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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m generally a big fan of contemporary musicians who make songs about mental health. Some recommendations: MGK, NF, Honestav.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

People here may not know this about me, but I am actually a big fan of pop/punk. Anyways, I recently heard a great song that I wanted to recommend to others who might be into this genre of music: share.google/zJznvvHM3b2t...

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honestav & mgk - Crash First (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We're recruiting! An open functional genomics postdoc position at @scilifelab-ngi.bsky.social / my lab / Robert Månsson lab. Top notch environment for technology and applications development in lovely Stockholm. Please spread the word or apply if interested: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

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KTH | Postdoc in genomics

KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.

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arxiv cs.GT @arxiv-cs-gt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sumit Mukherjee Geometric Comparisons of Electoral Rules Under Feedback arxiv.org/abs/2604.19985

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arXiv cs.GT Computer Science and Game Theory @csgt-bot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sumit Mukherjee: Geometric Comparisons of Electoral Rules Under Feedback arxiv.org/abs/2604.19985 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.19985 arxiv.org/html/2604.19985

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Marvin Sextro @marvinsextro.de · 22/04/2026

[1/6] How can we build virtual cell foundation models that adapt to unseen biological contexts? Meet MapPFN, the first prior-data fitted network (PFN) for perturbation prediction. Meta-learned from a synthetic biological prior, it adapts at inference via in-context learning. 🧵

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

To drive this home: we compared two oracles — one minimizing winner radius each round, one minimizing next-round voter disagreement directly. They produce meaningfully different outcomes. Optimizing for centrality and optimizing to reduce polarization are not the same. (5/)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

One result that stuck with me: Plurality doesn't actually do poorly on everything. It keeps candidates closest to their supporter bases. Where it falls down is on the winner side, placing winners farthest from the electorate. Same rule, opposite ends of the tradeoff. (4/)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I found that the two objectives are in tension. Among the rules studied, rules that pull voters together tend to pull candidates away from their supporter bases, and vice versa. (3/)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I developed two geometric quantities: i) a winner radius, ii) a supporter centroid radius let you compare voting rules by how they shape polarization over repeated elections. (2/)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

As you know, I've been simulating electoral systems for a while now (more like a couple months tbh). Well this time I chanced upon something kinda interesting and wrote that up into an arxiv pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2604.19985 (1/) 🧪💻

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Geometric Comparisons of Electoral Rules Under Feedback

We study how electoral rules shape polarization dynamics when voters and candidates both adapt to repeated election outcomes. We introduce two geometric primitives for comparing rules under this feedb...

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Check out my new pre-print. Here we develop an automated approach to value set creating using retrieval + classification, which greatly outperforms zero shot LLM based valie set generation. 🧪

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Shubho Noboborsho (Happy Bengali New Year) to all my Bengali friends!!! Hope you all have a wonderful year. :)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Now, I am a novice in this space, so definitely very open to feedback from people with more expertise. But if you find these notebooks useful, do check out the simulation repo (github.com/mukhes3/elec...) and use it to do your own simulations (3/)

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GitHub - mukhes3/electoral_sim: An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios

An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios - mukhes3/electoral_sim

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One of the surprising results (well to me) was that electoral systems alone are not nearly as important as the combination of electorate and primary type. Also that the Score voting system seems pretty rad! (2/)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Check out my latest notebook on electoral systems: github.com/mukhes3/elec.... This time I ran a pretty ambitious experiment to see how combinations of different factors affect aggregate, majority and minority welfare metrics. (1/)

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electoral_sim/notebooks/majority_vs_minority_welfare.ipynb at main · mukhes3/electoral_sim

An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios - mukhes3/electoral_sim

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Added another interesting one today: when can primaries help vs when can they hurt: github.com/mukhes3/elec.... I ran simulation experiments across different combinations of candidate profiles, voter distributions, turnouts for different primary types.

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electoral_sim/notebooks/primaries_moderation_backfire.ipynb at main · mukhes3/electoral_sim

An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios - mukhes3/electoral_sim

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It's worth noting again that I am by no means a political scientist or an expert in social choice theory. I'm simply someone who is interested in electoral systems. I am building this simulation system to help me understand the pros and cons of different electoral systems and related concepts.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

2. A notebook comparing how my proposed 'fractional ballot system' stands up in the face of strategic voting. I compared it with plurality with sincere voting as a baseline. Turns out it's a surprisingly robust electoral system: github.com/mukhes3/elec...

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electoral_sim/notebooks/fractional_reporting_robustness.ipynb at main · mukhes3/electoral_sim

An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios - mukhes3/electoral_sim

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A couple more interesting notebooks for those who might be interested: 1. A notebook on one of the most classic and highly cited results in social choice theory (Arrow's impossibility theorem): github.com/mukhes3/elec....

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electoral_sim/notebooks/arrows_impossibility_theorem.ipynb at main · mukhes3/electoral_sim

An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios - mukhes3/electoral_sim

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Unsurprisingly, RCV wins more often but surprisingly when voting is non-sincere, RCV and plurality produce the same outcome more often. I wasn't expecting it. But it might be a function of my candidate and electorate choices.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Did some big updates to the electoral_sim package today (github.com/mukhes3/elec...). The biggest updates are: 1. Added non-sincere voting types 2. Added a notebook comparing FPTP + closed primaries with RCV w/ open primaries under different settings.

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GitHub - mukhes3/electoral_sim: An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios

An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios - mukhes3/electoral_sim

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Happy Nowruz to all my Iranian friends!!

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Please feel free to check out the repo and/or the article. Also, please provide feedback/suggestions.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I tried to make the package easy to use and build on top off. Right now it only supports sincere voting and assumes voter preferences can be described using a 2D spatial model. I compared several electoral systems in several electoral scenarios in one of the notebooks. (3/)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I have read a few papers on the topic but found it hard to compare different systems. So I built this repo (github.com/mukhes3/elec...) for others like me who might be curious about this topic or those who might be interested in trying out new electoral systems of their own. (2/)

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GitHub - mukhes3/electoral_sim: An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios

An Open Framework for comparing electoral mechanisms across voter distribution scenarios - mukhes3/electoral_sim

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I wrote my first Medium article (medium.com/@sumitmukher...) about an open source repository I created to simulate different electoral systems under different electoral scenarios. It is not my area of expertise but a topic I have long been interested in. (1/)

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Electoral-sim: A spatial voting simulator for comparing electoral systems

I am not a social scientist nor have I professionally worked in scientific disciplines adjacent to those that study electoral systems…

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My heart goes to out to the ordinary people of Iran and Israel for what seems to me, as an outsider, a completely pointless war. I hope this insanity comes to an end quickly. My hear goes out to the civilians in these countries who really didn't want or deserve this.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today’s home loss to Arsenal makes it even more obvious.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Ancelotti needs to be fired. Real Madrid have just been uninspiring and at times terrible this season.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

And beyond some techies casually talking about UBI, it seems there is zero discussion on how we will deal with the economic shocks, even if they are just short term. Wtf are we doing?

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I get that many are skeptical about the claims but what is a fact is that regardless of how powerful LLMs will become, companies are already downsizing significantly in a bit to reduce costs by automation. So, the tech job losses are not so hypothetical!!

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

As more and more tech companies claim that LLMs will make certain classes of jobs unnecessary in a few years, it amazes me that there is little to no discussion on the effects on the labor force/economy and other societal impacts.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

With that said, I am very excited to be embarking on a new journey in a new problem space. I have been fascinated by the potential of LLMs in clinical decision support for quite some time now and can't wait to explore this new (to me) research area. :) (end)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I have been incredibly fortunate to get to work with some amazing colleagues during my time at insitro and I am confident in insitro's ability to generate massive pharmaceutical breakthroughs in the near future. (2/)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

After 3.5 wonderful years at @insitro.bsky.social where I got to work on many interesting problems at the intersection of genetics and ML, I will be joining Oracle Health on Monday as a Senior Applied Science Manager to work on clinical LLMs. (1/)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I wonder if Bengalis just have less spicy food compared to other parts of India.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

So, I am talking primarily about dishes like chicken tikka masala or palak paneer. In calcutta, these dishes have no heat basically. My wife could eat them there but she struggles here. Hell, one restaurant added heat to malai kofta!! I thought it was meant to taste sweet.

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

South Asian friends living in the US - is it me or is Indian food just way more spicy in the US than it is in India (on average)? If y'all agree with me, why do you think this is? Even dishes that were sweet-ish in India, are somehow spicy here.

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Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We have a new method, HypotheSAEs, for identifying *interpretable text features that predict a target variable* (aka hypothesis generation). What features of a headline predict engagement? What features of a clinical note predict whether a patient will develop cancer? 1/

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Su-In Lee @suinlee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm deeply honored to be elected as an ISCB Fellow this year!🏅 Following last year’s ISCB Innovator Award, this recognition strengthens my commitment to advancing computational biology.🧬 Grateful to my students, mentors, and colleagues for their support! www.iscb.org/iscb-news-it...

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Congratulations Su-in!! Very well deserved. :)

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Imma be honest, I didn't really see a Gavin Newsom and Charlie Kirk colab coming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XJ6...? But then again, there are many things about our political climate in 2025 that I didn't see coming. Might be a me thing.

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And, This Is Charlie Kirk | This is Gavin Newsom

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It's shameful that we have billionaires now feeling empowered to go on highly visible podcasts and say Social Security is a 'ponzi scheme' without explaining a clear alternative that doesn't involve kicking seniors to the curb. Truly shameful!

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Sumit Mukherjee @smukherjee89.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Yeah, that was a bit of an understatement!!

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