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Michael Saxon
@saxon.me
Doctor of NLP/Vision+Language from UCSB

Evals, metrics, multilinguality, multiculturality, multimodality, and (dabbling in) reasoning

https://saxon.me/
So yeah a landowner can extract a lot more money on a plot by "buying more bedrooms" so ig the homeowner can get this value by selling to an apt developer. Bu t i n the total YIMBY victory scenario anyone can do this sale so idk how high of a price they could actually command. Idk its complicated
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I think the reason it's against self interests is because in most realistic scenarios (aka not delete Manhattan) the value of a bedroom will drop more than the value of the land grows if all that's changing is the amt of housing
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Weird cinematography (artistic or indulgent depending on your preference) is Vince Gilligan's MO
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It's now completely usable out of the box I think!

It has a dedicated github action to pull and generate the graph, if you fork this to your own repo, you can change the secret key to your own google analytics key etc and have your own map :D

github.com/michaelsaxon...
GitHub - michaelsaxon/analytics2map: Build a visitor map from Google analytics
Build a visitor map from Google analytics. Contribute to michaelsaxon/analytics2map development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Unfortunately, the reason why the mathy DDoS strat works is because the median reviewer isn't an expert (yet) because of bad match or juniority.

I didn't get to the point where I was comfortable calling out papers for doing this until my last year of PhD, after 4 years of reviews
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you don't understand the math in the paper, but it is genuinely in your area of expertise, that should in fact count *against it*. That is literally a presentation issue!

I want more reviewers to develop the cajones to advocate against papers on this basis
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Having autosuggested text pop up when I'm WRITING is the most egregious executive function theft imo. Like it will make me forget what I was trying to write sometimes lol
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We cannot trust slow, legacy governments to destroy the superintelligent datacenters when the time comes.

That's why we're democratizing defense with the world's best decentralized, AI-native private military contractor, where all targets are designated transparently, on-chain: Blackwater YudSA
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Yeah, a setup where you're collaborating with the note-taking AI itself is the killer app here
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Oh, interesting

Maybe also organizing the notes wrt previous notes, and maybe even occasionally surfacing things from prior notes that may be relevant as you are dictating to facilitate this
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
No :(
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
What are the killer features/functionality
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
My vision is to eventually release a clean template site :D

I don't want all the custom functionality I programmed to only live on my site
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I think Pangea is an example roughly comparable to Aya for VLM

github.com/neulab/Pangea

Also, I am pretty sure Qwen-VL supports Chinese.

In general though the VLM landscape is a little behind the LM landscape
GitHub - neulab/Pangea: This is the repo for the paper "PANGEA: A FULLY OPEN MULTILINGUAL MULTIMODAL LLM FOR 39 LANGUAGES"
This is the repo for the paper "PANGEA: A FULLY OPEN MULTILINGUAL MULTIMODAL LLM FOR 39 LANGUAGES" - neulab/Pangea
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Usually I am big into multimodal/multicultural but not this time. Would be very interesting (and probably straightforward) to see the multimodal generalization of this!
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM