Alberto Cetoli
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Alberto Cetoli
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Data scientist with an NLProc twist
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I watched this (youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...) on the abuse of LLMs & 'vibe physics' by @acollierastro.bsky.social - well worth a watch! - and I was struck by how the back 15 minutes (the 'thought train') also summed up neatly what it has been like to be a public-facing historian, even before LLMs.1/
vibe physics
YouTube video by Angela Collier
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July 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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This thing now deserves its own name
March 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Restarting an old routine "Daily Dose of Good Papers" together w @vaibhavadlakha.bsky.social

Sharing my notes and thoughts here 🧵
November 23, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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See my notes on the amazing #NeurIPS2024 tutorial on building LLMs by @kylelo.bsky.social , @akshitab.bsky.social and @natolambert.bsky.social

Practical tips, key takeaways, and insights all in one place! 🚀

Dive in:
manuelsh.github.io/blog/2025/NI...
Opening the LLM pipeline | Manuel Sánchez Hernández
My notes on a great tutorial at NeurIPS 2024 on how to build a Large Language Model, with many practical tips.
manuelsh.github.io
January 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A Netflix miniseries by my brilliant colleague Ken Liu – Pantheon- posits that AI – the current fad – will be superseded by UI – Uploaded human minds. Good writing, layered. With some of the nuance about uploading that are in Robin Hanson’s THE AGE OF EM.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-diw...
I am BEGGING you to watch PANTHEON
YouTube video by Johnny 2 Cellos
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We do. Sooner or later, it will land on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Fred Jelinek Seminar Series - YouTube
Within the regular Linguistic Mondays, special space is reserved approx. 4 times per academic year for talks given by leading specialists in the field of com...
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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We are honored to host Hans Kamp for a lecture on Mental State Representational Theory. His framework explores how beliefs and intentions shape communication and understanding—a fascinating look at language and cognition! 🧠✨
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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Check out this piece on Strawberry 🍓/o1 we just authored on TheConversation! theconversation.com/ai-that-mimi... with @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social and Kolya 🚀
AI that mimics human problem solving is a big advance – but comes with new risks and problems
Chain of thought reasoning has been used in OpenAI’s new AI model.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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Berkeley Artificial Intelligence makes the case for a general shift toward “compound AI systems” that have multiple components interacting and augmenting each other. #MLSky 🤖
The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems
The BAIR Blog
bair.berkeley.edu
February 20, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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If we got this method to work, the payoff might be that we could measure uncertainty, and distant-read things like the history of the cliffhanger.
January 6, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...
January 1, 2024 at 6:43 AM
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Zi Yin, Wei Ding, Jia Liu
Alignment is not sufficient to prevent large language models from generating harmful information: A psychoanalytic perspective. (arXiv:2311.08487v1 [cs.CL])
http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08487
November 16, 2023 at 9:00 AM
November 5, 2023 at 10:50 PM