Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As 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. 000
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Random 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. 020
Reposted by Matthias Freiberger🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026THEY 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 412202461
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) 000
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The 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. 120
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Relatedly 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 4221
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerSakana AI @sakanaai.bsky.social · 13/07/2026We 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 🧵 2516
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerGoogle for Developers @developers.google.com · 09/07/2026AlphaEvolve 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. 5288
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Tools 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 5577
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Even 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) 413219
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Really? But I told it to be ABSOLUTELY UNBIASED and DO NOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES. *clutches pearls* 020
Reposted by Matthias Freiberger🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 03/07/20262081: 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 4402
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026When you've reasoned yourself in a corner and decide to just run with it 😅 010
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerMilton @miltonllera.bsky.social · 18/05/2026New 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 1162
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Ok one more: Slightly increase a band She Past Perfect Away 000
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I could just keep going but I'll stop now 🙂 000
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Don'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. 000
Reposted by Matthias Freibergerwhere the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 19/04/2026going 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 8954264
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2026In 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 000
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerDaniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Ultimately, 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. 26914
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Lots 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? 2221
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerCraig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Whenever something awful happens, I now think of the title of Omar El Akkad's 2025 “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.” 1136
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Random 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? 110
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/04/2026Leaked 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.theins.pressKremlin hotline: Hungary colluded with Russia to delist sanctioned oligarchs, companies and banksA hotline between Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave Moscow strategic information on critical EU… 3266114
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerSimone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026A 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 49938
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/01/2026One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect. 10837135
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026There 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 7526140
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Lol. www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24...theverge.comOpenAI researcher resigns, claiming safety has taken “a backseat to shiny products”More turmoil inside the house that builds ChatGPT. 010
Reposted by Matthias FreibergerMarc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 19/12/2025But 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! ♟️🤩 151
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025"It has 99% accuracy" is essentially the ML equivalent of "It compiles, so it works" 020
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Lol. 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. 120
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I've seen you do things with LLMs on here. If you can do things with LLMs companies love you currently. 010
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Take care. As somebody who dropped out of the circus: Tenure is overrated. 110
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025"In 5 years, all radiologists will be replaced by AI" - Geoff Hinton, 2017 010
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025In 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 ❤️😺 030
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025At 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!) 6/6 110
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Turns 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. 5/6 100
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025In 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. 4/6 100