Tyler Shoemaker
Assistant Professor, Critical AI
tylershoemaker.info
- Reposted by Tyler Shoemakerdiscussion over
- “It’s Pythonic”
- Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerOh, the irony.
- Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerI've been working on a new tool with @tonofcrates.bsky.social to make publishing easier called Rheo: rheo.ohrg.org In a nutshell, it lets you produce an EPUB, a PDF, and a static site (HTML) from a folder of @typst.app files. The Rheo doc site is naturally made with Rheo (PDF and EPUB linked).
- File under: “Why am I being rate limited by CC again?” “The asymmetries of text and token; see also, reasoning traces as money printers for AI companies” “What does a post-user UI look like?” mitchellh.com/writing/ghos...
- Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerI am pretty thrilled to announce the publication of Perceptron, a creative-critical reading of Frank Rosenblatt and his world-changing invention. I co-authored Perceptron with Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social, my collaborator and partner in all things. punctumbooks.com/titles/perce...
- Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerIntroducing Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models built by "byteifying" our open Olmo 3—and to our knowledge, the first fully open byte-level LM to match or surpass SOTA subword models across a wide range of tasks. 🧵
- Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerLLMs didn’t move language modeling research from linguists to AI people, they just moved it from computer scientists who thought language was interesting to computer scientists who thought language was boring
- Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerDigital Theory, out today! @leifw.bsky.social @mbfazi.bsky.social
- Not the full story, but a big chunk of it: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerSuch a rich paper by @jeddobson.bsky.social on the challenges of "the interpretation of computational interpretations": i.e. interpreting cultural objects using methods like LLMs which are themselves so actively interpreting. Discussing it with my students tomorrow. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- “Google used to be good,” “online recipes aren’t content mills,” and other fictions of our present
- Here's a short thing on adversarial language, following yesterday's poetry news. It argues for interpretability work undertaken via literary studies and tries to acknowledge some difficulties this would entail. For Those Who May Find Themselves on the Red Team: tylershoemaker.info/docs/shoemak...
- I've sat on this for a long while: some journal editors wanted it, then they didn't. I haven't touched the piece since, but now that we're all keyed into adversarial poetry, well...
- This is fascinating. It’ll also kick off another round of poem=noise=khora discourse
