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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 4d

Leather editions of Sprawl are coming out? Did I miss an announcement I need these!

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 9d

Every few days I gotta rehash a similar argument: apply to grad school or Silksong + Hades II...

Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 20d

Note that more Stan R packages are currently in the process of being reviewed and added!

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 24d

to me, the main downside of vibe coding is that now there’s a quick phrase you can use to disown your work and avoid responsibility

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 27d

I need these; do you take kidneys?

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Sep 2

Hmm ok it's probably worth another look then. It seemed very stylish and some of the characters/plot were interesting so I'm probably being too harsh.

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Sep 1

Reminds me of Pantheon, where their response to a DDOS is to pull out memory, GPUs, etc. from their personal computers. I've heard good things but couldn't watch past that since it was supposed to be tech(?)

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 24

_Or_? I see no need to compromise...

Just wait for my stealth Quantum AI Blockchain IOT ChatGPT-wrapper startup to go public and make trillions of dollars.

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 24

posit-dev.github.io/air/integrat...

GitHub Actions – Air

posit-dev.github.io

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 19

I keep seeing smallish mambas(or hybrids) + diffusion models etc but nothing afaik has gone to prod*--wonder when a frontier lab will drop a massive model with these purportedly ridiculously high throughputs.

Does Mercury Labs count? Haven't checked in on them in a while. Same with Google Diffugem.

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · Aug 18

the progress of OpenAI models

the jump from GPT-1 to GPT-2 is mind blowing

i hate to admit that i wasn’t paying attention to LLMs back then, must’ve been a wild ride to see that

progress.openai.com

OpenAI Progress

AI has been evolving at an incredible rate. This piece aims to highlight the progress made so far.

progress.openai.com

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 17

www.visruth.com/prose/roving...

Roving Reverie

The bathroom was putrid, rancid, rank–practically by definition. The tiles were chipped; chiselled into walls were the names of long-dead teens who thought they would rule the world, or at least this ...

www.visruth.com

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 17

I discovered yesterday that #NIN is doing TRON: Ares's soundtrack!? And they released a single? Gonna watch the movie just for OST; it's hitting all the same notes of Daft Punk's TRON: Legacy but distinctly NIN.

181*(3+(53/60))/60 ~ 12 hrs of _As Alive As You Need Me To Be_ since Aug 15 13:00...

last.fm webpage showing 181 scrobbles of the track: As Alive As You Need Me To Be

last.fm page showing just As Alive As You Need Me To Be repeated many times

last.fm page showing As Alive As You Need Me To Be repeated many times with a few other songs played from Aug 15 at 13:00

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Xavier Van de Woestyne @xvw.lol · Aug 13

Here is a rather lengthy write-up (in English) explaining why I chose #OCaml as my main programming language for my personal and professional projects!

xvw.lol/en/articles/...

I hope you find this interesting, and I welcome any feedback!

Why I chose OCaml as my primary language

A detailed explanation of why I chose OCaml as the ‘default’ programming language for every project.

xvw.lol

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Aug 15

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · Aug 10

Made a Starter Pack to help us #user2025 attendees find each other and stay in touch!

👉 go.bsky.app/NjYV48L

(hopefully I did this right... 🤓)

Let me know by replying here if you attended UseR and would like to be added, I'll try to update regularly! 🥰

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 10

Mm that's true. It took me a second to realize why I haven't complained about this--I think I've been sidestepping this by only focusing on the rendered notebook as the source of truth. Might also help students get into the "save and render often" mindset?

Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 10

Favorite feature so far?

Personally, theming is quite nice; I now have Catppuccin Mocha OLED on everything which is neat.

Also decoupled interpreters are really nice and the hardest thing to deal with whenever I happen to use RStudio.

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 10

I've heard in line code results for notebooks is not coming soon, and will probably only be in the visual mode.

I've been using Positron for a year and it's in a much better shape now; well worth embracing all the way...

Tbh I now get surprised seeing inline output in RStudio.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · Aug 10

{hexsession} by @liomys.mx is fun and useful!

Produces css/html snippets that tile hex logos nicely, e.g. to showcase your #rstats package projects. 😎

github.com/luisDVA/hexs...

#useR2025

Luis stands in front of a slide showing many hex logos tiled on a web page.

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 10

Yesss this is the function I was trying to remember. I love the exhausted check

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · Aug 10

In the frenzy of exciting #useR2025 talks, I forgot to mention that I also gave my talk. 😆

"Adding models to {tidyclust}", slides here: kbodwin.github.io/Talks-and-Pr...

PC: @healthandstats.bsky.social

Kelly stands in front of a alide that reads "expanding tidyclust"

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · Aug 9

A humble beginning of my sticker collection and the coolest pair of socks I own!

I want to buy a binder to store them all--any hexagon shaped recommendations?

#useR2025 #rstats

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · Aug 6

I'm pretty stoked about what @visruth.com and I have been cooking up this year....

(Come see his talk at #UseR2025 to hear more... and of course, to get hex stickers while supplies last...)

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