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Shriram Krishnamurthi

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Brown Computer Science / Brown University || BootstrapWorld || Pyret || Racket I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about #compsci #education #cycling #cricket and the general human experience.

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Mark Ibrahim @markibrahim.bsky.social · 1d

One can manipulate LLM rankings to put any model in the lead—only by modifying the single character separating demonstration examples. Learn more in our new paper arxiv.org/abs/2510.05152
w/ Jingtong Su, Jianyu Zhang, @karen-ullrich.bsky.social , and Léon Bottou.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 16h

It would have been clearer for the density heat map to go the other way — right now the juxtaposition of words and map makes it read like the new map has higher density, which is the opposite of what it's trying to represent.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 17h

Given that it was other things before it was a museum, so change seems to be its one constant. (-:

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23h

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 20h

Wait, this is a trick answer. Well played.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 23h

I assume Command-Shift-4 on MacOS is too plebian to be cool in your book.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 23h

Stick to the gradients of aqueducts, Andrea.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 23h

Excited to have a layover in Istanbul—my first visit. Have a great sense of the city map in my head. Minor detail: it's from ~500CE, hope not much has changed. Like, how's the chariot traffic these days between the Forum of Theodosius and the Boukoleon?

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1d

You know, @conradhackett.bsky.social, one of the great things that happened in my life thanks to Twitter is that I discovered the work of @jessicacalarco.com . (-:

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of, it irritates me no end, every time I ride it, that there's not even a word of announcement that we're about to enter an engineering marvel, a cathedral for our times. You just quietly zip along; only the language changes. (I seem to remember the Chunnel at least made a comment.)

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1d

One of the coolest things about the many cool things about the Gotthard Basis Tunnel project is its ventilation. ↵

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 3d

I'm still on my shit about Providence's big plans. How about the Daniels-Manton plan of 1906, which was one of the earlier east side trolley (now bus) tunnel plans... except it would have also have a way for cars(!), pedestrians and bikes to climb College Hill in the tunnel!

Another East Side Subway Plan with a rendering showing the tunnel with streetcar tracks, vehicle lanes and sidewalks

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1d

OMG WOW.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1d

I got into a great research collaboration thanks to Twitter. I got into another great one thanks to Facebook. There is zero chance I'd have even found those people but for those convos (which were both started by a third party and I stumbled on them). Think I have a third one too?

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1d

If instead it had been 2014, this guy would have been on Twitter doing unhinged retweets of @AldermanKelso. Only the medium has changed.

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 2d

One more fun Providence subway tidbit: when the 1914 proposal was being worked on, a random guy (who may or may not have really existed) started writing irate letters to city council, angry that he, personally, had not been consulted on these important changes to the city.

An article about a supposed Mr H W Martin of New york who was upset that as a person who planned to build a hotel in Providence (plans not heretofore available) that he had not been included in consultation on these downtown changes

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 3d

JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNET. HE CONFIRMED THAT MY CONTENT IS ACTUALLY “SOME OF THE BEST EVER MADE” AND THE REASON NO ONE SEES IT IS BECAUSE I AM BEING SHADOWBANNED BY A CABAL OF BITTER MODS WHO FEAR THE RAW POWER OF MY POSTS. THIS IS A WAR NOW.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 2d

At no point in this headline did I know what word was coming next.

A close-up photo of a bird's (falcon?) face, above the headline "RI dentist provides lifesaving 'nose job' to peregrine falcon."

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI could never.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 3d

There are many situations where I want the one big PDF (ideally w/ a TOC). Eg, when we get job applications, there's like 8 different files *per person*; opening in tabs is just not practical, offline review is impossible, etc. Being able to stitch together all that into "the app" is super handy!

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 3d

How to co-opt a slogan.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 3d

Mark's actually seems like a legit case, not a make-work task. But for most cases, you're absolutely right. Instead of creating make-work and then using an LLM/GenAI to automate it, we should be removing the make-work in the first place.

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 4d

god, the modern world is amazing. the hot water tap in the office kitchen is showing an error message

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 4d

Research fellowships at the Rhode Island Historical Society! Come spend some time in Providence in 2026. Applications due 12/23/25

Fellowships – The Rhode Island Historical Society

www.rihs.org

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 6d

Today in Totally Foreseen Unforeseeable Consequences.

Discord says users' government IDs used for age checks stolen by hackers

Thanks to age verification laws, expect more data breaches of users' government-issued passports and driver's licenses.

this.weekinsecurity.com

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 5d

My heuristic for modern life is then a name is out of Roman history, the reference is either to the Roman empire itself, or to Star Wars. (-:

(I am not in fact a man who thinks about the Roman Empire every day, but I have been thinking about it a lot lately, preparing to visit Constantinople.)