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Nikhil Thorat

@nst.bsky.social

AI quality at Databricks. Past: Co-founder of Lilac AI, acquired by Databricks. Co-created TensorFlow.js and Know Your Data. Google Brain // PAIR // Responsible AI. nsthorat@ over there

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I wouldn’t be alive if not for the H-1B program

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

There’s a lot of chatter of “AI solving software by the end of 2025”, which IMO is way off the mark. I useful to break things down into milestones 🧵

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We just released the Databricks synthetic evals SDK! 🎉 We’ve found that synthesizing evals is a great way to hill climb your AI system before you’re able to get labels from domain experts. We’ve also recently release a new diff UI that lets you both qualitatively and quantitatively view results!

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This query sold me on Perplexity Trying to understand if PCM will block sunlight for plants for a friends greenhouse. He wanted a fully natural way of keeping it warm in the winter. The answer was deep in academic papers that aren’t normally summarized by other search engines.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My cleaner shrimp molted its exoskeleton, under a microscope there’s a tiny world of little agents. 80x and 1200x magnifications

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Something about the blue color on this app makes it feel so much friendlier than X. Not to mention I now get overtly racist anti-indian memes now over there…

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Agents are just normal programs with unstructured data flowing through them, and LLMs doing some of the transformations

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

My twitter notifications are mostly spam / bots that have bios trying to convince me to click a link to go on a date with them. Let’s try to make this app work.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

@mmitchell.bsky.social has convinced me to use this app again :)

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Bluesky slowly is becoming more than just a few people posting! Also — is this “skeet” a joke or real? I can’t say that without laughing.

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

🌸lilacs are blooming🌸

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

This is the coolest AI project I know of. Bird Buddy is a bird feeder + camera that classifies birds 🕊️

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 26/04/2023

Bluesky nailed the “omg I want an invite” even though features are identical. I don’t like when someone yells “8$” and makes me feel bad about it. Carrots not sticks!

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Nikhil Thorat @nst.bsky.social · 25/04/2023

My profile photo is a microscopic image of pond water at 40x magnification and colors inverted. No AI in sight!

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