Jonathan Quinn
jonoquinn.bsky.social
Jonathan Quinn
@jonoquinn.bsky.social
Reposted by Jonathan Quinn
Along with Baguettotron we release the smallest viable language model to date. Monad, a 56M transformer, trained on the English part of SYNTH with non-random performance on MMLU. Desiging Monad an engineering challenge requiring a custom tiny tokenizer. huggingface.co/PleIAs/Monad
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Care to explain why?
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I’m getting access denied when trying to follow your link. I’m in the UK so guess it’s related to our recently implemented online safety legislation:
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Reposted by Jonathan Quinn
We found that forest mice have larger (~2x!) corticospinal tracts (CSTs; the axons of CSNs) compared to prairie mice! This is due to more CSNs in secondary motor/sensory ctx (M2/S2), but not primary sensorimotor ctx (M1/S1)

This led to the question: do forest mice have better hand dexterity?
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Really enjoyed reading this, thanks for taking the time to post it.
October 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Great thread! Thanks.
September 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Or maybe a less negative tl;dr = “These technologies may have potential as helpful tools for science writers, but they are not ready for “prime time” at this point for the SciPak team. “
September 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Reposted by Jonathan Quinn
I'm highly skeptical of such income comparisons. The vast discrepancies between what are private and public goods in the countries gets little consideration. For example, here in Germany, good public transportation means less money needed to buy cars. Also, how much is 6-weeks vacation/yr worth?
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM