Kuang Xu 许匡
@ProfKuang
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Operations Research @Stanford. ex-AI @Uber. @tikkaengine. Suzhou--UIUC--MIT--Stanford
Palo Alto, CA
Joined May 2019
What the hell is going on with Management Science? Saw this posted on the official LinkedIn page. Did they get hacked?? Who at @INFORMS approved this and decided to randomly politicize our flagship journal?
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Recently it became so noticeable to me that many in academia (to some degree certain technical pockets of industry jobs) have such a level of self-criticism and self-censoring when it comes to speaking their minds or trying out their ideas in a practical/applied setting. As the
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@AlexanderSoros Can you stop trying to destroy civilization for like 5 mins? That would be great 👍
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Is this some Laotzu stuff? Can some experts decode the deep meaning of this post? Like what I’m supposed to learn from “improved pre and post training”?
@OriolVinyalsML spilled our super-secret recipe for making Gemini 3 better than Gemini 2.5: improve pre-training and improve post-training! 😅
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Hey @elonmusk could we switch up the recommendation varieties a little bit? Last week it was all boobs, and this week is just robot after robot folding laundry…
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Finally got the @ProfKuang handle, which is how 90% of my students end up calling me lol Thanks @XHandles!!
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Doing a side project to develop AI visibility for global supply chain and manufacturing. Did a quick test run today of the UI by asking Grok Expert to generate data for the top 30 manufacturing hubs of the world. This is what I got at the end. What's happening to Europe? (that
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So nice to meet you in person!! Was great meeting the group
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Today I went with my son to a Palo Alto children’s theater production of the Emperor’s Clothes. The show itself was fantastic especially for kids, but 10 min into the songs and soap bubbles I was getting a bit bored… then slowly, it dawned on me what the whole thing was really
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One common problem I have with both Gemini and Grok is their depth of search when asked to find a few good papers on a new topic (I'm not familiar with). It often comes back with some random paper in a random journal listed on research gate. What' would be a more sophisticated
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Sometime ago i was contacted by some university admins about some procedural things that were totally unnecessarily complicated. I got spammed so much that I put them into a spam folder and forgot about it. This week while fishing for a coupon I accidentally discovered that all
There was a meeting with Duke med school leadership and they allowed anonymous questions to be submitted by faculty. One question was, given all the budget cuts and layoffs why are there so many vice deans and what exactly do they do? Awkward. But apparently many faculty members
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As much as I like the no-nonsense of Grok, gotta say Google Gemini pro is incredible for doing deep research.
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Full episode:
Imagine 10 people building a AAA game, or a small lab designing personalized drugs — all powered by agentic AI systems. Prof. Kuang Xu (@ProfKuangXu) (@StanfordGSB) explains why the next frontier isn’t about scaling AI, but about how deeply it should intervene in human decision
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Literally my first week at Uber 😭😭
A math professor noticed his kitchen sink at home was leaking. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day, tightened a couple of nuts, and the sink worked perfectly again. The professor was delighted. But when, a minute later, the plumber handed him the bill, he was
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