Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
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Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/
@marick @KevinCarson1 thanks for the share, it was a bit too sad to read in its entirety for me...
I will quibble the quibble's example: the spyware TVs are like the bloatware computers - they are cheaper. That *is* more salient for most buyers, unfortunately.
@mjk after the first slide I have to ask where "stage a coup" would fit
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making slides for my talk on independent research is going really well, thanks for asking
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@epfl I've listened with some interest to the @EPFL_AI_Center's inside AI podcast, which has tended to feature more promethean opinions. I would be interested in listening to more discussions including (but not limited to) perspectives you highlight here, regarding the role of technology vs. social and individual choices in addressing present challenges.
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🌱✨ This spring, EPFL chaplain Alexandre Mayor is urging members of the School community to go on a consumer detox and experience the joy that comes from embracing degrowth as a path to personal discovery.
#Degrowth #ConsumerDetox #MindfulLiving
Read more 👉 : https://go.epfl.ch/2k0-en
@timkellogg.me would be interesting to see how the economies of scale work out on how much cheaper inference (per token costs) is on datacenter machines vs this
@mcc there's a post by rao venkatesh that I can't find at the moment where he says (maybe more like mentions in passing) that the best way to change yourself may be to try to change the world and be very stubborn about it
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Thanks to the Danes for this nice gem of a website. Also: WTF?! I thought this is European.
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Interested in gpt-4.5, don’t want the hefty price and yet wish to test theory of mind reasoning? We got you covered, robustly I might add https://bit.ly/43iwmxo
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I received a small grant from the Cosmos Institute to work on an interactive platform for interpretabillity research, focusing on mechanisms that have relevance to both deep learning and cognitive science. As an initial step, variablescope.org will showcase the results of an experiment on variable binding in Transformers led with Yiwei Wu and Atticus Geiger. I'll have more to share soon!
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Why does psychology matter for technological innovation? What perspective can we have on science in this moment? What's a research architect?!
I got to explore these questions along with chat about my future research agenda with Redmonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick!
Listen to the full thing here: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/03/03/psychology-technical-innovation-and-why-we-need-science-with-dr-cat-hicks/
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I like using guide dogs as an analogy for how assistive technology users are used to working with unreliable tools!
@RavenWorks yes, it would be interesting to see how far from the original they land. With famous songs, maybe they're kind of "in the air" even if you've never heard them (or maybe you did and forgot)
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Has anyone done a thing where like, someone challenges a musician youtuber to write music for the lyrics to a famous song that they've never heard
like you give someone the lyrics to Stand by R.E.M., make sure they've never actually heard it before, then get them to compose and record a demo based on the vibes that the lyrics give them, like they're Elton John getting lyrics from Bernie Taupin. then only once they're done, you let them hear what the original band did with it
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in that book will be a chapter about how pure "cognition" approaches to education, human learning and human achievement have ALL PRETTY MUCH FAILED TO BE PREDICTIVELY AND INTERVENTION TARGET VALUABLE for the OUTCOMES WE CARE ABOUT and SHOULDN'T SET THE STANDARD FOR WORKPLACES even when we have a population of people who will only accept "human stuff" being said about them if you make it COMPUTATIONAL SOUNDING
@mcc I voted MSIE but it was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac (original iMac). Netscape communicator was newer versions than what you list
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
