Juan Diego Rodriguez

@juand-r

CS PhD student at UT Austin in #NLP Interested in language, reasoning, semantics and cognitive science. One day we'll have more efficient, interpretable and robust models! Other interests: math, philosophy, cinema

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Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir juand-r.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· 2d

Post inspired by this:

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· 20d

It now refuses to talk to me. I had never seen it do this before

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· 20d

Claude has had enough

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Jul 17

Magnifica Humanitas:
On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence
Encyclical Letter by Pope Leo XIV

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Jul 8

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Jul 6

Miyu Oba on “CxMP: A Linguistic Minimal-Pair Benchmark for Evaluating Constructional Understanding in Language Models”

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Jul 5

Our first talk: Kaito Watanabe on Evaluation of Multilingual Ability to Use Spatial Deictic Expressions in Vision-Language Models

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Jun 26

Trump and his toadies

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Jun 17

www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/...

JS Mill’s On Liberty: “He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation…”

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· May 28

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· May 18

“We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them.”

— J. Bronowski, Science and Human Values

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· May 15

WTF Claude. I'm not doing anything cyber related!

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Apr 25

This is a fantastic article. Also brings to mind this bit in Reddy's The Conduit Metaphor

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Apr 14

I wonder if anyone has distilled an ELIZA out of an LLM? Claude, 5 minutes later:

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Apr 11

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 23

Claude is so obnoxious

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 22

From “You are not a gadget” (amazingly written 16 years ago)

“Algorithms will find correlations between those who read my words and their purchases, their romantic adventures, their debts…

Real human eyes will read these words in only a tiny minority of the cases…

I want to say: You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.”

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 18

Pulp Fiction:

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 18

Dickens:

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 18

Pride and Prejudice as if Jane Austen were a mech interp researcher

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 17

Fantastic recommendation!

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 12

I was recently asking Claude about this:

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 10

So excited to dig into this

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 8

Things could get out of hand if we're not careful

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 8

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 4

Ok I tried this. It took them a while but the two Claudes finally found each other.

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Mar 1

I'm looking forward to @jennhu.bsky.social's South by Semantics talk next week at UT Austin! She'll discuss "micro-pragmatics" inferences and world modeling in language models 🤖

South by Semantics Workshop:
"New horizons in evaluating pragmatic competence in language models", Jennifer Hu (Johns Hopkins University), March 6, 2026.

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Feb 28

War is Peace

Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r· Feb 10

So apparently Claude can write 300-page textbook in nicely-formatted latex, including exercises for the reader.