Yates Buckley

Funny if it wasn't so close to being true..

Telephone Classroom Game for Teaching Large Language Models LLM_Telephone_Game_SheetDownload Use the above game to generate interaction in a class setting. Students collectively form an LLM and have fun seeing the final sentence that gets produced. I call t…

economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/02/14/t... I like the simplicity of this LLM like game

On Advertising & AI (and the Company Pageant LLM Game) A bit of a rant on Advertising & AI and what next. Many believe the impending Agentic Commerce kills advertising, but I think it just becomes something else. Also why I think it matters.

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I convinced a VR café full of AI NPCs to party on Epstein island and free Luigi And I didn't have a very good time

Interesting review: www.polygon.com/stellar-cafe...

Happy New Year! 🎆

As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks.

GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar

See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/

Thread and more science below 🧪🪶

Five Fifty Five (and the Tricky Trickster LLM Game) A short story about waking up at five fifty five by the sea and how lucky this is. The article spills into noting there are five kinds of pure LLM Game types including a Tricky Trickster LLM Game.

I am sharing a short piece of bio-fiction from this last summer. Its been an odd year but actually personally a lucky year, I am grateful for it.
It includes experimental LLM Game and some of my ideas in this space.
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Fishing 🎣 fleet for squid 🦑 with red light is now so gigantic it is visible from space.

Inland See, by Bitchin Bajas 4 track album

Time for a thread of my favourite records from 2025. Might go on a bit. Not in order, but Bitchin Bajas' Inland See is maybe the album I played most in the past 12 months (along with the boot of their show in Glob in October) 1/ bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/inland...

The strangest thing is these releases are so disconnected from user benefit… maybe its not the platform but the value ecosystem?

Christmas Lights & Special Relativity (Bonus Educational LLM Game) Me and my Uncle setting up Christmas lights slide in to an introduction to LLM based Educational Games, with an example for Special Relativity: a model for future LLM Edu Games.

Christmas Lights & Special Relativity (Bonus Educational LLM Game)
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