Arvind Vermani

Imagine. Build. Fix. Repeat. Sci-fi fan. Geek/nerd. Photographer. Climate is everything.

[Gaurav Rastogi @alpharust]

Hey @AnthropicAI, love the "walkie-talkie" branding on Remote Control. I built the actual walkie-talkie in — open source, voice-first, no cloud relay. @claudeai

Your version: text from phone, routed through your servers, 10-min timeout.

Mine: talk to Claude from your phone, it talks back. mlx-whisper STT + Kokoro TTS, over Tailscale VPN. Zero third-party relay. Works offline. Literally- talk.

Yours is a remote control. Use /drive for the walkie-talkie.

https://t.co/Cw1wMTSYSv

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

Absolutely beautiful.

[Gaurav Rastogi @alpharust]

Conveying information with data is a superpower, and something I have always been fascinated with. Here's an MCP-server you can use to iterate through your data visualization (Researchers please note) so that your data can sing. But first, the story.

In 1854, John Snow drew a map. He plotted cholera deaths as tiny bars stacked along the streets of Soho, and the pattern pointed straight at the Broad Street water pump. One visualization overturned the entire miasma theory of disease. I rave about Steven Johnson's "The Ghost Map" to my students every chance I get because it's the proof case: a single, honest chart can change what an entire civilization believes.

That map is where my obsession starts. @tufte Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" gave it a theory — data-ink ratio, chartjunk, the idea that every pixel must earn its place. Card and Mackinlay at Xerox PARC showed these principles could live inside interactive systems, that visualization wasn't just a publication artifact but a thinking tool. Nancy Duarte added the narrative layer — a presentation is a story with a shape, every slide either advances the argument or wastes the audience's time. Garr Reynolds pushed it further with Presentation Zen: restraint as design philosophy, signal-to-noise as the governing metric, the Japanese aesthetic of ma applied to information.

I've carried this religion for years. If your chart needs a paragraph of explanation, your chart has failed. If your data has been decorated, it's been obscured. Snow didn't add drop shadows to his cholera bars. He didn't need a legend. The data pointed at the pump.

So when I started generating research charts with AI, I wanted an AI reviewer that shared this religion. What I got instead was a disaster. And fixing that disaster became its own small contribution to the field.

Of course, this was built with Claude Code.

https://t.co/eS5q2pDPv3

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@mdavidcyrus @noahvnct Human readibility. Free and lightweight.

[Nandkishore Taori Proud Bhartiya 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 @taorink]

@unitech @PMOIndia @barandbench @nsitharaman @FinMinIndia Agencies working with present Unitech management has high levels of corruption at all levels in present set up . @nsitharaman @supremeCourt must reappoint professional board to save homebuyers🥵.

https://t.co/WIET6hiT59

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@KathrynPorter26 @ENERGY @STUARTTURLEY16 I really needed to take a nap in my bed while I am at work every day, but it was at home. Every. Single. Time.

Sold the bed.

Follow me for more life hacks.

[Hitesh Oberoi @hitobs]

As MD and CEO of InfoEdge, I’m often asked how AI will impact both, the Indian job market and our business. I’d like to share a balanced perspective on what we’re seeing and expecting. 🧵 #AI #FutureOfWork

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

Thought I'd check.

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@elonmusk This is the evidence that you have gone from being one of the greatest hopes for this generation to being completely out of touch with reality.

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@F1 He needs to catch up with Verstappen and he can.

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@F1 Wtf is Hamilton doing?

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@chamath @atKenNelson Sorry your math is off. Happy to take you through real life examples. You need massive subsidies to make this happen. Unlikely in most states outside CA and Northeast

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@chamath @eric2sure No laws just discriminatory pricing. They will keep increasing interconnect charges till you have to pay a shitload just to be on the grid. Even with cheap Solar+storage the cost of being fully off grid is very high. Plus utilities can force the interconnection via city codes.

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@kevinhyde007 @cbkek321 @WhaleChart @cb_doge Now it’s called X Hall of Fame. Catch up.

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@wajisa @krhamak I think the level is to make up for the lack of mortar. Obviously a temp job. But gives a real impression of professionalism

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

I just used https://t.co/Id8JugBDq0 to make some professional headshots with AI. https://t.co/gRmNB0J79q

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@wajisa @MakhersStudio Imagine that.

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@Dr_PhillipB On a Saturday?

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@lucy_guo It’s the airline I hate the most after flying in 50+ airlines to 40+ countries. It takes dedication to have perfected the art of being a$$holes across the spectrum.

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@NathanTankus Easiest $100 million anyone ever made.

[Arvind Vermani @ArvindVermani]

@elonmusk The news is something that someone somewhere is trying to hide. The rest is just advertising.

But also, especially far right media is just a bunch of made up alternarive facts and lies.