I disagree with this bc the math I see LLMs generate (Putnam answers, overworked derivations, subtle wrongness) is about on par with its flat, artless prose

lots of concerning Zerg tendencies in AI research scaling=insect GPUs=insect language models=surprisingly human we are approximating rationality thru the Logos of the written word??? Python=human PyTorch=insect etc

love when i sleep terribly and then later in the morning my watch/phone gives me a report on how terribly i slept 🥰 thank you technology

need the diehard french-haters out there to really commit to the bit and start using exclusively pre-Norman vocabulary

with some pleasantly hand-wavy math, you can show fractional kelly (i.e. betting a portion of what the kelly criterion tells you to) shrinks with your uncertainty stmorse.github.io/journal/odds4.…

got my wish

I'm writing up a blog post about Markdown streaming, because I think it is an interesting topic. I reckon there will be almost a dozen people who agree with me!

hi, UMAP appreciator here! this is not beautiful, UMAPs only do this when they are in extreme distress (jk it looks cool)

why do people say it "lahzzay fair" what's going on there

i follow cremieux but this is the well-actually trap of being a scientist. it spoils life. superstitions and old wives tales, when employed at arms length, are full of value. maybe you think smelling a potato prevents sea sickness - if it works it works!

"But these days you can --- and that's not just wrong, it's dangerous." 😑

got a PC at home with a big GPU on it you only use for gaming ? why not convert it into a personal ML dev machine and remote into it from your laptop ?? had fun doing this and wrote a little blog post: stmorse.github.io/journal/home-d…

gerrymandering is interesting in a math sense bc it is surprisingly hard to define the objective func. we think the obj is like, "districts don't look snakey" (gerry + salamander). but a math approach is to compare vote dists over the space of possible maps, and avoid outliers

learned recently that "Gothic architecture" was an epithet applied to this style by Renaissance-era architects who wanted to reframe it as barbaric. had nothing to do with the Goths of the western steppe

the fact that Poland’s PM is named “Donald Tusk” just shows you the simulation is running out of ideas

my wife has been in my contacts with this pic since 2006. taken with a flip phone. she was cold at a NYE thing. look how beautiful she is i am a lucky man