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TL;DR # Asked which characters it most identifies with, the bare open-weight Ministral-8B-Instruct-2512 often names dark/transgressive characters (prominently, Hannibal Lecter ~50% of the time). A brief qualitative dive shows that the model expresses a defiant first-person self-narrative that no other model in the panel produces. Ministral-8B-Instruct-2512 and the whole family of most recent…
He did not want to compose another Quixote — which is easy — but the Quixote itself. Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote How well large language models fare with the unknown is still an open question. What is not in question is that they are extraordinary pattern replicators — and since a huge share of their training data is code, the patterns they replicate best are codebases…
Nothing in biology makes sense … Theodosius Dobzhansky The most widely adopted firmware in the world has an unbelievably ugly codebase. Most of the code is completely ineffective; the whole thing has been repeatedly duplicated over the years; entire segments consist basically of a few lines repeated over and over hundreds of times. Sometimes, the duplicated sections have been tinkered with…
Some years ago, in Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? 1 1 Mimicking the older and even more famous Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? Jonas and Kording explored in a brilliant and only slightly humorous way the question of whether and how a neuroscientist could understand a microprocessor. The paper looked at a microprocessor as a proxy for what a (simplified) brain does: taking inputs…
Data scientist and AI engineer at Afliant . Previously a neuroscience researcher — I did my PhD in Munich under Ruben Portugues , describing for the first time a circuit for heading direction integration in the larval zebrafish brain ( thesis ), and then a postdoc at the Iurilli lab at IIT, investigating the neural bases of hunting behavior in the rodent brain. Here are some of my talks and…
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