iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bandcamp Friday again, and this time I have a new batch of analogue/modular synth drones: circlesofproportion.bandcamp.com/album/nine-f...

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Nine Facilities Not Otherwise Specified, by Proportion

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One trend I've noticed in industry is a desire to make systems "deterministic." This word seems to be straying from its computer-science definition into epistemic virtue territory, getting conflated with accuracy or certainty. Not exactly a reaction against AI, but a sort of footing readjustment.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It’s Bandcamp Friday, a good day to point out that I released some weird synth music circlesofproportion.bandcamp.com/album/prelim...

circlesofproportion.bandcamp.com

Preliminal, by Circles of Proportion

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New publication alert! I contributed a chapter to the book Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature (@edinburghup.bsky.social). My chapter touches on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” the Mechanical Turk hoax, and Charles Babbage's approach to establishing trust in machines.

The cover of Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature, edited by Adam Kelly and Katerina Pavlidi.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A problem with "LLMs are just autocomplete" as a means of explanation is that what autocomplete is doing—in terms of both objective and mechanism—is far from straightforward or widely understood. The analogy effectively amounts to explaining one black box by another black box.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

German word for the special anxiety one feels when interacting with the Phone app, where one wrong tap could result in accidentally calling someone

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

RIP Sonny Rollins! My favorite musician and a genius. Time to spin St. Thomas.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It’s Bandcamp Friday, a good day to point out that I released some weird synth music circlesofproportion.bandcamp.com/album/prelim...

circlesofproportion.bandcamp.com

Preliminal, by Circles of Proportion

15 track album

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This seems to be making the rounds again, and the framing is highly misleading. The mathematical result only applies to “base” models that haven’t gone through RLHF. The study actually argues that hallucination is _not_ inevitable. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

computerworld.com

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

In 2021, I developed PromptArray, which lets you muck around with the internals of GPT models. I moved on because this method doesn't work with closed-source models like GPT-3, but GPT-OSS makes it possible again. Read if you miss the weirdness of the GPT-2 era! jeffreymbinder.net?p=480

jeffreymbinder.net

PromptArray, meet GPT-OSS! – Jeffrey M. Binder

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

“Large language models like ChatGPT produce shallow, unoriginal ‘predictive text-y ideas’ and I worry that my students and others will increasingly believe that that’s okay—that there’s nothing better than that to aspire to.”

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 22/01/2025

I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Is it possible for numbers to get too big? We’ll tell you about a shocking new development, after this.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

The Theories and Methodologies cluster on #criticalAI co-edited for PMLA by @ritaraley.bsky.social and myself is now online, open access. it consists of eight interventions by leading voices, as well as our framing essay “AI and the University as a Service.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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FirstView | PMLA | Cambridge Core

PMLA - Brent Hayes Edwards

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

My book made it to the Chicago Manual of Style! I don't know how I'm going to top this.

A page from the book Language and the Rise of the Algorithm reproduced as a figure in the Chicago Manual of Style.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

If you see this, quote skeet with a famous landmark you’ve seen.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Thinking of the time when I bought two CDs from a stand at the WFMU record fair—"Momentum" by Monolake and "Jonathan Sings!" by Jonathan Richman—and the seller seemed to have trouble comprehending that the same person could want both of these albums.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

I’ve been noticing a tendency among LLM enthusiasts to blame the prompt, not the model, whenever things go wrong. It’s snake oil salesman stuff: if my potion doesn’t cure your wounds, you just didn’t have enough faith. It makes the effectiveness of the technology itself unfalsifiable.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Got the Elden Ring DLC—and just like that, my acid reflux is back

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

This bit, and particularly the last sentence I’ve highlighted, is exactly where that “ChatGPT is Bullshit” paper would have benefited from engagement with a discipline that actually looks at questions like meaning, an intention, namely, literary theory. See critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/a...

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

One thing I didn’t anticipate in my book is the sudden schism between “machine learning” and “AI” as professional affinities. Not only stuff like XGBoost, but even BERT-style transformers are now called “classical machine learning” by people into prompt engineering, RAG, etc.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

If you see this, post something orange.

A poster on a lightpost in New York City reading, “Watch me eat this entire jar of cheeseballs / Union Square Park, April 27th 3pm.” The picture on the poster shows a person in a bright orange ski mask, lips pursed, holding a giant plastic jar of orange cheez puffs.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

Google AI summaries are still not appearing for me, even though I went into "Search Labs" and enabled the feature. Am I blacklisted as a known nitpicker?

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

This Instagrammable library @ the OpenAI HQ is such a fascinating Benjaminian inversion: how does *automated* reproduction (or, in Ted Chiang’s words, blurry xeroxing or lossy compression) transform the cult + exhibition value of datasets + libraries, the latter staged here to enhance the aura of AI

nytimes.com

The Old-Fashioned Library at the Heart of the A.I. Boom

OpenAI may be changing how the world interacts with language. But inside headquarters, there is a homage to the written word: a library.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Saw my first wild cybertruck just now. Reminds me of those things where someone makes a realistic version of a child’s drawing (with a side of gamer aesthetic).

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

People, one week left before the ACH2024 proposal due!

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

I couldn’t see the aurora from where I am, but at least I got to witness windows95man

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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 09/05/2024

Love what google is up to these days

A screenshot of a google search
The search bar says, “food names end with um”

Al overviews are experimental. Learn more

Here are some fruit names that end with "um":
Applum, Bananum, Strawberrum, Tomatum, and Coconut.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

A hell of a way to start a book

A quotation from the frontmatter of Andrew I. Dale's book A History of Inverse Probability. It reads:

PROLOCUTION
It will be no strange thing at all for some to dislike the matter of this work, and others to be displeased with the manner and method of it. Easily can I forsee that my account will be too long and tedious for some, while others, perhaps, may be apt to complain of its being too short and concise.
Edmund Calamy

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

We don’t talk enough about how Duolingo, as an attempt to undo the confusion of tongues that mankind was cursed with for building the Tower of Babel, is an affront to God

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Now I’m feeling like a real Bluesky elder, even though I didn’t join until the Age of Alf.

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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

CUNY is one of the most important institutions in New York. Instead of stupid articles about elite schools, I wish the NYTimes had cared about these colleges instead. I’ve seen first hand how they help young ppl move up in life (myself as a grad student at the GC included)!

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Found the Windows 3.1 version of ChatGPT

An old software box for “2001 Letters That Work.” The copy reads: “Unleash the power of the written word with 2001 letters for every situation at work or at home. The ultimate collection of expertly written example letters and memos—PLUS writing guidelines and alternate phrases! Software with the Hard Part Done.”

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

any file can be a csv file if it has a comma in it for example:

Jolene by Dolly Parton, parsed as a csv file by Numbers.app

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb... @laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!