Vikrant Duggal

Founder of Attendly

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

Worth checking out -

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A little story about a couple of young models

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

I'm 12 days into setting up my two sparks (cased in ASUS Ascents GX10s) -- took a bit of time to get set up; had help -- so far local inference, running mostly Deepseek V4 Flash Vision -- Local AI is going to be so important in the future for certain/specific tasks - I've also worked with Muse, Instinct, Bot, etc. - I'm a fan of Hermes for personal stuff and data sensitive material -- buyer beware --

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

Day 1 with a couple ASUS GX10s —

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And it's all local AI

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

My AI knew the internet. It didn't know my company. So I built a context layer over my own notes. The move isn't a bigger model. It's the context. Make your AI say which source it trusts, and when it isn't sure. https://t.co/sloSZpfkzI

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

My AI knew the internet. It didn't know my company. So I built a context layer over my own notes. The move isn't a bigger model. It's the context. Make your AI say which source it trusts, and when it isn't sure. https://t.co/sloSZpfkzI

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

Just in time for Halloween 👻🎃

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YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Only in theaters this October.

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

Most people think attendance recovery fails in the board packet. That’s not the full story…it fails at 400p

Four manual program moves per kid in pickup rush → clerks protect the door and leave recovery empty.

Tip: cut the transfer-of-care tax, don’t add another report.

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

@MiaAI_lab Just want to say thank you! Getting my first dual gx10s running and using this model to get started and using the power of 2 gx10s —

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@ConorNeu @Alphaschool Welcome and congratulations!! Three weeks ago we opened here in ATL — amazing team, founding families and already incredible experiences for all the kids —

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@nateliason You wrote the oatly article? I loved that article!

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@brentbrookler More than inference — we will start with setup and then explore open weight models and fine tuning small models —

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Day 1 with a couple ASUS GX10s —

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Small districts get ghosted. Ticket queues. Min seats. “We’ll get back to you.” They don’t.

A CA superintendent’s vendor test: give them your cell. If they don’t call, they don’t care.

CA districts do whatever it takes for the kids.

They deserve a human, not a portal.

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

California afterschool is one stack of Ed Code.

Recovering the absence is another.

Districts run both on the same kid. The audit guides do not talk to each other.

It’s far more complicated than you think —

ASES wants 15 hours a week, doors open until 6 p.m., attendance scored January through December. Hit 75 percent of target every calendar year and 85 percent across two, or the grant steps down. Instructional aides can staff it.

ELO-P wants a nine-hour combined day and 30 nonschool days at nine hours. Ratios are 1:20 (1:10 if a TK or kindergartener is in the room).

About $5 BILLION, paid on unduplicated counts, not on who showed up. You can braid it with ASES.

That’s just running programs with two grant funds.

Then there’s getting the ADA back.

Saturday school: certificated teacher, a full minimum day, a course you also teach Monday through Friday. Charters cannot claim it. You cannot make up a suspension.

Short-term independent study: up to 15 days, a written agreement, a credentialed teacher judging the time value of the work. Not an after-hours program. Different binder, different audit.

Attendance recovery (new last year): 10 days per student, in person, certificated employee of the LEA. Only a teacher with a credentials count. Time accrues in whole hours and rounds down. Teacher attestation needed. You can spend ELO-P money on it if ELO-P and AR run concurrently, at the same site, operated by the district. Separate annual audit.

One absence can only be offset once.

Recover it on Saturday and it is dead for AR and independent study.

Five statutes, five staffing rules, five clocks. Most of it still lives in a spreadsheet between 3 and 6 p.m.

This is why I wrote a couple books on this stuff!

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

School-day ADA pays for who showed up.

ASES pays a fixed award, then checks the year’s total against 75% and 85% rules.

A roster target hides that.

The remaining-days number does not.

It’s 2026. Tomorrow’s target does not have to live in a cell someone pasted last night.

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If an ASES site serves 90 kids on Monday, Tuesday’s job is not “get back to 110.”

It is whatever is left of the year’s student-days, divided by the days you still have.

110 was never the quota. It was yesterday’s average.

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Most districts still run this on a sheet.

Yesterday’s headcount gets typed, copied, pasted into the file that is supposed to run the grant.The grant did not ask for yesterday’s number.

It asked whether October just made April harder.

[Vikrant Duggal @vikdug]

@nateliason @Alphaschool When I learned about translational science as related to the country's medical system it was SHOCKING how bad the US healthcare system is -- I can't even imagine what you're seeing, but glad you're there!

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@jayyeh Yes, took about 10 minutes. Claude code surgically took care of it. I just pointed it to the OpenClaw docs.

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Perplexity Max is underrated.