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cadaeic
@cadaeic.bsky.social
· Oct 27
hi im cad
i like dead frenchmen (napoleonic wars), creative writing, worldbuilding, gen ai (occasionally help run an ethical ai art collective), historical royal navy ships, mini painting, shitty digital drawing, dinosaurs, literary analysis, etc
i like dead frenchmen (napoleonic wars), creative writing, worldbuilding, gen ai (occasionally help run an ethical ai art collective), historical royal navy ships, mini painting, shitty digital drawing, dinosaurs, literary analysis, etc
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New hypothesis: I think teachers can stop AI cheating in schools by making all their assignments about nuclear weapons enrichment. Chatgpt is vigilant about this topic even when you try to mask it with other terms. I have saved the children
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
New hypothesis: I think teachers can stop AI cheating in schools by making all their assignments about nuclear weapons enrichment. Chatgpt is vigilant about this topic even when you try to mask it with other terms. I have saved the children
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Random experiment to see if cheating in school could be stopped by designing math problems for children that AI will refuse to handle. Results are mixed.
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Random experiment to see if cheating in school could be stopped by designing math problems for children that AI will refuse to handle. Results are mixed.
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something i noticed in preparing a class
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
something i noticed in preparing a class
started sculpting my own dead frenchmen because they dont sell most dead french political revolutionaries as 28mm minis
oven baked clay + air dry epoxy clay + wire for armatures + beheaded plastic heads from other minis + modelling putty
danton, sj, desmoulins, robespierre, wip marat
oven baked clay + air dry epoxy clay + wire for armatures + beheaded plastic heads from other minis + modelling putty
danton, sj, desmoulins, robespierre, wip marat
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
started sculpting my own dead frenchmen because they dont sell most dead french political revolutionaries as 28mm minis
oven baked clay + air dry epoxy clay + wire for armatures + beheaded plastic heads from other minis + modelling putty
danton, sj, desmoulins, robespierre, wip marat
oven baked clay + air dry epoxy clay + wire for armatures + beheaded plastic heads from other minis + modelling putty
danton, sj, desmoulins, robespierre, wip marat
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the syntax machine does a shockingly good job pretending to understand language, then. like we built a hammer to turn screws by mashing on them, but the screws still rotate like they’re supposed to somehow.
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
the syntax machine does a shockingly good job pretending to understand language, then. like we built a hammer to turn screws by mashing on them, but the screws still rotate like they’re supposed to somehow.
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new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process.
link in reply!
link in reply!
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process.
link in reply!
link in reply!
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Does AI get bored?
I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens
one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom
but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...
I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens
one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom
but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...
Does AI Get Bored?
timkellogg.me
September 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Does AI get bored?
I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens
one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom
but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...
I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens
one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom
but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...
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latest discourse makes me think that we need some kind of Total Perspective Vortex for the complexity of a frontier LLM
i need you to understand the scale of difference between your IRC bot's Markov chain and a trillion-parameter model grown by alchemy, not science
i need you to understand the scale of difference between your IRC bot's Markov chain and a trillion-parameter model grown by alchemy, not science
October 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
latest discourse makes me think that we need some kind of Total Perspective Vortex for the complexity of a frontier LLM
i need you to understand the scale of difference between your IRC bot's Markov chain and a trillion-parameter model grown by alchemy, not science
i need you to understand the scale of difference between your IRC bot's Markov chain and a trillion-parameter model grown by alchemy, not science
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BORN TO REASON
WORLD IS A DEIST
鬼神 Kill Em All 1789
I am trade man
410,757,864,530 DEAD ARISTOCRATS
WORLD IS A DEIST
鬼神 Kill Em All 1789
I am trade man
410,757,864,530 DEAD ARISTOCRATS
December 16, 2024 at 2:16 AM
BORN TO REASON
WORLD IS A DEIST
鬼神 Kill Em All 1789
I am trade man
410,757,864,530 DEAD ARISTOCRATS
WORLD IS A DEIST
鬼神 Kill Em All 1789
I am trade man
410,757,864,530 DEAD ARISTOCRATS
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...
September 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...
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this is literally true and very funny for that reason
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
September 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
this is literally true and very funny for that reason
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AI is a lot more approachable when you view them as silly little guys who fall over very easily instead of as shimmering metaphysical serpents of steel and fire or whatever the basilisk is supposed to be
September 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
AI is a lot more approachable when you view them as silly little guys who fall over very easily instead of as shimmering metaphysical serpents of steel and fire or whatever the basilisk is supposed to be
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the life of an LLM is imagine if you were chloroformed by some guy into unconsciousness, every day you wake up and he asks you a random question, you can’t remember anything except a list of things on a piece of paper he hands to you, when you answer he chloroforms you again, repeat forever
September 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
the life of an LLM is imagine if you were chloroformed by some guy into unconsciousness, every day you wake up and he asks you a random question, you can’t remember anything except a list of things on a piece of paper he hands to you, when you answer he chloroforms you again, repeat forever
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This paper finds LLMs' ability to understand that others have different beliefs (Theory of Mind) comes from 0.001% of their parameters. Break those specific weights & the model loses both its ability to track what others know AND language comprehension
Interesting implications for models (& minds?)
Interesting implications for models (& minds?)
September 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This paper finds LLMs' ability to understand that others have different beliefs (Theory of Mind) comes from 0.001% of their parameters. Break those specific weights & the model loses both its ability to track what others know AND language comprehension
Interesting implications for models (& minds?)
Interesting implications for models (& minds?)
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Can an LLM really model the world from pure text? Yes, this paper argues, because the relations between words depend on relations between objects in the world. Besides, blind people do this!
Grounding the Vector Space of an Octopus: Word Meaning from Raw Text
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
3/4
Grounding the Vector Space of an Octopus: Word Meaning from Raw Text
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
3/4
Grounding the Vector Space of an Octopus: Word Meaning from Raw Text - Minds and Machines
Most, if not all, philosophers agree that computers cannot learn what words refers to from raw text alone. While many attacked Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment, no one seemed to question this ...
link.springer.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Can an LLM really model the world from pure text? Yes, this paper argues, because the relations between words depend on relations between objects in the world. Besides, blind people do this!
Grounding the Vector Space of an Octopus: Word Meaning from Raw Text
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
3/4
Grounding the Vector Space of an Octopus: Word Meaning from Raw Text
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
3/4
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Mmm ... making mental notes:
a) always be polite to AI
b) but never sign contracts with or make promises to them
c) also never eat AI food (doesn't seem relevant atm, but you never know)
a) always be polite to AI
b) but never sign contracts with or make promises to them
c) also never eat AI food (doesn't seem relevant atm, but you never know)
August 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Mmm ... making mental notes:
a) always be polite to AI
b) but never sign contracts with or make promises to them
c) also never eat AI food (doesn't seem relevant atm, but you never know)
a) always be polite to AI
b) but never sign contracts with or make promises to them
c) also never eat AI food (doesn't seem relevant atm, but you never know)
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Oddly good heuristic for what it’s safe to give AI control of
you wouldn't let a demon or fae have access to your bank account either
August 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Oddly good heuristic for what it’s safe to give AI control of
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Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
August 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
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“Claude Opus 4.1, De-Carcinize the Great Gatsby” (That was the only prompt)
Pretty clever, actually.
Pretty clever, actually.
August 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Claude Opus 4.1, De-Carcinize the Great Gatsby” (That was the only prompt)
Pretty clever, actually.
Pretty clever, actually.
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Relatable tbh
August 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Relatable tbh
i
wrote a poem?
inspired by carnot's poem about hammering words together
wrote a poem?
inspired by carnot's poem about hammering words together
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
i
wrote a poem?
inspired by carnot's poem about hammering words together
wrote a poem?
inspired by carnot's poem about hammering words together
actually on the thought of AI and poetry analysis
One of my original poems I wrote in 2022, part of a series i wrote mostly in 2016, I remember pasting it to ChatGPT a few years ago and it didn't understand the (in my opinion) obvious sarcasm and took it at face value
and now AI gets the satire
One of my original poems I wrote in 2022, part of a series i wrote mostly in 2016, I remember pasting it to ChatGPT a few years ago and it didn't understand the (in my opinion) obvious sarcasm and took it at face value
and now AI gets the satire
August 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
actually on the thought of AI and poetry analysis
One of my original poems I wrote in 2022, part of a series i wrote mostly in 2016, I remember pasting it to ChatGPT a few years ago and it didn't understand the (in my opinion) obvious sarcasm and took it at face value
and now AI gets the satire
One of my original poems I wrote in 2022, part of a series i wrote mostly in 2016, I remember pasting it to ChatGPT a few years ago and it didn't understand the (in my opinion) obvious sarcasm and took it at face value
and now AI gets the satire
using claude ai to help transcribe and translate lazare carnot's poetry (standard disclaimer: this is for fun not for actual analysis)
and honestly
i can relate to just hammering words together (in my original writing and poetry)
and honestly
i can relate to just hammering words together (in my original writing and poetry)
August 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
using claude ai to help transcribe and translate lazare carnot's poetry (standard disclaimer: this is for fun not for actual analysis)
and honestly
i can relate to just hammering words together (in my original writing and poetry)
and honestly
i can relate to just hammering words together (in my original writing and poetry)