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Rahul Dave

@rahuldave.bsky.social
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Chief Scientist @ Univ.Ai. We do AI, ML, Bayes and Data. Somerville, MA. Bringing up the next generation of decision makers @Hult University! Previously ML and Bayes at Harvard. Otherwise, Cosmology, Climbing and Skiing. Liberalism is a moral choice.

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Rahul Dave @rahuldave.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
@steveklabnik.com been thinking that jj is particularly suited for agentic dev as a working copy is a commit. Every interaction with the llm can be a commit, just need to run some jj command, and if it all belongs to a bug, as done with gh ot docket or whatever, we can squash later. ...
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Show HN: I ported Manim to TypeScript (run 3b1B math animations in the browser) | Discussion
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GitHub - maloyan/manim-web: Mathematical animations for the web — Manim in TypeScript
Mathematical animations for the web — Manim in TypeScript - maloyan/manim-web
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/02/2026
I apologize for initially being somewhat skeptical of Phillip Morris. In all of our interactions, they made it profoundly clear that they are unequivocally opposed to any and all use of tobacco products and that they remain committed to partnering with us to achieve the best possible outcome.
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thank you to everyone who’s supported us. And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:
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Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is a terrific story about how Silicon Valley has drastically changed, written by the excellent veteran tech reporter Steven Levy. @stevenlevy.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/silico...
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Love my gorgeous multicultural city. I can only hope the future is this, everywhere
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Portland comes to the rescue! 🛟
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Manuela Casasoli @manuelacasasoli.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A great view over the "Death Hollow" between the towns of Boulder and Escalante. It is along the Boulder Mail Trail, a wonderful path. Utah - 2023 🥾 #hiking #nature #landscapes #desert
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 27/10/2025
This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
The Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation to help improve the security of the Python ...
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 20/10/2025
This is a very cool advanced #jj-vcs workflow: flames-of-code.netlify.app/blog/my-jj-w...
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There is life after Git • Flames of Code
Background In my professional work, Azure DevOps (ADO) ended up being the forge of choice. While ADO is reliable for standard Git workflows, it falls short when it comes to stacked Pull Requests (PRs)...
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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. -Omar El Akkad Pics of the day #photography
On a backbone trail in Bryce Canyon
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
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Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Is scale all you need? Or is there still a role for incorporating domain knowledge and inductive bias? While I was in Heidelberg, I took some time to write a short essay on this question called "The Bittersweet Lesson". theoryandpractice.org/2025/09/The%... #HLF25
Kyle Cranmer and Rich Sutton at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 16, 2025.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
So Flint, Michigan gave $1,500 to all pregnant people, plus $500 each month for the first year of the child’s young life. It saved Flint $6.2 million dollars a year, due to lower rates of rates of prematurity and low birth weight, with fewer corresponding admissions. The right thing, AND cheaper.
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The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Rahul Dave @rahuldave.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@shriram.bsky.social
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/09/2025
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 14/09/2025
Some thoughts on the weekends on “what is a foreigner anyways?” — I'm arguing that there are significant differences in how for instance Austria and the US think about what foreigners are and why that might be. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/14/wh...
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What’s a Foreigner?
Thoughts on immigration.
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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 10/09/2025
One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w...
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Walking around the app
You gotta check stuff out
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
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You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
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The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 @thevirologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Right into the subtitle hall of fame
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Public health today is under attack, but nobody is rushing to save it Why? When public health works, NOTHING happens - bad things are prevented and nobody even knows Because the successes are not visible, people take it for granted Public health must communicate our successes We must be visible
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 26/08/2025
Pardon my economist technical parlance, but what the fuck does “issuing its statistics on the blockchain” even mean? This data is already publicly available, thanks to this super fancy piece of technology called “an API” These people are complete idiots
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A “tariff rebate check” is like setting your kitchen on fire and then mailing yourself a bucket of water. There's an easier way to avoid the burn.
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Radio Free America @handle.invalid · 27/08/2025
Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods, bsky.app
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Frolicking beneath the Dolomites, northeastern Italy 😊
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2025
inching closer and closer to my “they’re segregationists” take
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I fear the United States is in her final hours.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Why your AI product needs a different development lifecycle Introducing the Continuous Calibration/Continuous Development (CC/CD) framework www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-your-a...
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Why your AI product needs a different development lifecycle
Introducing the Continuous Calibration/Continuous Development (CC/CD) framework
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Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · 17/08/2025
This is absolutely mind blowing! 😳 Look, how he’s handling these cards. It’s like magic! 🪄
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I know of only one paper that has analysed threats from both developmental policies in the region and climate change. I'd like to see more www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya
A cascade of events starting with a massive avalanche eventually triggered a deadly debris flow in the Indian Himalaya.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Meanwhile, the heaviest crime zone in all of Wash DC has been clearly identified. (@PawlowskiMario)
3D map of the area around the White House with a big red circle
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
While people are facing off against fascist stormtroopers, remember that it is your moral duty to nitpick and critique every minor aspect of the protestors' conduct clearly and visibly. This will inspire the centralised, singular organisers of the protests to encode strict rules everyone will obey
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Government snatch and grab goon squads have been seen operating in Somerville today. Stay alert, everybody.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
1/ Since it's open season on the Chinese in the US right now, I wanted to post about a remarkable Chinese-American experience that is one of the real gems of New England, making the region and country better in every way. It's about jazz and blues music. ↵
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Announcing the release of the official Common Corpus paper: a 20 page report detailing how we collected, processed and published 2 trillion tokens of reusable data for LLM pretraining arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01732
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