Venkat
@venkatasg.net
Assistant Professor CS @ Ithaca College. Computational Linguist interested in pragmatics & social aspects of communication.
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Academic call of the void.
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Academic call of the void.
For a complete noob, what book/blog/resource would you recommend I read to figure out how to get started on astrophotography?
October 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
For a complete noob, what book/blog/resource would you recommend I read to figure out how to get started on astrophotography?
Loved reading the blog post! You already have to write a follow-up now because there's a new tokenizer-free hotness 😅 x.com/karpathy/sta...
Ultimately, ML people really want something that is learned from data which is why they prefer BLT or now pixels and call them 'tokenizer-free'
Ultimately, ML people really want something that is learned from data which is why they prefer BLT or now pixels and call them 'tokenizer-free'
Andrej Karpathy on X: "I quite like the new DeepSeek-OCR paper. It's a good OCR model (maybe a bit worse than dots), and yes data collection etc., but anyway it doesn't matter. The more interesting part for me (esp as a computer vision at heart who is temporarily masquerading as a natural language" / X
I quite like the new DeepSeek-OCR paper. It's a good OCR model (maybe a bit worse than dots), and yes data collection etc., but anyway it doesn't matter. The more interesting part for me (esp as a computer vision at heart who is temporarily masquerading as a natural language
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October 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Loved reading the blog post! You already have to write a follow-up now because there's a new tokenizer-free hotness 😅 x.com/karpathy/sta...
Ultimately, ML people really want something that is learned from data which is why they prefer BLT or now pixels and call them 'tokenizer-free'
Ultimately, ML people really want something that is learned from data which is why they prefer BLT or now pixels and call them 'tokenizer-free'
I don't hold a value judgement one way or another about this trend, and at least 2 of my articles contribute to this phenomenon. But I do think we attach too much value to 'nuance' and 'fine-grain' in theorizing, experiments and data analysis.
September 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't hold a value judgement one way or another about this trend, and at least 2 of my articles contribute to this phenomenon. But I do think we attach too much value to 'nuance' and 'fine-grain' in theorizing, experiments and data analysis.
Reminds me of that leaked windsurf prompt that said the model needed to solve this coding problem else a kidnapped persons life was in danger.
August 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Reminds me of that leaked windsurf prompt that said the model needed to solve this coding problem else a kidnapped persons life was in danger.
Did I learn anything about client-side scripting or modern CSS by inspecting and verifying the outputs? Less than writing it I imagine, but the short-term rewards are too tempting😅.(3/3)
Here's Hoefler's excellent essay that inspired me to build this: jonathanhoefler.com/articles/how...
Here's Hoefler's excellent essay that inspired me to build this: jonathanhoefler.com/articles/how...
How to Proof a Typeface — Jonathan Hoefler
A free document to help type designers proof fonts
jonathanhoefler.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Did I learn anything about client-side scripting or modern CSS by inspecting and verifying the outputs? Less than writing it I imagine, but the short-term rewards are too tempting😅.(3/3)
Here's Hoefler's excellent essay that inspired me to build this: jonathanhoefler.com/articles/how...
Here's Hoefler's excellent essay that inspired me to build this: jonathanhoefler.com/articles/how...
It's an esoteric, simple web-app for typographic nerds, but I get the excitement about these LLM coding agents/IDEs etc now. I couldn't have built this in a few hours(!) with my passing knowledge of web tech. Turns out supercharged autocomplete is a super-userful tool in coding! But...(2/3)
July 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It's an esoteric, simple web-app for typographic nerds, but I get the excitement about these LLM coding agents/IDEs etc now. I couldn't have built this in a few hours(!) with my passing knowledge of web tech. Turns out supercharged autocomplete is a super-userful tool in coding! But...(2/3)