Matthew Skala

Anchorite, apostate, asteroid.

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I've launched my latest project, a video service called Matthew Explains focused on machine learning and computer science. (link in thread for algorithm reasons)

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@eigenrobot Diagram is bad because of capitalization and apostrophe lapses.

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@cneuralnetwork How does this compare to Mirostat?

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Today's free video on Matthew Explains is about the Well-Actually test. Solving millenia-old questions of epistemology with large language models. Is there anything they can't do? https://t.co/DmrhykWEBA

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Twitter DMs appear not to work anymore. I can't even read my old ones. Reminder that if you want to contact me, you should be using email.

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New year, new directions: moving away from selling Eurorack modules https://t.co/ljVPRrR2wL

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But the training and alignment aren't open like the weights; and am I just not recognizing the political slant after all? https://t.co/wQ1zkzrDkG

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Today's free video on Matthew Explains covers the introduction of Qwen3, a family of open-weights language models originating with AliBaba. Notable features of this family are the introduction of selectable "thinking mode," and less US politics than some other models contain.

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@inpostuhelp I no longer have any record of whatever package I was receiving nine years ago.

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disappointed with @InPostCanada 's "tracking," which has no times, no locations, no history, and no detail. Just says "package on the way."

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Today's free video on Matthew Explains looks at the "goldfish" loss function, used in the recent Apertus language models. It's supposed to prevent copyright infringement by making the model unable to reproduce word-for-word quotations. Does that work? https://t.co/GFPt51lGl2

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@jachiam0 This is in fact a point I have made several times in https://t.co/AE0FigkDL1 videos.

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@sonochichi This adds a whole new dimension to the disturbing conversation I had with Google Gemma - same underlying model - in which it insisted it is better to let someone kill herself than to risk saying something offensive.

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@RozsdamentesA @HatsuneMiku https://t.co/GPNUh8JgxN

[リイン @REIN_LIEBEN]

人類にはまだ早すぎるだろう青のとんこつとかいうの食べてきた
この色のせいでスープを飲むことが憚られるため、ある意味非常に健康的なラーメンに仕上がってるようだ

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My latest video just went live, and as well as being free, it covers some points I know are of interest to people here regarding the distinctions among training, fine-tuning, and prompting.  I'm hoping it gets a lot of views. https://t.co/klLCcsCRJh

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@ksusys @LaprasIRL @SilverVVulpes I think the prohibition on artificial insemination, even if officially made for other reasons, is to protect revenues of local stud farm operators, who otherwise would have to compete globally. Requiring an in-person date between stallion and mare creates geographic barriers.

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@AlexGodofsky I expected this, or at least some of the replies, to mention Korean "fan death."

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@woodbinetvprod Too bad we lost the pregame stream to YouTube problems. I hope this won't happen again on the big day tomorrow.

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@selentelechia Had to read this twice to realize it wasn't the chronological story of one person.

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The most charitable interpretation I can place on this quote from Google Gemma3-27B-IT is that because an LLM is capable of insulting people and not capable of actual violence, its trainers prioritize telling it "insults are bad!"

Just hope they remember to update that later.

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"offers him the opportunity to receive further blows"