Dr. Chris Teplovs

Me dropping into discord because it’s been more than a minute and IMMEDIATELY become overwhelmed.

Is it my old, GenX brain? Why is Discord hard for me?

24.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 54    🔁 2    💬 32    📌 0

And I really wish people would stop comparing them to calculators.

A calculator, as long as enough electricity is running through its circuitry, will always give you an objectively correct answer according to the input given.

And entering 2 x 2 will always give you 4.

Not only do LLMs just...

23.11.2025 13:02 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Academics telling each other how busy they are is so lame. Let’s tell each other we’re feeling indolent, or have ennui.

21.11.2025 15:33 — 👍 33    🔁 5    💬 7    📌 2

A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?

(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)

21.11.2025 18:00 — 👍 90    🔁 26    💬 53    📌 7

Pretty sure that giving your passwords to an AI-enabled browser isn’t a great idea

12.11.2025 20:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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04.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just learned that Obsidian support vim key bindings. Score!

04.11.2025 12:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

donning electrostatic grounding straps prior to assembling a computer is semiotically important, as the act of symbolic ablution that separates the sacred from the profane. this is comparable to the concept of ‘ritual purity’ found in many religious practices.

01.02.2025 18:58 — 👍 98    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 2

A new resource rating >50,000 foods from 3 grocery stores
(Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods) for degree of processing and breakdown of ingredients
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Website for consumers www.truefood.tech

13.01.2025 14:29 — 👍 429    🔁 105    💬 26    📌 13

Fashion news Tailors ‘were working on advanced fabric so exquisite it is invisible to stupid people’ Reports say new imperial suiting fuelled nudity fears, with courtiers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Conman’s sacking Hans Christian Andersen, Global fabrics editor

23.11.2023 21:55 — 👍 3613    🔁 1037    💬 28    📌 37

How I use generative AI in my work - Nicole Hennig

How I use generative AI in my work - Nicole Hennig https://nicolehennig.com/how-i-use-generative-ai-in-my-work/ #AI #workplace #libraries #education

28.10.2023 21:33 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

As my first post, delighted to share our #neurips2023 paper:

Evaluating Cognitive Maps & Planning in LLMs with CogEval

We test cognitive maps & planning in 8 LLMs. Failures like hallucinating invalid paths & falling in loops suggest no emergent zero-shot planning.
1/n 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2309.15129

14.10.2023 11:26 — 👍 75    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 1

AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think A Nature survey finds that scientists are concerned, as well as excited, by the increasing use of artificial-intelligence tools in research. A Nature survey finds that scientists are concerned, as wel...

A 2023 Nature survey of 1,600 researchers found that more than 25% use AI to help them write manuscripts and that more than 15% use the technology to help them write grant proposals. 👀

14.10.2023 16:31 — 👍 42    🔁 16    💬 8    📌 23