towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sneaking "Entirely made-up data" into plots will never not be funny 051
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lots of potential for physics as well. A few people who graduate each year are do make exceptional physicists. But if you want exceptional programming skills on top (and time for actually writing code) this number quickly drops to zero 020
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Using AI to solve someone's homework, but they actually wanted to do it themselves 020
Reposted by towb0atEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have a pictorial proof that we live in hell 1420714
Reposted by towb0atMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Former member of the DeepMind AlphaGo team: LLMs don’t do reasoning www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1... I would probably make a more mild claim: LLMs do reasoning, but not very well.technologyreview.comDon’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reasonTen years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible. 2371
Reposted by towb0atPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just: bravo. @lilithwittmann.bsky.social deserves every single investigative journalism award that'll be given this year, doing work that has and will continue to have huge impact. The piece we're about to publish on @josimarfootball.bsky.social couldn't have been done without her work. #hero 114325
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If you're going to fail me, I'm— uh — you're going to — I'm — I don't mind actually, I'm just really happy in life 020
Reposted by towb0atMicah Warren @micah541.bsky.social · 08/09/2026cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...cims.nyu.edu 1342379
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In a beautiful push for a 4-day workweek, I imagine that activists working at OpenAI and Anthropic united and took down their services today. 010
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ExploitBench scores start to improve at a geometric rate. An abliterated model becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th, 2027 020
Reposted by towb0atChristian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Babysitting my neural model through the learning process by finding the right hyper parameters and annealing schedules... 0232
Reposted by towb0atSarama Burwani @ hey there's a spider on your back @saramaburwani.bsky.social · 21/08/2026 338375
Reposted by towb0atJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 06/08/2026So happy this one wasn't patched yet 613127
Reposted by towb0atGrace @gracekind.net · 05/08/2026This is the worst at social engineering AI will ever be 613315
Reposted by towb0atEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Golden Gate Claude was actually the peak of human civilization and it has all been downhill since then simonwillison.net/2024/May/24/... 213614
Reposted by towb0atBenjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 27/07/2026just apply, the worst they can say is no 1412
Reposted by towb0atsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding 355713847
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 15/07/2026my vibe when I need to solve a difficult integration problem 040
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Funny way in which AI is actually delaying scientific research is that we're now at roughly monthly HPC outages due to Linux kernel zero-days which need to be addressed immediately. 021
Reposted by towb0atbijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts! 129100001847
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 27/06/2026If local LLM releases came with cute anime gifs kids would start trading them on the playground 010
Reposted by towb0atmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 24/06/2026Self-Compacting language agents This feels like an incredibly obvious (in hindsight) improvement. Rather than compact arbitrarily every N=1M tokens, (1) let the model decide when and (2) how to compact arxiv.org/abs/2606.23525 41038
Reposted by towb0atVincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026"We find that humans enrich logical reasoning through pragmatic inferences across languages. Model behavior is more variable." arxiv.org/abs/2605.21299arxiv.orgTracing the ongoing emergence of human-like reasoning in Large Language ModelsHumans effortlessly go beyond literal meanings: If you mow the lawn, I will give you fifty dollars, is typically understood as implying that the speaker will pay only if the lawn is mowed, whereas If ... 072
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I wonder what helicopters are to birds. Gods? Demons? Do they think a ritual is taking place everytime they see one descend onto the hospital rooftop? 000
Reposted by towb0atsick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/06/2026new William Gibson book opening line dropped 485341940
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I just can't escape the rabbit of reading LLM papers with spicy titles "If LLMS have human-like attributes, then so does Age of Empires II" -> arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514arxiv.org 000
Reposted by towb0atdax @thdxr.com · 02/06/2026someone made a fork of opencode that routes through the unsecured ai endpoints from chipotle 731868
Reposted by towb0atOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026PhD committee trying to help a struggling student 711515
Reposted by towb0atComradeCorvus @comradecorvus.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Gniesbert remains one of the most amazing dog names I have ever heard 0181
Reposted by towb0atpassivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Epic has announced Unreal Engine 6. It's a 20% bigger number than 5, making it the biggest number they have ever announced. Unfortunately it fell short of the last major update (4 to 5), which was a whopping 25% increase. 291152194
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 24/05/2026It's easy to think that AI is overhyped but there are still people out there that are suprised by LLMs being decent at summaries 100
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 13/05/2026You start to expect a certain amount of poor decision-making and sloppiness at universities tasked which supposedly do top-tier research. But it's still impressive when an entire field gets completely bamboozled. 010
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I can see the vision. AT-ATs next year starting at $6.5M 010
Reposted by towb0atNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Goodfire released a megapost of all the random feature geometry stuff they're finding, and it's worth a readgoodfire.aiThe World Inside Neural NetworksHow neural geometry will unlock understanding and control of AI 213126
Reposted by towb0atLilith Wittmann @lilithwittmann.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Some Gambling Companies might not have been able to use the long weekend to start a new shell company in Malta. That's because, since Thursday, the Malta Business Registry has been offline. And no, this time I really did not hack you. You sold me 1.3 Million PDFs for 1ct - via your API. 211118
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Nothing channels your inner boomer instinct quite like young adults mispronouncing "Kamehameha." Like, how dare you disrespect your elders!? 000
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Years of suffering through university, trying to aborb as much STEM rleated knowledge as possible and then it turns out your super power is just being able to speak german fluently 000