Prem Devanbu (பிரேம் தேவன்பு)

@danirabaiotti.bsky.social is there a Computer Science person to ask, to be added as contributor? Thanks in advance.

Stimulating discussions with colleagues at South Asian BoF lunch at #ICSE2025

Who in the administration knew about Trump's latest tariff flip flop ahead of time? Did anyone buy or sell stocks, and profit at the public’s expense?

I'm writing to the White House — the public has a right to know.

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

To all those who made Billions on Derivatives trading, ahead of all the recent Tariff-driven Market Craziness....I'm sure you're out there. Well done!

Please consider donating to International Poverty Alleviation work, plus Science and Research in America. These all really need your help.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Finally, the middle class can pay more of their income (as Tariffs) to fund the Federal Government, so the Billionaires can get a break.

Tariffs, shmariffs..they'll come and they'll go..what matters is the $$$ Trillions in Market Value shifts, and just who is making money in well-timed Derivatives trades?

..but we'll never know, and they'll keep what billions they make.

I hope there are, and/or will be.

As @cristalopes.bsky.social points out, one can re-examine data from quantitative studies and rebut (etc) and this can lead to useful dialogue, which is critical to Science. Honest Question: are there examples in SE of QUALITITATIVE work being rebutted? Replicated? Released data being reanalyzed?

Just wondering, is Opus DEI now on the list of cancelled organizations?

TBH, deep learning has completely changed NLP From when I first started learning about it.

This is driving me crazy...Apparently JD Vance has been arguing that Matthew 5:5 actually originally said "Blessed are the Geek, for they shall inherit the Earth" and so President Musk. Is this True

Surprising polling by @today.yougov.com that over a third of Republicans think that the US in a constitutional crisis. One-in-ten of them think the US is a dictatorship (thought it's not clear whether they think that's a good thing or not!).

Suggestion for Conference Program Chairs (
@icseconf.bsky.social and other SE
conferences especially): announce that you will add reviews from all the major LLMs to the set of reviews automatically in HotCRP, so PC members will have an incentive to do their own work

Dear @teamsters.bsky.social you could have endorsed a candidate
who was labor-friendly, and you chose not to. Your actions had electoral consequences. Sorry: although I appreciate Unions, I won't be respecting your picket lines at @Costco especially, given @Costco's other stances.

As sad and scary the crash in D.C. is, it's worth bearing in mind ..

In 2023, about 43,000 people died from Gun Violence. Same year, less than 100 people died due to commercial air travel.

US right wing fans misinformation fires as firefighters battle Los Angeles blazes A similar campaign of rumors and lies was seen after the North Carolina hurricane, with DEI a primary target

I heard that the LA fires were set by Trump using Elon Musk's Satellites, so that Jared Kushner could buy real estate on the cheap and sell it to foreign billionaires.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

(From "Agency", Showtime) does anyone else think this is a really LOUD visual quote from Vermeer? If so, I gotta ask--why???

President-elect Trump wants to again rename North America's tallest peak President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to revert the name of Alaska's Denali back to Mount McKinley.

Could we rename the Mariana Trench after Trump? Or Elon? Or Matt Gaetz?

apnews.com/article/dena...

Good one.

Feeling very satisfied this morning, at having figured out (un assisted) that the proper (and lovely) translation of "to mansplain" is "herrklären".

A Geometric Framework for Understanding Memorization in Generative Models As deep generative models have progressed, recent work has shown them to be capable of memorizing and reproducing training datapoints when deployed. These findings call into question the usability of ...

Once in a while, you read a paper where you feel like you learned something really cool, and for the rest of the day, ya have a spring in your step.

arxiv.org/abs/2411.00113

Proof of an impossibility theorem?

California producing too much clean energy, paying other states to take it California has been paying utilities in other states to take its surplus electricity to avoid grid overload according to a report.

www.newsweek.com/california-p...

Negative price of KwH sometimes !!Mine bitcoin or make H2 in the Spring, and sell later? This seasonal surplus must be a widespread issue with renewables, and I imagine people are working on Tech to exploit the Arbitrage opportunity?

Since air source heat pumps take heat out of the air and put them in your house, do they help with Global Warming?

Dear Google Labs -- notebookLLM creates nice, sunny podcasts on STEM papers---but...

Science, 4real, is -ve & adversarial. Please train another model, with data from actual grad students or faculty, so it creates more grumpy pods, which also criticize scope, methods, results etc of papers? 🔭🐡🧪

To all the sex workers suddenly now on bluesky and following me: I hope you will enjoy this post, and others like it, to follow:

A very interesting exploration of how generating synthetic edit sequences from Code & training on them works surprisingly well:

lintseq.github.io

It's ok to feel sad about it. It is genuinely sad. Twitter is where I met my wife, the love of my life and the mother of my children. Now that Twitter is dying, I have no way to contact these three.