Br𝕏d Skggs
@brdskggs
Tweets about natural language processing, machine learning, infosec, and general trivia. Opinions my own. http://brdskggs.bsky.social
I don’t think I’ve ever been as disappointed in a Google results layout as I am right now.

Me: if there’s anything you learn from this kitchen, son, it’s that you measure garlic with your heart. 16 yo: with my heart. Me: yes. Some recipes will tell you some nonsense of “1 clove of garlic minced” and that is a cold-hearted person. 16 yo: they do not understand the…
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
Explore Wikipedia through a data map. Pages are grouped by semantic similarity, for topic clusters. Hover to see details, zoom to explore fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search page names to find interesting starting points for exploration.🧵 lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_ex…
o3-pro: How many of each letter are there in the SHA1 of the answer to this question?
I love pronouncing both of his names the same way
Happy 66th Birthday to Sean Bean 🎂
quick review of an ai action figure
I heard we were using AI to generate an action figures
Early bird registration is NOW OPEN for CAMLIS 2025! 💥 Register today to secure your seat, discounted pricing ends on May 30. We can't wait to see you there! #CAMLIS2025 Register here: camlis.org/tickets
rest easy old buddy. you won. you finally won
JUST IN: Swedish payment firm Klarna enters deal with DoorDash, allowing customers to pay for food deliveries in four interest-free installments
Painfully stupid.
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order trib.al/90XSYLb
In big word sense disambiguating news:
The word ‘run’ has overtaken the word ‘set’ for the most meanings in English. It has 645 different definitions.
CAMLIS is back from October 22-24! This year, we're excited to introduce the addition of CAMLIS Red – a one-day workshop dedicated to exploring real-world applications of AI in security. Stay tuned for more details! Interested in volunteering? Apply here: lnkd.in/g-nN2DVV
There was a funny period where LLMs existed but their training data was all pre-LLM so all their suggestions for NLP stuff would be like "apply bag of words, TF-IDF, and an SVM classifier"
I have a five-year-old throw-away reply about a Commodore 64 book that bots have started liking roughly once a week this past year. It’s a bot detector with very low recall but very high precision.
How far are we from having competent AI co-workers that can perform tasks as varied as software development, project management, administration, and data science? In our new paper, we introduce TheAgentCompany, a benchmark for AI agents on consequential real-world tasks.
🎉 We’re thrilled to officially announce Prequel and our seed round led by @Work_Bench. @TechCrunch covers our founders Tony (@snowboardvstree) & Lyndon (@asklyndon) Read more: @TechCrunch bit.ly/49I9CI3 Prequel Blog: prequel.dev/blog-post/preq…
I’ve decided I love USB PD (power delivery), when your device negotiates more than 5V from whatever is supplying power. You can now buy USB-C power adapters as replacements for the DC bricks for many kinds of old laptops and other electronics!
🎉 It's official! The #CAMLIS2024 abstracts & videos are now live on our website & our YouTube channel! 🚀 Don't miss this opportunity to explore some incredible work at the intersection of machine learning & info security! 🌐 Website: camlis.org/2024-conference