Neil Traft
ntraft.bsky.social
Neil Traft
@ntraft.bsky.social
PhD student at the Vermont Complex Systems Institute. Interested in ML, evolution, self-organization, & collective intelligence.

http://ntraft.com
https://t.co/ja3fdtRLdM
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October 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
GPT now has ads. 💀

They are voluntary... for now.
September 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Every single part of this website is solid gold. 😂 Thank you!
September 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In reality, all environments are only partially observable, so this is the only regime in which RL should be evaluated.
August 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I just realized that all these hyped-up “AI scientist” concepts all concentrate on the idea of *discovery*—new algorithms, new materials, new products—without exception. Not a one of them focus on *understanding*—arguably the larger role of a scientist! 🧐
July 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Been studying Mixture of Experts recently. It's baffling to learn that typically different tokens are routed to *different* experts. How can you be an "expert" at a particular word?? I suspect this name lends us very poor intuition for what these models actually do!

(shows 2 tokens and 4 "experts")
July 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Don't know which pub you're referencing (having a hard time finding on my phone), but he also discusses this in his "Studying Artificial Life With Cellular Automata". I.e., molecules are parallel so alife should be too. (Later mentions why traditional computers are not so parallel, even w many CPU.)
February 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
That process for making a decision? THAT'S the free will! That's just you. Deciding.
February 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yeah I think I got a pretty good one... #bsky_builds_bots
January 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Post your cookies. (Better late than never.)
December 28, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Sutton's Bitter Lesson is that simple algorithms win *IF* they can scale. But the whole point is we don't all agree on what will scale.
December 16, 2024 at 4:51 AM
WHY SO EFFECTIVE?
MORE IN PAPER!
December 11, 2024 at 3:29 PM
A new foundational infrastructure is needed to achieve the Internet as the participatory, self-organized collective we initially dreamed it would be... rather than the centralized, uncustomizable, ad-choked Internet we've ended up with.
December 3, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Look, I do machine learning, but I'm not happy about it.
November 19, 2024 at 5:35 AM
The technology we could have vs. the technology we got.
September 25, 2024 at 12:13 AM