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
Crossposting because the QT is there but the audience for this is here
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Crossposting because the QT is there but the audience for this is here
self-explanatory ones
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
self-explanatory ones
First wintery week calls for GPU warmth
Large scale OCR (and hopefully downstream embedding, search, and model) project running on a brand new GPU - should be adaptable to many other tasks
github.com/apoorvalal/n...
Large scale OCR (and hopefully downstream embedding, search, and model) project running on a brand new GPU - should be adaptable to many other tasks
github.com/apoorvalal/n...
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
First wintery week calls for GPU warmth
Large scale OCR (and hopefully downstream embedding, search, and model) project running on a brand new GPU - should be adaptable to many other tasks
github.com/apoorvalal/n...
Large scale OCR (and hopefully downstream embedding, search, and model) project running on a brand new GPU - should be adaptable to many other tasks
github.com/apoorvalal/n...
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?
here's a caveman linux searcher that works well. assuming your search service is on its last legs, you could write a little script that
0) pulls and extracts these zips into a folder
1) execute ./seeker.sh files/
2) regex search, fzf navigation, open in vim
gist.github.com/apoorvalal/2...
0) pulls and extracts these zips into a folder
1) execute ./seeker.sh files/
2) regex search, fzf navigation, open in vim
gist.github.com/apoorvalal/2...
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
here's a caveman linux searcher that works well. assuming your search service is on its last legs, you could write a little script that
0) pulls and extracts these zips into a folder
1) execute ./seeker.sh files/
2) regex search, fzf navigation, open in vim
gist.github.com/apoorvalal/2...
0) pulls and extracts these zips into a folder
1) execute ./seeker.sh files/
2) regex search, fzf navigation, open in vim
gist.github.com/apoorvalal/2...
The agent's first vibecoding experience
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The agent's first vibecoding experience
google scholar pdf reader's citation popups are sending me down interesting rabbit-holes. good job goog.
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
google scholar pdf reader's citation popups are sending me down interesting rabbit-holes. good job goog.
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]
not sure why What we do in the shadows hasn't crobarred in a set-piece here
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
not sure why What we do in the shadows hasn't crobarred in a set-piece here
Updated a classic to reflect our times
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Updated a classic to reflect our times
the sequel: thank heavens for frankly ridiculous hardware (perixx periboard 624)
October 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
the sequel: thank heavens for frankly ridiculous hardware (perixx periboard 624)
i think I saw this inscription on Ashoka's pillar in Lumbini
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
i think I saw this inscription on Ashoka's pillar in Lumbini
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].
i don't love how people make these pseudo-profound nihilistic statements about measurement error and then refuse to go beyond reg y, x (e.g. bounding, validation sets, differencing via kotlarski, etc), e.g. here
www.cemmap.ac.uk/wp-content/u... this paper should be in grad curricula in every field
www.cemmap.ac.uk/wp-content/u... this paper should be in grad curricula in every field
October 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
i don't love how people make these pseudo-profound nihilistic statements about measurement error and then refuse to go beyond reg y, x (e.g. bounding, validation sets, differencing via kotlarski, etc), e.g. here
www.cemmap.ac.uk/wp-content/u... this paper should be in grad curricula in every field
www.cemmap.ac.uk/wp-content/u... this paper should be in grad curricula in every field
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.
tag yourself I'm (3,7) [godmode and dead are -1, 9 respectively]
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
tag yourself I'm (3,7) [godmode and dead are -1, 9 respectively]
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?]
😶🌫️
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)
academics write normally challenge: impossible
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
academics write normally challenge: impossible
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.
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
Bad news 2: this is not the manual i thought it was. I guess it's good reading material for the agent though; she'll need the high-probability bounds.
September 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Bad news 2: this is not the manual i thought it was. I guess it's good reading material for the agent though; she'll need the high-probability bounds.
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.
