Nikhil Thorat
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nst.bsky.social
Nikhil Thorat
@nst.bsky.social
AI quality at Databricks. Past: Co-founder of Lilac AI, acquired by Databricks. Co-created TensorFlow.js and Know Your Data. Google Brain // PAIR // Responsible AI. nsthorat@ over there
I wouldn’t be alive if not for the H-1B program
September 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
There’s a lot of chatter of “AI solving software by the end of 2025”, which IMO is way off the mark.

I useful to break things down into milestones 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We just released the Databricks synthetic evals SDK! 🎉

We’ve found that synthesizing evals is a great way to hill climb your AI system before you’re able to get labels from domain experts.

We’ve also recently release a new diff UI that lets you both qualitatively and quantitatively view results!
December 11, 2024 at 2:26 PM
This query sold me on Perplexity

Trying to understand if PCM will block sunlight for plants for a friends greenhouse. He wanted a fully natural way of keeping it warm in the winter. The answer was deep in academic papers that aren’t normally summarized by other search engines.
November 30, 2024 at 6:03 PM
My cleaner shrimp molted its exoskeleton, under a microscope there’s a tiny world of little agents.

80x and 1200x magnifications
November 24, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Something about the blue color on this app makes it feel so much friendlier than X.

Not to mention I now get overtly racist anti-indian memes now over there…
November 20, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Agents are just normal programs with unstructured data flowing through them, and LLMs doing some of the transformations
November 19, 2024 at 2:11 PM
My twitter notifications are mostly spam / bots that have bios trying to convince me to click a link to go on a date with them.

Let’s try to make this app work.
November 5, 2023 at 7:50 PM
@mmitchell.bsky.social has convinced me to use this app again :)
October 4, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Bluesky slowly is becoming more than just a few people posting!

Also — is this “skeet” a joke or real? I can’t say that without laughing.
May 9, 2023 at 10:12 PM
🌸lilacs are blooming🌸
April 28, 2023 at 9:57 PM
This is the coolest AI project I know of.

Bird Buddy is a bird feeder + camera that classifies birds 🕊️
April 27, 2023 at 11:08 PM
Bluesky nailed the “omg I want an invite” even though features are identical.

I don’t like when someone yells “8$” and makes me feel bad about it.

Carrots not sticks!
April 26, 2023 at 9:19 PM
My profile photo is a microscopic image of pond water at 40x magnification and colors inverted.

No AI in sight!
April 25, 2023 at 9:50 PM