Paras Chopra
paraschopra.com
Paras Chopra
@paraschopra.com
Life is a game 🎮
Are interactive essays the future of education?

I asked Claude Code to build an interactive essay for PCA + SVD that works client side. Notice how python code executes and graphs are generated WITHOUT any backend!

Play with it yourself 👇
January 5, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Learned something very interesting today!

Random projections of a non-linearly separable data onto high dimensional spaces is enough to make it linearly separable.
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Happy New Year!

To kick off 2026, I built this tool that recommends all evidence-backed health screenings you need to do in your life, and lets you add google calendar reminders for when you're in 40s, 50s, 60s & beyond

longshot.invertedpassion.com/

Share it w/ friends and family 🙏
January 1, 2026 at 7:26 AM
What a phenomenal #book; I’m sure I’ll re-read it several times in my life.

I have been on a journey to sharpen my intuitions about truth, reality and pragmatism, and this book delivers!

Some notes:
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What an amazing read!

Probably my last #book of the year, it is a translation of a Japanese novel.

Typical for Japanese literature, there’s no hero. No villain. No rags to riches. No moral. Just characters and their collective unfolding.
December 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Honestly, can’t believe it. Wow!

Prepare to have a wild 2026, folks.
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Was reading the recently released "Nested Learning" paper by Google.

It's quite groundbreaking, and I was thinking why would they release something that could give them competitive edge?
December 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Humans and LLMs compress different things.

We compress dynamics of the world, while LLMs compress dynamics of tokens (the world distilled via language).

This made me question: what mistakes do humans make that (base) LLMs don’t?
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What an absolute treasure of a #book!

Written by a poet, every line in it is perfectly crafted. It reads unlike most non-fiction books, and yet it is about work and how our identities are crafted by it.
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
True story.
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
What the hell did I just end up reading!

This #book is the most intelligent science fiction I’ve read but it’s also most challenging.

The author doesn’t care to explain all the complicated creatures and systems he’s imagining - the reader has to piece it together as she reads along.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This is insane.

Gemini solves problems on the image itself.

Think how crazy this is: it has to somehow fit all the steps within the space provided using a similar font size as my handwriting.

These AIs are getting smarter and weirder!
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
What an absolute gem of a #book on the philosophy of mathematics!

The book asks for an innocuous question - what are we doing when we’re doing mathematics?
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It’s so ironic that ChatGPT knows what its future self could end up doing, and what humans should do to prevent that.
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Stop watching short-form videos.

Meta-analysis of ~100k people shows how it is associated with decreased cognition and increased stress + anxiety.

I know this is correlation, not causation but ask yourself - do you feel great after a session of consuming reels/shorts?
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
All hail nanobanana pro 🍌

featuring @sia_steel!
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Yep, truth is usefulness and rationality is winning.
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Meta's new Segment Anything 3D is insane!

Upload any image and it converts it into 3D object. Quite impressive.
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I will be giving a talk this Friday on risks posed by advanced AIs.

The talk is both online, and offline (in Bangalore). RSVP link 👇
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Played with Gemini 3.0 today.

Seriously impressive.
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Installed a bird camera in my balcony and captured this red bulbul in a frame.
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Ok, whoever filled this, you have my respect!

made me chuckle (:
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
An intriguing #book.

In it, the author - a philosopher - argues that finetuning of our physical constants is an evidence of a purpose in our universe, which includes emergence of life and realization of value.
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
No, Calvin, you can be a kid forever :)

Just keep playing.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It's crazy that ChatGPT writes like @sama – often in all small case.

Goes on to show how models inherit biases and style of their creators.
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM