Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) / X

Lakshya Jain

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Lakshya Jain

@lxeagle17

a machine learning/software engineer. also political data @TheArgumentMag, co-founder @SplitTicket_, and @cal alum. ✉️ [email protected]. i hate sports

SF Bay Area

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Joined July 2017

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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Jun 10
Our newest survey is out, and it's on AI. Broadly, it's everywhere and nowhere, all at once. Only 6% of people rate it a top-2 issue. But they also have deep-seated reservations, fear mass unemployment, and want bold action if that comes to pass. 🧵
The biggest issue in American politics doesn't exist yet
From theargumentmag.com
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Feb 6, 2025
This is demonic. It’s the purest distillation of evil.
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Jul 24, 2024
2008 really feels like a fever dream.
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Mar 13, 2025
I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Jan 30, 2025
I get the urge to dunk on this, but if you're *at all* familiar with the American South, this is incredibly impressive for Louisiana, and I genuinely don't mean that in a backhanded way.
Governor Jeff Landry
@LAGovJeffLandry
Jan 29, 2025
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Feb 27, 2024
Earnest question: can someone please explain what is wrong with this?
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Feb 3, 2025
I remember having a conversation a year ago about an incredibly worrying trend. In surveys, the dividing line between young voters wasn't just male vs female — it was whether you graduated high school pre or post-COVID. The latter group was incredibly anti-social and very angry.
Rachel Janfaza
@racheljanfaza
Feb 3, 2025
There really are two Gen Z's
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Dec 10, 2024
Yeah, I mean, that’s what you’d expect from 17-year-olds.
Former Congressman Matt Gaetz
@FmrRepMattGaetz
Dec 9, 2024
My female friends keep asking one question about the United CEO assassin: IS HE SINGLE?
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Mar 13, 2025
Replying to @lxeagle17
Put another way, I'm pretty sure a lot of Computer Science students are using ChatGPT to complete their coding assignments instead of actually doing the assignments themselves. If true, it's a huge problem. The process of learning debugging is critical to growing as an engineer.
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Jan 2, 2025
I’ve criticized California’s academic policies a lot, but people should understand what this bill does and what the academic landscape for children is now before getting their knickers in a twist. This isn’t the 1980s. Kids easily spend 3-4 hours a night doing homework.
The Hill
@thehill
Dec 31, 2024
New California law takes aim at homework burden on students trib.al/NYEEHy1
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Feb 25, 2025
The idea here is to slash USPS delivery to 1x a week and make it an opt-in, paid service. Do that and you literally turn Alabama blue.
@jason
@Jason
Feb 25, 2025
Dear @DOGE, The @USPS is outdated and a complete waste of time for 90% of Americans. It's also a total grift by marketers, spammers and e-commerce companies to get American taxpayers to subsidize their businesses. I know, I was a magazine publisher and was SHOCKED at how little
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Dec 17, 2024
The senator is tweeting about a photo of a TIE fighter prop from Star Wars.
Senator Doug Mastriano
@SenMastriano
Dec 16, 2024
It is inconceivable that the federal government has no answers nor has taken any action to get to the bottom of the unidentified drones. The fecklessness of this administration was on display last year when a Chinese surveillance balloon was allowed to fly over the entire
Readers added context
The photo is of a prop/replica spaceship from Star Wars. starwars.com/databank/tie-f…
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Jun 6, 2024
A lot of people (including prominent journalists!) criticized USA's approach, which basically went "recruit the best immigrants to beat everyone else at their own game", but I can think of literally nothing more American than this.
ESPN
@espn
Jun 6, 2024
A STUNNER AT THE ICC MEN’S T20 CRICKET WORLD CUP! The USA has upset international powerhouse Pakistan 😮
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Aug 18, 2022
I cannot believe this campaign is real.