Laurian Gridinoc
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Laurian Gridinoc
@gridinoc.bsky.social
Full Stack Computational Linguist ※ Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow ※ Producer/Filmmaker ※ MLOps/LLMOps
I successfully optimised a context compression prompt with DSPy GEPA and TextGrad

github.com/Laurian/cont...
GitHub - Laurian/context-compression-experiments-2508: prompt engineering experiments with DSPy GEPA and TextGrad
prompt engineering experiments with DSPy GEPA and TextGrad - Laurian/context-compression-experiments-2508
github.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Reposted by Laurian Gridinoc
The reason I think it's important to spread the message that using modern AI tools is difficult is that I don't want people being embarrassed to ask questions about how to use them - or quietly assuming they "aren't smart enough" and giving up
General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really?

I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated
No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.
January 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Laurian Gridinoc
PLEASE DON'T HANDLE OR NURSE SICK BIRDS.
If you're close enough to see these signs, you're too close.

www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo....
December 29, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Asakusa, Tokyo.
Helios 44-2 58mm f2, Sony A7s.
November 17, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Tokyo <3
November 17, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Turns out that explicit, formal, symbolic knowledge representation was a distraction.

Scientific American: The Semantic Web (2001) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
December 15, 2023 at 5:15 AM
I want one.
November 26, 2023 at 12:45 PM
Forest fire, might need to evacuate. (Tenerife)
August 17, 2023 at 1:25 PM
“How you doing, Dixie?”
“I’m dead, Case. Got enough time in on this Hosaka to figure that one.”
“How’s it feel?”
“It doesn’t.”
“Bother you?”
“What bothers me is, nothin’ does.”
“How’s that?”
“As an AI language model…
July 14, 2023 at 5:02 AM
July 11, 2023 at 10:44 AM