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Matthias Freiberger

@freiberg.bsky.social
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patterns | optimization | dynamical systems | nature | art Here to learn new things and share thoughts. Not all of them are useful, but they are mine (i. e. not my employer's)

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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As European citizens we do not talk enough about weaponized bureaucracy. Sure, we'll return these invaluable relics our ancestors stole a century ago from your continent. All you have to do is adapt our whole way of life and thinking, fill out these 76 forms with attachments and we'll be in touch.
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Random train thought: A surprisingly utilitarian argument against the ends justifying the means is chaos. It almost never turns out the way you imagined it, so an actual small evil can never be justified for a hypothetical greater good.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
(Yes, that is a hand-wavey intuition and informed by my background on physical dynamical systems, yet I find it to be a useful one)
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The behaviour of systems is defined by how energy flows between its signature components and how the total amount of energy in the system changes as time progresses.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Relatedly I was telling someone trying to break into ML research that AI has sort of killed a lot of the paths that used to exist. Just very hard to demonstrate effort and hustle now
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Sakana AI @sakanaai.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We are pleased to share our latest research, now published in Nature Communications: “Smart Cellular Bricks: Physical Modules That Recognize Their Own Shape and Repair Themselves.” Blog: sakana.ai/smart-cellul... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread 🧵
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Google for Developers @developers.google.com · 09/07/2026
AlphaEvolve is now Generally Available (GA) via Google Cloud. Built in partnership with Google DeepMind, this Gemini-powered agent brings autonomous algorithm optimization to your hardest engineering and research problems.
Image reads "AlphaEvolve on Google Cloud" with the Google Cloud logo at the top and the subtext "Define | Measure | Optimize | Apply" below the main title. The white text sits against a black background, with a vibrant, wavy, 3D abstract shape in purple and yellow along the bottom.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Tools from operations research solve so many problems and the fact they’re not super widely deployed really tells you that many bottlenecks are not technical
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Even before the agentic revolution, prompting tricks stopped being very valuable, as our research has shown. The format isn't key, the best approach to AI right now is to clearly specify your goals, your output, what "good" & bad look like, how to test the results... (yes, this is just management)
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Really? But I told it to be ABSOLUTELY UNBIASED and DO NOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES. *clutches pearls*
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
2081: all work is done agentically but since ai have no legal status they send document drones around trying to find ways to trick you to reading documents and thus assume the legal liability basis for the content of the document everyone hides in their houses with windows drawn avoiding the docbots
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
a classic six panel comic where there are two characters: one person (presumably a democrat) and someone else in a MAGA hat with a red button between them. 

in the first panel the MAGA dude says "for each press, an epstein file will be released." 

in the second panel, he adds, "but you won't know if it's for a dem or a maga"

in the third panel, the dem hits the button — "bip!" — as the maga dude sweats. he continues to sweat in the fourth panel.

in the fifth panel, the dem continues to hit the button — "bip bip bip bip!"

and in the last panel, the dem is furiously hitting the button (bips are everywhere) as the maga dude tries to pull him away and yells "someone call kash!" 

the point is democrats want all pedophiles exposed, regardless of party affiliation, and knowing some of ours might be included doesn't change that.
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
When you've reasoned yourself in a corner and decide to just run with it 😅
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Milton @miltonllera.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New research out — A developmental model with morphogenetic scaffoldings to guide self-organisation: a single model, many grown patterns. The memory-compute trade-off but in self-organizing systems. A collab featuring @najarro.science, Jakob Schauser and @risi.bsky.social and yours truly
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Ok one more: Slightly increase a band She Past Perfect Away
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I could just keep going but I'll stop now 🙂
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Crystal Palaces
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Joy Corps
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Adolescent Harsher
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band Lebanon Nuremberg
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Don't threaten your agents. They model human interaction through the lens of a personal assistant. Humans tend to become unpredictable if you threaten them and so will agents.
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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
going to a rationalist and being like listen buddy i heard about this scary new idea. its called $70’s basilisk. what if there was an entity that, when it came into being, eternally tortured everyone who didn’t give me $70? it’s a simple exercise of pascals wager white boy
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
In college I tried to desolder an IC on the board of the original NES using a hairdryer (look, I was broke and tried to be crafty...) Baaaad idea
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Ultimately, you have to put your ego aside and try to enjoy the ride. This advice from Charlene Putney (in The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope by @inkle.co) feels worthy of printing out and sticking on the wall.
Loving it! Loving it all! The spreadsheets, the feedback, the sticky little problems the team are waiting for you to write the way out of. I remind myself: "what are you here on this earth to do?" I mutter. "This." And get right back into it. I remember my death. It's coming! "So what are you going to do about it?" Comes the inner whisper. I mutter "This!" and get right back into it. If I worry about what other people think, I try to raise my gaze all the way out past the heat death of the universe. This! Mmm, I love it.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Lots of open questions: is RSI indeed happening at the Big Three labs? How long can the exponential of LLM ability gain last? How much do Chinese models rely on distillation, and can they keep pace given chip constraints? Will there continue to be frontier open weights models?
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Whenever something awful happens, I now think of the title of Omar El Akkad's 2025 “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.”
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Random coffee thought: The text is just text. It is ultimately our mind that gives meaning and consequence to text. Does that mean our mind is the harness?
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/04/2026
Leaked calls confirm that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó is being run as a Russian intelligence asset in the halls of the European Union and NATO at the highest levels. Incredibly damning transcripts. Another EU foreign minister has likened Szijjártó to Kim Philby.
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Kremlin hotline: Hungary colluded with Russia to delist sanctioned oligarchs, companies and banks
A hotline between Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave Moscow strategic information on critical EU…
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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A fair coin "knows" π. Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π. Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay. Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io #Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Congratulations Thomas!
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There are real people, real women, real girls whose images have been edited by grok at the request of users. This is not some fictionalised, nebulous harm. That the 'adults in the room' and 'rules-based order' governments are humming and hawwing over taking a firm line on this is extraordinary
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Lol. www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24...
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OpenAI researcher resigns, claiming safety has taken “a backseat to shiny products”
More turmoil inside the house that builds ChatGPT.
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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
But probably the coolest use of OpenSpiel recently has been in collaboration with @kaggle.com as environments in the Kaggle Game Arena (see here: bsky.app/profile/kagg...). In the first round, LLMs played head-to-heat against each other at chess! ♟️🤩
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
"It has 99% accuracy" is essentially the ML equivalent of "It compiles, so it works"
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Lol. Whoever tuned that model has never heard of recall and their training set probably was lots of p*rn and p*rn only. That is exactly why you should do a decent ML course about model evaluation practices and ethical implications before you start training models.
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I've seen you do things with LLMs on here. If you can do things with LLMs companies love you currently.
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Take care. As somebody who dropped out of the circus: Tenure is overrated.
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Yes.
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
"In 5 years, all radiologists will be replaced by AI" - Geoff Hinton, 2017
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Looks amazing! Wish I was there!
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In case you happen to know him this cat was of course the amazing Filibert Cat. After almost 10 years I'm still grateful every day that he is with us ❤️😺
A portrait of Matthias Freiberger with his adopted exotic short-hair cat Filibert. Matthias smiles into the camera. Filibert on the other hand looks very grumpy.
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
At first we were kinda concerned about the amount of kibble he ate, but he was perfectly fine, so all that remained from this little adventure was a very satisfied cat and the fun fact that cats seem to be able to burp (who knew!) 6/6
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Turns out, I had programmed the pet feeder to dispense 12 *units* of food evert 4 hours rather than 12 grams, where a unit amounts to 4 gram in the pet feeder's world. We just did not realize our mistake since our very happy cat gobbled up the surplus kibble faster than the bowl could overflow. 5/6
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Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In that moment, the best of all cat boys jumps next to me onto the counter and releases the most thunderous and magnificent burp you could imagine. Reader, I've had cats since I've been 9 years old, but never before and never after have I heard a cat burp. It sounded like a thunderstorm in June. 4/6
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