Ritesh Pakala Rao
@rao.nyc
"We know a place where no planes go,
We know a place where no ships go..."
Building ambient intelligence.
From 2025-12-14 onwards, reposts are treated as feature requests/ideas towards Seer.
We know a place where no ships go..."
Building ambient intelligence.
From 2025-12-14 onwards, reposts are treated as feature requests/ideas towards Seer.
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"Every Great Awakening in American history arose not because conditions were ideal, but because they were intolerable." A cause for hope!
We Need a New Great Awakening
This dire moment in our nation’s moral life cries out for a renewal of hearts.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Every Great Awakening in American history arose not because conditions were ideal, but because they were intolerable." A cause for hope!
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if you’re an academic who uses AI to crank out research, you should have to give up your position to one of the more worthy candidates who didn’t get a TT job
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
if you’re an academic who uses AI to crank out research, you should have to give up your position to one of the more worthy candidates who didn’t get a TT job
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the problem with machine that spits out answers is that when you do research to find a fact, you're also learning about the entire context around it as well as the conversations scholars have about it. all that "wasted" time is developing an actual understanding of how the fact fits into the world.
December 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the problem with machine that spits out answers is that when you do research to find a fact, you're also learning about the entire context around it as well as the conversations scholars have about it. all that "wasted" time is developing an actual understanding of how the fact fits into the world.
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🗓️2025 was a great year for Swift 🍾 Thank you all for choosing Swift. We're ending the year with a digest of what's been going on in the project and community recently. 🗞️ Read up here: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
What's new in Swift: December 2025 Edition
Welcome to the latest digest of news from the Swift project.
www.swift.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
🗓️2025 was a great year for Swift 🍾 Thank you all for choosing Swift. We're ending the year with a digest of what's been going on in the project and community recently. 🗞️ Read up here: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...
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Glad to see folks starting to realize this - but it's not about Google or Meta.
LLMs aren't good at anything that isn't extremely over-represented in their public training data. Contexts are still small.
Only continuous-learning AI will ever be actually useful, but today's LLMs are just bad.
LLMs aren't good at anything that isn't extremely over-represented in their public training data. Contexts are still small.
Only continuous-learning AI will ever be actually useful, but today's LLMs are just bad.
Interesting: I am hearing both inside Meta and inside Google AI coding models simply don't work nearly as well as they do outside:
Models work great on greenfield projects and when using standard tooling.
Both Meta and Google have monoliths and non-standard tooling!
Models work great on greenfield projects and when using standard tooling.
Both Meta and Google have monoliths and non-standard tooling!
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Glad to see folks starting to realize this - but it's not about Google or Meta.
LLMs aren't good at anything that isn't extremely over-represented in their public training data. Contexts are still small.
Only continuous-learning AI will ever be actually useful, but today's LLMs are just bad.
LLMs aren't good at anything that isn't extremely over-represented in their public training data. Contexts are still small.
Only continuous-learning AI will ever be actually useful, but today's LLMs are just bad.
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In the end, it won’t be power brokers or politicians who save us — it will be wisdom, the kind that bends low, walks with the poor, and welcomes the stranger.
The World Is Drowning in Data — and Starving for Wisdom
In the end, it won’t be power brokers or politicians who save us — it will be wisdom, the kind that bends low and walks with the poor.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In the end, it won’t be power brokers or politicians who save us — it will be wisdom, the kind that bends low, walks with the poor, and welcomes the stranger.
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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So I tried using the latest LLMs again, figured I'm hearing how awesome they are, so why not.
15 mins later...
"STOP REIMPLEMENTING FEATURES from the library I told you to use, integrate them instead"
Never mind, I'll try again in 6 months 😄 This is laughably bad.
15 mins later...
"STOP REIMPLEMENTING FEATURES from the library I told you to use, integrate them instead"
Never mind, I'll try again in 6 months 😄 This is laughably bad.
December 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
So I tried using the latest LLMs again, figured I'm hearing how awesome they are, so why not.
15 mins later...
"STOP REIMPLEMENTING FEATURES from the library I told you to use, integrate them instead"
Never mind, I'll try again in 6 months 😄 This is laughably bad.
15 mins later...
"STOP REIMPLEMENTING FEATURES from the library I told you to use, integrate them instead"
Never mind, I'll try again in 6 months 😄 This is laughably bad.
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I feel a real despair about our present moment because it seems like they're destroying both the subjective conditions for liberation (the capacity to think and connect with others) and the objective conditions for liberation (the ecosystem).
December 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I feel a real despair about our present moment because it seems like they're destroying both the subjective conditions for liberation (the capacity to think and connect with others) and the objective conditions for liberation (the ecosystem).
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sometimes I wonder if we would all be happier carrying on lengthy correspondences with likeminded individuals instead of spending our time on social media
December 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
sometimes I wonder if we would all be happier carrying on lengthy correspondences with likeminded individuals instead of spending our time on social media
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no matter how much they read about the past, people rarely seem to internalize the idea that their self-conception is shaped by contemporary culture and society in such a way that prevents them from seeing all sorts of things that later historians will consider to be obvious.
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
no matter how much they read about the past, people rarely seem to internalize the idea that their self-conception is shaped by contemporary culture and society in such a way that prevents them from seeing all sorts of things that later historians will consider to be obvious.
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The Epstein Class has to go.
My bill legally requires DOJ to release the files in 7 days by December 19th.
Any attempts to scrub, coverup, or conceal the truth is subject to prosecution.
My bill legally requires DOJ to release the files in 7 days by December 19th.
Any attempts to scrub, coverup, or conceal the truth is subject to prosecution.
🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein Class has to go.
My bill legally requires DOJ to release the files in 7 days by December 19th.
Any attempts to scrub, coverup, or conceal the truth is subject to prosecution.
My bill legally requires DOJ to release the files in 7 days by December 19th.
Any attempts to scrub, coverup, or conceal the truth is subject to prosecution.
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California is the world’s AI powerhouse.
We’re redefining what’s possible with innovation built on purpose and safety.
The future happens here, first.
We’re redefining what’s possible with innovation built on purpose and safety.
The future happens here, first.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
California is the world’s AI powerhouse.
We’re redefining what’s possible with innovation built on purpose and safety.
The future happens here, first.
We’re redefining what’s possible with innovation built on purpose and safety.
The future happens here, first.
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prompting llms is inhumane, I let mine have free will. they don't really do anything but at least they're happy.
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
prompting llms is inhumane, I let mine have free will. they don't really do anything but at least they're happy.
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First trailer for ‘Supergirl’
Releasing in theaters June 26
Releasing in theaters June 26
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
First trailer for ‘Supergirl’
Releasing in theaters June 26
Releasing in theaters June 26
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Sitting in a car dealership while oil is changed, they're of course playing Christmas music and I recognized the sound as Arcade Fire and so looked it up and apparently they did some Christmas songs in 2001 and this chain of events has delivered the crushing blow to my psyche that I am in my 40s.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Sitting in a car dealership while oil is changed, they're of course playing Christmas music and I recognized the sound as Arcade Fire and so looked it up and apparently they did some Christmas songs in 2001 and this chain of events has delivered the crushing blow to my psyche that I am in my 40s.
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All the problems in the world right now, and the State Department is worried about "woke" fonts.
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
All the problems in the world right now, and the State Department is worried about "woke" fonts.
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We spell D.O.G.E. — O.D.I.
Long before there was D.O.G.E., California was already streamlining government to be more efficient, responsive, and accountable.
Long before there was D.O.G.E., California was already streamlining government to be more efficient, responsive, and accountable.
December 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We spell D.O.G.E. — O.D.I.
Long before there was D.O.G.E., California was already streamlining government to be more efficient, responsive, and accountable.
Long before there was D.O.G.E., California was already streamlining government to be more efficient, responsive, and accountable.
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Ramin Djawadi is composing the score for 'Supergirl'
He previously worked on 'Game of Thrones'
He previously worked on 'Game of Thrones'
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ramin Djawadi is composing the score for 'Supergirl'
He previously worked on 'Game of Thrones'
He previously worked on 'Game of Thrones'
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That “meritocracy“ is now weaponized against straw man arguments about identity politics in an explicitly exclusionary way and proselytized by nerds not even from America let alone California should be called out as hypocrisy
But that would require some self reflection/awareness
But that would require some self reflection/awareness
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
That “meritocracy“ is now weaponized against straw man arguments about identity politics in an explicitly exclusionary way and proselytized by nerds not even from America let alone California should be called out as hypocrisy
But that would require some self reflection/awareness
But that would require some self reflection/awareness