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Vishal Misra
@vishalmisra
Vice Dean Computing and AI @CUSEAS. Tweets on academia, cricket, dad/bad/wry jokes. Opinions of guy am pointing at.
Nov 1, 2025 • 18 tweets • 2 min read
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0/ What the Vance conversion story reveals about pluralism, theology, and why some religions fit constitutional democracy more naturally than others. A thread on civic virtue and the First Amendment. 1/ The Vance family’s private choices are their own. But the public framing reveals something deeper: which theologies are structurally compatible with the First Amendment’s promise of religious pluralism.
Jul 26, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I know this was intended to be a joke but Ghazals are actually very structured and once you understand the structure you will love listening to them again and again (1/n) All Ghazals are a series of couplets. The first and last couplet of a Ghazal are special. The first couplet is called the “Matla”. In the first line of the Matla the poet reveals the poetic structure in the form of the Radeef and Qaafiya. (2/n)
Jun 25, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
[thread] I did a quick counterfactual study using synthetic control to demonstrate the importance of wearing masks on #COVID19 spread.

(1/n) A built a model for states that did not have masks mandate using states that did have masks mandate, and vice versa, up until Memorial Day. Then made predictions for the last month, if the states did things differently. Results in the next series of tweets
(2/n)
May 21, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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Prompted by this WhatsApp forward, here are a few more cricketers as Amitabh movies Don and Laawaris
Jan 10, 2019 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
A story, and some personal news at the end of the thread:

Sometime in mid 2013, I got a knock on my office door. It was a young kid who was doing an MBA at Columbia, and was also simultaneously the CEO of a fantasy cricket website he had cofounded in India. When somebody at the Columbia Business School (I think it was Will @porteous of RRE Ventures who also teaches here) heard the words entrepreneurship and Cricket, he reflexively said "go talk to Vishal in CS". So he came to my office.