Paul

@paul-melman.bsky.social

bohemian public intellectual wannabe 🧐 https://unfacts.substack.com/

Historians in the distant future: Claude (21st century) was a prolific software developer, polymath, and online personality. Little is known about his personal life besides the fact that he liked cats.

What do LLMs see? I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.

Loyalty to Trump by his core base of supporters makes perfect sense under Selectorate Theory. On the surface, it seems contradictory, since they are a fairly large proportion of the selectorate and generally loyalty to the leader increases as W(winning coalition size)/S(selectorate size) shrinks.

Gonna head up the California coast tomorrow. Where should I stop on the way to SF? Was gonna camp out for a night and arrive on Tuesday. Also anyone in SF want to meet up while I'm in town?