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How I don't use LLMs
Published: April 2, 2025 00:00
I enjoy shocking people by telling them I don’t use LLMs. This isn’t true, but it’s morally true for the reference class I’m in (people who wrote a book about em, 2024 AI PhD, ML twitter member in good standing, trying to do intellectual work on a…
streaming vs listening
https://www.gleech.org/spotify
Published: February 20, 2025 00:00
Apple Music, Amazon, these aren't our competitors. Our only competitor is silence. – attributed to Daniel Ek Notes on Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly. The topic (commoditisation of experience,…
vignettes from 2024
Published: February 4, 2025 00:00
Jan: Gavin is going to California. Bloody airline website won’t let me check in; error message is uselessly vague. Sigh. Airport. Lady on the desk asks for my ESTA confirmation. Takes me ages to find the two numbers you need to log in, so she gets bored…
acoemetae
https://www.gleech.org/acoemetae
Published: January 18, 2025 00:00
“Fuck; fuck!” the sister said, three days late to the tithe. Blink, blink, twitch canonical digits to commit. Blink, blink, digits. Blink— (It’s now actually easier to read the logprobs right off the spike train; the blinks are just to prevent soreness, or…
curate
Published: January 11, 2025 00:00
“Let’s get back to your childhood, Jane. What was it like in Minnesota during the war?” Warm; optimal. She couldn’t quite prop herself up, but the mattress deformed to help her brace against the pillows and the backboard. And she went back, smiled. “Oh,…
My favourite essays
Published: January 4, 2025 00:00
what is the literary tradition out of which I’m working? The form that releases my best intelligence… The motor of the novel is story; the motor of the essay is thought… The world exists. Why re-create? I want to think about it, try to understand it. What…
Bristol
https://www.gleech.org/bristol
Published: November 29, 2024 00:00
I lived in Bristol for 5 years, including one total year (in lockdown). As long as I’ve chosen to live anywhere. Assorted notes: “The British Seattle” Port; wet; scruffy; cool; a small big city; asabiyah; just-off-centre of the musical history of the…
It's full of blogs
https://www.gleech.org/blogging-theory-of-everything
Published: November 7, 2024 00:00
Think tanks are blogs (slow blogs) Newspapers are blogs (mean blogs) Social media is blogs (shallow blogs) Intelligence agencies is blogs (locked blogs) LinkedIn is blogs (contentless blogs) Autobiographies is blogs (emo blogs) Laws is blogs (blogs with a…
I see the light
Published: November 6, 2024 00:00
In my upbringing there was a deep sectarian division between the neds and the moshers. 1 taxon chavs, townies, scallies, white trash, roadmen, ravers, skeets, Kevs, dobbers, neds, bogans, culchies, rednecks, beaufs, racailles, yankī, chungas, cholos,…
Transformer++
Published: November 6, 2024 00:00
People have tweaked the Transformer architecture enough in 7 years that we’re apparently now calling the current recipe “Transformer++”. The changes between Vaswani et al 2017 and Radford et al 2019 are well-known (see Figure 3 here): removing the encoder,…