Reposted by RibhuNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 23/03/2026@gershbrain.bsky.social's new piece for The Transmitter includes a comment from me about something I think we often underrate in science: the actual degree of human understanding provided by a scientific model. 0276
Reposted by RibhuJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 17/01/2026The “Jupiter Greedy” discourse is quite literally sending me into outer space 26705183
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 10/12/2025Introduce yourself with: One Book 📚 One Movie 🎥 One Album 💿 One TV Show 📺 000
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 09/11/2025Every NBA season I learn of a new way to spell the name "Jaylen" 000
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 18/10/2025"Complex systems should emerge from simple parts connected by clean interfaces" The principle based on which Unix was founded, and which guides building any software systems with a degree of complexity. Can this be replicated in AI systems? Here's some thoughts I had on the same 👇 120
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 03/09/2025Why can't these <7B reasoning models stop yapping to themselves? 100
Reposted by RibhuAlexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Blogpost to read today: strong argument that excessive focus on the first tokens is not something learned from data distribution (like model should naturally "care" about the start of the text to grasp the rest) but a fundamental feature of attention graph. publish.obsidian.md/the-tensor-t... 2216
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 02/08/2025was doing some interesting work around something similar. This just catalyses it 🚀 More soon 👀 020
Reposted by RibhuEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Don't leave AI to the STEM folks. They are often far worse at getting AI to do stuff than those with a liberal arts or social science bent. LLMs are built from the vast corpus human expression, and knowing the history & obscure corners of human works lets you do far more with AI & get its limits. 413827
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 16/07/2025Miss people don't realize it, but this is basically R1 all over again 010
Reposted by RibhuBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Fully open machine learning requires not only GPU access but a community commitment to openness. (Some nostalgic lessons from the ImageNet decade.)argmin.netAn open mindsetThe commitments required for fully open source machine learning 1264
Reposted by RibhuIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/06/2025Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper" 196163402465
Reposted by Ribhu deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 30/05/2025I relate to llms a lot. Like them, I also spent my entire life reading books in a small room. And like them I have appallingly poor vision and performance on normal human tasks 421626
Reposted by RibhuSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Meta's LLM as a judge via RL Optimizes judgement task into thoughts, scores, and judgments using GRPO. Outperforms all baselines at 8B & 70B scale, o1-mini, and on some benchmarks, even R1. 181
Reposted by RibhuShubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025It is almost an afterthought because he was drawing on a range of existing works (especially of Markov and Zipf) and ideas. This section in Shannon is an extension of an old work by Markov, but from letters to words, making use of the concepts introduced in this paper. Markov's paper was well-known. 242
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 25/04/2025From doing a shadow drop of the Oblivion remaster to giving free game keys to the Skyblivion devs, Bethesda is really going back to the good old days of being in touch with the gaming community 000
Reposted by RibhuCory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up. 1045813485519967
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 01/04/2025between Sutton's bitter lesson and gwern's scaling hypothesis, we grew up 000
Reposted by RibhuCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/20251. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all. 382585927
Reposted by RibhuLuca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · 10/03/2025"excuse me sir do you have a moment to talk about olmOCR" 2292
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 10/03/2025when people get shocked that I haven't used instagram since 2019, I hit them with the "I haven't googled anything since 2016" 010
Reposted by RibhuThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.” 1413400689534
Reposted by RibhuHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025due to personal reasons i’ll be projecting my insecurities on you 312510
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 20/02/2025"AI systems are and should serve as another reminder that all modern generative models are under-performing by default - a few tweaks will almost always yield vastly improved performance." - Jack Clark (Import AI #398) I know this goes against the TL, but it is so true. 010
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 16/02/2025I'm gonna forward this to folks who ask me what my degree is actually about 051
Reposted by RibhuSusan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Photo taken by Michael Halsband in 1985 527240
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 02/02/2025The craziest news I've ever woken up to in my 16 years of following the NBA. Like wtf 011
Reposted by Ribhucait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there 259377887205
Ribhu @ribhulahiri.com · 30/01/2025so mistral just released the small-3 model comparable to llama 3.3-70B and Qwen-2.5-32B. its not RL tuned (no reasoning) so gonna be interesting to see fine-tunes on it and see if there are performance gains 100
Reposted by RibhuWoland 🇵🇸 @woland11.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I will posting this forever if I have to 412040
Reposted by RibhuAmy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 03/01/2025RIP to Felix Hill. We overlapped at Cambridge ages ago but I remember him as an ebullient and witty conversationalist, plus kind and introspective. His blog post is relevant to anyone, even if not directly working in AI, experiencing stress from the pace of research <3 medium.com/@felixhill/2...medium.com200bn Weights of ResponsibilityThe Stress of Working in Modern AI 25510
Reposted by RibhuCyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I have a feeling that in 2025 we’re going to be seeing an interesting shift in healthcare delivery/medical education thanks to this new crop of LLMs. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more healthcare workers involved in the development, deployment, and evaluation of these systems. 1123
Reposted by Ribhuweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 22/12/2024St. Peter: Let's see what you did with your one precious life...ok first of all your Tony Hawk Pro Skater stats are sick 171040102
