towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sneaking "Entirely made-up data" into plots will never not be funny 051
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Maybe it was AI generated. Pretty weird non-uniform scaling on both the x and y-axis. 110
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Even worse if you are training new people. If you have lost your drive already at least don't infect others. Those who choose the struggle of learning despite everything deserve still deserve encouragement 000
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
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 03/10/2026that was just referring to the hypothetical above, where a user asks how to boil the ocean 130
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Or maybe I'm too small minded and boiling a tiny part of the ocean in a very specific way is actually a great way to harvest salts and minerals and stuff 120
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Love the idea of an army of teenagers fueled with boundless curiosity being unleashed on the world. Doing whatever the positive opposite boiling the ocean is 250
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Generally would not take advice from a regular physicist about LLMs if their focus isn't at least ML. Much less if their brand is essentially hustling for clicks on youtube 110
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nice. On a completely unrelated note, how long do we have until the dead internet theory manifests? 001
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You're underselling yourself. Besides I think there's a far greater amount of people who used to be fairly employable but now fail to rise to the challenge of the availability of AI and thus become highly replaceable. 000
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The best part is that drastically simplifying somewhat complicated topics makes the statements about them more controversial, fueling entirely useless social media discussions that are at best midly counterproductive 110
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Chatbots merely accelerated this. I already had less time to read papers than my seniors 100
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 · 23/09/2026I know I built it wrong, I just decided that I don't care :P 021
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 23/09/2026People should sell coaching lessons for this. Lots of low effort AI memes out there, but this did get a chuckle out of me 050
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Didn't know that this is what people meant when they talked about the AI wars 000
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Acdemic math has taken somewhat more than it was given" is an insane claim. Companies have been offering juicy paychecks to almost all math graduates for decades. Surely a good deal for them imo 000
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
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I don't judge OpenAI on joining the race or even using other people's results here. I judge them for failing to add proper citations in their proof and trying to buy out Buckmaster to do the write-up for them. They did not have to threaten him or promise him the prize money if he stayed quiet. 100
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Not from the perspective of a regular researcherz where your shedule is already packed. I don't see why OpenAI couldn't give them the courtesy of writing up their adjacent proof in a reasonable timeframe (given it is arguably a major result and they discovered it first) 110
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Buckmaster needed more time for the writeup of their proof and OpenAI pressured them wanting to go public asap (I also don't fault Levent for not joining the meeting, if OpenAI couldn't even wait a week) 131
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Anyone who ever heard about a major discovery in science early before it was public knows that OpenAI did not act appropriately here 191
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 · 01/09/2026anime characters (that's why devs have anime pfps on github) 100
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
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 31/08/2026At best you could argue that people wouldn't pay for LLMs that fund new expensive SOTA models because open models are just so good 010
Reposted by towb0atSarama Burwani @ hey there's a spider on your back @saramaburwani.bsky.social · 21/08/2026 338375
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Where are you guys checking benchmarks for common quantized models? 000
towb0at @towb0at.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Math must be pretty exciting already then, given that most mathematicians claim that they do not understand the work of their peers if it isn't directly adjacent to their branch of math 020
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