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Last travel related thing. I have a friend who is about to get their fourth citizenship (among them US, all of them there are legit reasons for having gotten). Made me realize that the set of sets of compatible citizenships form a simplicial complex (some are not compatible with others).

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 15h

I know I’m travel-posting more than AI posting lately but I found this magic square on the Sagrada Família in Barcelona to be really cool: Background here: blog.sagradafamilia.org/en/the-magic...

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 19h

So cool to see this out in public! I don’t think I’ve seen Bluesky’s logo advertised out in the Real World before. @wmata.com

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 28/09/2026

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles’ing our way home for the last 48 hours due to Nor’easter cancellations…

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You’re arguing not with them but for the people viewing it

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 22/09/2026

Hello to new followers of mine who are showing up from following go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE ! I post both AI/ML things and non-AI/ML things here.

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 16/09/2026

You can now buy a signal account with no phone #! It's just 3 dollars! This is great for agents and stuff since now you don't have to try and get a phone number just so your agent can text you on signal :D

community.signalusers.org

Beta feedback for the upcoming Android 8.28 release

We’re releasing the Signal 8.28 beta soon. If you’re interested in participating, join the beta group here. Share your feedback on the latest changes: Now you can optionally register for Signal wit...

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 15/09/2026

has anyone thought of adapting the use of the Friedman Unit to AI doomer discourse

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 14/09/2026

diffusion.csail.mit.edu/2026/index.h... The video lecture material here is really good. It really hits the sweet spot between theory and practice that I like. I'm glad that all this material is freely available online

diffusion.csail.mit.edu

Flow Matching and Diffusion Models — 2026 Version

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 09/09/2026

Regardless of all the other AI math discourse out there (there’s plenty of valid discussion to be had) can we all agree that this is one cool visual to look at:

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 05/09/2026

I also want to know the answer to this

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 28/08/2026

Got to totally nerd out today about database sharding and replication

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 28/08/2026

It’s been a *long* time since I’ve thought of the CAP theorem but today was that day and I have *opinions*

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Alex Wykoff @distributed.camp · 28/08/2026

On track - calv.info/small-models...

calv.info

Small Models Have Arrived

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton’s scrobbling stats on last.fm doing this thing:

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 27/08/2026

Glad I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time about a year ago to understand the humor here

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 22/08/2026

Filling Space

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 22/08/2026

If a project is versioned by a single repo, that is a monorepo. If it’s two repos, is that a duorepo, and triorepo if three?

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 20/08/2026

I got got today by a misspelling of my last name in one of the dumbest possible ways 🫠

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Social class creates a glass ceiling in organizations Lower-class folks are less likely to initiate negotiations than higher-class folks (N = 10,211), a pattern that can compound economic disadvantage over time. This gap is explained by concerns about backlash www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 15/08/2026

STREAMING LIVE @ 11 ET / 8 PT - @2600.com HOPE conf The Onion Shell: Zero-Install Tor From the Browser www.youtube.com/live/sCyxtZe... Slides: talks.cyberdione.ai/onion-shell-...

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Vishakh @vishakh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My talk on using FHE for building real world apps is at 7 PM ET today at @hope.net! Watch or stream it if you are at the conference today!

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yesterday I gave a talk at an OpenAI summit on the future of mathematics. I was asked to talk about the bad future, where humans become mathematically disempowered. Here's a blog post based on the talk: www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/8/...

daniellitt.com

The End of Mathematics — Daniel Litt

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 09/08/2026

I'm not a fan of the headline, but this article isn't just another "AI bad" take. Worth a read.

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 08/08/2026

If the storms causing power surges that have us resetting all our clocks like once a week could stop that would be great. K thx

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 05/08/2026

The toddler is apparently very good at I Spy.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—compressed to run cheaply. USC's Emilio Ferrara argues this compression is treated as a safety nonevent, when it should be treated as a change to the deployed system. This has policy implications, he says.

techpolicy.press

The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship

Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—with under-appreciated ramifications for AI safety, writes Emilio Ferrara.

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 05/08/2026

Hmm, not sure I’m a fan of likes of posts by people you follow being more visible now in the UI. I know this data is all public by design anyways, but private likes on Twitter is something I think I prefer.

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 02/08/2026

At The Anthem in DC, at intermission between Stars and Broken Social Scene

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 25/07/2026

I am pumped to be seeing Metric perform live a week from now. Never been to a concert despite them being my favorite band.

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 25/07/2026

Always nice to find more kindred spirits who use Signal.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Nerd thing: so there's this tech/math/nerd culture that's hard to describe, but where there's a kind of enlightened playfulness, which if you like you can trace very far back, and which perhaps hits a kind of high watermark with Claude Shannon, routes through late 60s/70s hacker culture, and so on.

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 18/07/2026

The Sheep Detectives is one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever watched

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 02/07/2026

THE LAST TIME BOSTON HAD 2 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF ABOVE 100 DEGREE TEMPS WAS AUGUST 12-13 1944

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 02/07/2026

Our son seems to very conveniently pick the weekends when we *aren't* traveling (or otherwise have big plans) to get sick.

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 02/07/2026

I am boosting this post to reach an audience that wouldn’t ordinarily see this. HOPE is a hacker conference with lots of cool stuff. While I definitely do not endorse all the content that’s been presented, it’s a venue that gives a voice or platform to people who might not otherwise have one.

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Vikram Saraph @vikramsaraph.com · 02/07/2026

I have finally learned to use the lab’s vinyl printer to make stickers and it’s awesome. Made 100+ of them today.

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