Pre-2025, U.S. 4-star general: "Our allies are critical. We're not going to do anything alone." ...Robert Brooks Brown is now retired :-( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

@asmiley.bsky.social

Excited that tomorrow's keynote speaker for @Belmont University's SPARK Symposium is Destin Sandlin of the Smarter Everyday YouTube channel. Mostly he does fun physics-related videos, but sometimes it gets serious... Check it out

I still have yet to try xLSTM's but I find it bizarre that only 400 people on here follow @hochreitersepp.bsky.social and Bsky needs more technical activity, so reposting!

Why do the feeds of so many [social] media platforms eventually become dominated by "Suggested Posts"? Not just ads, yet they're still noise that devalue the platform (ie make me want to *stop* scrolling & not return). Facebook, Reddit, Instagram,... Glad BlueSky hasn't done that -- yet.

More technical content posts like this my feed, please! Let's diminish the need to check the other site to stay up to date in ML

Real example, not "/s": bsky.app/profile/asa-...

...and yet "jaggedly", incredibly STUPID. e.g. Since I reinstalled Windows and the network driver isn't working, It told me to navigate the browser to Intel.com and download a new network driver. ??

For all Copilot's failings, it is EXCELLENT at Windows technical support! I am amazed. Seems this was a priority for Microsoft -- and/or what they had the most training data for. ;-)

Sure, this means non-portable (integer) interval changes if you switch machines, but for things like checkpointing and visualization intervals, I'd rather have them time-based regardless of the machine.

Tiny quality-of-life utility: do_every(). Instead of mod-based integer interval checkers (e.g. 'if step % ckpt_every == 0:', this can let me easily do wall-clock-based interval checking, e.g. 'if do_every("15min"):' Each do_every() gets unique ID for indep. tracking
gist.github.com/drscotthawle...

Nice! Thanks, I wasn't aware of that one and I *should be.* I'm a big fan of the GANSpace paper (arxiv.org/abs/2004.02546), and am aware of using (Anthropic's) Sparse AutoEncoders for various applications. I'm sort of trying to span the extremes "discovered post-facto" and "built by construction".

Update: Yes this method works. No, I haven't found any practical use for it yet ;-) (at least not compared to other existing methods). There may be some practical use, I've just been working on other things (that don't work, lol).

Quantization from the ground up | ngrok blog A complete guide to what quantization is, how it works, and how it's used to compress large language models

Amazing tutorial/explainer on LLM model quantization by Sam Rose @samwho.dev : Interactive visualizations,...Just wow! ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

ハイスイノナサ / 地下鉄の動態 【Official Music Video】Haisuinonasa / Dynamics of the Subway YouTube video by zankyorecord

Fun music visualization. Crazy rhythm :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDyk...

Thinking of starting to replace "AI" with "quantum computing" in future edtech-hype discourses, e.g. "We need to teach all students [quantum computing] literacy", "We Are a [Quantum Computing] Campus". /s

This is so, so well-articulated.

Right, so no "AI sanctions", gigantic or otherwise.

Former student Billy Mitchell just defended his PhD at U. North Texas! Now seelking postdoc positions. Strongly Endorsed! Billy can do it all. He first-authored a JAES paper w/ me on neural audio effects as an undergrad, been working on photons & positronium since.. www.linkedin.com/in/williammi...

Where are the "AI sanctions"? I tried to read through the whole thread, but all I could see was two irresponsible lawyers being sanctioned (for irresponsible lawyering).

"Guy from Memento" is such an apt metaphor: they have no memory, no persistent state, only a running chat log prepended to each query. I find myself asking an LLM "Why did you just do that?" but the decision is long gone. I'm asking the guy from Memento to read a chat log and make up an explanation.

Thank you, that was very helpful. I had naively assumed he was concerned about a certain world leader who fits the description of the antichrist in many ways.

TIL that despite 'sandboxing' Claude Code can still *read* from anywhere on your machine. Solution: Put it in a dev container. Pretty painless, actually. :-)
(Use case: trying karpathy's autoresearch on my Mac via CC).

Learning Some Geometric/Clifford Algebra – Scott H. Hawley Clifford algebra isn’t so scary

A few years ago I caught the GA bug, but I'm still getting my materials together for teaching mechanics with GA -- I hit a difficulty spike when we got to moments of inertia. Need to study more. drscotthawley.github.io/blog/posts/2...

A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra YouTube video by sudgylacmoe

That's now tied for my top 2 favorite "intro to GA" videos, the other being Sudgy's that connects with physics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=60z_...

GAME26 Freya Holmér. Why can't you multiply vectors? YouTube video by Bivector

The video for @freya.bsky.social's great intro to Geometric Algebra at #GAME26 is now posted on YouTube. Very accessible, highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFzo...

Transcendental Number Jamboree (Lyric Video) YouTube video by Scott Hawley

Happy Pi Day, y'all youtu.be/AlB9pXJ-T4k

The post of the month...

Explorers (1985) ⭐ 6.4 | Adventure, Comedy, Family 1h 49m | PG

Saw early screening of "Project Hail Mary" movie. It was good. Note that they removed (almost) all the science that was in the book. Don't expect hard sci-fi, but it's a fine as a "space fantasy adventure" e.g the film that started Ethan Hawke & River Phoenix's careers www.imdb.com/title/tt0089...

Grammarly Disables Tool Offering Generative-AI Feedback Credited To Real Writers - Slashdot Grammarly has disabled its Expert Review feature after backlash from writers whose names were used to present AI-generated feedback without their permission. Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) CEO Shishi...

Congrats to authors who pushed back on Grammarly's ill-conceived "Expert Review". As noted on ./: Grammarly could have offered ROYALTIES & LICENSING instead of the typical zero-sum game of "rip everyone off" or "shut it down". There's a middle path: Opt-in, Give a cut. slashdot.org/story/26/03/...