Happy to have Patrick joining us this fall!

Side Project: Base model LLMs for human-in-the-loop evolutionary algorithms (to evolve poetry)

tldr: Base model LLMs (w/o fine-tuning) intelligently complete patterns. With them, easy to make a human-in-the-loop search to breed text (e.g. poems, Python programs, etc).

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Last day of the semester taught! Just final student presentations left now.

'Possession of a Machinegun in a Nightclub'? I wasn't going to go out clubbing in DC anyway, but this wasn't previously on my list of reasons.

Language is mushy. Ellie Pavlick, a computer scientist at Brown University and Google DeepMind, probes how this mushiness works in large language models. In a conversation with John Pavlus, Pavlick explores what “meaning” means for machines. quantamagazine.org/does-ai-know-w…

my No Signs Of Unusual Flu Activity In People tshirt is raising a lot of questions etc.

Voyager 1, launched Sept 5, 1977, is furtherest human artifact from Earth, over 15B miles, 24B kms. Magnificent remote debugging has it back sending understandable data after 6 month outage. Flight Data Subsystem computer, 7400 series TI chips (see image), with 8K 16 bit words of…

109 years since the #ArmenianGenocide , is history repeating itself? ANCA's Aram Hamparian joins Thanos Davelis to look at the threats Armenians face today, and break down how the US can stand by the phrase 'Never Again' and hold Azerbaijan accountable: thegreekcurrent.simplecast.com/episodes/109-y…

AYF March for Justice for the Armenian Genocide (1915) and Artsakh Genocide (2023) at the White House twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

nice walk to work today

Mark Nelson Thinking is also closed book. You need the building blocks you're making bigger things out of to be accessible on demand.