Tyler Shoemaker

Do I detect DSPy profanation?

So not a token or token but a token

Zoom in: “We thought a lot about how to represent a token, and so we chose a token”

The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.

The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI - Volume 5, Issue 1, 2024 The outputs of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) are often called “synthetic” to imply that they are not natural but artificial. Against that use of the term, this article focuses on ...

Right, lots of brush clearing to do, even as I do want to hold onto some specificity re: the synthetic. @mbfazi.bsky.social has been great on this front, e.g. www.pdcnet.org/jcp/content/...

(One place to start)

Wanted: a theory of synthetic media

The first in a (jam-packed) series of events on cultural AI this year from DTL. More incoming!

Software Engineering Applications Software Engineering Applications Spring 2026 Code as a Liberal Art, Eugene Lang College, The New School This course gives students the opportunity to experience and critically examine the software e...

My friend @rorshock.bsky.social — CS undergrad, humanities PhD — has built a brilliant prgm @ The New School: “Code as a Liberal Art” nurtures “code + computational thinking as tools for critical + creative inquiry,” and as forces for 👍+👎 social change. His spring Software Engineering class looks 🌟

Wall-clock time, user-cpu time, system-cpu time, and dealing-with-vLLM time

What sublimating Turing’s proof does to a guy

I’m somewhat of a mechinterp flâneur myself

Models having their McLuhan moment

This Q inspired by seeing a whole lot of task-specific outputs in supposedly "base" models, which is surely a dataset consideration but also made me wonder about the underlying thing we're now calling a "base" model

Thanks! I also have gotten the sense that RL developments mess with the base/ft divide, even if only rhetorically so. Re: mid-training: change in what direction, do you think?

Where is “fine-tuning” here?

Feels like a @dorialexander.bsky.social question

Genuine Q: do model builders still think in terms of LLM fine-tuning or have all the mid-/post-training recipes obsoleted this?

+ `--quiet`

Public humanities?

Extremely good stuff from Leif here

I did a QA with Quanta about interpretability and training dynamics! I got to talk about a bunch of research hobby horses and how I got into them.

Increasingly so if you go by Köppen climate classification (dire)

See you there

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

A real one-two punch with this statement following the hallucinations discourse over the weekend

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626