Prakhar Maurya

Then what's even the point of having encryption!!

Announcing our 2026 Hybrid Seminar Series! Bringing together researchers in AI and astronomy to share new ideas, tools, and results at the intersection of data, computation, and the universe. Join our mailing list or Slack to get the Zoom link cosmicai.org/get-involved @simonsfoundation.org

I found this surprisingly counter-intuitive: so-called “attention sinks” in #LLMs are actually a feature, not a bug.
Found this amazing paper on the topic: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.02732

#ML #deeplearning

Interesting piece by @quantamagazine.bsky.social on "Platonic Representation Hypothesis" (Neural networks, trained with different objectives on different data and modalities, are converging to as shared statistical model of reality in their representation spaces).

#machinelearning

mphysicus.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025 Check out mphysicus.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!

This year on Bluesky I wrote 22 posts and 11 replies. I received 49 likes, whereas 11 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "galaxies" and 🌌!

www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Arthur Eddington was born #OTD in 1882. He led an expedition to observe a Solar eclipse in 1919, which validated Einstein’s GR prediction of the deflection of light. The Eddington luminosity sets an upper limit to accretion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...

Near the center is an object that resembles an edge-on view of a hamburger. There is a diagonal dark strip (the meat patty) of dust, running from 1 o’clock to 7 o’clock, that obscures a central star. Curving away from either side of the dark strip are glowing white clouds (the buns) where dust is reflecting starlight. Bright blue finger-like wisps of material extend far above and below the dark center plane. A few dozen stars, some with four diffraction spikes, are scattered on the black background of space.

Hubble has imaged the largest planet-forming disk ever seen! At 400 billion miles wide, it is roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system. The disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, offering new insights into how planetary systems form: https://bit.ly/477sQ9b 🔭 🧪

A really useful tool for managing SLURM jobs: github.com/kabouzeid/turm

Damm!! Looks really good.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Paper link: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...

Left panel: Image of Alaknanda in rest-frame near-ultraviolet filters. Right panel: Alaknanda as seen in rest-frame optical filters. Credit: NASA/CSA/ESA, Rashi Jain (NCRA-TIFR)

Discovery of "Alaknanda": A massive, grand-design spiral galaxy found just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang!

Found by Rashi Jain and Yogesh Wadadekar (NCRA-TIFR) using #JWST data. Its well-formed spiral arms challenge our understanding of how quickly galaxies settled into stable disks.

Interesting !!
Thanks for sharing.

Julia Turc AI explainer videos from a former Google Research engineer, now startup founder. Expect American optimism with a solid dose of Eastern European cynicism. Find (free) supplemental materials (slide dec...

If you are into #MachineLearning (or more specifically #DeepLearning) and want to learn more about the topics like Transformers, Diffusion Models etc., do give this YouTube channel by Julia Turc a try: youtube.com/@juliaturc1?...
The videos are absolute gems and simply amazing.

Microsoft’s “agentic” OS push is shaping up to be a privacy and security nightmare.
Been using Linux Mint for the past 2 months and it's been amazing.

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

Amazing work!!

Eagerly waiting for the Linux app for Proton Drive.

After stretching a bit last year, this year the Nobel committee was determined to give the prize to the physicsiest physics that ever physicsed.

The image is an illustration of the three Nobel laureates in physics, from left to right: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has just been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, John M. Martinis

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

🧪 ⚛️ #science #NobelPrize2025 #physics

Every lens leaves a blur signature—a hidden fingerprint in every photo.

In our new #TPAMI paper, we show how to learn it fast (5 mins of capture!) with Lens Blur Fields ✨

With it, we can tell apart ‘identical’ phones by their optics, deblur images, and render realistic blurs.

A black and white photo of Albert Einstein, around age 25, sitting at a desk. He is a wearing a flannel suit and resting his right arm on the desk. Einstein is looking to the left of the photographer in this posed photo.

The first paragraph of the paper, in German. Translated to English is reads: It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics—as usually understood at the present time—when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena. Take, for example, the reciprocal electrodynamic action of a magnet and a conductor. The observable phenomenon here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor and the magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp distinction between the two cases in which either the one or the other of these bodies is in motion. For if the magnet is in motion and the conductor at rest, there arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet an electric field with a certain definite energy, producing a current at the places where parts of the conductor are situated. But if the magnet is stationary and the conductor in motion, no electric field arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet...

Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!

Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

A cartoon of a 10th birthday cake being swallowed by a black hole.

Happy birthday to GW150914, our first (of many) #GravitationalWave discoveries, detected 10 years ago today!

#GW10Years 🧪⚛️🔭

🖼️: @chirpmass.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats. Amazing !!

YouTube video by LIGO Virgo KAGRA GW250114 – The Clearest of Chirps

What a difference a decade makes! Announcing the clearest #GravitationalWave detection ever #GW250114

youtu.be/2XmZ8-XQ9jU

📓: doi.org/10.1103/kw5g...

🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #O4IsHere

While I agree that Linux is overall better for the privacy.
But the drivers support on Linux is really bad. My laptop's camera and mic does not work on Linux (no matter the distribution)🥲. The fingerprint also does not work.

Interesting read.

"Cosmic Grapes"🍇
Clumpy rotating galaxy that is composed of more than 15 massive star-forming clumps. This existed just 900 million years after the Big bang.

#Astronomy

Paul Dirac was born #OTD in 1902. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theoretical physicists of the 20th century. The Dirac equation provides the first unified theory of quantum mechanics and special relativity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Di...

Interesting!