having to ssh into a box but via a in browser shell that assumes you have a German keyboard layout, because of university bureacracy reasons, must be one of the top circles of hell imo

Here's my new blogpost on the dataset I have created alongside @ksolovev.com: we decided to solve the issue of data availability for research on news articles by processing, cleaning, tagging and indexing the whole news subset of the Common Crawl, resulting in cs2.uni-graz.at/blog/infini-...

maybe LLMs have learned from humans that all stories one writes are, all in all, always about the author

Do even our data centers lack aircon? (MUSICA is the flagship Austrian supercomputer, part of the EuroHPC program)

the simulation hypothesis but it's about the near certainty that every agent is just a claude subagent

the simulation hypothesis but it's about the near certainty that every agent is just a claude subagent

I have found out that, in Germany, % catholic per state strongly predicts per capita AI talent. Draw your own conclusions

today claude nerdsniped me about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...

all the links of bluesky hah.spencer.place/linkstream

Thread of my and @lorrenz.bsky.social heads getting featured in ICWSM pictures

Presenting what came out of this simulation later today (at 1PM LA time) for the SocialLLM worksho @icwsm.bsky.social, at the USC Information Sciences Institute, Room 1014, with my coathor @lorrenz.bsky.social Here is the link to the paper: workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/pdf/2026_65....

Presenting what came out of this simulation later today (at 1PM LA time) for the SocialLLM worksho @icwsm.bsky.social, at the USC Information Sciences Institute, Room 1014, with my coathor @lorrenz.bsky.social Here is the link to the paper: workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/pdf/2026_65....

new frontiers in the sphere of trying to avoid opening WandB

new frontiers in the sphere of trying to avoid opening WandB

Total victory for this blogpost that last year suggested that hyperstition is central in conceptualizing LLMs' personalities

Total victory for this blogpost that last year suggested that hyperstition is central in conceptualizing LLMs' personalities

The pope publicly criticizing Park et al. (2023)

Always fun to do research on running simulations with AI agents

for my fellow Italian moots

Dedication?

@gwern.bsky.social on why human preferences and not synth data lead to modal collapse

has anybody ever done Claude-test driven development? Not just TDD with Claude writing the tests, I mean literally calling Claude code at test time to semantically validate the outputs (for fuzzy data processing things)

On a new machine

Happy to be on the cool side of the right neighborhood (the t̶p̶o̶t̶ tfea one)

Thread on the newly released X recommendation algorithm. I work on LLM-based social simulations so this is directly relevant for me and I spent some time digging through the code. github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm

for some reason by accident i am reading capitalist realism and the thirst for annihilation at the same time

huggingface preaching the gospel on what should actually matter in llm evaluation (especially point 3) huggingface.co/spaces/OpenE...

Thread on the newly released X recommendation algorithm. I work on LLM-based social simulations so this is directly relevant for me and I spent some time digging through the code. github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm

My old wifi contract expired, and the new one struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters

Funny hot take theory: the first LLMs were bad at arithmetic because Turing wrote they should be, in the Turing Test paper, to appear human

Funny hot take theory: the first LLMs were bad at arithmetic because Turing wrote they should be, in the Turing Test paper, to appear human

Very bsky problem

The more I spend time in Austria, the more this feels true

We are hiring a Senior Scientist! If questions like "how much of Common Crawl can we actually store and process on our infrastructure?" get you excited, you would prob love this job. Come do research at fun scales with us

A thing I've been working on for the past year: an LLM benchmark on the dreaded Italian medicine faculty entry exam. I will present it in two weeks at @ailc-nlp.bsky.social Clic-it in Cagliari!

from this awesome blogpost: snats.xyz/pages/articl...

Life is going from one cool spot to train AI models to another In this fancy Berlin library you can listen to vinyls while you do it!

Me looking very dumb while pointing at things at two academic events: 1. Pointing at a logits inside @repligate.bsky.social's loom for the "Braive New World" conference at @uni-graz.at 2. Pointing at my poster at @ic2s2.bsky.social last week on improving LLM agentic natural conversation synthesis

Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone. Sorry for the Fisher posting but it's so good

I look really bad/funny in this picture but I am glad I was given the opportunity to talk about LLM research to an audience of cool researchers! Fun fact: I also held a hands-on session that involved playing around with Bluesky data!

Karpathy on training Neural Networks: you should go slowly and be paranoid me, while vibecoding torch code: what if i just increase the paranoid part?

how not to name your ai agents

genz semantic embeddings engineering from my collegue

backpropagation was inspired by freud

“How about we pull over for a bit and get some rest?" - GPT4, when it's their turn to drive

I wish all textbooks were written like this one from @jurafsky.bsky.social‬

was true in 2012 and it is true now

Stumbled upon new ammunition for my personal struggle against RHLF: the tendency of models trained this way to give correct sounding answers make us believe in wrong things more arxiv.org/abs/2409.12822

Looks important for my rec algorithm people: hard confirmation that Google uses essentially hybrid rankings for search: page rank, bert embeddings and a secret ingredient (user data)