Sheryl
@estellunaris.bsky.social
MTG Gandalf <3, Gaming and anime lover
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
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Worth a read: Tim Dettmers (CMU, AI2) on AGI and ASI. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w...
My skepticism has also relied on the physics of hardware. Tim goes into a lot of detail.
My skepticism has also relied on the physics of hardware. Tim goes into a lot of detail.
Why AGI Will Not Happen — Tim Dettmers
If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skep...
timdettmers.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Worth a read: Tim Dettmers (CMU, AI2) on AGI and ASI. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w...
My skepticism has also relied on the physics of hardware. Tim goes into a lot of detail.
My skepticism has also relied on the physics of hardware. Tim goes into a lot of detail.
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As Justin Reich wrote recently at the Chronicle, we don't know how to "teach AI." This is a complicated problem that it will take years and lots of experimenting to understand. Past failures are myriad and initiatives like Purdue's are falling into the same traps. www.chronicle.com/article/stop...
Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI
Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.
www.chronicle.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
As Justin Reich wrote recently at the Chronicle, we don't know how to "teach AI." This is a complicated problem that it will take years and lots of experimenting to understand. Past failures are myriad and initiatives like Purdue's are falling into the same traps. www.chronicle.com/article/stop...
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Eruhantalë 🍁(Quenya)
This was the last of the three prayers spoken by the King or Queen of Númenor at the end of autumn as a ceremony of thanksgiving to the God of Arda.
It means: Thanksgiving to Eru.
(Art by David Greset)
This was the last of the three prayers spoken by the King or Queen of Númenor at the end of autumn as a ceremony of thanksgiving to the God of Arda.
It means: Thanksgiving to Eru.
(Art by David Greset)
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Eruhantalë 🍁(Quenya)
This was the last of the three prayers spoken by the King or Queen of Númenor at the end of autumn as a ceremony of thanksgiving to the God of Arda.
It means: Thanksgiving to Eru.
(Art by David Greset)
This was the last of the three prayers spoken by the King or Queen of Númenor at the end of autumn as a ceremony of thanksgiving to the God of Arda.
It means: Thanksgiving to Eru.
(Art by David Greset)
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Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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shouldn't post him, but
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
shouldn't post him, but
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oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
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Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI
(via Axios)
(via Axios)
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI
(via Axios)
(via Axios)
Another AI slop, you can't quantify how human feel based on facial recognition ever... human are deeper than that!
“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”
AI is changing how we quantify pain
Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.
www.technologyreview.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Another AI slop, you can't quantify how human feel based on facial recognition ever... human are deeper than that!
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*॰¨̮ Art tutorial: How to draw a pumpkin (◜ ⩊ ◝)🎃⭐️‧*･
October 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
*॰¨̮ Art tutorial: How to draw a pumpkin (◜ ⩊ ◝)🎃⭐️‧*･
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Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
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🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
October 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
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Look, I wrote and directed a whole damn MOVIE about this in 2002. And nope. We're not there. This isn't urgent. This is bullshit salesmanship for trash fancy autocomplete tech that has NOTHING to do with sentience or personhood.
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Look, I wrote and directed a whole damn MOVIE about this in 2002. And nope. We're not there. This isn't urgent. This is bullshit salesmanship for trash fancy autocomplete tech that has NOTHING to do with sentience or personhood.
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If you use any of my How LLMs Work blog posts in your classes, could you please let me know. I'm applying for a thing 🙏.
The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work, Part I
Large Language Models (LLMs) are fancy artificial neural networks. But you don’t have time to learn the math or engineering. Unfortunately…
medium.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you use any of my How LLMs Work blog posts in your classes, could you please let me know. I'm applying for a thing 🙏.
The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
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Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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Preprint of “Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education” available: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283
By Ana Elisa Lopez-Miranda (an exceptional undergrad!), @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social, and me.
Comments appreciated!
By Ana Elisa Lopez-Miranda (an exceptional undergrad!), @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social, and me.
Comments appreciated!
September 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Preprint of “Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education” available: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283
By Ana Elisa Lopez-Miranda (an exceptional undergrad!), @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social, and me.
Comments appreciated!
By Ana Elisa Lopez-Miranda (an exceptional undergrad!), @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social, and me.
Comments appreciated!
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What’s it like to date a chatbot? Patricia Marx tries out some A.I. relationships.
Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends
Nineteen per cent of American adults have talked to an A.I. romantic interest. Chatbots may know a lot, but do they make a good partner?
www.newyorker.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What’s it like to date a chatbot? Patricia Marx tries out some A.I. relationships.
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Claude, "We all know among Sauron's many evils was that he ran Mordor using an Excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs. Show me the spreadsheet"
It made 12 tabs "so bureaucratically complex that even the Eye of Sauron would need reading glasses to review it." Some very funny stuff. Creative, even.
It made 12 tabs "so bureaucratically complex that even the Eye of Sauron would need reading glasses to review it." Some very funny stuff. Creative, even.
September 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Claude, "We all know among Sauron's many evils was that he ran Mordor using an Excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs. Show me the spreadsheet"
It made 12 tabs "so bureaucratically complex that even the Eye of Sauron would need reading glasses to review it." Some very funny stuff. Creative, even.
It made 12 tabs "so bureaucratically complex that even the Eye of Sauron would need reading glasses to review it." Some very funny stuff. Creative, even.
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"Fleem has mad charisma." -- Mark Rosewater
September 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Fleem has mad charisma." -- Mark Rosewater
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Quick rundown for non-US academics of whether you're likely to be eligible for the Anthropic payout:
1. you have works published in or before 2022
2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov
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1. you have works published in or before 2022
2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov
1/2
September 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Quick rundown for non-US academics of whether you're likely to be eligible for the Anthropic payout:
1. you have works published in or before 2022
2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov
1/2
1. you have works published in or before 2022
2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov
1/2