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November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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If you like your model, you will be able to keep your model, period
Update: Roon is receiving death threats from 4o cordyceps hosts.
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If you like your model, you will be able to keep your model, period
this is so cool
SYNTH is a collection of several synthetic playgrounds: data is not generated through simple prompts but by integrating smaller fine-tuned models into workflows with seeding, constraints, and formal verifications/checks.
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
this is so cool
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Special properties
July 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Based on a fun conversation on here, I wrote about the arXiv position paper controversy and the weird, unwritten, organic evolution of academic practice.
A position on positions
The complex evolution of academic process doesn't always lead us to better practice.
www.argmin.net
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Based on a fun conversation on here, I wrote about the arXiv position paper controversy and the weird, unwritten, organic evolution of academic practice.
rumors of the bias-variance tradeoff's demise have been greatly exaggerated
AtlasIntel, the self-proclaimed “best pollster in America,” missed last week’s elections by an average of 9 points across races and by 14 points in New Jersey.
Back in June, I wrote about how their accuracy in 2024 distracted from bigger methods issues: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-best-p...
Back in June, I wrote about how their accuracy in 2024 distracted from bigger methods issues: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-best-p...
What makes the “best pollsters” of 2024 so accurate?
Primarily it’s a mix of experimentation and biased estimates that get lucky
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
rumors of the bias-variance tradeoff's demise have been greatly exaggerated
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November 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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why don't ice car batteries show charge levels by default?
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
why don't ice car batteries show charge levels by default?
"bipartisan comedy" sounds like a DC band
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"bipartisan comedy" sounds like a DC band
that's like, a kids menu slider
also seeing a lot of americans say that a 0.25 acre property is a "postage stamp" which is crazy lmao
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
that's like, a kids menu slider
the problem with most AI slop imagery is imo less that it's slop and more that it's increasingly coded tacky and unsophisticated
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
the problem with most AI slop imagery is imo less that it's slop and more that it's increasingly coded tacky and unsophisticated
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Likes are the little deaths that bring total obliteration.
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Likes are the little deaths that bring total obliteration.
the feed is the mind killer. I will not scroll the feed
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
the feed is the mind killer. I will not scroll the feed
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November 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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People think “prompt engineering” is about finding the perfectly polite monologue to deliver to your chatbot but what it’s really about is about pasting the right schizophrenically generated block quotes into your system prompt from random sources in unmeasured amounts.
June 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
People think “prompt engineering” is about finding the perfectly polite monologue to deliver to your chatbot but what it’s really about is about pasting the right schizophrenically generated block quotes into your system prompt from random sources in unmeasured amounts.
need to mute image templates
November 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
need to mute image templates
16.5 hours of haiku 4.5 lfg
tuesday evening, aka "how tf am i almost halfway through my weekly all models limit"
monday morning, aka "why is claude so slow" hours
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
16.5 hours of haiku 4.5 lfg
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I'm still so confused by this whole dustup.
Why should peer-reviewed papers be posted to pre-print servers?
When did everyone become so committed to churning out position papers?
What happened to the public_html/ directory?
Why should peer-reviewed papers be posted to pre-print servers?
When did everyone become so committed to churning out position papers?
What happened to the public_html/ directory?
We are not "banning" reviews; we are just requiring peer review first. Good review articles are important for the field!
You can’t really blame arXiv for the decision to stop publishing computer science stuff (given the flood of slop) but this is also a textbook example of a global public good being gratuitously degraded www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm still so confused by this whole dustup.
Why should peer-reviewed papers be posted to pre-print servers?
When did everyone become so committed to churning out position papers?
What happened to the public_html/ directory?
Why should peer-reviewed papers be posted to pre-print servers?
When did everyone become so committed to churning out position papers?
What happened to the public_html/ directory?
good piece
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
good piece
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Gemini having SOTA satellite data understanding was not on my 2025 bingo card, yet here we are :)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking-multi-spectral-data-with-gemini/
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking-multi-spectral-data-with-gemini/
Unlocking Multi-Spectral Data with Gemini
Multi-spectral imagery, which captures wavelengths beyond human vision, offers a "superhuman" way to understand the world, and Google's Gemini models make this accessible without specialized training.
developers.googleblog.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Gemini having SOTA satellite data understanding was not on my 2025 bingo card, yet here we are :)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking-multi-spectral-data-with-gemini/
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking-multi-spectral-data-with-gemini/
trying out vibe research with my Claude Code web credits this weekend
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
trying out vibe research with my Claude Code web credits this weekend
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Who is someone who does old school operations research on public agencies in the US?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Who is someone who does old school operations research on public agencies in the US?
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sex positive dating app called kinkedin and you can log in with your linkedin account
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
sex positive dating app called kinkedin and you can log in with your linkedin account
otoh, pecuniary incentives fit into many more spaces than virtues do. 0-1 loss is nice but not very tractable
"virtues" approximate lexicographic preferences, either constraining the slop generator fixed points or pushing actions out of the pecuniary incentive space
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
otoh, pecuniary incentives fit into many more spaces than virtues do. 0-1 loss is nice but not very tractable