Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in rural Missouri. Adopted the pen name "Sridhar Ramesh" from riverboat slang.https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtoudka6gs2fI worry everything I was ever interested in or good at is gone, there is no venue or possibility for it anymore, I no longer have value to the world, etc. The only thing that matters is making money at an AI company, and I am not doing that yet. Even if I were, I'd be a cog, not a name.22 Aug 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoudka6gs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtortzxndk2zEverything that interests the world is about big training data, huge. But everything that interests me is the opposite, small data. I'm a logician, not a statistician.22 Aug 2026 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtortzxndk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mq5hmdpoxk2tWow, you're such a trypophobe. I wouldn't be scared at all if my flesh came apart into a lattice of gaping holes.08 Jul 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5hmdpoxk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtfktbjg6222Jonas Salk refused to patent the polio vaccine, as he didn't want credit for this horrific massacre. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 01:19 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfktbjg6222https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mth3cphgls23I will be titling my memoirs "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", and I fully intend for them to become the best-selling and best-preserved-to-history work of that name.19 Aug 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth3cphgls23https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mth3cechqk23I've not only never seen Star Wars, I've also never heard of it.19 Aug 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth3cechqk23https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtfktbjg6222Jonas Salk refused to patent the polio vaccine, as he didn't want credit for this horrific massacre. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 01:19 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfktbjg6222https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mt3qpmmnsk2l[Trying to impress a woman at the bar] Ow. Ouch. My fucking back. Did I fall from Heaven?15 Aug 2026 03:38 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3qpmmnsk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtfhh7ehrk2xI'm never going to be the best version of myself. All I can hope for at this point is to become the best version of myself among those still possible.19 Aug 2026 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfhh7ehrk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtfgercvq227Even before AI, people were better than me at every ambition of mine. However, this has been little consolation.18 Aug 2026 23:59 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfgercvq227https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtcnnoasjc2xAI has cured all disease. If you still have disease, you're a Luddite and NGMI.17 Aug 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtcnnoasjc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtby6x4t6c2aThe fourth edition of famed math textbook "Linear Algebra Done Right" contains two ChatGPT poems, for some reason.17 Aug 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtby6x4t6c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mtbw5rxk6s2nWe live in a golden era, with AI having cured all disease. This makes it all the more galling that I continue to suffer from disease.17 Aug 2026 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbw5rxk6s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3msvuzy57e22zThey made computers boring. Now they're making math boring. There was one place on the Internet to post written jokes to a wide audience and they ruined that. How many more of my former interests will they take from me? Do I even have anything left to take?12 Aug 2026 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvuzy57e22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mt4z5jghc22hI think the level of media attention on Arday has been absurd, but this framing of it doesn't really point out any hypocrisy. If one thinks sociology is fake and academia lacks integrity, then of course finding a serial fabulist professor at a prestigious university is further evidence of it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Aug 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4z5jghc22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mt3s7zlfkc2yGood description of the foundational lie of neoliberalism. (Apologies for the quote tweet cutting off the last word, "nothing". There is also a typo of "loses" for "losses". But the key point is well put.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Aug 2026 04:05 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3s7zlfkc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mt3rtwz6uk2yI want to be somewhen else.15 Aug 2026 03:58 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3rtwz6uk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mt3qtzvpn22lYes. At the time, when Hollywood really was "The Dream Factory", this was a common story which happened to the majority of its aspirants. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Aug 2026 03:40 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3qtzvpn22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mt3qpmmnsk2l[Trying to impress a woman at the bar] Ow. Ouch. My fucking back. Did I fall from Heaven?15 Aug 2026 03:38 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3qpmmnsk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mszcc3zuds24I genuinely believe I deserve a better life. This narcissism leads me to advocate for everyone getting to have a better life. So that I can have one.14 Aug 2026 04:14 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mszcc3zuds24https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3mszcc3zuds24I genuinely believe I deserve a better life. This narcissism leads me to advocate for everyone getting to have a better life. So that I can have one.14 Aug 2026 04:14 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mszcc3zuds24https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3msvvneejmc2eSome kid who is in their teens right now will someday look back nostalgically on today, today of all times, as the golden years. There is a whole generation brewing who will consider the 2020s peak.12 Aug 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvvneejmc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3msy4waqt3c2b"DON'T DO STUPID WEIRD THINGS" I write in large letters on every wall, ceiling, and flat surface in my house, to serve as useful reminder. Paint stains on jeans, hands on hips, I stand back and gaze with pride upon my handiwork. Yes, this'll do it. Yes! …Oh, wait. Oh no! No, no, NO, shit,13 Aug 2026 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:r2467fdob7dnnmsaxws7c6cc/app.bsky.feed.post/3msy4waqt3c2b