Alejandro Piad Morffis
@apiad.net
Democratizing knowledge one keystroke at a time. PhD in Computer Science. College Professor.
I'm giving a talk next week on the reasoning capabilities of large language models.
It'll be based on a couple articles I published recently in my blog (links at the bottom).
Here's a quick review of my plan.
It'll be based on a couple articles I published recently in my blog (links at the bottom).
Here's a quick review of my plan.
May 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I'm giving a talk next week on the reasoning capabilities of large language models.
It'll be based on a couple articles I published recently in my blog (links at the bottom).
Here's a quick review of my plan.
It'll be based on a couple articles I published recently in my blog (links at the bottom).
Here's a quick review of my plan.
It's been a while! What's cooking?
May 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's been a while! What's cooking?
Reposted by Alejandro Piad Morffis
Some thoughts about our preference for the present in our digital society.
spearoflugh.substack.com/p/bullet-time
spearoflugh.substack.com/p/bullet-time
Bullet Time
There is something deepling disturbing about those images of people with Apple vision headset on. It is hard to pinpoint why exactly. It is rather a gut feeling than a thought. I think it has to do with the fact that there is a sense of deep disconnection from reality.
spearoflugh.substack.com
February 9, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Some thoughts about our preference for the present in our digital society.
spearoflugh.substack.com/p/bullet-time
spearoflugh.substack.com/p/bullet-time
Reposted by Alejandro Piad Morffis
Here’s an alternative to pressuring educators to join the “ban” or “embrace” side of an AI divide: Let’s focus on a common need to establish limits and guide students around AI. We are going to have different approaches, but we don’t need a grand narrative of polarization. 1/
January 3, 2024 at 7:12 AM
Here’s an alternative to pressuring educators to join the “ban” or “embrace” side of an AI divide: Let’s focus on a common need to establish limits and guide students around AI. We are going to have different approaches, but we don’t need a grand narrative of polarization. 1/
One of my students in the discrete math undergrad course asked me for a book on tournaments.
I recommended them to check Ivanhoe first, and then The Hunger Games for a modern take.
I recommended them to check Ivanhoe first, and then The Hunger Games for a modern take.
October 28, 2023 at 9:24 PM
One of my students in the discrete math undergrad course asked me for a book on tournaments.
I recommended them to check Ivanhoe first, and then The Hunger Games for a modern take.
I recommended them to check Ivanhoe first, and then The Hunger Games for a modern take.
Reposted by Alejandro Piad Morffis
Hey folks, so I wrote another silly little thing:
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...
This one came from a writing prompt, and it burst almost fully formed into my head. I only had to work it out a little bit to make all the pieces fit.
Hope you like it.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...
This one came from a writing prompt, and it burst almost fully formed into my head. I only had to work it out a little bit to make all the pieces fit.
Hope you like it.
The Sky is Alive
A first-contact flash story from the Expansion Era - The Transcendent Chronicles
transcendentchronicles.substack.com
October 24, 2023 at 2:08 AM
Hey folks, so I wrote another silly little thing:
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...
This one came from a writing prompt, and it burst almost fully formed into my head. I only had to work it out a little bit to make all the pieces fit.
Hope you like it.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...
This one came from a writing prompt, and it burst almost fully formed into my head. I only had to work it out a little bit to make all the pieces fit.
Hope you like it.
Hey folks, so I wrote another silly little thing:
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...
This one came from a writing prompt, and it burst almost fully formed into my head. I only had to work it out a little bit to make all the pieces fit.
Hope you like it.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...
This one came from a writing prompt, and it burst almost fully formed into my head. I only had to work it out a little bit to make all the pieces fit.
Hope you like it.
The Sky is Alive
A first-contact flash story from the Expansion Era - The Transcendent Chronicles
transcendentchronicles.substack.com
October 24, 2023 at 2:08 AM
Hey folks, so I wrote another silly little thing:
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...
This one came from a writing prompt, and it burst almost fully formed into my head. I only had to work it out a little bit to make all the pieces fit.
Hope you like it.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...
This one came from a writing prompt, and it burst almost fully formed into my head. I only had to work it out a little bit to make all the pieces fit.
Hope you like it.
It's out.
If I'm lucky, this is the worst piece of fiction I will ever write, so please shoot it down the best you can.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/my-children
If I'm lucky, this is the worst piece of fiction I will ever write, so please shoot it down the best you can.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/my-children
My children
A short story from the Genesis Era -- The Transcendent Chronicles
transcendentchronicles.substack.com
October 22, 2023 at 11:26 AM
It's out.
If I'm lucky, this is the worst piece of fiction I will ever write, so please shoot it down the best you can.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/my-children
If I'm lucky, this is the worst piece of fiction I will ever write, so please shoot it down the best you can.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/my-children
The first sci-fi short story I've had the guts to show publicly is out tomorrow.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/my-children
I hope you all love it. It's a weird style, but I had a lot of fun writing it.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/my-children
I hope you all love it. It's a weird style, but I had a lot of fun writing it.
October 22, 2023 at 1:59 AM
The first sci-fi short story I've had the guts to show publicly is out tomorrow.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/my-children
I hope you all love it. It's a weird style, but I had a lot of fun writing it.
transcendentchronicles.substack.com/p/my-children
I hope you all love it. It's a weird style, but I had a lot of fun writing it.
Reposted by Alejandro Piad Morffis
So many thoughts on Andreessen’s manifesto. Working on a piece to articulate them.
Been seeing a lot of responses and follow on pieces this week. Could you drop a link to any that you’ve come across that you’ve found thoughtful, whether or not you agree with them?
Been seeing a lot of responses and follow on pieces this week. Could you drop a link to any that you’ve come across that you’ve found thoughtful, whether or not you agree with them?
October 21, 2023 at 3:38 PM
So many thoughts on Andreessen’s manifesto. Working on a piece to articulate them.
Been seeing a lot of responses and follow on pieces this week. Could you drop a link to any that you’ve come across that you’ve found thoughtful, whether or not you agree with them?
Been seeing a lot of responses and follow on pieces this week. Could you drop a link to any that you’ve come across that you’ve found thoughtful, whether or not you agree with them?
The third issue of my premium newsletter, Mostly Harmless, goes out tomorrow morning.
On the question "Is generative AI the revolution that education needs?"
Subscribe for free today and I'll give you one month of full access to premium content, no strings attached.
blog.apiad.net/p/mostly-har...
On the question "Is generative AI the revolution that education needs?"
Subscribe for free today and I'll give you one month of full access to premium content, no strings attached.
blog.apiad.net/p/mostly-har...
October 20, 2023 at 11:23 PM
The third issue of my premium newsletter, Mostly Harmless, goes out tomorrow morning.
On the question "Is generative AI the revolution that education needs?"
Subscribe for free today and I'll give you one month of full access to premium content, no strings attached.
blog.apiad.net/p/mostly-har...
On the question "Is generative AI the revolution that education needs?"
Subscribe for free today and I'll give you one month of full access to premium content, no strings attached.
blog.apiad.net/p/mostly-har...
Hey, a few people showed up recently, so let me introduce myself.
I'm a computer science researcher and professor. These days I'm mostly active on Substack, where I'm writing about a bunch of nerdy stuff.
substack.com/@apiad
I'm a computer science researcher and professor. These days I'm mostly active on Substack, where I'm writing about a bunch of nerdy stuff.
substack.com/@apiad
Alejandro Piad Morffis | Substack
Democratizing knowledge one post at a time. I talk about Computer Science, AI, Education, Philosophy, you know, mostly harmless stuff.
Building a community of tech writers on Substack.
And now also ve...
substack.com
October 20, 2023 at 1:07 AM
Hey, a few people showed up recently, so let me introduce myself.
I'm a computer science researcher and professor. These days I'm mostly active on Substack, where I'm writing about a bunch of nerdy stuff.
substack.com/@apiad
I'm a computer science researcher and professor. These days I'm mostly active on Substack, where I'm writing about a bunch of nerdy stuff.
substack.com/@apiad
I wrote a silly thing which I hope is the beginning of a much bigger, much better silly thing.
open.substack.com/pub/transcen...
open.substack.com/pub/transcen...
Prologue: The Exodus Genesis
In the twilight of old Earth, when the breath of humanity wavered in the face of impending catastrophe, a desperate solution was conceived. Countless ships were cast adrift upon the vast expanse of th...
open.substack.com
October 19, 2023 at 11:32 AM
I wrote a silly thing which I hope is the beginning of a much bigger, much better silly thing.
open.substack.com/pub/transcen...
open.substack.com/pub/transcen...
Reposted by Alejandro Piad Morffis
If you wondered why GPUs are in so much demand and how do they work, then I've got you covered.
What Every Developer Should Know About GPUs: https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/gpu-computing
What Every Developer Should Know About GPUs: https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/gpu-computing
What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing
A primer on GPU architecture and computing
codeconfessions.substack.com
October 19, 2023 at 7:06 AM
If you wondered why GPUs are in so much demand and how do they work, then I've got you covered.
What Every Developer Should Know About GPUs: https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/gpu-computing
What Every Developer Should Know About GPUs: https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/gpu-computing
This is one of the articles I'm most proud of—a philosophical discussion of the meaning of the Turing Test, beyond any practical considerations.
blog.apiad.net/p/can-machin...
blog.apiad.net/p/can-machin...
Can Machines Think?
What Alan Turing's seminal paper Computer Machinery and Intelligence tells us about the nature of thinking.
blog.apiad.net
October 18, 2023 at 6:18 PM
This is one of the articles I'm most proud of—a philosophical discussion of the meaning of the Turing Test, beyond any practical considerations.
blog.apiad.net/p/can-machin...
blog.apiad.net/p/can-machin...
I couldn't get Stable Diffusion to give me Elon strangling the damn bird to death, so I had to settle for Elon riding the big blue bird.
Goodbye Twitter.
blog.apiad.net/p/im-leaving...
Goodbye Twitter.
blog.apiad.net/p/im-leaving...
October 18, 2023 at 5:49 PM
I couldn't get Stable Diffusion to give me Elon strangling the damn bird to death, so I had to settle for Elon riding the big blue bird.
Goodbye Twitter.
blog.apiad.net/p/im-leaving...
Goodbye Twitter.
blog.apiad.net/p/im-leaving...
Today on the Tech Writers Stack section for Writer Highlight, we host Christoph Molnar, machine learning expert, online educator, and author.
techwriters.substack.com/p/writer-hig...
techwriters.substack.com/p/writer-hig...
Writer Highlight: Christoph Molnar
Christoph writes about advanced machine learning topics, including modelling paradigms and interpretability issues.
techwriters.substack.com
October 18, 2023 at 1:33 PM
Today on the Tech Writers Stack section for Writer Highlight, we host Christoph Molnar, machine learning expert, online educator, and author.
techwriters.substack.com/p/writer-hig...
techwriters.substack.com/p/writer-hig...
Next Sunday, the third issue of my premium newsletter will land in your inbox.
Is Gen-AI the savior of modern education?
If you sign up before Sunday, you'll get a free 1-month premium subscription just in time to read it and all the other subscriber-only content.
blog.apiad.net/p/mostly-har...
Is Gen-AI the savior of modern education?
If you sign up before Sunday, you'll get a free 1-month premium subscription just in time to read it and all the other subscriber-only content.
blog.apiad.net/p/mostly-har...
Mostly Harmless #3: The AI Revolution We Don't Need
Modern education is in dire need of a Revolution, but it's not going to be AI chatbots. Here's is why, and what we can do instead.
blog.apiad.net
October 18, 2023 at 1:21 AM
Next Sunday, the third issue of my premium newsletter will land in your inbox.
Is Gen-AI the savior of modern education?
If you sign up before Sunday, you'll get a free 1-month premium subscription just in time to read it and all the other subscriber-only content.
blog.apiad.net/p/mostly-har...
Is Gen-AI the savior of modern education?
If you sign up before Sunday, you'll get a free 1-month premium subscription just in time to read it and all the other subscriber-only content.
blog.apiad.net/p/mostly-har...
Reposted by Alejandro Piad Morffis
My #TechTuesday entry is lifted from Feynman's lectures, so credit him, not me.
Why temperature increases when you compress a gas
Imagine a gas in a container. The molecules are moving around, and their average speed represents the temperature of the gas.
Cont/d
/1
Why temperature increases when you compress a gas
Imagine a gas in a container. The molecules are moving around, and their average speed represents the temperature of the gas.
Cont/d
/1
October 17, 2023 at 10:15 PM
My #TechTuesday entry is lifted from Feynman's lectures, so credit him, not me.
Why temperature increases when you compress a gas
Imagine a gas in a container. The molecules are moving around, and their average speed represents the temperature of the gas.
Cont/d
/1
Why temperature increases when you compress a gas
Imagine a gas in a container. The molecules are moving around, and their average speed represents the temperature of the gas.
Cont/d
/1
Reposted by Alejandro Piad Morffis
I’ve had good success structuring prompts to help students in controlled ways.
Last week, I developed a feedback prompt for human-centered writing.
Here is the breakdown:
open.substack.com/pub/lancecum...
Last week, I developed a feedback prompt for human-centered writing.
Here is the breakdown:
open.substack.com/pub/lancecum...
Prompt Lab #3: Human-Centered Writing Feedback
How to use AI to encourage more human-centered writing in the workplace or classroom
open.substack.com
October 17, 2023 at 12:10 AM
I’ve had good success structuring prompts to help students in controlled ways.
Last week, I developed a feedback prompt for human-centered writing.
Here is the breakdown:
open.substack.com/pub/lancecum...
Last week, I developed a feedback prompt for human-centered writing.
Here is the breakdown:
open.substack.com/pub/lancecum...
Here's my entry for Tech Tuesday:
blog.apiad.net/p/tech-tuesd...
The most important open problem in Computer Science is P vs NP. At its core, it's a question about whether truly difficult problems actually exist.
Is creating a masterpiece really harder than recognizing it?
blog.apiad.net/p/tech-tuesd...
The most important open problem in Computer Science is P vs NP. At its core, it's a question about whether truly difficult problems actually exist.
Is creating a masterpiece really harder than recognizing it?
Tech Tuesday: P vs NP
A short intro to the most important open question in Computer Science
blog.apiad.net
October 17, 2023 at 5:19 PM
Here's my entry for Tech Tuesday:
blog.apiad.net/p/tech-tuesd...
The most important open problem in Computer Science is P vs NP. At its core, it's a question about whether truly difficult problems actually exist.
Is creating a masterpiece really harder than recognizing it?
blog.apiad.net/p/tech-tuesd...
The most important open problem in Computer Science is P vs NP. At its core, it's a question about whether truly difficult problems actually exist.
Is creating a masterpiece really harder than recognizing it?
Our interview with Christoph Molnar, machine learning expert and online educator, is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
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October 17, 2023 at 12:16 PM
Our interview with Christoph Molnar, machine learning expert and online educator, is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Subscribe for free to techwriters.substack.com to get straight into your inbox.
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At the Tech Writers Stack we are launching a weekly challenge prompting you to explain a technical topic or concept (from *any* discipline) as intuitively as possible.
Are you up to the challenge?
techwriters.substack.com/tech-tuesday-1
Are you up to the challenge?
techwriters.substack.com/tech-tuesday-1
Tech Tuesday #1
A community-led Substack for tech writers to collaborate and grow together.
techwriters.substack.com
October 17, 2023 at 11:16 AM
At the Tech Writers Stack we are launching a weekly challenge prompting you to explain a technical topic or concept (from *any* discipline) as intuitively as possible.
Are you up to the challenge?
techwriters.substack.com/tech-tuesday-1
Are you up to the challenge?
techwriters.substack.com/tech-tuesday-1