Chirayu Salgarkar
@simianrexjr.bsky.social
Grad student @ RIT, interested in Multi-agent RL. Interested in building a more equitable world. he/him/his.
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I’ve felt this happening to me over time, and I don’t like it.
December 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I’ve felt this happening to me over time, and I don’t like it.
Donate if you can! Even if you are not in the affected areas, there is a national shortage of blood.
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Donate if you can! Even if you are not in the affected areas, there is a national shortage of blood.
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Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
There was also a school shooting in Denver today. At least three kids are in critical condition. In a world where politics will invariably lead to one news story being prominent, think about the kids and what we as a community are doing wrong.
apnews.com/article/colo...
apnews.com/article/colo...
Three people were critically wounded in shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities say
Three teens have been hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities said Wednesday.
apnews.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
There was also a school shooting in Denver today. At least three kids are in critical condition. In a world where politics will invariably lead to one news story being prominent, think about the kids and what we as a community are doing wrong.
apnews.com/article/colo...
apnews.com/article/colo...
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This is terrible.
August 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is terrible.
Came back home for two days, and visited the new Hooper-Renwick library and museum (which is walkable from my parents house)! Phenomenal library and museum. I really admire the effort taken to preserve Black history (former segregated school), and the library is going to be a gorgeous third space.
July 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Came back home for two days, and visited the new Hooper-Renwick library and museum (which is walkable from my parents house)! Phenomenal library and museum. I really admire the effort taken to preserve Black history (former segregated school), and the library is going to be a gorgeous third space.
Genuinely, I only saw this on the Guardian this afternoon. I wish more people knew how critical international students are to US interests in STEM / graduate education as a whole. Self inflicted wounds are the most painful.
May 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Genuinely, I only saw this on the Guardian this afternoon. I wish more people knew how critical international students are to US interests in STEM / graduate education as a whole. Self inflicted wounds are the most painful.
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young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation
April 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation
I was rejected… likely still would have been rejected in other years, but really discouraging for a lot of grad students. NSF cut so many awards this year.
🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
Research.gov :: GRFP
www.research.gov
April 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I was rejected… likely still would have been rejected in other years, but really discouraging for a lot of grad students. NSF cut so many awards this year.
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For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
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Easily my favourite April 1st paper this year.
Brave and terrifying. #TeXLaTeX
paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187
homepage: neuralatex.com
Brave and terrifying. #TeXLaTeX
paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187
homepage: neuralatex.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Easily my favourite April 1st paper this year.
Brave and terrifying. #TeXLaTeX
paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187
homepage: neuralatex.com
Brave and terrifying. #TeXLaTeX
paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187
homepage: neuralatex.com
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Waffle House to the rescue?
FEMA hiring overhaul drives fears of agency dismantling as hurricane season nears
The decision to reshape the hiring process for the agency's disaster relief foot soldiers comes just months before hurricane season.
www.cbsnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Waffle House to the rescue?
Useful info!
I'm a fan of this post!
Accessible TeX colors
Ewin's website
ewintang.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Useful info!
This is exciting!
⚫⚪ It's coming...SHADES. ⚪⚫
The first ever resource of multilingual, multicultural, and multigeographical stereotypes, built to support nuanced LLM evaluation and bias mitigation. We have been working on this around the world for almost **4 years** and I am thrilled to share it with you all soon.
The first ever resource of multilingual, multicultural, and multigeographical stereotypes, built to support nuanced LLM evaluation and bias mitigation. We have been working on this around the world for almost **4 years** and I am thrilled to share it with you all soon.
February 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is exciting!
Also, as usual @rajiinio.bsky.social has a wonderful take on this. Scaling is the path of least resistance, not the only potential path.
This applies to education too, especially design projects. When constrained by $$$, you have to build with efficiency, meaning you learn more in the process.
This applies to education too, especially design projects. When constrained by $$$, you have to build with efficiency, meaning you learn more in the process.
This is at the heart of almost every AI-enabled disaster: Scaling is not the only way to improve, it's just the easiest; training on copyrighted work, ignoring data quality, overlooking evaluation validity, etc are not actually"necessary evils", but just represent the path of least resistance.
As I said earlier, scaling was always more about business than science. Scientifically, there’s no law of physics that says AI advancements must come from scaling rather than approaches using the same or fewer resources. Scaling is just an incredibly easy-to-follow formula. 17/
January 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Also, as usual @rajiinio.bsky.social has a wonderful take on this. Scaling is the path of least resistance, not the only potential path.
This applies to education too, especially design projects. When constrained by $$$, you have to build with efficiency, meaning you learn more in the process.
This applies to education too, especially design projects. When constrained by $$$, you have to build with efficiency, meaning you learn more in the process.
Wonderful thread.
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Wonderful thread.
passed my fe exam! celebrated by cleaning snow off of my windshield for 15 minutes to no avail
January 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
passed my fe exam! celebrated by cleaning snow off of my windshield for 15 minutes to no avail
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There is nothing normal about a company that helps define what almost half of humanity sees on their screens explicitly promising to support a far-right leader, writes João C. Magalhães. www.techpolicy.press/meta-is-not-...
Meta is Not Returning to its Free Speech Origins – It’s Preparing for an Autocratic Future | TechPolicy.Press
Let’s take what Zuckerberg is saying seriously and admit that we are entering – once again – uncharted waters, writes João C. Magalhães.
www.techpolicy.press
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
There is nothing normal about a company that helps define what almost half of humanity sees on their screens explicitly promising to support a far-right leader, writes João C. Magalhães. www.techpolicy.press/meta-is-not-...
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
December 25, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreak-llm
Late to this, but really good article! Safety-critical control, at least for now, should probably be wholly independent of LLM-driven decisionmaking.
Late to this, but really good article! Safety-critical control, at least for now, should probably be wholly independent of LLM-driven decisionmaking.
It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots
Researchers induced bots to ignore their safeguards without exception
spectrum.ieee.org
December 12, 2024 at 3:38 PM
spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreak-llm
Late to this, but really good article! Safety-critical control, at least for now, should probably be wholly independent of LLM-driven decisionmaking.
Late to this, but really good article! Safety-critical control, at least for now, should probably be wholly independent of LLM-driven decisionmaking.
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I'm sorry to K12 teachers that edtech and tech bros are failing you.
December 10, 2024 at 10:51 PM
I'm sorry to K12 teachers that edtech and tech bros are failing you.
mercer wins! on to the next
December 7, 2024 at 11:00 PM
mercer wins! on to the next
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starting in the 8th overtime you snap the ball from the middle of the end zone and the only rules are that you're not allowed to vomit or cry
November 30, 2024 at 4:51 AM
starting in the 8th overtime you snap the ball from the middle of the end zone and the only rules are that you're not allowed to vomit or cry
Made thanksgiving dinner for some grad school friends yesterday! Made turkey, mac and cheese, creamed spinach, roasted potatoes, and a premade apple pie (don’t judge, I was tired). Used a jerk chicken and yogurt marinade on the turkey, highly recommend. Now to deal with leftovers…
November 30, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Made thanksgiving dinner for some grad school friends yesterday! Made turkey, mac and cheese, creamed spinach, roasted potatoes, and a premade apple pie (don’t judge, I was tired). Used a jerk chicken and yogurt marinade on the turkey, highly recommend. Now to deal with leftovers…