Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 1d

ignoring float warnings is a time honored tradition (also eventually getting them to do what you want using haphazard \vspace-s)

1 5

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 2d

as someone not really in this field but w experience with Kalman filters, do you know of a reference that talks about how the EnKF is used in numerical weather prediction?

1 2

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 3d

(eric adams voice) new york is the springfield of polynesia

1 2

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 3d

isn't making statistical models exactly the kind of programming LLMs are meant to be good at? Doesn't sound at all unconventional

1

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 7d

it's sort of a throwaway line but "analyzing our bloodwork" makes me think there's some conflation of genAI with other kinds of machine learning going on here too. Implicitly taking the credit for types of ML that have worked for years is a big part of the genAI marketing strategy!

1 5

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 9d

the whole bit from Echoes by Pink Floyd that's just radar noises

2

Reposted by Aditya Sengupta

Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 14d

New paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry?

This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N)

arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433

5 11 48

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 14d

there's a sign not far from me on campus that says "I am more than my productivity" and every time I see it I go "ok but they mean everyone but me though right"

3

Reposted by Aditya Sengupta

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18d

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

33 260 1.1K

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 21d

oh NO you did a B side before 3A? you're so powerful lol

1 1

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 21d

yeah, top of 3A I think. On the little loading screen postcard

1

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 21d

like they say, be proud of your death count!

1

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 23d

curious here, do you know of a good review of theoretical neuro for someone who knows physics/math?

1 2

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · 27d

this is all cool as hell i want this art for my wall

2

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Aug 30

you're actually so right i want Texture in food

1

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Aug 11

yes!!

1 3

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Aug 7

a couple months ago i started hearing goats out my window at 11pm (in Santa Cruz), thought i was going insane, and spent 40 minutes walking around trying to triangulate them, turns out it was this

4

Reposted by Aditya Sengupta

Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · Aug 6

I actually kind of want to hear from people who dislike mathfiction.

What stops you from engaging with a story with math in it? What would draw you to trying one out?

#Writersky #Writing #SFF

Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · Aug 6

But it will have math— that’s not going away in my stories ever. I personally think mathematical beauty is worth studying in stories, just like love, or friendship, or ambition, or cosmic awe, or death, or literally any other source of inspiration for literature.

2 1 7

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Aug 6

sooo true! I think it's so hard to explain why people find math beautiful, and I never really thought of literature as a way of getting that across but would love to see more of that

1

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Aug 2

Really wondering what AI is gonna think cricket is about

Chat summary (of a YouTube live chat)
Auto-generated experiment, quality may vary
Viewers are excited about a wicket and praising the bowler, referring to him as "DSP". There's discussion about a player named Crawley being "arrested".

4

Reposted by Aditya Sengupta

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · Aug 2

drinking water >>>>>

5 22

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Jul 31

garmin has sleep quality awards?? I'm nowhere near this clearly lmao

1 1

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Jul 29

I don't even know what the supposed mathematician logic would be here?? There's something deeper than just not understanding math here - they think they do understand something others don't when it's exactly the opposite

2 10

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Jul 28

analytic and algebraic topology of locally euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable riemannian manifold

1

Aditya Sengupta @adiastra.bsky.social · Jul 27

I don't necessarily think it has to be the same thing but it does have to be batch cooked - when I meal prep I do 3-4 different things and decide how to combine them into actual dishes based on vibes

1