All the tokens fit to embed.December 26, 2025 THE LEDE: VISUAL DATA OVERLOAD The Context: Times photographers captured a turbulent year, from a president returning to power and wildfires ravaging Los Angeles to conflicts in Sudan and Gaza. Images include a destroyed house with a intact pool in Pacific Palisades and sea gulls swarming a … Continue reading The Gradient
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When AI Reviews AI: A Case Study in Benchmark Contamination
Date: December 19, 2025Method: UKE_G Recursive TriangulationTarget: "Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery" (SDE Benchmark) Two days ago, a new benchmark paper dropped claiming to evaluate how well large language models perform at scientific discovery. The paper introduced SDE (Scientific Discovery Evaluation)—a two-tier benchmark spanning biology, chemistry, materials science, and physics. Models were tested … Continue reading When AI Reviews AI: A Case Study in Benchmark Contamination
Fawkes: Protecting Personal Privacy against Unauthorized Deep Learning Models (USENIX Security 2020) – YouTube
GPT-3 Creative Fiction
"Creative writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, demonstrating poetry, dialogue, puns, literary parodies, and storytelling... [In Dr. Seuss style:]You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourself any direction you choose.You’re on your way!—Gwern Bradwen, "GPT-3 Creative Fiction." Gwern.net. June 19, 2020. It's interesting to read GPT-3's take on different writing … Continue reading GPT-3 Creative Fiction
Ironies of Automation
"...the more we automate, and the more sophisticated we make that automation, the more we become dependent on a highly skilled human operator."-Adrian Colyer, "Ironies of automation." the morning paper. January 8, 2020. A robot surgeon might be a great idea, but it's going to handle the routine, the easy surgeries. What's left is what's … Continue reading Ironies of Automation
Gardener’s Vision
"Without communication, connection, and empathy, it becomes easy for actors to take on the “gardener’s vision”: to treat those they are acting upon as less human or not human at all and to see the process of interacting with them as one of grooming, of control, of organization. This organization, far from being a laudable … Continue reading Gardener’s Vision
Computational Thinking
"Computational thinking assumes that perfect information about the past can and should be collected and synthesized to inform decisions about the future." —John Thomason, "Is It Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of the Internet?" The Intercept, November 24, 2018. A review of the book, New Dark Age: Technology and … Continue reading Computational Thinking
Emotional Regimes
"In September 2017, a screenshot of a simple conversation went viral on the Russian-speaking segment of the internet. It showed the same phrase addressed to two conversational agents: the English-speaking Google Assistant, and the Russian-speaking Alisa, developed by the popular Russian search engine Yandex. The phrase was straightforward: ‘I feel sad.’ The responses to it, … Continue reading Emotional Regimes
Perceptrons vs. A.I.
"The success of deep learning systems has given us better machine perception. This is really useful. What it does well is matching or identifying patterns, very fast, for longer than you can reasonably expect people to do. It automates a small part of the glorious wonder of intuition. It also automates everything terrible about it, … Continue reading Perceptrons vs. A.I.
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