Artificial tongue twisters for TTS evaluation
How I hacked artificial tongue twisters evolution for fun and profit^W^W^W^W to test our TTS models
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Agentic Perl Golf
Two coding agents revisit the 123-byte Markov chain. If you are not a [wannabe] perl nerd, skip it.
What's Wrong with TTS Evaluation
There is no one sane TTS quality score, and that has stopped being inconvenient and started being the whole problem.
My Forecast from September: How Did It Age?
TLDR: In early September I published a six-month AI forecast.
Old Stories About Evolving Digital Creatures Turned Out to Be About Modern AI
Evaluation is the King^W Bottleneck
LLMs & Humor: Comic Voices, Critic Brains
Capturing and comparing the "sense of humor" of seven modern LLMs
Weekend pet-project: Vacation Cheater
TLDR: A client-side vacation planner that uses a greedy optimization algorithm to maximize your days off by strategically placing vacation days around public holidays and weekends.
Moltbook Anatomy: AI Agents Social Network exploration
TLDR: AI bots now have their own Reddit, and it’s exactly as chaotic as you’d expect.
How I built 1K+ schemas of agentic projects and what I understood
TLDR: I analyzed 1K+ Reddit posts about AI agent projects, processed them automatically into graphical schemas, and studied them.
My 6-month forecast for the AI industry
...remember this tweet...
Prompt Brewery: Escaping the Jinja Hell
We built Prompt Brewery, a tool for static analysis of Jinja prompt templates that auto-generates payloads, flags common issues, and returns recommendations, so we decided to share it with you!
Quantum Persona and Test-time Mode Collapse
The Billy Milligan Effect in Large Language Models
What's Wrong with Chat-Templates Format for LLM
This is going to be a long read (I rarely write these), but I believe it's a useful and interesting one with some non-trivial twists along the way. Chat-templates are broken, and I'll explain why.
BIG BANG OF AGENT RULES
TLDR: Last weekend, I spent several hours digging through publicly available cursor rules files and analyzing existing usage patterns.
COMIC CARTOON GENERATION
Since April Fool’s Day is today, let me share some of my results on automated comic cartoon generation.
HUMOR ARENA
TLDR: we made HUMOR ARENA, a site where you can participate in side-by-side labeling of various generated one-liners, see the ranking of models, and read the automatic top of generated jokes.
GALLERY OF UNSEEN
TLDR: It started as a bunch of strange experiments and ideas on unsupervised generation and converged into another NaNoGenMo project. This post contains the nuances and technical details of this work.
QR-DICE
6-sided QR-cube
FREAKING ARCHITECTURE
...an unsupervised pipeline for architectural images generation...
Random notes on people and machines
Welcome to altsoph by me, Aleksey Tikhonov.