Shriram Krishnamurthi

@shriramk
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Brown Computer Science / Brown University || BootstrapWorld || Pyret || Racket

I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about #compsci #education #cycling #cricket and the general human experience.

See https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/109302532598801863 for longer #intro.

I wish to be searchable by tootfinder

Work Homehttps://cs.brown.edu/~sk/
Bloghttps://parentheticallyspeaking.org/
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5184-1975
Shriram Krishnamurthi15h ago

Tomorrow: Admitted PhD student visit day.

Me, today: Getting Claude to write code to get Claude to run experiments to test a conjecture I've had, yeeting cash at it so I can run more in parallel, but trying to stay in Tier 1 so this doesn't goes beyond fun money.

What a world.

Shriram Krishnamurthi18h ago
Hitting new levels of nirvana.
Shriram Krishnamurthi1d ago
I knew I was in place with a strong Indian population when I landed in Singapore and saw Black Forest Cadbury Dairy Milk.
Shriram Krishnamurthi1d ago
kjaerulv2d ago
Found THIS mechanichal masterpiece, Olivetti Valentine, anno 1969, in mint condition...considering dumping all laptops for writing in the future #typewriter #olivetti
Shriram Krishnamurthi2d ago
Another banger by J. B. Crawford in his "Computers Are Bad" series, this time going through computer history from PLATO to Lotus Notes. PLATO is probably the most influential computer system almost nobody knows about (unlike, say, Mother of All Demos).
https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusnotes.html
LotusNotes

Computers Are Bad
Shriram Krishnamurthi2d ago
The day for our annual zeppole run! I hesitate to say we gat ours from LaSalle: the choice of bakery inspires strong sentiment in Providence…
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Shriram Krishnamurthi3d ago
TIL that in 1784, Brown University President Manning and Chancellor Hopkins (co-signer of the Declaration of Independence) made a petition to a benefactor to get a chair in French established at Brown. The person they petitioned was…Louis XVI. (It didn't succeed.)
Shriram Krishnamurthi3d ago
"No field of science should be associated with a face." Sabrina Imbler on what happens with a scientific field is overrun by charismatic megafauna.
https://defector.com/vibrations-from-interstellar-meteor-actually-from-local-truck-or-fact-checking-the-celebrity-scientist
Vibrations From 'Interstellar Meteor' Actually From Local Truck; Or, Fact-Checking The Celebrity Scientist | Defector

On Jan. 8, 2014, an extraordinarily bright meteor plummeted from space to Earth and crumbled into confetti over the ocean near Papua New Guinea. Sensors from the U.S. government that track bright meteors called fireballs dutifully recorded this fireball’s breathtaking speed—nearly 28 miles per second. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies logged this fireball,…

Shriram Krishnamurthi4d ago
Really nice piece by Simon Hughes explaining how the IPL auction was created not just to be attention-getting (they really could have chosen a better name; the Bristol comment is on-the-nose) but to overcome a key weakness in "salary cap" methods.
https://cricverse.substack.com/p/money-for-almost-nothing
MONEY FOR (ALMOST) NOTHING

A windfall in county players' salaries as a result of the Hundred auctions is all thanks to the enlightened thinking of the two men who founded the IPL 18 years ago.

THE CRICVERSE with Simon Hughes Simon Mann and Derek Pringle