Aswin Manohar

ex-astrophysicist | data scientist & MLE | seeking meaning through creative exploration | I write about humans, ai, tech, films, art & philosophy

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

To do:
1. Write a screenplay
2. Launch an app
3. Make a film

[𝚟𝚒𝚎 ⟢ @viemccoy]

insane amount of alpha in having codex with computer use go through your twitter bookmarks and turn them into a navigable database

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

@pracheebajpayee The worst central station area ever.

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

@MuraiLabsHQ That sounds interesting. I am a MLE based in Germany and I'd be happy to contribute.

[Chrome for Developers @ChromiumDev]

Prepare your site for AI agent interaction with Lighthouse → https://t.co/5myVWdLZd9

If you want AI agents to actually navigate your site properly, the new experimental audit in Lighthouse lets you see:
☀️ Discoverability for AI agents
⚡ WebMCP integration
👀 AI accessibility

#GoogleIO

[Alex Kittoe @AlexKittoe]

Distorted Memories

[Andy Wang @andyw_ais]

People who want to get into AI safety should do more than just apply to fellowships. Applications are pretty random and might not reflect your actual abilities. Instead, be agentic! There are many paths to success that require only a bit more proactivity than applications. (1/4)

[Thoughtful @thoughtfullab]

Introducing AttuneBench!

We built this benchmark on a simple premise: for self-improving AI to reach its full usefulness to humanity, it needs high EQ.

We decomposed EQ into distinct skills and evaluated 11 frontier models across 50 real-life topics, from relationships and marriage to school and job stress, using 50,000+ first-person annotations.

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

@just_nikhil01 @theo This is great. Amazing work. How did you get the voices right?

[Nikhil Singh @just_nikhil01]

hey, the video guy behind this one 👋
1.9M views. $0 spent.

a lot of people are calling this the best AI-generated video they've seen in a while (@theo was one of them🐐)

and the funniest thing is, i started making videos like this only 2 weeks ago 😭😭
A lot of people have been DMing me asking how i made it, so here you go.

quick backstory:
i'm just a random 20-year-old engineering student from india, currently interning at Thine AI.
about 3 weeks ago, my founder and manager told me:

"Nikhil, just make cool stuff. forget about promoting the product."
so that's exactly what i did.

since then i've been spending way too much time experimenting with different ideas. my exams are also happening this month, but who cares 😭

i tried a bunch of different versions before this, some inspired by the goat @adilmania, some completely random, but none of them really felt right. then this one finally clicked.

okay, enough yapping.

here's the secret sauce:
for brainstorming and scripting, akanksha and i mostly use @ThineAI . coz random ideas hit at weird times, and it helps organize all of them. it also knows my storytelling style a little too well at this point 😭

for video generation, i used kling 3.0 through @invideoOfficial . the workflow is super organized, which makes iterating much faster (@_sankyy crazy product🙌)

everything else was just trial and error, late nights, and obsessing over tiny details that very few people even noticed.
but that's the whole point.
you have to go the extra mile to make your video 1% better.
and in this era of copy-pasting, that 1% is the breaking factor

period

[Niels Rogge @NielsRogge]

Just now reading through the Gemma 4 blog

Safe to say the @huggingface team is goated

Lots of usage examples, guides on inference and fine-tuning, highly recommend!

https://t.co/eRUn9d9rtG

[Anas @Anas_is_me]

Guys, if you're looking for ideas for core CS projects, this blog is literal GOLD:
https://t.co/S9l7VBwvm6

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

It is a great time to reflect on what a "job" is. Why are you doing what you are doing and the intention behind your actions. When AI is becoming more capable, it's very important to ask these questions before you are stranded in a place where intelligence is cheap and automated

[vicki @vboykis]

Something happens to my brain after agentic coding that I can’t describe. It’s like cognitive offloading which folks have already written about, but even more. It feels like I can’t think through problems anymore. Like a fog. Using agentic but losing my hard-won agency.

[prinz @deredleritt3r]

"The model didn’t 'invent' any 'new mathematics', [but] merely being able to know deeply all the results in a scientific field, and being able to use all known arguments expertly and with just the right choice of parameters, that alone can lead to a ton of breakthroughs, and this is not just limited to mathematics, this type of (extremely) solid expert execution is the bread and butter of many many scientific advances."

[Kieran Drew @ItsKieranDrew]

I stopped reading bad books when I first heard Naval speak about his reading habits.

It has helped me learn so much deeper.

Some of his other tips:
- Read multiple books at once
- Dip in and out (you don't need to be linear)
- Re-read the greats (find the best 100)
- Read what you enjoy until reading is second nature

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

@ItsKieranDrew Also, you don't have to finish a book before starting one. This greatly helped my ADHD brain.

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

@catalinmpit Hola, I'd like that.

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

Never thought about this. I always viewed my past selves as flawed and imperfect, but never thought they were probably the best versions during its time. Super zen.

[kasra @kasratweets]

man I keep thinking about this tweet. outgrowing past versions of yourself without being reactionary/disdainful towards them. it's def not a standard I've always met.

it almost feels like being reactionary is a necessary first step, where you first define yourself against the old version of you in order to feel like you've moved past it...and eventually you arrive at a synthesis

[Yegor Bugayenko @yegor256]

RESTful APIs may be dead soon. Instead, web services may expose a single POST entry point for a prompt. Internally, an AI agent may decide how to interpret it and what to do with the data and the database.

[Aswin Manohar @Aswin_polymath]

@cneuralnetwork I declare bankruptcyyyyy