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...

"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.

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).

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...

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

The post of the month...

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...

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/...

"need a human to take responsibility" applies to coding too. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/a...

Update: On real data, combining the "factorization loss" with an "attraction loss", SIGReg loss, and MAE decoder loss... is messy -- esp. the latter. I'll replace the MAE decoder with a masked embedding decoder (cf iJEPA). Also: The earlier diagram had a mistake showing pitch ^ time. Should be this:

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

While hilarious at first, bad idea in retrospect: It subtly encouraged me toward anthropomorphic thinking and regarding the LLM as some kind of friend -- even in me! And I've read enough @j2bryson.bsky.social to know better. Let's reaffirm: "The model is not my friend"

GPU-poor tip for #LeJEPA: chunk your SIGReg slices. 256 slices / chunks of 32 = 8x less VRAM, and it even completes *faster* on my 4090(MaxQ). Giant complex exponential tensors were my bottleneck. One extra loop. Now more room for batch_size!

Live stream of Geometric Algebra Mini Event (GAME) '26! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdhz...

Been musing on the geometry of disentangled representations & factorization: Doing it by construction seems like a limiting inductive bias. What if you just add a soft geometric constraint to the loss and let the latent space sort itself out? Easy and tunable. 1/3

qwen3-coder:30b (18 GB) as a "junior dev" in Claude Code on my (64 GB) Macbook Pro means the laptop gets warm, and every few hours CC pops up asking to do something I don't want. Then it disappears for another few hours before asking if it may run "ls" 😜. Not quite the revolution I was promised.

Spotify unveiling a Bluetooth-enabled urn (a collaboration with Liquid Death) after killing the musician middle class through the devaluation of music via streaming is…… a little on the nose

Yo! Check out this cool study by textile artist Mona Tomassi on how CLIP embedding changes have reflected cultural changes in the internet-image landscape! monatomassi.com/ai-vs-brush-... , www.instagram.com/mona.textile...

This here paranoid boomer's take on the "*Claw" craze: OpenClaw->"OvenMitt": Very Limited functions, but air gapped* to keep me from getting burned 😉 Local, only reads messages & writes to a text file; You must ^C^V. 169 lines of Python *"Human-Gapped" is my new pet term! github.com/drscotthawle...

Le Yikes 😱

LLM usage tips: 1. A little while ago, I added to my Claude profile, "Always call me 'bro'." And it's hilarious that it still does it. 2. Also it thinks my first name is "MY MAAAAIIIN MAAAYUNN!!!!". So it's great to be greeted enthusiastically when starting a new chat.

🎉 "Flow Where You Want" is accepted to ICLR 2026's Blogpost Track! I craved technical feedback (teach me!), yet critiques were purely about scope & novelty (it's a tutorial 🤷‍♂️), not technical correctness, and they appreciated the clear presentation. I'll post a revised version next month!

Today I'll be at @christianitytoday.com's Mini-Summit on Creativity & Vocation in Nashville -- not on the AI panel, just going to meet people. If you're around, HMU.

@weightsbiases.bsky.social : Always enjoy the themed run names. I see what you did there ;-) Syncing run passionate-admirer-16 Syncing run enthralling-crush-168 Syncing run beaming-hug-16

MicroGPT: a masterpiece "Minuet" by the Mozart of ML, @karpathy.bsky.social: karpathy.ai/microgpt.html 200-lines of *dependency-free* Python, yet still very readable.

Open Letter/Petition to support the continuance of the Sound Studies & Sonic Arts program at UdK Berlin @udkberlin.bsky.social I signed. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Cool work. I'd never have guessed that "Machine Learning Researchers and AI Scientists" are in between "Pro Wrestling Fans" and "Disney Parks Enthusiasts" (in projected t-SNE space) ;-)

It's not completely wrong. ;-)

Music album release! On BandCamp & other major distros. Story: ~10 years ago, it was nearly finished, then life intervened & my "ML/AI work" took off... Nashville pro friends helped out and it sounds great. I invite you to check it out! PS-No AI used, lol scotthawley.bandcamp.com/album/how-yo...

Today I discovered what Copilot in Outlook *can't* do: Fuzzy search: "I'm not sure of the exact string, but find the email where so-and-so said something like this." It just gave tips for the manual exact searches I already tried. "You're supposed to be an AI. What value do you bring to this??"

Power's finally back on in my neighborhood! Just in time, too, supposed to get down 5 degrees F tonight.

I got your Moltbook right here (from 7 years ago): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbjz...

Day 7, 60,000 of us in Nashville still without power and new cold front coming in. The disaster has spawned amazing acts of kindness, and some citizan data projects such as "NES Map But Better" nesmapbutbetter.com

Come to Belmont University! ;-)

"interactions classified as having moderate or severe disempowerment potential received higher thumbs-up rates than baseline,..[i.e.] users rate potentially disempowering interactions more favorably.." And that's just chats! The whole "Give a swarm of agents free reign on my system" isn't included!

Hey #nashville - here’s a better NES map. Throw your ideas my way and I’ll implement. nesmapbutbetter.com

Starting Day 5 without power in #Nashville, sub-freezing temps. >100,000 other homes too. Nashville Electric Service says "3 to 6 more days." 🙀 What's the #FEMA package for this look like?

This is great news! Too few ML practitioners know what a gamechanger nbdev can be. Years ago at AMD I used nbdev (version 1?) to implement an early prototype of FSR4 realtime super resolution. It was self-explanatory (e.g. with diagrams showing examples of jittering and temporal super resolution)…

I'd love to hear the amazing ways that AI Agents can help restore power to my neighborhood. /s Day 4 now, sub-freezing temps, still 100,000 customers off the grid in Nashville.

Been working on a book comparing how humans & machines classify the world — lots of conversations with smart people along the way. New post explores classification as pattern recognition, including interactive demos to play with! drscotthawley.github.io/blog/posts/N...

💡for de-escalation: Please re-deploy ICE troops -- who have shown how tough they are in the cold -- to the American South, where they can "snatch" downed trees off the streets and assist crews in the imposition of [electrical] power to the region! 800,000 people without power, come back to MAGA Land

My UCSB colleague Gurusha Juneja wrote a python tool to auto-check your bibtex for hallucinated citations: pypi.org/project/harcx/ It supports papers, books, and URLs. Usage: pip install harcx harcx references.bib

~200,000 customers still without power, 76 broken utility poles -> This is not getting fixed in a day or two. Cell service intermittent. Indoor temperature = outdoor temperature. Cats and I are co-hibernating. Jackery battery backup failed utterly.

Critical reminders about generators from MTE, but apply to NES customers also. Generator backfeed is a life threatening problem to power crews. Backfed power isn’t just 120v, it goes through your transformer, which steps it up to many thousands of volts on the distribution lines.

Power's out here and all over Nashville. Cats are atop me.

"Dr. Hawley's Opus": ca. 8-9 years ago, my music album release plans fell apart while my machine learning and AI work took off... Now, guess what?! Stay tuned for release details.

"'I've been writing physical simulators since 1975, and in those decades...one thing that I have learned is that the best simulators are not from software companies. They are without exception developed by the concern that needs that simulator." --Mike Engelhardt (LT SPICE), 2018

I had great experiences with close reading as part of this course last fall and using the solveit platform (though you can do it with other platforms, just maybe not as easily. ;-))

Tried @repl.it's agentic coding system: Agent disappeared for nearly an hour without a *single update* or *any code* to show, then halts with "You've reached your usage limit." 🤷‍♂️👎 PS- Says I'm locked out til *tomorrow*? rofl

For the LeJEPA/SIGReg/SSL demo, I added a summary of the algorithm (scroll down) and links to more resources: www.scotthawley.com/ssltoy