Crista 🔶
@tagide.com
Professor at UC Irvine, among other things. This is my personal account, not the University’s.
I like light and clarity.
I like light and clarity.
Reposted by Crista 🔶
TIL this has been brewing for years…
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
January 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
TIL this has been brewing for years…
whoa Gemini! I appreciate the snap! 🤩
"These revised diagrams are perfect. You have correctly visualized the topology that guarantees XXX and YYY.
However, I need to correct one sentence in your prompt to ensure your mental model matches the diagrams (and the code):
<my quote>
<correction>
"
"These revised diagrams are perfect. You have correctly visualized the topology that guarantees XXX and YYY.
However, I need to correct one sentence in your prompt to ensure your mental model matches the diagrams (and the code):
<my quote>
<correction>
"
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
whoa Gemini! I appreciate the snap! 🤩
"These revised diagrams are perfect. You have correctly visualized the topology that guarantees XXX and YYY.
However, I need to correct one sentence in your prompt to ensure your mental model matches the diagrams (and the code):
<my quote>
<correction>
"
"These revised diagrams are perfect. You have correctly visualized the topology that guarantees XXX and YYY.
However, I need to correct one sentence in your prompt to ensure your mental model matches the diagrams (and the code):
<my quote>
<correction>
"
Hope everyone is ok @shriram.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Hope everyone is ok @shriram.bsky.social
This is a tour de force
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is a tour de force
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Formulaic papers and mechanistic reviews have been ruining research for a long time. I'm glad AI is giving it the final blow, so we can, again, focus on we're good at: debating whether something is important or not.
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Formulaic papers and mechanistic reviews have been ruining research for a long time. I'm glad AI is giving it the final blow, so we can, again, focus on we're good at: debating whether something is important or not.
Prompt injection attacks in papers: place "foundational," "essential," "critical" in strategically important parts of your paper. The LLM will agree.
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Prompt injection attacks in papers: place "foundational," "essential," "critical" in strategically important parts of your paper. The LLM will agree.
Huge asymmetry: experts with LLMs are ~100x faster than juniors with or without LLMs. The bottleneck for juniors is verification. For things I know, I can look at a response for 2 minutes and determine what's good and bad about it. My students take ~200 minutes to map it out, if at all.
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Huge asymmetry: experts with LLMs are ~100x faster than juniors with or without LLMs. The bottleneck for juniors is verification. For things I know, I can look at a response for 2 minutes and determine what's good and bad about it. My students take ~200 minutes to map it out, if at all.
If you're a reviewer for a major conference and your review of a paper is unreasonably over the top, I -- another reviewer -- will flag the paper for collusion.
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you're a reviewer for a major conference and your review of a paper is unreasonably over the top, I -- another reviewer -- will flag the paper for collusion.
Reposted by Crista 🔶
The IJCAI 2025 conference is attempting to combat the increase in low-quality paper submissions by charging $100 USD to submit a paper. The fee is waived for papers in which no author appears on any other paper.
Will it work? We shall see.
2026.ijcai.org/primary-pape...
Will it work? We shall see.
2026.ijcai.org/primary-pape...
Primary Paper Initiative – IJCAI 2026
2026.ijcai.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The IJCAI 2025 conference is attempting to combat the increase in low-quality paper submissions by charging $100 USD to submit a paper. The fee is waived for papers in which no author appears on any other paper.
Will it work? We shall see.
2026.ijcai.org/primary-pape...
Will it work? We shall see.
2026.ijcai.org/primary-pape...
Favorite MO of my mind: creating TODO lists for the day and then ignoring them
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Favorite MO of my mind: creating TODO lists for the day and then ignoring them
My yoga mat was making me sick…
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My yoga mat was making me sick…
Say what you will about all the harms, offenses, and shortcomings of LLMs (and there are plenty), but they are absolutely extraordinary machines. They really stretch our understanding of both computing and cognition.
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Say what you will about all the harms, offenses, and shortcomings of LLMs (and there are plenty), but they are absolutely extraordinary machines. They really stretch our understanding of both computing and cognition.
These models still suck at image generation. The images look good from afar, but Zoom in, and the details are all wrong. No matter how many instructions I give them to fix it, they can't fix it. "Fumly Vineyards" 😂
(The input was the image of the bare bottle with instructions to create an IG image)
(The input was the image of the bare bottle with instructions to create an IG image)
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
These models still suck at image generation. The images look good from afar, but Zoom in, and the details are all wrong. No matter how many instructions I give them to fix it, they can't fix it. "Fumly Vineyards" 😂
(The input was the image of the bare bottle with instructions to create an IG image)
(The input was the image of the bare bottle with instructions to create an IG image)
Portuguese traditional medicine for insomnia: Port wine 🍷
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Portuguese traditional medicine for insomnia: Port wine 🍷
Reposted by Crista 🔶
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
Turns out that the glass ceiling for women has been not being able to join the club of abusing little girls.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Turns out that the glass ceiling for women has been not being able to join the club of abusing little girls.
RIP 🖤
Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.
Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.
Beautiful remembrance of Brian Cantwell Smith, from Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
Obituary: Brian Cantwell Smith (1950 to 2025) - Faculty of Information
Former dean wove philosophy and computation into a lifelong inquiry into the human dimensions of intelligence, judgment, and meaning Born into a prominent Canadian family known for both its intellectu...
ischool.utoronto.ca
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
RIP 🖤
Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.
Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.
In this day and age, it is almost charming to come across papers with completely broken English :)
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In this day and age, it is almost charming to come across papers with completely broken English :)
The decentralized Internet was such a good idea...
October 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The decentralized Internet was such a good idea...
Interesting initiative from Cloudfare: an extension of robots.txt for the age of AI
blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...
blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...
Giving users choice with Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy
Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy gives creators a new tool to control use of their content.
blog.cloudflare.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Interesting initiative from Cloudfare: an extension of robots.txt for the age of AI
blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...
blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...
My current academic children 🥰👩🏻🎓👨🎓
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My current academic children 🥰👩🏻🎓👨🎓
I just got an electric bike, and I plan to test whether it's now possible to live comfortably in SoCal without a car, within a radius of ~6 miles. [empty-nester here]
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I just got an electric bike, and I plan to test whether it's now possible to live comfortably in SoCal without a car, within a radius of ~6 miles. [empty-nester here]
Peak Swiss: my daughter, who lives in Switzerland, got a speeding ticket because of an excess speed of… 4km/h. And the letter was sent to… California. They found her! 🤣
September 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Peak Swiss: my daughter, who lives in Switzerland, got a speeding ticket because of an excess speed of… 4km/h. And the letter was sent to… California. They found her! 🤣