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Reading "The Market in the Model"
💡Nerd Alert: I have a new pre-print up, called "The Market in the Model." It was written as a preliminary outline of my PhD dissertation, which means it's dense, and this presents a stripped-down version of it. I have a new paper! Here'
On Flocks
💡Nerd Rating: Not nerdy but probably boring, as it is an attempt to respond thoughtfully to a social media conversation that I found challenging to address on BlueSky's very limited reply functions. A few weeks ago, after a very successful "noisy systems" conference in Rome, I
It's Not Just X. It's Y.
Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs and what it means for writing, student assessment, and thinking. "It's not x, it&
Entropy Studies
Thinking Through Temporal Mode Collapse 💡Nerd Rating: 3/5. It's about why video models stop. There's technical talk, but also pretty videos to look at, so it's a wash. I've been doing a series of experiments: taking diffusion-based image glitches and