apoorva lal
@apoorvalal.com
causal inference, econometrics, ML, arsenal, loud music, unix, FOSS for scientific computing.
apoorvalal.github.io
(passively) maintains @paperposterbot.bsky.social
apoorvalal.github.io
(passively) maintains @paperposterbot.bsky.social
Baiting bsky with nanobanana artist cover portraits of The Agent in commemoration of 2 months of life and a full week of sleeping through the night
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Baiting bsky with nanobanana artist cover portraits of The Agent in commemoration of 2 months of life and a full week of sleeping through the night
Is this enshittification?
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Is this enshittification?
upgraded my eGPU setup over the weekend [RIP ADT rube goldberg machine] and decided to document it for posterity (with some promo for my torch econometrics package included)
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
GPU-Accelerated Econometrics on Consumer Hardware
tl;dr: A $200 used GPU plugged into an EGPU can make your research code order-of-magnitude faster.
apoorvalal.github.io
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
upgraded my eGPU setup over the weekend [RIP ADT rube goldberg machine] and decided to document it for posterity (with some promo for my torch econometrics package included)
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
My twitter feed is doing a 4th round of memeing a shitty inconsequential interview and my bsky feed is 4 people competing to be the goodest boy by circular firing squad. Back to whatsapp and discord then.
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My twitter feed is doing a 4th round of memeing a shitty inconsequential interview and my bsky feed is 4 people competing to be the goodest boy by circular firing squad. Back to whatsapp and discord then.
The agent's first vibecoding experience
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The agent's first vibecoding experience
behold, an authoritative answer to the question of "how'd you like em apples?"
[also love how old papers have the most stilted hot-takes in their intro. no citation salute to the elders to get the paper accepted, just passive-voice passive-aggressiveness]
[also love how old papers have the most stilted hot-takes in their intro. no citation salute to the elders to get the paper accepted, just passive-voice passive-aggressiveness]
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
behold, an authoritative answer to the question of "how'd you like em apples?"
[also love how old papers have the most stilted hot-takes in their intro. no citation salute to the elders to get the paper accepted, just passive-voice passive-aggressiveness]
[also love how old papers have the most stilted hot-takes in their intro. no citation salute to the elders to get the paper accepted, just passive-voice passive-aggressiveness]
Updated a classic to reflect our times
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Updated a classic to reflect our times
Reposted by apoorva lal
if you use a tiling wm, you can event tuck the radio away into your scratch workspace [L; omarchy makes it very easy]
compact htmx makes it work well on mobile [R] with background playback [getting it to not die on suspend was the most javascript i've had to learn].
compact htmx makes it work well on mobile [R] with background playback [getting it to not die on suspend was the most javascript i've had to learn].
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
if you use a tiling wm, you can event tuck the radio away into your scratch workspace [L; omarchy makes it very easy]
compact htmx makes it work well on mobile [R] with background playback [getting it to not die on suspend was the most javascript i've had to learn].
compact htmx makes it work well on mobile [R] with background playback [getting it to not die on suspend was the most javascript i've had to learn].
Go play Crab Souls. It is so very good.
If AAA's want $100/game they need to be significantly better than what smaller / indie devs are making.
They aren't.
The most fun I had last year was Another Crab's Treasure ($30). Silksong this year was $20.
If the sit down restaurant is 4x the cost of the foodcart (& no better), I'm not sorry.
They aren't.
The most fun I had last year was Another Crab's Treasure ($30). Silksong this year was $20.
If the sit down restaurant is 4x the cost of the foodcart (& no better), I'm not sorry.
October 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Go play Crab Souls. It is so very good.
split keyboard recs? but like really really split; the wiggly phone cable thing won't do for obvious reasons.
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
split keyboard recs? but like really really split; the wiggly phone cable thing won't do for obvious reasons.
(4,4) - turns out "Sleep like a baby" is black humour.
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
(4,4) - turns out "Sleep like a baby" is black humour.
Built and hosted a scrappy fasthtml radio player on a VPS for my own edification+excuse to listen to good radio (Soma, kexp, etc).
Curious how many concurrent users can use it before it crashes the tiny raspberry-pi tier machine i deployed this on.
lalten.org/radio
Curious how many concurrent users can use it before it crashes the tiny raspberry-pi tier machine i deployed this on.
lalten.org/radio
Lalten 🏮 Web Radio Player
lalten.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Built and hosted a scrappy fasthtml radio player on a VPS for my own edification+excuse to listen to good radio (Soma, kexp, etc).
Curious how many concurrent users can use it before it crashes the tiny raspberry-pi tier machine i deployed this on.
lalten.org/radio
Curious how many concurrent users can use it before it crashes the tiny raspberry-pi tier machine i deployed this on.
lalten.org/radio
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
New linklog: local projections are balancing, torch choice models, inhomogeneous poisson processes for event data
New linklog: local projections are balancing, torch choice models, inhomogeneous poisson processes for event data
2025-10-20
links papers Coulombe and Klieber on modern balancing-weights interpretation of Local Projection estimators widespread in macroeconometrics.
apoorvalal.github.io
October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
New linklog: local projections are balancing, torch choice models, inhomogeneous poisson processes for event data
New linklog: local projections are balancing, torch choice models, inhomogeneous poisson processes for event data
Happy "Econ history nobel followed by econ historians tweeting through their persecution complex" day to those who celebrate
October 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Happy "Econ history nobel followed by econ historians tweeting through their persecution complex" day to those who celebrate
watch palo alto shutter all three caltrain stations in response to SB79; atherton is already thanking its lucky stars it shut its only public transit.
[more seriously, is a potential second-order effect that this passes the buck to transit extension being monstrously difficult?]
😶🌫️
[more seriously, is a potential second-order effect that this passes the buck to transit extension being monstrously difficult?]
😶🌫️
October 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
watch palo alto shutter all three caltrain stations in response to SB79; atherton is already thanking its lucky stars it shut its only public transit.
[more seriously, is a potential second-order effect that this passes the buck to transit extension being monstrously difficult?]
😶🌫️
[more seriously, is a potential second-order effect that this passes the buck to transit extension being monstrously difficult?]
😶🌫️
Reposted by apoorva lal
For those who, like me, didn't get what "Gwern-pilled" meant in this post.
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For those who, like me, didn't get what "Gwern-pilled" meant in this post.
Put stuff on arxiv, it'll have more impact than 90% of papers because the robots read more comprehensively than most of us. Gwern-pilled conclusion - write for the robots.
(A friend got jumpscared by this and sent it to me)
(A friend got jumpscared by this and sent it to me)
October 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Put stuff on arxiv, it'll have more impact than 90% of papers because the robots read more comprehensively than most of us. Gwern-pilled conclusion - write for the robots.
(A friend got jumpscared by this and sent it to me)
(A friend got jumpscared by this and sent it to me)
Tfw there's a fart on the way and one seeks plausible deniability
link 📈🤖
Predictively Oriented Posteriors (McLatchie, Cherief-Abdellatif, Frazier et al) We advocate for a new statistical principle that combines the most desirable aspects of both parameter inference and density estimation. This leads us to the predictively oriented (PrO) posterior, which expres
Predictively Oriented Posteriors (McLatchie, Cherief-Abdellatif, Frazier et al) We advocate for a new statistical principle that combines the most desirable aspects of both parameter inference and density estimation. This leads us to the predictively oriented (PrO) posterior, which expres
October 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Tfw there's a fart on the way and one seeks plausible deniability
academics write normally challenge: impossible
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
academics write normally challenge: impossible
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
new linklog - ecological inference, adversarial estimation, bargaining games with The Agent
new linklog - ecological inference, adversarial estimation, bargaining games with The Agent
2025-09-29
Apologies for the interruption in coverage; I have a good excuse, henceforth known as The Agent (of both the ‘defying the Principal’ variety and the fast-learning natural/artificial variety).
apoorvalal.github.io
September 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
new linklog - ecological inference, adversarial estimation, bargaining games with The Agent
new linklog - ecological inference, adversarial estimation, bargaining games with The Agent
Bay area people, come see Yin Yin with me! They're fantastic; think Khruangbin but actually good.
September 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Bay area people, come see Yin Yin with me! They're fantastic; think Khruangbin but actually good.
Reposted by apoorva lal
We have got exciting (and unconventional) stuff cooking and we are hiring for a strong research engineer on the GDM Game Theory team in London.
Consider apply if you are interested in the intersection of game theory, multiagent systems and LLMs!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Consider apply if you are interested in the intersection of game theory, multiagent systems and LLMs!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Research Engineer, Game Theory & Multi-Agent Systems
London, UK
job-boards.greenhouse.io
September 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We have got exciting (and unconventional) stuff cooking and we are hiring for a strong research engineer on the GDM Game Theory team in London.
Consider apply if you are interested in the intersection of game theory, multiagent systems and LLMs!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Consider apply if you are interested in the intersection of game theory, multiagent systems and LLMs!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Nothing prepared me for how often newborns look like this
September 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Nothing prepared me for how often newborns look like this
Acquired one of these newfangled learning agents. No API documentation though; time to figure it out by trial and error over decades.
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Acquired one of these newfangled learning agents. No API documentation though; time to figure it out by trial and error over decades.