Ivan Bushmarinov

Answer Quality Lead @perplexity_ai, PhD in Physical Chemistry, ex-Yandex, ex-Microsoft. Opinions my own.

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

So, first time in like 5 years, I’m hiring a team. This time, I lead Answer Quality at Perplexity; preempting the “but frontier models are made by other companies”, yes, sure, but almost nobody gets to play with all of them to choose the best one. We do. https://t.co/28A31GKsSt

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@sarahlol1863603 This is not true. For several hundreds of years, Orthodox Church of Russia was the number 1 state religion and served the government faithfully. During the Soviet times, it was the second official religion and enjoyed tacit support in exchange of snitching on the churchgoers.

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@LapisLazAlter There is only one truly touristy Balkan country though and it’s Montenegro.

Also software code does not count as export but Belgrade is by now in top 10 IT hubs in Europe, with SWE salaries higher than in, say, Barcelona.

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@UndineImpera @SandyofCthulhu You’re saying “intestine armor” as if it could never be cool

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@jacobsali123 @cornu__copia Вообще судя по схеме НЕ ОСОБО, к тому же в эти 26 квадратов входит балкон

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@kkocos Не ну политические представители россиян за рубежом существуют. Их никто не выбирал, они занимаются какими-то своими делами и участвуют в разработке ограничительных законов для соотечественников в Европе. Все как дома в общем.

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@potsofbasil Yes, that’s real. There is even an official government app to write these letters. https://t.co/xbC5mcmraN has some details and even the most notorious political prisoners were allowed to receive these letters and respond.

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@Koreios @TTBN_GAMING Sure they are lightning bolts *wink wink*. Two other symbols denote the Sun🌞btw . For some reason though the Slavic guys who tattoo all these four symbols on themselves together also tend to shave heads really closely!

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@Leonov_mr Еще это единственная платформа с норм тейками про ИИ

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@suchenzang Typical Kolmogorov complexity of the code has always been defined by the length of the tickets in JIRA. With coding agents, engineers are learning this fact for themselves.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This is a gray Ezo squirrel, a subspecies of the Eurasian red squirrel found on the Japanese island of Hokkaido

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@CameronCorduroy Interestingly, a year ago the financing of screwworrm-related projects roughly doubled. And, well, it got through this excellent Panamanian barrier inside humans who crossed the Darien gap in record numbers for a few years…

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

Сегодня я узнал, что «ути-пути» существует не только в русском языке, но и в каком-то из индийских, и означает ТО ЖЕ САМОЕ

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

I could never truly hate India because this is one of my very favorite videos ever

[PenPlays @PenPlays_]

Mind boggling that this is the interior of an actual LEGO set

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@Lekapib @Meelsie143 As per Sapkowski, the only true way to create a fantasy map is to bring a pile of sand to your room, piss on it and record the result so that it’s both random and with a correct hydrography

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@DmitryRybin1 Can we easily prove that this ellipse always exists?

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

雪化粧で頬を赤らめてる車の表情が可愛すぎる

[Al Dragon @aldragon_net]

Тем временем подпись крупного специалиста в области физики вихревых течений:

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

@breckyunits @Andr3jH But it’s extremely bad, why did you post it?!

[Ivan Bushmarinov @yeroneem]

On the fiction side it’s mostly modern SF&F (whatever wins the Hugo/Nebula Awards, plus a set of maybe 10 authors I follow, @maxgladstone, @naominovik and their network most prominent) — it is a genre with its well-defined tropes but for me it’s closer to human condition in 2026 than “serious” prose. I have also read a lot of the foundational works in the genre starting from the 19-century German Romantism and up through Jules Verne, Stephenson, Zamyatin, Welles, Tolkien, Bradbury, Ursula le Guin, Zelazny, @GreatDismal…

On nonfiction side my favorite is probably “are we smart enough to know how smart animals are”, with “inviting disaster” a close second. It’s way harder to find a non-finction book which is worth the time investment though: I wrote pop sci for a while and I’m deeply sceptical of books offering sweeping new theories of how world works for the public.