Stephan M. Unter
s-unter.bsky.social
Stephan M. Unter
@s-unter.bsky.social
The World's Northernmost Egyptologist | Computer Scientist | Historical Document Analysis | Temporary in Luleå, Sweden 🇸🇪 | Swiss by Heart | Pretty much LGBT
(just some very rudimentary, uneducated thoughts on the matter - LLMs are not the subject of my research)
June 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So while LLMs may fail factually from time to time, their capability of fulfilling a completely different goal, namely to satisfy our search for an understandable, plausible answer, is quite astonishing.
June 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I quite often have the "Clever Hans effect" on my mind these days. Named after a German horse called Hans, which supposedly was capable of doing maths. Instead, it was really great at reading humans. And giving them what they wanted.
June 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Or the other way round - while we™ claw through evidence I'm the form of hallucinations to prove that LLMs are "stupid", in fact they are pretty capable of using our own system to mimic potentially plausible solutions.
June 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Anyway, I just finished adding the first wave of important tokens and thoughts and bits and pieces important to my #research, and that's what it looks like from a rather high-level perspective.

Quite beautiful, isn't it?

#science #academia #obsidian #knowledge #visualisation
June 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
To me, it was especially important that I could add images and mathematical formulae. All no problem at all.

The best: the software is free and all information is stored locally on your device. You can either try to sync with other devices via a cloud. Or pay a little bit for them to take over.
June 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Also, for whatever reason, the plot of #AgentsOfShield touches my personal life at the moment at so many points... It's kinda weird. Almost unsettling.
June 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Personally, I have started celebrating Sweden in the best way possible.

Staying in bed.
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It's also funny how Switzerland seems very annoyed by my absence, which directly lead to rainy weather and deflation.

Don't worry, mountain guys, I'll be back. No need to crash the country already.
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
WAS! Es erklärt so viel. All wir hungrigen Archäologen, vor uns die fetten Besucher, und keiner wirft uns auch nur einen Krümel in den Sand! 😭 Alles ergibt plötzlich Sinn!
May 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Das natürlich vor allem auf kommunaler Ebene, klar. Aber ich halte das für wichtig. Weil man erst, wenn man selbst in der Notwendigkeit steht, ein Problem lösen zu müssen, auch erkennt, wo die Fallstricke und Probleme sind.

Stellt sich raus, am Ende ist es gar nicht so leicht, Politik zu machen.
May 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM