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Murali Krishnan
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Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Technologist, Engineer, Dad. Cofounder https://deriq.ai

Co founded RapL. Paper2audio.com iOS app.
Executive at Starbucks and Microsoft.
Love running & hiking; Learning Tennis
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · Apr 15
The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.
- James Clear
a blue background with the words " strike for progress not perfection "
ALT: a blue background with the words " strike for progress not perfection "
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Data speaks

Lower income parents say that it is enjoyable and rewarding to raise kids

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www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...
Income and parenting
Parental worries vary considerably across income groups in the United States. From struggles with mental health to concerns about physical safety and teen
www.pewresearch.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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How are these app rankings done?

Sora only had about 100K downloads in the last month. And rating is below 4.

In contrast all the other top apps have millions of downloads in the last month and better reviews.

See app.sensortower.com/top-charts

#AI #appstore #sora #chatgpt #gemini #tea
Top Grossing Apps | US | Top App Store Rankings for iOS
See the Top iOS Apps in US on the App Store Charts by Free, Paid, and Top Grossing. Sensor Tower provides a detailed visualization of the top ranking apps by category and country, along with app ranki...
app.sensortower.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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So chatGPT is the

Chat and
Go Purchase Things!!

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Who is delivering?

#AI #shopping #chatGPT
October 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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some say bubble
some say learning curve
some say exponential

can all these be true about #AI?

#AI #analysis

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/ai-will-de...
AI Will Destroy Everything
But not in the way you think it will.
www.planetearthandbeyond.co
October 14, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Paul MacCready achieved an impossible prize - the Kremer prize - for human powered flight.

Now the story is retold with a mix of new and old footage.

Great one to learn from for engineering and focus.

#movies #flight #engineering

www.altitudefilment.com/film/sales/1...
THE FLIGHT OF BRYAN | Altitude
www.altitudefilment.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Sora : ChatGPT Pro

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Amazon Prime Video : Amazon Prime

#AI #AmazonPrime #videos
October 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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daily iterations are important.

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Almost every year I read Paul MacCready's story. 

It is insightful. See
uxmag.com/articles/you...

#problemsolving #testing #creativity #innovation #habits
You Are Solving The Wrong Problem
When solving a difficult problem, re-ask the problem so the solution helps you learn faster.
uxmag.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
muralirk.bsky.social
Here a chip,
There a chip,
Everywhere a chip
…

Meta is acquiring chip startup Rivos for a reported ~$2B to turbocharge its in-house AI chips

#AI #chips #nvidia #meta
October 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
muralirk.bsky.social
big numbers …
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ChatGPT crosses 1 billion daily queries.

Perplexity and Claude near 20 million qpd.

Wonder what may be the case for commercial and media queries search for.

#AI #search #chatgpt #perplexity #claude
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40795302/

Next time if you want to combat “plant blindness”, you know what to do!
A. Get outdoors and enjoy plants OR
B. Watch Taylor Swift music videos.

#plants #botany #learning
Dance with plants: Taylor Swift's music videos as advance organizers for meaningful learning in Botany - PubMed
The use of audio-visual material with botanical visual clues as advance organizers, or a cognitive bridge between previous knowledge and new knowledge, led to meaningful learning in botany. Our result...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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The system ran non-stop for 30 hours on one prompt.
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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy - The Verge apple.news/AYVrYuCZvRFG...

#AI #vibecoding
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy — The Verge
Anthropic’s latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when...
apple.news
September 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
muralirk.bsky.social
feels like sci-fi .. cool breakthrough from collaboration across physics / optics, material science, electronics, computer science ..
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Beating spectral bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics

#imaging #lens #physics #computerscience #electonics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Beating spectral bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics - Nature Communications
Large aperture, diffractive metaoptics for broadband imaging have posed an outstanding challenge for miniaturized optics. In this work, Fröch, Chakravarthula, and colleagues address these challenges and successfully demonstrate a meta-optic with a 1 cm, f/2 aperture for full color imaging.
www.nature.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Participants who performed two to four times above the recommended amount of moderate physical activity had a 26% to 31% lower all-cause mortality and a 28% to 38% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality.

#health #lingevity

www.ama-assn.org/public-healt...
Massive study uncovers how much exercise is needed to live longer
What is the ideal amount of physical activity that can help individuals live longer? Learn more about what the ideal exercise volume per week is.
www.ama-assn.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Lots of Good resources for engaging the kids and also learn.

open.substack.com/pub/wonderto...
🌱 Raise curious kids with these tools
20+ dad-tested apps my family enjoys
open.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Major development. China is graduating to the "developed" world treatment. Congrats to China.
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China announced it will no longer seek special treatment as a developing country within the World Trade Organization.

This will have changes to global trading.
September 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Apple plans to roll out the feature to more than 150 countries, ... and it can help people discover high blood pressure early and reduce related conditions such as heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease.

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www.reuters.com/business/hea...

#AI #heart #bloodpressure #innovation #apple #watch
Apple used AI to uncover new blood pressure notification feature in Watch
Apple Watch Series 11 models that go on sale on Friday can notify users that they may have high blood pressure, in a feature the company has powered using artificial intelligence rather than a blood pressure monitor.
www.reuters.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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About a 100 years back, a new initiative sprung up in Iowa to understand and help grow a child. Inspiring history to learn more from.

ouriowaheritage.com/sui-child-re...

#Child #Parents #Education
SUI & ICWRS – Helping Children Grow.
Except for the name – Carl E. Seashore – long-time professor at SUI, I’m guessing you’ve never heard of the names we’ve listed here. Yet, in truth, it’s dedicate…
ouriowaheritage.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
muralirk.bsky.social
GCP is just getting started to become the Global Cloud Provider (GCP) for AI.
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Google Cloud added AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf as new primary customers. A large % of generative AI startups are starting with GCP.
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techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/h...
How AI startups are fueling Google's booming cloud business | TechCrunch
Google Cloud is one of the company's fastest-growing business lines and continues to rack up new customers.
techcrunch.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
muralirk.bsky.social
benchmarks are powerful to help us learn more.

ARC-AGI is one such a thing.

more details at labs.adaline.ai/p/what-is-th...

#AI #AGI #Benchmark #testing #evals #LLM
What is the ARC AGI Benchmark and its significance in evaluating LLM capabilities in 2025
A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Abstract Reasoning Assessment in Large Language Models
labs.adaline.ai
September 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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good study and stark findings.

Stratification in the US K-12 education

www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Frontiers | Stratification economics and racial disparities in U.S. K−12 education
This manuscript introduces and applies the framework of stratification economics to understand persistent educational disparities between Black and White Ame...
www.frontiersin.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
muralirk.bsky.social
Too many bananas is not healthy for data centers!

Google Gemini app added 23 million users and handled 500 million image edits in two weeks! Google imposed temporary usage limits to keep the service stable.

#AI #NanoBananas #Gemini #Images

www.theverge.com/news/778106/...
Gemini leapfrogs ChatGPT on a wave of AI-generated 3D figurines
Google’s Nano Banana image editor has helped Gemini overtake ChatGPT on app store charts.
www.theverge.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Vibe coding is here.
So is the vibe coding cleaning job.

despite hurdles, people are iterating and creating the vibe coded apps.

#AI #VibeCoding #tools

techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/v...
Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch
TechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding.
techcrunch.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Granular usage analysis of 1.1M conversations in ChatGPT.

#AI #chatGPT #usage #NBER

www.nber.org/system/files...
September 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Claude: Higher GDP per capita strongly aligns with higher per-capita Claude adoption.

(the conclusion is NOT surprising, since Claude is well marketed to higher income population)

www.anthropic.com/research/eco...

#AI #Claude
Anthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI's role in the US and global economy
New research from Anthropic exploring geographic patterns of AI use
www.anthropic.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Murali Krishnan
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“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
~Epicurus

Last night on my road trip with my best friend.Sat on her deck and watched the sunset

A joy to live in the confidence that my friend will always be there when help is needed

Good night BlueSky😴💤🌙
September 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM