David Vizgan
@davidvizgan.bsky.social
Astronomy PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois
research: https://shorturl.at/BUdDx
writing: https://davidvizgan.substack.com
research: https://shorturl.at/BUdDx
writing: https://davidvizgan.substack.com
Another reason why the World Cup is the best tournament in the cycle
The top four players to have been KNOCKED OUT of the #2025FIDEWorldCup in the Second Round ❌
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Another reason why the World Cup is the best tournament in the cycle
Looking forward to get acquainted with Munich over the next two weeks. Might even make a return to OTB chess 👀
October 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Looking forward to get acquainted with Munich over the next two weeks. Might even make a return to OTB chess 👀
Share your favorite black and white movie
September 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Share your favorite black and white movie
Really happy to see Anish Giri back in the Candidates for the first time in five years!
September 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Really happy to see Anish Giri back in the Candidates for the first time in five years!
Gukesh does not look like a convincing World Champion lately
September 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Gukesh does not look like a convincing World Champion lately
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In order to serve Trump, being unqualified is the qualification.
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/trumps-sur...
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/trumps-sur...
Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
Nesheiwat falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience
lastcampaign.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In order to serve Trump, being unqualified is the qualification.
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/trumps-sur...
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/trumps-sur...
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We are choosing ignorance and poverty
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We are choosing ignorance and poverty
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Promotion to the prem is the best birthday gift I could get today
April 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Promotion to the prem is the best birthday gift I could get today
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization...
Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️
Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️
March 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
RIP Boris Spassky, one of my favorite chess players of all time
February 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
RIP Boris Spassky, one of my favorite chess players of all time
What a crazy day of blitz
Congrats to Nepo, really happy to see this new chapter in his story develop
Congrats to Nepo, really happy to see this new chapter in his story develop
January 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
What a crazy day of blitz
Congrats to Nepo, really happy to see this new chapter in his story develop
Congrats to Nepo, really happy to see this new chapter in his story develop
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The Lichess database of games, puzzles, and engine evaluations is now on @hf.co - https://huggingface.co/Lichess. Billions of chess data points to download, query, and stream and we're excited to see what you'll build with it! ♟️ 🤗
December 6, 2024 at 9:46 AM
The Lichess database of games, puzzles, and engine evaluations is now on @hf.co - https://huggingface.co/Lichess. Billions of chess data points to download, query, and stream and we're excited to see what you'll build with it! ♟️ 🤗
The problem is that traditional search engines have been totally and utterly destroyed to the point where I don’t know if they can outperform ChatGPT (despite the occasional hallucinations)
December 6, 2024 at 7:04 AM
The problem is that traditional search engines have been totally and utterly destroyed to the point where I don’t know if they can outperform ChatGPT (despite the occasional hallucinations)
I took a course in college that spent half a semester on Ulysses, and half a semester on HBO’s The Wire. No supplementary materials were provided. To this day it’s one of the coolest classes I’ve ever taken
slate.com/culture/2024...
slate.com/culture/2024...
My Bravest Friends Are Rawdogging Ulysses. It’s Tearing My Book Club Apart.
Some people dare to read it without supplementary materials. I would never!
slate.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:06 AM
I took a course in college that spent half a semester on Ulysses, and half a semester on HBO’s The Wire. No supplementary materials were provided. To this day it’s one of the coolest classes I’ve ever taken
slate.com/culture/2024...
slate.com/culture/2024...
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Ding Liren: "I started to prepare for this tournament 3 weeks ago, I guess"
November 24, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Ding Liren: "I started to prepare for this tournament 3 weeks ago, I guess"
In 2018 I was literally skipping my history classes in college to watch the chess24 broadcast of Carlsen-Caruana. It was the only place to get real commentary blended with banter and dry humor. It made me fall in love with chess.
Needless to say that the chess world was more spoiled than it knew
Needless to say that the chess world was more spoiled than it knew
Our team of stars who will be bringing you all the FIDE World Championship coverage of #DingGukesh 🔥🏆
November 24, 2024 at 7:33 AM
In 2018 I was literally skipping my history classes in college to watch the chess24 broadcast of Carlsen-Caruana. It was the only place to get real commentary blended with banter and dry humor. It made me fall in love with chess.
Needless to say that the chess world was more spoiled than it knew
Needless to say that the chess world was more spoiled than it knew
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The Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of the Earth. Not with light but neutrinos
November 14, 2024 at 8:23 AM
The Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of the Earth. Not with light but neutrinos