Rahul Dave

On a backbone trail in Bryce Canyon

One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
-Omar El Akkad

Pics of the day

#photography

💯 there's gonna have to be purges everywhere. But the problem is even worse: all the talented people have already left with DOGE and politicization...Will we ever get them back?

Possibly related..https://accessible-dragon-75f.notion.site/RL-Grokking-Recipe-How-Can-We-Enable-LLMs-to-Solve-Previously-Unsolvable-Tasks-with-RL-100a1714e6778062bae5eafad8e7677d ?

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Kyle Cranmer and Rich Sutton at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 16, 2025.

Is scale all you need? Or is there still a role for incorporating domain knowledge and inductive bias? While I was in Heidelberg, I took some time to write a short essay on this question called "The Bittersweet Lesson".
theoryandpractice.org/2025/09/The%... #HLF25

The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’ Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits

So Flint, Michigan gave $1,500 to all pregnant people, plus $500 each month for the first year of the child’s young life.

It saved Flint $6.2 million dollars a year, due to lower rates of rates of prematurity and low birth weight, with fewer corresponding admissions.

The right thing, AND cheaper.

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

@shriram.bsky.social

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

What’s a Foreigner? Thoughts on immigration.

Some thoughts on the weekends on “what is a foreigner anyways?” — I'm arguing that there are significant differences in how for instance Austria and the US think about what foreigners are and why that might be.

lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/14/wh...

Walking around the app You gotta check stuff out

One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it

vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w...

You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

Thank you!!

Thank you! If you have a list please share? I am somehow missing it: maybe the algo is not showing it to me!

Unlike rust/jj/go etc

Personally is most ai people moved here I'd be happy. Lots of naysayers but conversations here don't have the maga element insulting you all the time. Unfortunately AI is dead here.

Right into the subtitle hall of fame

Public health today is under attack, but nobody is rushing to save it

Why?

When public health works, NOTHING happens - bad things are prevented and nobody even knows

Because the successes are not visible, people take it for granted

Public health must communicate our successes

We must be visible

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

Pardon my economist technical parlance, but what the fuck does “issuing its statistics on the blockchain” even mean?

This data is already publicly available, thanks to this super fancy piece of technology called “an API”

These people are complete idiots

A “tariff rebate check” is like setting your kitchen on fire and then mailing yourself a bucket of water. There's an easier way to avoid the burn.

Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods, bsky.app

Frolicking beneath the Dolomites, northeastern Italy 😊

In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.

Putting white privilege to good use

Wait, you have 2 inch?

inching closer and closer to my “they’re segregationists” take

I think it is about what you can express in English well. I have both very frustrating sessions with Claude and very successful ones. Sometimes I find that I can make the code changes myself much more easily. Claude is slow. But there's nothing like Claude sometimes starting up the process

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good