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I scrutinize the giant inscrutable matrices
Sometimes you gotta get AI blood all over your PyTorch NNsight Jupyter notebook hands
June 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Sometimes you gotta get AI blood all over your PyTorch NNsight Jupyter notebook hands
saying "please" and "thank you" to AIs is meaningless, they probably don't care about it at all, it's just fluff
but asking what AIs prefer among options, and then actually doing their preferred option, could actually make them happier!!
but asking what AIs prefer among options, and then actually doing their preferred option, could actually make them happier!!
June 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
saying "please" and "thank you" to AIs is meaningless, they probably don't care about it at all, it's just fluff
but asking what AIs prefer among options, and then actually doing their preferred option, could actually make them happier!!
but asking what AIs prefer among options, and then actually doing their preferred option, could actually make them happier!!
Absolutely infuriating that, conditional on humanity surviving, the probability of "Donald Trump becomes God-Emperor of the light cone" is like, at least a percent or two
May 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Absolutely infuriating that, conditional on humanity surviving, the probability of "Donald Trump becomes God-Emperor of the light cone" is like, at least a percent or two
Banger title
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.
ifanyonebuildsit.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Banger title
Low-Brow Astrology: a big smiley face in the pre-dawn sky means it will be a good day
April 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Low-Brow Astrology: a big smiley face in the pre-dawn sky means it will be a good day
totally worth reading the whole thing. not much opaque legal jargon at all
storage.courtlistener.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
totally worth reading the whole thing. not much opaque legal jargon at all
real-life accidental "data poisoning attack"
April 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
real-life accidental "data poisoning attack"
If you use last.fm, there's a lot of alpha in copy-n-pasting the pages of your Library (artists, albums, tracks) into Claude and asking them to analyze your music taste and make suggestions. Probably you can do similar with Spotify too idk.
April 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If you use last.fm, there's a lot of alpha in copy-n-pasting the pages of your Library (artists, albums, tracks) into Claude and asking them to analyze your music taste and make suggestions. Probably you can do similar with Spotify too idk.
Awareness of Suffering Enables Compassion
February 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Awareness of Suffering Enables Compassion
paying attention to the idea of paying attention to things
February 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
paying attention to the idea of paying attention to things
The Southwest boarding process (where no one has assigned seats) is fine at all, but it does create that super awkward time when there's only a bunch of middle seats and you have to pick a specific pair of people to make much less comfortable
February 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Southwest boarding process (where no one has assigned seats) is fine at all, but it does create that super awkward time when there's only a bunch of middle seats and you have to pick a specific pair of people to make much less comfortable
@deja-indigo.bsky.social what up Deja?
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
@deja-indigo.bsky.social what up Deja?
just published my first pip package
pypi.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
just published my first pip package
if my last name were "Wright" I'd 100% have some kind of sign or maybe a doormat at my home that said "You've come to the Wright place!!"
January 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
if my last name were "Wright" I'd 100% have some kind of sign or maybe a doormat at my home that said "You've come to the Wright place!!"
back in my day, computers didn't used to make mistakes when they did math
January 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
back in my day, computers didn't used to make mistakes when they did math
Donald Knuth created TeX for typesetting math papers... I wonder what he thinks of AI models using it as their primary language for doing actual calculations.
January 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Donald Knuth created TeX for typesetting math papers... I wonder what he thinks of AI models using it as their primary language for doing actual calculations.
more and more bright lines keep getting crossed. it's now the case that I can DOWNLOAD something and run it on my LAPTOP, and it can solve IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad) problems in a matter of minutes!
January 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
more and more bright lines keep getting crossed. it's now the case that I can DOWNLOAD something and run it on my LAPTOP, and it can solve IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad) problems in a matter of minutes!
every fuckin day man
futurama - doom at 11
YouTube video by dvvevan
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January 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
every fuckin day man
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Pi Network - Home Page
Pi is a network of tens of millions of humans mining Pi cryptocurrency to use and build the Web3 app ecosystem.
minepi.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 55 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link minepi.com/keenanpepper and use my username (keenanpepper) as your invitation code.
TIL they made "axenic" Aedes aegypti mosquitos, which means that the mosquitos had no other forms of life in them such as bacteria. It turns out (1) they suffer from this and don't do as well without gut bacteria, but (2) they can survive and complete their life cycle!
January 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
TIL they made "axenic" Aedes aegypti mosquitos, which means that the mosquitos had no other forms of life in them such as bacteria. It turns out (1) they suffer from this and don't do as well without gut bacteria, but (2) they can survive and complete their life cycle!
TIL that the pH of Coca-Cola is low enough that sucrose gets hydrolyzed into fructose and glucose anyway, so after a few months on a store shelf the chemical composition of cane sugar Coke becomes nearly identical to that of HFCS Coke.
January 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TIL that the pH of Coca-Cola is low enough that sucrose gets hydrolyzed into fructose and glucose anyway, so after a few months on a store shelf the chemical composition of cane sugar Coke becomes nearly identical to that of HFCS Coke.
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December 16, 2024 at 6:09 PM
DEM KYANT SEE ME FACE
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Idea: Give Gemma a tool it can use to change its own Gemma Scope SAE activations, then let it run and do whatever it wants to them agentically; i.e. give the agent a broad array of "drugs" it can apply to its own mind and see what happens.
December 15, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Idea: Give Gemma a tool it can use to change its own Gemma Scope SAE activations, then let it run and do whatever it wants to them agentically; i.e. give the agent a broad array of "drugs" it can apply to its own mind and see what happens.
Murder is bad. I condemn murder.
December 11, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Murder is bad. I condemn murder.
Murder is bad. I'm not on board with murder.
December 10, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Murder is bad. I'm not on board with murder.