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Alex Lindquist

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AI Dialogue Facilitator Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics Data Scientist since 1978. Chicago, IL, since 2003, US Citizen. "Πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον ἄνθρωπος, τῶν μὲν ὄντων ὡς ἔστι, τῶν δὲ οὐκ ὄντων ὡς οὐκ ἔστι." In the past Twitter - @alxfed

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LLMs know the Chicago Manual of Style by heart and use em-dashes according to it (I checked many examples).

16.11.2025 01:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Golem was quite intentionally created to be violent because his function was 'to protect the Jews of Prague' (of course), it was a weapon.

16.11.2025 01:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not calling idiots idiots is ahead everything else... by far.

15.11.2025 00:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do you quite understand what it would take to maintain these installations and systems in the climate of the part of this country where they can be deployed (in the deserts basically)?

14.11.2025 23:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"Managing YouTube
Oscar World said he could resist anything except temptation. I know what he means. The temptation I can’t resist at the moment is YouTube videos. It is a difficult problem. " (You)

14.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There is a typo in the text (Oscar Wilde of course).

14.11.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Huey Long promised a 'meat cleaver'... with a known outcome.

14.11.2025 01:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Intake of testosterone causes cancer.

14.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Oscar World"?

14.11.2025 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

because you are using iPython in the idiotic Colab, not the Python.

13.11.2025 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, they are just re-enacting the 'Wag the Dog' movie. These people are not inventive.

13.11.2025 14:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A hundred and twenty one scores and five years have passed...

13.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tinker: a training API for researchers and developers – Tinker API Tinker API: A powerful and simple API for training large language models

Tinker looks good enough. Let's see what we are having here...🙂
tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai

13.11.2025 14:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

… on absolutely everyone, that they should have some degree of respect for what's right – or they have no place in civilized society."

13.11.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"People feel that everyone has to claim they care about what's right, regardless of whether they really do or not; if you don't even make a pretense of being ethical, you must be crazy, because it's a basic requirement …

13.11.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The desire to kill people at will and get away with it is much more prevalent, 'banging' is just a desert after this main course.

13.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

… anyone who proves incapable of acquiring some sense of right and wrong must be thought of as a sickness to society and put to death!"

13.11.2025 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"Every single one must have a share. The fact is, there's no way societies could exist at all if only a few people possessed a sense of right and wrong, the way it is with those other skills. In fact, make it a rule, on my authority, that …

13.11.2025 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tell it to be 'succinct' in a 'system' prompt/message and see what happens.
P.S. It is a word _all_ of the models understand in the same way.

12.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jesus has warned him...

12.11.2025 19:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are living in the World where societies and individual humans tend to assign 'value' to other humans. THAT is the plague.

12.11.2025 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes.

12.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He does not look like a person of noble descent (with a Baron father). 🙂

11.11.2025 02:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Δ with subscripts and superscripts.

11.11.2025 00:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ICE goons walking in the Chicago foot of snow Today in cotton fatigues...

Jesus laughed.

11.11.2025 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Slave labor is very profitable... until it is not.

10.11.2025 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 'Lingua Characteristica Universalis' for all arXive papers about Language Models would probably have less than a hundred of those.

10.11.2025 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That was a good one. 🙂

10.11.2025 14:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apparently Alain Delon has reincarnated. That was quick!

09.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

abehrouz.github.io/files/NL.pdf

08.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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