Murali Krishnan

15 Apr 2025

The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small. - James Clear

substack.comMurali Krishnan (@muralirk)Yesterday, I pulled in to get gasoline at the Costco gas pump in Kirkland, WA. Usually Costco has lower cost per gallon. Despite that my fuel bill nearly touched $100 for a full tank of gasoline. Gone...

3 June

Washington state gas prices are hitting new highs. I wondered if there may be any relief soon. Seems unlikely. #Washington #oil #prices #economy substack.com/profile/2419...

29 Apr

Am about to build a new home PC fully making it a Linux PC. What parts and design to use? What variant and version of Linux and UI should I use? What are the minimum dev tools to load on this machine? What is the simple browser to install? Should the machine be called a PC? #PC #Linux #OS

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Lori Dunn

@theloridunn.bsky.social

3 Apr

The engineers who couldn't build anything didn't quit because the work was hard. They quit because everything they tried to own got pulled back up the chain. #leadership #management

linkedin.com#techhistory #microsoft #innovation #software #hardware #networking #growth | Murali Krishnanlittle steps, giant results! 💾 From 1 Floppy Disk to a Trillion-Dollar Empire In the late 80s, I had one prized possession - a 5.25" floppy drive with MS-DOS in it. I can walk around the College of E...

22 Jan

Little steps; giant growth. www.linkedin.com/posts/murali...

github.comGitHub - vercel-labs/json-render: AI → JSON → UIAI → JSON → UI. Contribute to vercel-labs/json-render development by creating an account on GitHub.

17 Jan

Saw this framework for controlled UI rendering from AI Seems interesting Any insights on such frameworks ? github.com/vercel-labs/... #AI #UI #json #developer

apple.newsOpinion | A Math Horror Show at UC San Diego — The Wall Street JournalAt one of California’s top universities, many freshmen are unable to do middle-school math

26 Nov 2025

Ouch! Math grades are challenging… One in eight UC San Diego freshmen have math skills that fall below high-school level, a 30-fold increase since 2020. One in 12 have math skills below middle-school levels. apple.news/A5xvhQ18sS66...

26 Nov 2025

Yet the average high-school math GPA was an A- for students taking a middle-school remedial course. This suggests rampant grade inflation in high schools.

senate.ucsd.edusenate.ucsd.edu

24 Nov 2025

UCSD findings include that high school math grades are only very weakly linked to students’ actual math preparation. senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347... #matb #college #admissions

pewresearch.orgIncome and parentingParental worries vary considerably across income groups in the United States. From struggles with mental health to concerns about physical safety and teen

24 Oct 2025

Data speaks Lower income parents say that it is enjoyable and rewarding to raise kids —— www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

app.sensortower.comTop Grossing Apps | US | Top App Store Rankings for iOSSee the Top iOS Apps in US on the App Store Charts by Free, Paid, and Top Grossing. Sensor Tower provides a detailed visualization of the top ranking apps by category and country, along with app ranki...

16 Oct 2025

How are these app rankings done? Sora only had about 100K downloads in the last month. And rating is below 4. In contrast all the other top apps have millions of downloads in the last month and better reviews. See app.sensortower.com/top-charts #AI #appstore #sora #chatgpt #gemini #tea

15 Oct 2025

So chatGPT is the Chat and Go Purchase Things!! —- Who is delivering? #AI #shopping #chatGPT

planetearthandbeyond.coAI Will Destroy EverythingBut not in the way you think it will.

14 Oct 2025

some say bubble some say learning curve some say exponential can all these be true about #AI? #AI #analysis www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/ai-will-de...

altitudefilment.comTHE FLIGHT OF BRYAN | Altitude

13 Oct 2025

Paul MacCready achieved an impossible prize - the Kremer prize - for human powered flight. Now the story is retold with a mix of new and old footage. Great one to learn from for engineering and focus. #movies #flight #engineering www.altitudefilment.com/film/sales/1...

3 Oct 2025

Sora : ChatGPT Pro :: Amazon Prime Video : Amazon Prime #AI #AmazonPrime #videos

uxmag.comYou Are Solving The Wrong ProblemWhen solving a difficult problem, re-ask the problem so the solution helps you learn faster.

3 Oct 2025

daily iterations are important. —— Almost every year I read Paul MacCready's story. It is insightful. See uxmag.com/articles/you... #problemsolving #testing #creativity #innovation #habits

2 Oct 2025

Here a chip, There a chip, Everywhere a chip … Meta is acquiring chip startup Rivos for a reported ~$2B to turbocharge its in-house AI chips #AI #chips #nvidia #meta

2 Oct 2025

big numbers … —— ChatGPT crosses 1 billion daily queries. Perplexity and Claude near 20 million qpd. Wonder what may be the case for commercial and media queries search for. #AI #search #chatgpt #perplexity #claude

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govDance with plants: Taylor Swift's music videos as advance organizers for meaningful learning in Botany - PubMedThe use of audio-visual material with botanical visual clues as advance organizers, or a cognitive bridge between previous knowledge and new knowledge, led to meaningful learning in botany. Our result...

30 Sept 2025

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40795302/ Next time if you want to combat “plant blindness”, you know what to do! A. Get outdoors and enjoy plants OR B. Watch Taylor Swift music videos. #plants #botany #learning

30 Sept 2025

—— From the paper: The use of audio-visual material with botanical visual clues as advance organizers, or a cognitive bridge between previous knowledge and new knowledge, led to meaningful learning in botany.

apple.newsAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy — The VergeAnthropic’s latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when...

The system ran non-stop for 30 hours on one prompt. —— Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy - The Verge apple.news/AYVrYuCZvRFG... #AI #vibecoding

nature.comBeating spectral bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics - Nature CommunicationsLarge aperture, diffractive metaoptics for broadband imaging have posed an outstanding challenge for miniaturized optics. In this work, Fröch, Chakravarthula, and colleagues address these challenges and successfully demonstrate a meta-optic with a 1 cm, f/2 aperture for full color imaging.

feels like sci-fi .. cool breakthrough from collaboration across physics / optics, material science, electronics, computer science .. — Beating spectral bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics #imaging #lens #physics #computerscience #electonics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ama-assn.orgMassive study uncovers how much exercise is needed to live longerWhat is the ideal amount of physical activity that can help individuals live longer? Learn more about what the ideal exercise volume per week is.

Participants who performed two to four times above the recommended amount of moderate physical activity had a 26% to 31% lower all-cause mortality and a 28% to 38% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality. #health #lingevity www.ama-assn.org/public-healt...

On top of that, there was an observed 25% to 27% lower risk of non-cardiovascular disease mortality.

open.substack.com🌱 Raise curious kids with these tools20+ dad-tested apps my family enjoys

26 Sept 2025

Lots of Good resources for engaging the kids and also learn. open.substack.com/pub/wonderto...

25 Sept 2025

Major development. China is graduating to the "developed" world treatment. Congrats to China. ---- China announced it will no longer seek special treatment as a developing country within the World Trade Organization. This will have changes to global trading.

reuters.comApple used AI to uncover new blood pressure notification feature in WatchApple Watch Series 11 models that go on sale on Friday can notify users that they may have high blood pressure, in a feature the company has powered using artificial intelligence rather than a blood pressure monitor.

23 Sept 2025

Apple plans to roll out the feature to more than 150 countries, ... and it can help people discover high blood pressure early and reduce related conditions such as heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease. ---- www.reuters.com/business/hea... #AI #heart #bloodpressure #innovation #apple #watch

ouriowaheritage.comSUI & ICWRS – Helping Children Grow.Except for the name – Carl E. Seashore – long-time professor at SUI, I’m guessing you’ve never heard of the names we’ve listed here. Yet, in truth, it’s dedicate…

19 Sept 2025

About a 100 years back, a new initiative sprung up in Iowa to understand and help grow a child. Inspiring history to learn more from. ouriowaheritage.com/sui-child-re... #Child #Parents #Education

techcrunch.comHow AI startups are fueling Google's booming cloud business | TechCrunchGoogle Cloud is one of the company's fastest-growing business lines and continues to rack up new customers.

19 Sept 2025

GCP is just getting started to become the Global Cloud Provider (GCP) for AI. ---- Google Cloud added AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf as new primary customers. A large % of generative AI startups are starting with GCP. —- techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/h...

labs.adaline.aiWhat is the ARC AGI Benchmark and its significance in evaluating LLM capabilities in 2025A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Abstract Reasoning Assessment in Large Language Models

19 Sept 2025

benchmarks are powerful to help us learn more. ARC-AGI is one such a thing. more details at labs.adaline.ai/p/what-is-th... #AI #AGI #Benchmark #testing #evals #LLM

frontiersin.orgFrontiers | Stratification economics and racial disparities in U.S. K−12 educationThis manuscript introduces and applies the framework of stratification economics to understand persistent educational disparities between Black and White Ame...

18 Sept 2025

good study and stark findings. Stratification in the US K-12 education www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

theverge.comGemini leapfrogs ChatGPT on a wave of AI-generated 3D figurinesGoogle’s Nano Banana image editor has helped Gemini overtake ChatGPT on app store charts.

Too many bananas is not healthy for data centers! Google Gemini app added 23 million users and handled 500 million image edits in two weeks! Google imposed temporary usage limits to keep the service stable. #AI #NanoBananas #Gemini #Images www.theverge.com/news/778106/...

techcrunch.comVibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunchTechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding.

Vibe coding is here. So is the vibe coding cleaning job. despite hurdles, people are iterating and creating the vibe coded apps. #AI #VibeCoding #tools techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/v...

Granular usage analysis of 1.1M conversations in ChatGPT. #AI #chatGPT #usage #NBER www.nber.org/system/files...

anthropic.comAnthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI's role in the US and global economyNew research from Anthropic exploring geographic patterns of AI use

Claude: Higher GDP per capita strongly aligns with higher per-capita Claude adoption. (the conclusion is NOT surprising, since Claude is well marketed to higher income population) www.anthropic.com/research/eco... #AI #Claude

Small tech-oriented nations like Israel and Singapore top the adjusted usage index.

huggingface.coAnthropic/EconomicIndex · Datasets at Hugging FaceWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

and data is available at huggingface.co/datasets/Ant...

bostonmagazine.com"If I Were Mayor of Boston, I Would..."We asked 21 prominent locals what they'd do if they ran the city.

14 Sept 2025

Lots of good ideas for Boston. If I were a mayor of Boston … Some are universal and applies to all cities : #transportation, #parks, #gardens, #education, #AI, #wine, #flyingcars, … www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/08...

14 Sept 2025

I don’t understand the push to “AI literacy” when people have difficulty to read or write. What am I missing?

corefutureslab.orgCORE Futures LabAt the CORE Futures Lab, we are building a future where data serves truth, drives impact, and empowers communities, where it becomes a powerful force for healing, innovation, and transformation.

14 Sept 2025

CORE: Community, Openness, Research, and Equity - some good work underway on climate, education, etc. corefutureslab.org

newscientist.comSmartphone scrolling on the toilet could increase risk of haemorrhoidsPeople seem to spend longer on the toilet if they use a smartphone while sitting there – and all that scrolling may be boosting their likelihood of getting haemorrhoids

8 Sept 2025

Ouch 😅 !!

New Scientist@newscientist.com

People seem to spend longer on the toilet if they use a smartphone while sitting there – and all that scrolling may be boosting their likelihood of getting haemorrhoids

blogs.microsoft.comNew White House commitments empower teachers, students, and job seekers through AI skilling and learningMicrosoft unveils new commitments that support the Presidential AI Challenge and the AI Education Executive Order to empower teachers and students, build AI skills, and create economic opportunity.

5 Sept 2025

a big launch with free stuff - tools and training - for AI. Wish it also came with free surface PCs. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

techcrunch.comFirstClub bucks India's speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach | TechCrunchFirstClub has raised $23 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and RTP Global to expand its premium quick commerce platform.

5 Sept 2025

it is fast growth for a fast delivery app company. fast growth with bet on quality and proximity techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/f...

5 Sept 2025

Are you trying to escape the winter? Did you dream about flying with the monarchs? And instead ended up watching “UP” movie on the couch! Don’t! Get up and go outdoors to workout. #health #stayfit

storage.courtlistener.comstorage.courtlistener.com

4 Sept 2025

A page turner was released on Tuesday- historic. #Google Have anyone read it? —- storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

youtu.beThe Only Trait for Success in the AI Era—How to Build It | Carnegie Mellon University Po-Shen LohYouTube video by EO

2 Sept 2025

Good video from a CMU math prof. I like his thinking about how to teach math, how to develop curiosity, thoughtfulness, teamwork, and coaching skills. Good speech. youtu.be/xWYb7tImErI

1 Sept 2025

Our school district has an app now. It includes news from the district, schools, and calendar information. Go BSD

microsoft.commicrosoft.com

1 Sept 2025

Microsoft Research at Cambridge is reporting similar challenges as well. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Murali Krishnan@muralirk.bsky.social

A different take on cognitive debt and such … arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 Claims “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” #AI #writing #cognitivedebt #criticalthinking

arxiv.orgYour Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing TaskThis study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...