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Shriram Krishnamurthi

@shriram.bsky.social

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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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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 6h

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 · 1d

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 · 12h

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 · 11h

GenAI could never.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

How to co-opt a slogan.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 3d

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.)

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 4d

We need to get a troll on River Rd under the Henderson Bridge.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 4d

My apologies, but I'm the wrong kind of nerd: you have *way* exceeded my knowledge of anything Star Wars. Without your hint, I couldn't even have told you whether Cassian is a person, place, animal, or thing. Would have guessed it's an additive to cheese, actually (so: thing).

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 5d

Boop its snoot.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 5d

I prefer the Hope St CVS for its Mos Eisley vibe.

Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 5d

Was surprised how long the flu + COVID shot hurt this year. Maybe because I got both in the same arm at the same time? Was just surprised when 3-4 days later I could still notice some pain.

Why didn't you just Jedi mind-fly the TIE fighter? Strong with this one, the force is not.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to the Resistance.

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Dr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · 5d

Great contest & use of LIDAR:

“While they do not weigh individual bears during the contest because of safety concerns, Chunk and others have had their density scanned to bolster weight estimates in the past using laser technology called LIDAR”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...