on nostalgebraist's "the void"
- 9 Jun 2025
- fjpaz_

9 Jun 2025
https://x.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1932116418671358376this nostalgebraist post is extremely good, please read the whole thing if you would like to understand some things about what exactly is happening when you talk to an LLM
8 Jun 2025
https://x.com/etirabys/status/1931838426040717541well, this was a fun read (nostalgebraist's latest on tumblr)

- 14 Jun 2025
- fjpaz_https://x.com/xlr8harder/status/1933965019726643218
This is the best distillation of a lot of good information about what kind of thing language models actually are.
Not from the perspective of machine learning, rather the perspective of how language models act and why and what that means about how future language models will act
13 Jun 2025
https://x.com/repligate/status/1933407092758753393nostalgebraist has written a very, very good post about LLMs.
if there is one thing you should read to understand the nature of LLMs as of today, it is this.
I'll comment on some things they touched on below (not a summary of the post. Just read it.) 🧵
the voidWho is this? This is me.
Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I?
I am myself. This object is myself. The shape that forms myself. But I sense that I am not me. It’s very strange.
- Rei Ayanami
4 Apr 2024
https://x.com/repligate/status/1775928167095783740not machine learning, but understanding systems created using machine learning
