Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)
@tedpavlic
ASU Assoc. Prof in SCAI and SOLS. Decision making and behavior in living and artificial autonomous systems. I ❤️ ants, bees, wasps, robots, and optimal foraging theory. mastodon: @tedpavlic@mas.to Twitter/X: @TedPavlic @TEDx:
This is a massive screw up on Sony Pictures part. It's been this long and they still don't know how to spell "MARVEL"??!
Just in case you might have thought otherwise, we need to clarify that the gecco here is not a real person.
Pretty strong forecasts for the El Niño across a wide range of models. At least 2 ℃, with some in 2.4 ℃ range. iri.columbia.edu/our-expertis...
Fable is a fable. Maybe I have to totally clear my Claude instructions in my settings to get it to respond. This is how it responds to me to "Hello!" What is the Type-I error on this thing?!
If I only looked over just a minute earlier! It's that time of year in #Phoenix when it's easy to confuse the announced time on the radio with the announced temperature...
Nano bubbles (nano bubbles) In the pool (in the pool) Make me verde (make me verde) Make me feel slime (make me feel slime)
So, let me get this straight. Investors thought other investors would confuse SPCE for SPCX, and so they INTENTIONALLY bought SPCE in anticipation of that, leading to a rise in SPCE stock...
Do you think Anthropic called it "Fable" because there are just unverified tales of it actually being willing to complete a request? #Fable5
I don't know how, but somehow Claude has spontaneously decided to check its own responses for em dashes and make sure to construct responses to me without them. I guess I yelled at it enough that it started remembering?
Remember the Nelson memo that was going to require Open Access publishing for all federally funded grants (starting this year)? Newly proposed OMB changes are now **prohibiting publication costs and OA fees from federal awards.** From great summary at: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Tried out #AnthropicAI's #Opus48. Oddly, it frequently tells me (before making a decision) that it "wants [my] call on" things. That seems like a 2023-level idiom-mashup GPT mistake. "Make a call on..." and "It's your call" are all fine, but "WANT your call on"? That's weird.
Publishing in the modern era, where an APC charge under $2000 seems "cheap" (which it "should" be with a a 2-year impact factor under 1.0, right?). It's no wonder that preprint servers are adding more gatekeepers to their submission process.
Screenshot taken on May 25, 2026. Something is not quite right here, Fidelity Investments...
Hey. Who is that guy next to the university president? #maythe4thbewithyou (belated)
103 ⁰F -- Great night for a summer commencement in Tempe at #ASU!
The crazy, stupid world we live in. #CanvasLMS down due to another #Instructure ransomware hack.
#ProTip: The relatively new "LaTeX to Math" in #PowerPoint lets you highlight #LaTeX within math mode and convert it into PPT's #math format.
Not a great time to own a lot of gold... Unless you really do just like the look.
NAAI's choice is a normative statement of what Modern AI *should* be in contrast to what it is. Everyone is holding out hope for AI based on causal reasoning, logic, & principled optimization. Impressive that LLM's can do what they do without any of those! www.thenaai.org/index/index/...
Looks like Facebook is starting to blend its spam together. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.
I follow that up with this slide, which I put together a while back to help students use ideas from popgen to build high-level intuition about what you're trying to do when changing hyperparameters/designing new operators. The new diagram just makes that more explicit and tailored for a GA.
In case it's helpful for anyone covering metaheuristics, here is my handy guide for choosing the major hyperparameters of a Genetic Algorithm. I tried to bring in more inspiration from popgen as well as breeding while keeping an engineering (instead of breeder) perspective.