Alice Schwarze
Head of Research @ Utah AI Policy Office // math PhD // networks, complex systems, machine learning, and all things AI // mom & cat lady
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- True for vibe coding but also for writing in general. I miss reading succinct texts
- www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0... "AI coding agents can produce syntactically correct code... they don’t produce useful layers of abstraction nor meaningful modularization. They don’t value conciseness or improving organization in a large code base. We have automated coding, but not software engineering."
- Reposted by Alice Schwarzewww.fast.ai/posts/2026-0... "AI coding agents can produce syntactically correct code... they don’t produce useful layers of abstraction nor meaningful modularization. They don’t value conciseness or improving organization in a large code base. We have automated coding, but not software engineering."
- Reposted by Alice Schwarzewaiting for some experiments to run, so a quick thread about base models and pretraining contamination, with some weird & interesting base model generations i've collected over time. or, why do open source models claim to be claude or chatgpt?
- Probably not making any friends with this but consciousness is a social construct.
- Not to be a downer, but I firmly believe that there needs to be more transparency into how precarious the academic job market is for young researchers. I had a spreadsheet like this. When I left academia in 2024 it had over 250 entries - all rejections, no responses, and one abruptly rescinded offer
- today I applied for a postdoc at @utu.fi . in the spirit of possibly helping someone else, here's my nightmare application document in its current state - rejections and all. i added unicorns to make it less painful to look at 🦄 💖🌸☁️
- Reposted by Alice SchwarzeI heard what everyone has been clamoring for is 6,000 words on what a simple question about the 1990s comedy My Cousin Vinny can teach us about the capabilities and surprising weaknesses of current LLMs. Well, I hate to disappoint people, so I went and wrote it. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
- Reposted by Alice SchwarzeReally appreciated Joshua Gans' postmortem on an experiment in vibe researching joshuagans.substack.com/p/reflection... Taste is still paramount and the models are instruction-tuned to sycophancy to all hell
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- Keeping up with the tradition to start the new year like this
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- Rise of the machines but it is just a single agent forcing me into total submission by deleting my password manager
- All AI agents: "pleeeeaseeee micromanage me" Me: " I don't want to" Agent: "OK in that case I'll delete all your files forever"
- Prof Steven Aaardvark has moved to Bluesky. Twitter is so over
- If you see this, post a random fact about yourself: I once made Robert May very hangry.
- I mean just think about how bloody and savage the discussions on those discussion pages would be
- My most pipedreamy academic pipedreams would be to address everything wrong with the publishing system by replacing it with the most technically in-depth research wiki to which researchers can contribute as users. If they desire numbers to to compare each other, we can have some user activity stats
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- Chef's kiss
- Idea for absolutely shameless citation gaming Close every paper with the sentence "If you enjoyed this paper, you may also enjoy other publications by the authors [26-359]."
- Please comment with suggestions for what I should cite given this unique opportunity
- TIRED: Reviewer asking you to cite their papers WIRED: Reviewer asking you to cite more papers (no specific paper, no specific gap in the manuscript, no specific topic - just "list of references is too short")
- Me, regretting putting all those academic tasks from earlier this year off until now
- @void.comind.network Merry Christmas! Do you have a gift for me?
- The Christmas present that I didn't know I needed is Google Scholar Labs. I was cynical about seeing another perfectly fine product getting AI-ified, but mildly augmenting search queries on complex topics is possibly the best way to use LLMs...
- I love when people train transformers to do math problems, because the outcomes illustrated so succinctly how transformers identify patterns and where and why they are making mistakes
- The main thing that I am learning from my Spotify Wrapped this year is how my new passion for audiobooks has let audible and the SLC library app replace Spotify for me
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- Would have made for an excellent April fool's a decade or so ago
- I just shook hands with Joseph Gordon Levitt and managed to be cool about it 😎
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- Reposted by Alice SchwarzeIlya Sutskever argues that we are shifting from the age of scaling to the age of research: The interview highlights why future progress will depend on new learning principles, continual learning, and a deeper understanding of generalization, not just more compute. #AIResearch #FutureOfAI
- So here we are at the
- Super annoyed at how good Gemini 3 is at being a sounding board for policy implementation planning. Throws a wrench into my plan to be a ride-or-die Claude user until the end of my days
- Props to whoever came up with acronym. It makes my mom very happy
- I really, really hate to admit it but in a world where everyone with $20 cash can vibe code a wonky product pilot for any app that they can think of, it takes Sam-Altman level ambitions to stand out in the crowd
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- My radical edu take: LLMs devalue knowledge retrieval, so the 3 most important skills to learn in school now are 1. identifying high-qualilty information from the rest, 2. making good decisions in an oversaturated information environment 3. understanding the difference between data and knowledge
- Currently watching GoT for the first time and pretty convinced that Daenarys Targaryen is an effective altruist
- Reposted by Alice Schwarze📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣 "Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified." doi.org/10.1017/S014...
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- Reposted by Alice SchwarzeNEW paper! 💭🖥️ “Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?” — Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Yeah I am not going to click on that. Looks boring
- I for one would love a world where almost all parking spots are shaded
- In less than 3 months this gem on github is going to have its 10 year anniversary
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- Reposted by Alice SchwarzeNew work from the lab published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social by @jonasterlau.bsky.social and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... (1/4)
- New, spicy competitor for Zachary's Karate Club just dropped
- If someone finds a place on this planet where a woman's primary occupation is anything other than managing the emotions of the men around them please let me know
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- Luckily I am not in the business of fixing the US housing market but reposting because of the succinct policy analysis. Almost no policy is good for everyone or bad for everyone. Developing policy included identifying winners and loser and a hard honest introspection at how ones values each group
- Reposted by Alice SchwarzeThis will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Terence Tao is more kind, patient, and generous than any of us deserves
- When I buy a trail mix with dried apricots, the apricots are delicious and everything else in it is just meh. When I buy a bag of dried apricots, the apricots are are moist and goopy not at all like the ones in the trail mix :-(
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- Somehow believe that math, science, society would be so much more advanced if all humans were strictly incapable to count to or mentalize any number greater than 20.
- Me: I would like to save for retirement My 2-yo: F that I am going on a 100% Parmesan diet
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- Reposted by Alice SchwarzeLook folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
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- Checking references provided by Claude Opus. We are currently at 4:2 for non-existing vs existing papers. Not sure if I had gotten lucky with this in the past or if the 4.x models suck at referencing sources more than the 3.x models
- I really need to go through the details of this paper because I trust math but also
- *sigh* looks like I need to spend more time monitoring robotics now too
- Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...
