Rafael Pinto
@rcpinto.bsky.social
CS / AI / ML PhD / Professor. 🇧🇷
Working on meta-learning, continual learning, control, evo, RL, game AI.
Hobbyist game dev (@megamanbeyond.com)
Local news and useless facts about my life in PT-BR. EN otherwise.
Working on meta-learning, continual learning, control, evo, RL, game AI.
Hobbyist game dev (@megamanbeyond.com)
Local news and useless facts about my life in PT-BR. EN otherwise.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Stochastic parrot my ass.
"Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically; it is unclear why"
www.reddit.com/r/accelerate...
"Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically; it is unclear why"
www.reddit.com/r/accelerate...
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Stochastic parrot my ass.
"Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically; it is unclear why"
www.reddit.com/r/accelerate...
"Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically; it is unclear why"
www.reddit.com/r/accelerate...
When people treat AI, ML, and GenAI as disjoint sets:
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
When people treat AI, ML, and GenAI as disjoint sets:
Personally, I love blocklists. And when I'm added to one, they're just doing me a favor. It's a win-win.
I’ve been more appreciative of bluesky lately but, still, this is not great.
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Personally, I love blocklists. And when I'm added to one, they're just doing me a favor. It's a win-win.
Asking the real questions
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Asking the real questions
How to stop students from taking photos of assignments to send them to AI:
imgur.com/a/moodle-qui...
imgur.com/a/moodle-qui...
moodle quiz anti-cheating blur (click to watch)
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October 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How to stop students from taking photos of assignments to send them to AI:
imgur.com/a/moodle-qui...
imgur.com/a/moodle-qui...
A sad day for Mr. Edward Little Banana Bolsonaro
🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A sad day for Mr. Edward Little Banana Bolsonaro
Goalposts must continue to move, because the alternative is to accept a core belief has been invalidated. supermedicine.substack.com/p/human-of-t...
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Goalposts must continue to move, because the alternative is to accept a core belief has been invalidated. supermedicine.substack.com/p/human-of-t...
This comedy sketch is spoken entirely in English, watch it!
"American Visa"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7-...
"American Visa"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7-...
VISTO AMERICANO
YouTube video by Porta dos Fundos
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This comedy sketch is spoken entirely in English, watch it!
"American Visa"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7-...
"American Visa"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7-...
Reposted by Rafael Pinto
When the internet goes down due to blackouts or natural disasters, there's a small bit of kit that lets you have access to the most important parts.
This Tiny Library Can Replace Google When You're Offline
When the internet goes down due to blackouts or natural disasters, there's a small bit of kit that lets you have access to the most important parts.
www.bgr.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
When the internet goes down due to blackouts or natural disasters, there's a small bit of kit that lets you have access to the most important parts.
Types of AI haters:
- "AI is STEALING my obese horse with big tits ART!!11"
- "I'm A dEv So I kNoW hOw Ai WoRkS aNd It SuCkS!!"
- "Engineers and scientists keep doing amazing things I can't, so here is my long, pretentious, and useless take to make myself feel smart:"
- "AI is STEALING my obese horse with big tits ART!!11"
- "I'm A dEv So I kNoW hOw Ai WoRkS aNd It SuCkS!!"
- "Engineers and scientists keep doing amazing things I can't, so here is my long, pretentious, and useless take to make myself feel smart:"
October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Types of AI haters:
- "AI is STEALING my obese horse with big tits ART!!11"
- "I'm A dEv So I kNoW hOw Ai WoRkS aNd It SuCkS!!"
- "Engineers and scientists keep doing amazing things I can't, so here is my long, pretentious, and useless take to make myself feel smart:"
- "AI is STEALING my obese horse with big tits ART!!11"
- "I'm A dEv So I kNoW hOw Ai WoRkS aNd It SuCkS!!"
- "Engineers and scientists keep doing amazing things I can't, so here is my long, pretentious, and useless take to make myself feel smart:"
"Models want to learn what the goddamn best possible next token is, and if you let them, with enough data and compute, they'll simulate an entire universe to find it"
-- User R33v3n on Reddit
That pretty much sums up what the deterministic parrots need to understand about LLMs.
-- User R33v3n on Reddit
That pretty much sums up what the deterministic parrots need to understand about LLMs.
October 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Models want to learn what the goddamn best possible next token is, and if you let them, with enough data and compute, they'll simulate an entire universe to find it"
-- User R33v3n on Reddit
That pretty much sums up what the deterministic parrots need to understand about LLMs.
-- User R33v3n on Reddit
That pretty much sums up what the deterministic parrots need to understand about LLMs.
The best reason to root for Helix and their Figure robots so far:
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The best reason to root for Helix and their Figure robots so far:
After using Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 for highly novel theoretical neural networks research, I must say that, at least for my case, GPT-5 is the clear winner. The "Ph.D. level" claims are correct (and of course, like any human Ph.D., it also makes stupid mistakes now and then).
October 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
After using Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 for highly novel theoretical neural networks research, I must say that, at least for my case, GPT-5 is the clear winner. The "Ph.D. level" claims are correct (and of course, like any human Ph.D., it also makes stupid mistakes now and then).
The hatred coming from the butthurt anti-AI mob is now comparable to that of far-right scumbags.
It's one thing to dislike the technology, but the way they're responding to some people here is sick to say the least.
It's one thing to dislike the technology, but the way they're responding to some people here is sick to say the least.
October 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The hatred coming from the butthurt anti-AI mob is now comparable to that of far-right scumbags.
It's one thing to dislike the technology, but the way they're responding to some people here is sick to say the least.
It's one thing to dislike the technology, but the way they're responding to some people here is sick to say the least.
Wow, didn't know such a document existed.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Wow, didn't know such a document existed.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
If you confidently assert that LLMs (or anything else besides yourself, for that matter) are or aren't conscious, you're wrong.
October 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If you confidently assert that LLMs (or anything else besides yourself, for that matter) are or aren't conscious, you're wrong.
This is gonna happen very soon. The signs are crystal clear.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbA...
Steven Spielberg's A.I.-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2001) - The Flesh Fair
YouTube video by Chris Spencer
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is gonna happen very soon. The signs are crystal clear.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbA...
Here we go, another thread full of geniuses and experts that know everything about how AI is just autocomplete. I'm glad to grow my block list, tho.
October 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Here we go, another thread full of geniuses and experts that know everything about how AI is just autocomplete. I'm glad to grow my block list, tho.