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Oliver Maclaren

@omaclaren

I use mathematics, computation, statistics, & machine learning to help think about biology, engineering, & other things. UoA, NZ. Also omaclaren @ bsky

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linkhttp://tinyurl.com/ojmscholar calendar_today05-05-2010 07:13:07

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I’ve got some students who wanna play around with eg 70B open llms. Can’t run locally obvs. What’re their best options in terms of ease of use and cost? Mainly just running for now but also maybe fine tuning at some point

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man to me this illustrates that you can build very cool things while holding very naive philosophical or conceptual ideas…

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The voice mode for all the llms keeps trying to sound more human but I kinda just want my robot friends to sound like robots

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I tried defining a simple ‘prompt script language’ that sort of works and is fun to play with gist.github.com/omaclaren/b55f…

erisa (@erisaonx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

as I’m getting closer to finishing my PhD (if all goes well that should be next May), outside of research I have been thinking a lot on what I want to do next. this is a little thread on how I started the program with the intention to have an academic career and how that changed

Ivo Siekmann (@ivosiekmann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Can we infer chemical reaction networks from time series data? Can we observe concentrations of substances over time and infer which substances react with each other? Learn if (and how much) this is possible from Yong See F, Age Zanca and Jennifer Flegg arxiv.org/abs/2505.15653

Colin Fraser (@colin_fraser) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The correct take: - “stochastic parrot” is a top notch turn of phrase that does accurately convey something about what LLMs do - stochastic parrots can be smarter than most of the people who like that phrase think - but not as smart as the people who don’t like that phrase think

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Agree with this + no clear path to solving the core issues (then again, I don’t know what people are cooking behind the scenes)

Agree with this + no clear path to solving the core issues (then again, I don’t know  what people are cooking behind the scenes)
Neel Nanda (@neelnanda5) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My MATS scholars are teaching me such valuable things about Claude Code as a research tool! Pro: Much faster research results - productivity is off the charts Con: Often the most interesting results are hard-coded (Credit to @edturner42 for seeing through Claude's lies)