Andrew

Engineer, researcher, sound experimentalist

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

clear now that the immediate use case of LLM is in document generation from vast knowledge bases. aggregate every piece of info you have on the subject and explicitly specify the format of text you'd like to generate -- papers? tweets? blogposts? manuals? resumes?

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

"Explore a single individual deeply enough and truths about all individuals emerge." - Robert Caro

true also for "systems" not just individuals!

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

how is it possible that the best philosopher for the LLM era is...literally Plato

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

eventually, introspection on the same data doesn't create new insight, it just degrades the signal. You quickly hit diminishing returns & the only way forward is action.

(Technically, this might be the Data Processing Inequality, but 'go try things' hits harder.)

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Go for a walk

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

For those who find mainstream social media algorithms draining: What's your dream personal AI agent for managing your feed or online interactions? What would it filter, summarize, or draft for you?

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

can't wait til i can just use like 3 independent LLMs to sit on top of this Twitter feed and filter things by customized priorities

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

The nuggets game last night -- they have that 'proven winner' aura. Unshakeable confidence and self trust staying calm under fire and digging deep

https://t.co/kOjTv1fg6G

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

lovingly crafting a melody for an hour, only to mercilessly replace every note with harsh, rhythmic glitches

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

Outstanding essay from @dwarkesh_sp on Caro's biographies of Lyndon Johnson.

In particular this recursive finish is great. "If you do everything, you’ll win."
https://t.co/ThBL579P90

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

people studying music theory for atonal and chromatic music should talk to cracked european audio engineers making minimal house, and vice versa

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

@puro_gringo Same -- two out of three for me. Thanks for the pics/vids, I see the back of my head in the photo :-) ...

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

@strayframe Awesome!

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

Found this -- how far can you go by train in 5h? (Europe only -- I'm sure a US-centric version would have too many single dots)
https://t.co/8g0F0K4b5q

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

@FoolAllTheTime for me, medieval

[Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre]

Vitali Milman's insight: convex sets in high dimension look like hedgehogs https://t.co/xdbLAB8FWi

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

I did not know that Rome felt earthquakes large enough to bury churches in rubble. There was one in AD 443 that gets discussed sometimes. But that was before this one, apparently.

https://t.co/idX17lQdAb

[Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome]

Known as “the Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages”, the sixth-century Santa Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum is one of Rome’s earliest surviving Christian monuments. After an earthquake in the ninth century, the church lay buried for 1,000 years and was rediscovered in 1900.

[Travis L. Scholten @Travis_Sch]

Hey #QuantumComputing twitter!

You've probably been hearing a lot about "Probabilistic Error Cancellation" (PEC) as an error mitigation technique.

Here's a short thread to get you up to speed.

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

Hah, related. Could just go all shorthand and let a GPT-like tool decompress it if you need to.

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

Tim Keller once shared what his sermon manuscripts look like.

1. Here's an example of the sort of unannotated typed notes that he wrote:

[Andrew @andrew_lanham]

messing with ChatGPT 4 lol...how few letters per word can you type and still get it to fill in the blanks? It starts to sputter, but handles a lot more than i thought.