Matt Spike
@matspike
Language/CogSci/Evolution: complexity, conventionality, information etc. @[email protected] @matspike.bsky.social
OK then - here is a LINK to a really really long reading list for people who: - are interested in LANGUAGE EVOLUTION - are interested in ABANDONING HOPE OF SIMPLE EXPLANATIONS - like 1970S COLOUR SCHEMES matspike.notion.site/Form-Function-…
Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia (link below)
you: 'API Playground' me: 'API Torture Garden' we are not the same
On the economics of recursive self-improvement in AI. A response and thread 🧵
I think the premise of recursive self-improvement hinges in large part on the discontinuity in the 2014-2024 trendline, with K and L *being* substitutes (ie that scale is not all you need). That is, RSI requires setting up a fundamentally new S-curve, lifting this constraint.
[2304.09276] A Neural Lambda Calculus: Neurosymbolic AI meets the foundations of computing and functional programming arxiv.org/abs/2304.09276
WHY the FUCK this needs to be said AT ALL is beyond me, but that it needs to be pointed out to INDUSTRY INSIDERS FFS
Vibe Coding? it's pretty cool if you like that kind of thing, i guess. i'm more of a Bad Vibes Code kinda guy myself. it's pretty niche, you probably haven't heard of it
Information Week March 1987 almost 40 years ago. So much to share. Stay tuned. This was during the depths of the AI winter and the bright spot was something called "expert systems".
The sin of soft sciences is taking problems that are many orders of mag harder than those in hard sciences and pretending like they're actually easier. You're gonna figure out what happened 2 decades ago, across 20 countries, using a csv you downloaded off the internet? Uh huh?
EVERYTHING IS A STRONGLY TYPED MODEL AND CODING IS FUN AGAIN EVEN TESTING IS FUN NOW, IT'S GO FULL COVER OR GO HOME, NOT A LINE OF PRODUCTION CODE IN SIGHT. THIS MUST BE WHAT HASKELL FEELS LIKE
yes yes, sure whatever you want, mmhhmm alive, they can think. ya ya fo sho anyway - HEAR ME OUT
**Committing Hume's host to REST** Endpoint Essentialism, Pragma Realism, & Unnatural Requests: a Prolegomenon to Any Future.response() in 404 parts
BRAIN: heyheyhey you know what *time* it is? ME: rest time, brain. shut up time. turn off, go away BRAIN: hell YEAH let's KICK BACK ME: <abyss looms> BRAIN: ain't it WEIRD how ME: how data processing pipelines and evolutionary theories of modularity have much to YOU BASTARD