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Vishal Misra

@vishalmisra.bsky.social
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Vice Dean Computing and AI @CUSEAS. Dean of Cricket Analytics @SFOUnicorns. Tweets on academia, cricket, dad/bad/wry jokes. Opinions of guy am pointing at.

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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I wrote an updated analysis on tariffs for 2025 - important clarifications on who actually pays for it. The methodology is synthetic control medium.com/@vishalmisra...
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Who Pays for Tariffs? An Updated Analysis for 2025 | by Vishal Misra | Aug, 2025 | Medium
Building on our 2019 analysis of Trump-era China tariffs, with renewed relevance as tariff policies expand globally
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A look back at the fractal modeling craze of the ‘90s, why it fell short, and what Internet traffic actually looks like: layered, stochastic, human. medium.com/@vishalmisra/fractals-fa… Sometimes it’s just layers, not fractals.
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Fractals, Fables, and the Nature of Internet Traffic | by Vishal Misra | May, 2025 | Medium
Inspired by a Tweet from Martin Casado
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I’ve spent the last 20+ years accidentally building things that turned out to be right. Live sports on the web. Control theory for TCP. Net neutrality. RAG. Wrote up 5 of those stories here: medium.com/@vishalmisra/five-ideas-…
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Five Ideas That Were Early — But Turned Out to Be Right | by Vishal Misra | Apr, 2025 | Medium
Reflections on systems thinking across decades
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Next time I go to a restaurant instead of paying the bill in cash I will teach them a class on stochastic differential equations. To get rid of the trade imbalance.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New research: Cluster Synthetic Control (ClusterSC) addresses the curse of dimensionality in causal inference with large datasets (AISTATS 2025). Blog: medium.com/@vishalmisra/a-smarter-w…
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A Smarter Way to Compare Apples to Apples: How Cluster Synthetic Control Improves Causal Inference | by Vishal Misra | Mar, 2025 | Medium
This research is a collaboration with my PhD students, Saeyoung Rho and Andrew Tang, as well as another PhD student in the department, Noah…
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Some people buy Teslas, I buy tomatoes
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The next distinguished lecture in AI organized by @CUSEAS is on 3/28 by Ion Stoica - a legendary researcher and entrepreneur. Here is the registration link for the talk www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-series… Looking forward to you visit Ion!
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Lecture Series in AI: Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley Tickets, Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM | Eventbrite
Eventbrite - Columbia Engineering presents Lecture Series in AI: Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley - Friday, March 28, 2025 at Davis Auditorium, 412 Schapiro CEPSR, New York, NY. Find event and ticket information.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is pitch perfect by Dr. Katrina Armstrong, our President and leader. She speaks to all our values.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
SHSAT results came out and our son joins our daughter for high school at Bronx Science. I told them no pressure but it’d be nice if they can add to this list of 9 Nobel Prize winners from Bronx Science. No pressure.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A must read on what’s happening in that other place www.richardhanania.com/p/liberals-o…
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Liberals Only Censor. Musk Seeks to Lobotomize.
The public square is turning into a grotesque idiocracy
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Well isn’t this fantastic www.scmp.com/news/china/science/art…
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America’s loss, China’s gain: top Chinese universities welcome PhD refugees from the US | South China Morning Post
As the US cuts funding and suspends graduate admissions, China’s leading educational institutions are offering new academic pathways.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Yesterday’s announcement of funding cuts makes us more committed than ever in supporting our students, our faculty, and our research mission. @Columbia has a reputation for being one of the most important and influential research institutes in the world and it will continue.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Mumbai Tech Week was a fantastic event - had the pleasure of speaking on both days. Once with Amit Sharma - the CTO of Dream Sports on the Columbia Dream Sports AI Innovation Center - #MumbAI
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On Day 1 of Mumbai Tech Week. Appearing on a panel on all things AI moderated by Varun Mayya with Niki Parmar (co-inventor of the transformer) and Siddharth Srinivasan, head of Eleven Labs India. #MumbAI
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Aaaand here we go www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-trump-adm…
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Found this on my college WhatsApp group. At least I have been consistent with my views!
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My first time at AAAI - giving an invited talk on “Large Language Models as Approximate Bayesian Learners: A Unified View” Joint work with Naman Agarwal and Siddhartha Dalal Thanks B Ravi from IITM gfor the invitation!
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Key insight: LLMs encode algorithmic reasoning during training. Chain-of-thought prompting isn't 'teaching' new skills—it's triggering existing computational pathways. DeepSeek's (and similar) approaches made these pathways the default, while others require explicit activation
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
TokenProbe visualization shows how prompting unlocks these 'latent algorithms': When asked to solve 33×117 directly, tokens show uncertainty (lighter green). But prompt for step-by-step, and high-confidence tokens (green) reveal systematic computation emerging.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A simple experiment in arithmetic on our tool TokenProbe reveals the power of inference time scaling in LLMs: Given '33×117', token probabilities show uncertain guessing for direct computation, but near-certainty for each step when solving methodically.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nobody voted for DOGE. People certainly didn’t vote for the Middle East Rivera. There is considerable evidence that it was, in fact, the price of eggs that drove the outcome and the Harris campaign nearly overcame that. medium.com/@vishalmisra/thoughts-on…
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The second COVID election. The 2024 Election: What Really Moved… | by Vishal Misra | Medium
The 2024 Election: What Really Moved the Needle
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Two words instantly doubled shampoo sales: Rinse, Repeat Four words have quadrupled Kumbh business: Once in 144 years This is what genius marketing looks like.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/02/2025
What are the best books on how democracies fail?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Sunny G was making the point over and over again how Abhishek Sharma’s innings was full of classical strokes - and the evidence bears out. Almost all in the V - no “reverse” or “scoop” anythings
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Columbia Engineering @columbiaseas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Dean Shih-Fu Chang and Vice Dean @vishalmisra.bsky.social discuss the future of #AI in education as a part of the Winter 2025 issue of Columbia Engineering Magazine. Read their conversation: bit.ly/40FIhCa @columbiauniversity.bsky.social #ColumbiaEngineering #E4H
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My thoughts on DeepSeek sent to a reporter asking for comments
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
AI at Columbia Engineering www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/…
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Drafting the Blueprint for AI at Columbia Engineering | Columbia Engineering
In this conversation, Dean Shih-Fu Chang and Vice Dean Vishal Misra discuss how the School is driving and responding to this exciting moment in the development of artificial intelligence.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
🔍 Ever wanted to peek inside an LLM's "brain" while it thinks? Now you can share those insights with anyone! TokenProbe's new sharing feature lets you capture and share LLM behavior with just one click. Watch probability distributions evolve in real-time 🧠 Try it: shorturl.at/yR8EQ
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Tariffs keep coming up, and I post my analysis again that US consumers pay for them - not the nation they are imposed on. peerunreviewed.blogspot.com/2019/08…
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Who is paying for the Tariffs? China or the US Consumer?
Who is paying for the Tariffs? China or the US Consumer? We present a counterfactual (i.e., what might have been  if the tariffs w...
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Pat Cummins bringing up sample sizes and talking like a data scientist/statistician. That’s why Pat Cummins and the San Francisco Unicorns are a match made in heaven!
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our research (sub) group thanksgiving meal. We are arguing over congestion control protocols instead of Trump/Harris
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
thanks!
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
India has played 6 tests in Perth so far (won only a single test) going back to 1977. There have been six centuries, Virat Kohli has two of them.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
are there “starter packs” for academia and cricket on here to recreate the network from the other place?
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This obsession of telecasters with the “release point” of Bumrah is a cop out for those that don’t understand his genius. It doesn’t explain the seam movement and swing he gets, the way he sets up batsmen, the way he reads the pitch and quickly adjusts his line and length.
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 22/11/2024
This is a good argument against treating Trump’s win as any kind of mandate for sweeping change
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Calling Trump’s Win ‘Resounding’ Isn’t Just Wrong. It’s Risky.
Right and left have bought the narrative of a crushing triumph. They’re wrong.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Not quite ready with your summaries Apple intelligence…although Bumrah’s 4 sure do *feel* like 17!
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This sequence of tweets on that other network makes me think the second tweet was a metaphor for the pitch that Australia produced at Perth
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I’m sorry but I don’t see how the 3rd umpire could’ve given KL Rahul out. what was the rush to make a decision before looking at the front on angle?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/11/2024
Hey, I've written something for MSNBC (first time I've written for them). www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | The blurred line between X and the Trump administration
Forget the ridiculous "Twitter Files." This is what it actually looks like when a social media company works in concert with the government.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I can’t recall ever both Jadeja and Ashwin being fully fit and neither getting picked
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Apparently “cold water” is beer according to one of the protagonists.
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Testing crossposting with Openvibe again. This should go to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Had written this a few days back. Another piece of evidence now backs it up. medium.com/@vishalmisra/thoughts-on…
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So Mr. Healthy living is eat a Big Mac with fries and drinking coke?
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
SEO taken care of
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, via x.com/chriso_wiki/status/1857734822…
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Vishal Misra @vishalmisra.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Testing crossposting on Bluesky and mastodon using Openvibe
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