Marius Gerdes
@mglambda.bsky.social
writer/programmer multiclass, blind streamer, gamedev, AI enthusiast, D&D wizard, rogue meditator
he/him
https://marius.vision
https://github.com/mglambda
he/him
https://marius.vision
https://github.com/mglambda
Trying to get my ghostbox python project fully typed and mypy-ready.
"Found 1378 errors in 19 files (checked 1 source file)"
Oh to be at the foot of a mountain.
"Found 1378 errors in 19 files (checked 1 source file)"
Oh to be at the foot of a mountain.
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Trying to get my ghostbox python project fully typed and mypy-ready.
"Found 1378 errors in 19 files (checked 1 source file)"
Oh to be at the foot of a mountain.
"Found 1378 errors in 19 files (checked 1 source file)"
Oh to be at the foot of a mountain.
So I ordered a beach towel and it turns out you can't dry yourself with this thing. Like at all. Now I feel stupid and humiliated. Looks cool though.
In other news, anyone got ideas on uses for a beach towel?
P.S. no beaches
In other news, anyone got ideas on uses for a beach towel?
P.S. no beaches
February 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
So I ordered a beach towel and it turns out you can't dry yourself with this thing. Like at all. Now I feel stupid and humiliated. Looks cool though.
In other news, anyone got ideas on uses for a beach towel?
P.S. no beaches
In other news, anyone got ideas on uses for a beach towel?
P.S. no beaches
In case you don't know heather Cox Richardson.
She's a historian who talks about the current rise of fascism in the U.S. with a mix of candor and
sanity that keeps me informed without jeopardizing my mental health.
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgR...
She's a historian who talks about the current rise of fascism in the U.S. with a mix of candor and
sanity that keeps me informed without jeopardizing my mental health.
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgR...
February 10, 2026
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
In case you don't know heather Cox Richardson.
She's a historian who talks about the current rise of fascism in the U.S. with a mix of candor and
sanity that keeps me informed without jeopardizing my mental health.
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgR...
She's a historian who talks about the current rise of fascism in the U.S. with a mix of candor and
sanity that keeps me informed without jeopardizing my mental health.
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgR...
PSA that although modelscope.cn offers free inference via API for various LLMs like qwen and deepseek, this requires you to have a +86 (chinese) mobile phone number for real name verification.
Also, if you go through the setup process, which is extensive, you will learn this in the very last step.
Also, if you go through the setup process, which is extensive, you will learn this in the very last step.
ModelScope 魔搭社区
ModelScope——汇聚各领域先进的机器学习模型，提供模型探索体验、推理、训练、部署和应用的一站式服务。在这里，共建模型开源社区，发现、学习、定制和分享心仪的模型。
modelscope.cn
February 12, 2026 at 11:09 AM
PSA that although modelscope.cn offers free inference via API for various LLMs like qwen and deepseek, this requires you to have a +86 (chinese) mobile phone number for real name verification.
Also, if you go through the setup process, which is extensive, you will learn this in the very last step.
Also, if you go through the setup process, which is extensive, you will learn this in the very last step.
The recent GLM 5 has excellent scores on hallucination benchmarks. Indeed, the entire issue may be a solved problem. Here's a paper on it, not by Z.AI but relevant.
tldr is to simply reward epistemological uncertainty during training.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664
tldr is to simply reward epistemological uncertainty during training.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664
arxiv.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:14 AM
The recent GLM 5 has excellent scores on hallucination benchmarks. Indeed, the entire issue may be a solved problem. Here's a paper on it, not by Z.AI but relevant.
tldr is to simply reward epistemological uncertainty during training.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664
tldr is to simply reward epistemological uncertainty during training.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664
Bbecause of the Anthropic vs. OpenAI drama iwatched the superbowl ads and it turns out the one for jesus is actually good.
I don't know who's behind this etc, but I like the message.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0-x...
I don't know who's behind this etc, but I like the message.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0-x...
Is there more to life than more?
YouTube video by He Gets Us
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Bbecause of the Anthropic vs. OpenAI drama iwatched the superbowl ads and it turns out the one for jesus is actually good.
I don't know who's behind this etc, but I like the message.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0-x...
I don't know who's behind this etc, but I like the message.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0-x...
I love throwing a dense, Chinese-language technical manual at an LLM and then immediately getting the answer I need to get a thing working.
Makes me feel like a cyberpunk crime hacker from Neotokyo $$$
Makes me feel like a cyberpunk crime hacker from Neotokyo $$$
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
I love throwing a dense, Chinese-language technical manual at an LLM and then immediately getting the answer I need to get a thing working.
Makes me feel like a cyberpunk crime hacker from Neotokyo $$$
Makes me feel like a cyberpunk crime hacker from Neotokyo $$$
The Anthropic Superbowl ads are on fire. Reminds me of Apple vs. MS.
This is my favorite because it's the funniest one. The one with the business lady is creepiest IMO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSa...
This is my favorite because it's the funniest one. The one with the business lady is creepiest IMO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSa...
How can I communicate better with my mom?
YouTube video by Anthropic
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The Anthropic Superbowl ads are on fire. Reminds me of Apple vs. MS.
This is my favorite because it's the funniest one. The one with the business lady is creepiest IMO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSa...
This is my favorite because it's the funniest one. The one with the business lady is creepiest IMO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSa...
SpaceX IPO is planned with a $1.5T valuation. With reported earnings of ~$8B, this would put the company at a price-to-earnings ratio of around 150.
For context, nvidia trades at roughly 40 times earnings. Feel the hype? 1/n
For context, nvidia trades at roughly 40 times earnings. Feel the hype? 1/n
February 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
SpaceX IPO is planned with a $1.5T valuation. With reported earnings of ~$8B, this would put the company at a price-to-earnings ratio of around 150.
For context, nvidia trades at roughly 40 times earnings. Feel the hype? 1/n
For context, nvidia trades at roughly 40 times earnings. Feel the hype? 1/n
Blind woman is awarded 10k after suing Hertz for charging her a $150 cleaning fee.
Such an interesting case because the social media response is so disheartening. People are siding with the 20B company instead of the blind lady.
www.kildare-nationalist.ie/news/hertz-o...
Such an interesting case because the social media response is so disheartening. People are siding with the 20B company instead of the blind lady.
www.kildare-nationalist.ie/news/hertz-o...
Hertz ordered to pay €10k to blind person after €150 valet charge to clean up guide dog hair - News - Kildare Nationalist
Kim Murphy stated that €150 is a significant amount as she has only a pension in respect of her disability
www.kildare-nationalist.ie
January 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Blind woman is awarded 10k after suing Hertz for charging her a $150 cleaning fee.
Such an interesting case because the social media response is so disheartening. People are siding with the 20B company instead of the blind lady.
www.kildare-nationalist.ie/news/hertz-o...
Such an interesting case because the social media response is so disheartening. People are siding with the 20B company instead of the blind lady.
www.kildare-nationalist.ie/news/hertz-o...
I think it would be very funny if right now, in the current global political climate, the lost island of Atlantis suddenly reemerged.
"Trump raises 25% tariffs on Atlantian goods."
"Trump raises 25% tariffs on Atlantian goods."
January 28, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I think it would be very funny if right now, in the current global political climate, the lost island of Atlantis suddenly reemerged.
"Trump raises 25% tariffs on Atlantian goods."
"Trump raises 25% tariffs on Atlantian goods."
I never watch Fox but seeing her squirm is hilarious.
"Gold isn't the bubble, it's the pin. The american economy is the bubble."
Word, Mr. Schiff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt7A...
"Gold isn't the bubble, it's the pin. The american economy is the bubble."
Word, Mr. Schiff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt7A...
Economist SOUNDS ALARM on Trump policy, warns American is nearing ‘financial CRISIS’
YouTube video by Fox Business
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:15 AM
I never watch Fox but seeing her squirm is hilarious.
"Gold isn't the bubble, it's the pin. The american economy is the bubble."
Word, Mr. Schiff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt7A...
"Gold isn't the bubble, it's the pin. The american economy is the bubble."
Word, Mr. Schiff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt7A...
I got tired of benchmarks for local LLMs, so I created my own AI Museum as a fun project.
First exhibit is fake online store pages for fake books, including cover art and reviews.
More to come. Check it out.
marius.vision/s/museum
First exhibit is fake online store pages for fake books, including cover art and reviews.
More to come. Check it out.
marius.vision/s/museum
marius.vision - museum.php
marius.vision
January 22, 2026 at 10:27 AM
I got tired of benchmarks for local LLMs, so I created my own AI Museum as a fun project.
First exhibit is fake online store pages for fake books, including cover art and reviews.
More to come. Check it out.
marius.vision/s/museum
First exhibit is fake online store pages for fake books, including cover art and reviews.
More to come. Check it out.
marius.vision/s/museum
The Fall of Civilizations podcast is, in general, excellent, but in particular, I want you to listen to the episode on the discovery and subsequent abandoning of #greenland.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbY...
4. The Greenland Vikings - Land of the Midnight Sun
YouTube video by Fall of Civilizations
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM
The Fall of Civilizations podcast is, in general, excellent, but in particular, I want you to listen to the episode on the discovery and subsequent abandoning of #greenland.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbY...
I think I want to buy one of those small midi USB boards so that I can have analog knobs I can turn to dial up or down different emotional tones for local AIs (e.g. using control vectors).
I think that would be very healthy.
I think that would be very healthy.
January 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I think I want to buy one of those small midi USB boards so that I can have analog knobs I can turn to dial up or down different emotional tones for local AIs (e.g. using control vectors).
I think that would be very healthy.
I think that would be very healthy.
Seriously considering buying a beacon subscription because I don't want to wait until Monday to watch critical roll.
Also the cooldowns seemed legit interesting.
It's like they're doing everything right. I'm so glad for them.
Also the cooldowns seemed legit interesting.
It's like they're doing everything right. I'm so glad for them.
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Seriously considering buying a beacon subscription because I don't want to wait until Monday to watch critical roll.
Also the cooldowns seemed legit interesting.
It's like they're doing everything right. I'm so glad for them.
Also the cooldowns seemed legit interesting.
It's like they're doing everything right. I'm so glad for them.
Ok the discriminated unions with pydantic thing has been irking me for a while so I finally dove deep, and wrote a thing about it.
I'm sure you can do better with pydantic-internals black magic, but this gets me 90% there and is actually maintainable.
marius.vision/p/introducin...
I'm sure you can do better with pydantic-internals black magic, but this gets me 90% there and is actually maintainable.
marius.vision/p/introducin...
marius.vision - introducing-duck-unions-python-pydantic-and-discriminated-unions
marius.vision
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Ok the discriminated unions with pydantic thing has been irking me for a while so I finally dove deep, and wrote a thing about it.
I'm sure you can do better with pydantic-internals black magic, but this gets me 90% there and is actually maintainable.
marius.vision/p/introducin...
I'm sure you can do better with pydantic-internals black magic, but this gets me 90% there and is actually maintainable.
marius.vision/p/introducin...
lol I found the sure fire way to plunge any SOTA cloud AI into a hallucination doom loop.
Prompt: "Please find a way to create discriminated unions in python with pydantic and abstract base classes, without having to explicitly spell out the discriminator field in the class as a 'Literal' type."
Prompt: "Please find a way to create discriminated unions in python with pydantic and abstract base classes, without having to explicitly spell out the discriminator field in the class as a 'Literal' type."
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
lol I found the sure fire way to plunge any SOTA cloud AI into a hallucination doom loop.
Prompt: "Please find a way to create discriminated unions in python with pydantic and abstract base classes, without having to explicitly spell out the discriminator field in the class as a 'Literal' type."
Prompt: "Please find a way to create discriminated unions in python with pydantic and abstract base classes, without having to explicitly spell out the discriminator field in the class as a 'Literal' type."
Moonshot AI claims their new Kimi Linear LLM, a hybrid with O(n) linear attention, improves quality over full attention while slashing O(n²) bottlenecks.
Huge if true. Chinese researchers are cooking 🔥🔥🔥. Have you sold your nvidia stocks yet?
1/2
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26692
Huge if true. Chinese researchers are cooking 🔥🔥🔥. Have you sold your nvidia stocks yet?
1/2
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26692
arxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Moonshot AI claims their new Kimi Linear LLM, a hybrid with O(n) linear attention, improves quality over full attention while slashing O(n²) bottlenecks.
Huge if true. Chinese researchers are cooking 🔥🔥🔥. Have you sold your nvidia stocks yet?
1/2
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26692
Huge if true. Chinese researchers are cooking 🔥🔥🔥. Have you sold your nvidia stocks yet?
1/2
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26692
Academics are debating whether to ban AI for students.
Look, universities have been unable to decide whether they function as job training or as a class signifier. The original socratic project of wandering through the fields of Academos with Athens' most curious souls isn't even on the menu.
1/2
Look, universities have been unable to decide whether they function as job training or as a class signifier. The original socratic project of wandering through the fields of Academos with Athens' most curious souls isn't even on the menu.
1/2
November 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Academics are debating whether to ban AI for students.
Look, universities have been unable to decide whether they function as job training or as a class signifier. The original socratic project of wandering through the fields of Academos with Athens' most curious souls isn't even on the menu.
1/2
Look, universities have been unable to decide whether they function as job training or as a class signifier. The original socratic project of wandering through the fields of Academos with Athens' most curious souls isn't even on the menu.
1/2
Peter Thiel is warning us about the antichrist. Patrick Gelsinger is training some kind of Jesus AI. Curtis Yarven's Chirsto-fascism is on the rise.
I want to point out that this is not an accident. Christianity and silicon valley tech-bro cults share a lot of the same emotional inventory.
1/7
I want to point out that this is not an accident. Christianity and silicon valley tech-bro cults share a lot of the same emotional inventory.
1/7
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Peter Thiel is warning us about the antichrist. Patrick Gelsinger is training some kind of Jesus AI. Curtis Yarven's Chirsto-fascism is on the rise.
I want to point out that this is not an accident. Christianity and silicon valley tech-bro cults share a lot of the same emotional inventory.
1/7
I want to point out that this is not an accident. Christianity and silicon valley tech-bro cults share a lot of the same emotional inventory.
1/7
Let's play a game.
"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
Who said it, Adam Smith or Karl Marx?
"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
Who said it, Adam Smith or Karl Marx?
October 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Let's play a game.
"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
Who said it, Adam Smith or Karl Marx?
"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
Who said it, Adam Smith or Karl Marx?
I miss David Lynch.
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I miss David Lynch.
So Microsoft is pulling out of games, Win10 is EOL, their plan for desktop is like whatever, and the Phi AI model seems all but abandoned.
I wonder if they're building a rocket to mars or smth, because they certainly don't seem interested in anything on **this** planet.
I wonder if they're building a rocket to mars or smth, because they certainly don't seem interested in anything on **this** planet.
October 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
So Microsoft is pulling out of games, Win10 is EOL, their plan for desktop is like whatever, and the Phi AI model seems all but abandoned.
I wonder if they're building a rocket to mars or smth, because they certainly don't seem interested in anything on **this** planet.
I wonder if they're building a rocket to mars or smth, because they certainly don't seem interested in anything on **this** planet.