Pranav Rajan
@pranavrajan.bsky.social
digital signals, aiml, generative modeling, music. bach enthusiast Machine Learning Student @ KTH
I'm going to give a talk about birds and code and art and stuff in two hours: www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
Future Sketches Talk Series 2025: Creating with Nature – MIT Media Lab
What can observing nature show us about computation and creative practice?Join the Future Sketches group for the Fall 2025 edition of our Lunch Lectures: Creat…
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The next video in the Laplace Transform sequence is up! youtu.be/FE-hM1kRK4Y Here, we dig into a concrete example, the forced oscillator. Some of you may remember that this was relevant for studying why light slows down in a medium.
This is one you're going to want to be at! @bobwachter.bsky.social has a new book coming out on AI & Healthcare. He interviewed the best thinkers across the country and we're going to dive in. This one will be best IN PERSON! @cwclub.bsky.social www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...
Dr. Bob Wachter: How AI Is Transforming Health Care and What That Means for Our Future
Artificial intelligence can now match and sometimes surpass physicians in areas such as diagnosis to empathy. What does that mean for doctors, patients, and the future of our health care? Join us for ...
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At times, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner’s concurrent ascent feels preordained. Expectations run high for them to meet in the final of this month’s U.S. Open.
The Budding Rivalry of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner
The two young champions, who met as teen-agers, are expected to face off at this year’s U.S. Open. A new book by Giri Nathan tracks their parallel ascent.
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A day late but remembering the impact of Anthony Bourdain on Bourdain Day
Wow: "Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written in the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris where Satie worked as a pianist." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death
Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album
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"For many companies, excitement over the promise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has given way to vexation over the difficulty of making productive use of the technology. The share of companies abandoning...has risen to 42%, up from 17% last year." www.economist.com/business/202...
Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment
Tech giants are spending big, but many other companies are growing frustrated
economist.com
Progress in traditional computing is slowing — new chips are running into fundamental physical limitations that prevent them from getting smaller. Changing the way computations run could help keep progress moving.
How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward. | Quanta Magazine
Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI.
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‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING’ earns $24.8M in the film’s domestic opening day. Biggest opening day ever for the franchise. Read our review: bit.ly/MissionDF
I'm a huge fan of Rick Rubin and Claude but this collaboration between Rick RubinxAnthropic seriously irked me www.thewayofcode.com. After publishing The Creative Act: A Way of Being which was a truly insightful book and a storied career in the music industry did Rick really have to publish this?
Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding
Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The...
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Meet @frank.computer , PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. Frank will deliver a talk at #Outlier2025: “Thinking of 'Softerware:' Re-imagining Data Visualizations as Malleable Interfaces” Explore the agenda: www.accelevents.com/e/outlier-20... #dataviz #datavisualization
Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵
looking for more indie publications to keep up with! (fraidycat RSS :)) so far i've got: - The Verge - 404 Media - Aftermath - User Mag by Taylor Lorenz - The Intercept - The 19th - The Markup woud've added Polygon, but… [see latest news] any other suggestions? (open to a range of topics!)
Building large language models can feel more like growing a tomato plant than building a machine, says Martin Wattenberg, a language model researcher: “You watered it, you weeded around it, but how on earth does that tomato plant work?”
Why Language Models Are So Hard To Understand | Quanta Magazine
AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.
quantamagazine.org
‘THE BEAR’ Season 4 will premiere on June 15 on Hulu. (Source: @omelete)
‘Bittersweet’: Famed conductor’s final concert brings symphony-goers to tears
‘Bittersweet’: Famed conductor’s final concert brings symphony-goers to tears
Michael Tilson Thomas took his final bow after three decades at the San Francisco Symphony.
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When A.I. automates human skill outright, tech giants—which own and develop A.I.—accumulate vast wealth and power, while workers are left without leverage. How do we increase the odds that A.I. works for us, rather than the other way around?
How to Survive the A.I. Revolution
The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?
newyorker.com
FYI I’m playing a solo concert in Prague this Sunday— www.rudolfinum.cz/en/event/342...
VIJAY IYER – solo piano | Rudolfinum
Concert on 13 Apr 2025 ⬩ Listen to classical music at its best ⬩ Programme and tickets on the website of the Czech Philharmonic ➜
rudolfinum.cz
that moment when you need google colab to run experiments
came across this visual story of llms bbycroft.net/llm
LLM Visualization
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
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More information and RSVP here (even if you can’t make it but want to join future ones) forms.gle/R8FopEkK7BsT...
What Should a Language Model by Creative Writers, for Creative Writers Be? A Speculative Design Workshop (RSVP for April 9 or 23!)
Many popular language models today are created by large, for-profit technology companies and serve the goals of these corporations. What would a language model look like if it was created by writers a...
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My piece for @sciam.bsky.social is online and currently at the stand www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... #sciart
See How Drought Whiplash Led to California Wildfires
California is experiencing wider swings between wet and dry spells
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I’ve been out of Utah for a while but it’s been very interesting to watch and read how Utah is trying to grapple with the changes in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
A Lonely Holdout Where Republicans Still Resist Trump: Utah
Bolstered by Mormon voters’ distaste for MAGA politics, the center-right is trying to reassert itself in a ruby-red state.
nytimes.com
FT Visual & Data Journalism@data.ft.com · 2y agoRepublican politicians face mounting anger over Doge cuts 📊 https://www.ft.com/content/9d0773f6-d3c3-4a05-a301-603de435d3bf
two weeks ago I published www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202... re: plateau in innovation I've felt in #dataviz last few years. I've been furiously working on the follow-up (so many thoughts!) & it'll finally be out next Monday 🎉 if you'd like an email notification: www.shirleywu.studio/notebook
what killed innovation?: the past decade of interactive graphics, a brief recounting - Shirley Wu
Over the past decade, interactive data visualization has gone from bold experimentation to polished, predictable formats. I’ve been reflecting on why—and after speaking with some of the best in the fi...
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