Ted Underwood
@tedunderwood.com
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its kindness infinite. bsky.app/profile/tedu...
The sound of surf produced by my white noise machine always reminds me of the tides that flow through the lower levels of the House in Piranesi. Oddly, this conveys a more reassuring sense of the infinite than an actual ocean would.
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its kindness infinite. bsky.app/profile/tedu...
Y es that was weird; they didn’t render for me either but now they do
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Y es that was weird; they didn’t render for me either but now they do
It’s a good idea and someone will make $100 million on VR—or even just interactive video—of social situations where attractive people believe that you alone can tell them "¿dónde está la biblioteca?”
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It’s a good idea and someone will make $100 million on VR—or even just interactive video—of social situations where attractive people believe that you alone can tell them "¿dónde está la biblioteca?”
I know! I’ve been watching your sky maps with interest.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I know! I’ve been watching your sky maps with interest.
So much the same experience.
For some insane reason I volunteered to teach intro stats. I was barely one week ahead of the students. Gave me the only panic attack I’ve ever had.
For some insane reason I volunteered to teach intro stats. I was barely one week ahead of the students. Gave me the only panic attack I’ve ever had.
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
So much the same experience.
For some insane reason I volunteered to teach intro stats. I was barely one week ahead of the students. Gave me the only panic attack I’ve ever had.
For some insane reason I volunteered to teach intro stats. I was barely one week ahead of the students. Gave me the only panic attack I’ve ever had.
Yes, it’s always a heart-lifting experience when doctoral students emerge from their dens, blinking at the unfamiliar rays of our yellow star
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yes, it’s always a heart-lifting experience when doctoral students emerge from their dens, blinking at the unfamiliar rays of our yellow star
Yeah I always make fun of it when it uses the second person plural like that—though I feel a little mean
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Yeah I always make fun of it when it uses the second person plural like that—though I feel a little mean
Yeah, there’s so much to think about here.
A model that could reason about the possibility that its *own* perspective had unknown limitations would be a next step
A model that could reason about the possibility that its *own* perspective had unknown limitations would be a next step
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Yeah, there’s so much to think about here.
A model that could reason about the possibility that its *own* perspective had unknown limitations would be a next step
A model that could reason about the possibility that its *own* perspective had unknown limitations would be a next step
Ah, curses. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Ah, curses. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Though, to be fair, GPT-5 seems able to handle this rn!
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Though, to be fair, GPT-5 seems able to handle this rn!
Fair. I’m callous and hardened enough to feel the burden of proof is on the plaintiff in a case like this, but I don’t insist that others agree
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Fair. I’m callous and hardened enough to feel the burden of proof is on the plaintiff in a case like this, but I don’t insist that others agree