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Visruth Srimath Kandali

@visruth.com

Cal Poly Statistics student broadly interested in Bayesian statistics, computational methods, and modeling--e.g. BNPs, VI, and MC methods. I like R, Julia, and functional friends. visruth.com

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Out of left field recommendations, but have you played Sable or Deus Ex?

06.03.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whattt no $xlink coin?

04.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh is that what this was alluding to? Or is useful Gastown a different project?

bsky.app/profile/doll...

04.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Righto! Also is crosslink something new or typo? I don't remember seeing about crosslink

04.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Impressive! I moreso meant against sklearn, but thanks for these details too.

04.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Woah I need to get on chainlink. Any benchmarks?

04.03.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've also seen the "average of the Internet" view--which falls apart once out of distribution, which I think is pretty frequent when coding. I don't see why people have such a hard time rejecting the companies/economy/etc around AI while recognizing the tech is transformative.

03.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Opinionated R Package Quickstart Bootstrap new R packages with strongly opinionated defaults. Creates the package scaffold, wires up tests, README and NEWS, configures GitHub Actions and Dependabot, adds Air/Jarl setup, and drop in a...

v1 of `bootstrapper`, an opinionated #rstats package to help you start building modern R packages. Wraps a number of usethis funcs to simplify starting new packages.

Adds some common GHA, dependabot, air + jarl (precommit hook and GHA), and a concise AGENTS.md which I'm rather liking.

26.02.2026 04:16 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been searching for a good RPN CLI for this very reason; startup times for existing projects in Positron have been horrendous.

24.02.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fantastic post by Colin Raffel, "We Are Over-Indexing on Paper Acceptance," drafted in May 2021 (!) but only posted now. The more things change..

Last sentence: "If you want to judge a researcher’s quality, the only meaningful way is to read their papers and judge for yourself."

24.02.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
What's an AI? Visruth Srimath Kandali's Website

Repurposed a bit of an old post on aesthetics and hastily blended some other thoughts.

tl;dr: I want science fiction artificial intelligences like Olivaw et al., and I want to reserve the term AI for that kind of intelligences, not for LLMs.

www.visruth.com/writings/ai/

19.02.2026 07:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Its big problem with openclaw is that its just a terrible product that does nothing of value and a big company buys it and ignores real tools that do real work

17.02.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Got the big Calvin and Hobbes collection and it is bananas that Watterson dropped one of the best strips of all time within a month of starting the comic

08.02.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 1613 πŸ” 293 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 5
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GitHub - VisruthSK/BigNum: A toy package designed to showcase and serve as a reference/tutorial for S7 development. To be used in conjunction with the S7 package website. A toy package designed to showcase and serve as a reference/tutorial for S7 development. To be used in conjunction with the S7 package website. - VisruthSK/BigNum

Self promo: I have a repo about S7 specifically if you want to learn more about modern OOP in R.

github.com/VisruthSK/Bi...

06.02.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup I don't understand the fascination, which probably means I'm bad at using them tbf. That being said, marimo notebooks are way saner than Jupyter Notebooks, if one can't use Quarto for some reason.

06.02.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Someday I will conquer my white whale with at least 90% recall:

ankiweb.net/shared/info/...

05.02.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same. I really want inference providers like cerebras and groq to take off but it doesn't seem like that's the path the industry is heading on.

05.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - VisruthSK/stanflow: R Package for a Mildly Opinionated Stan Bayesian Workflow R Package for a Mildly Opinionated Stan Bayesian Workflow - VisruthSK/stanflow

First release of stanflow! v0.1.0 was a few days later than I'd like, but its up now.

Stanflow is a metapackage a la tidyverse for a Stan Bayesian workflow--see the README for more details/features!

Feedback/issues/PRs are always appreciated.

#rstats #bayes

05.02.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Urban Dictionary: Silkpost Silkpost: shitposting to cope about a game that does not exist.

What's the right term for AI silkposting...

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

04.02.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF Β· Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen...

Under 64gigs so some M series Macs or some Strix Halo setups could pull it off?

See hn: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687...

03.02.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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They found that much of LLM β€œreasoning” doesn’t come from RL training; it comes from how you sample the model.

Paper: Scalable Power Sampling: Unlocking Efficient, Training-Free Reasoning for LLMs via Distribution Sharpening
( www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.21590 )

01.02.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

Excited to read your update, love all of your posts!

Have you seen @natolambert.bsky.social's podcast on Arcee? I listened to it yesterday and it was quite good, albeit much above my pay grade.

29.01.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@greatdismal.bsky.social any chance of a Folio Sprawl collection?

www.foliosociety.com

15.01.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cleaning up the desktop on my laptop and found this #ggplot2 #rstats

13.01.2026 08:31 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Bayesian Data Analysis course - Aalto 2025 – Bayesian Data Analysis course

All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...

11.12.2025 14:20 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Posts tagged with "R" A collection of posts tagged with R.

In a similar vein, I think you could have a R specific feed by keeping an R tag and generating a feed just for that. That's my preferred (non Quarto blog) approach which you maybe could replicate through custom listings?

www.visruth.com/tags/R/

09.12.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Document Listings – Quarto

Haven't used Quarto blogs in a while, but I think could filter a listing to exclude posts with a specific param in YAML, e.g. rss_exclude: true so your listing would have

listing:
contents: posts
exclude:
rss_exclude: true

Dunno for sure if that works though.

quarto.org/docs/website...

09.12.2025 19:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

09.12.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 659 πŸ” 235 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 20

Out of my price range, but curious how this stacks up against Nvidias DGX Spark? The Strix Halo APUs seem killer but idr what the DGX has

07.12.2025 05:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if that's a benchmark yet (or already is a part of existing coding benchmarks), that would be quite cool. Hard not to contaminate though of course.

Yes that's the package, thanks!

07.12.2025 04:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0