl7yrkzokfupo736rzkf6luip25z4f7nhzw6vl4xa)
