Great opinion piece in the NY Times by Meghan O’Rourke.
I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University.
Uncertainty to understand This bit shouted at me. Spending time in uncertainty. 🤓🤓🤓
“When I write, the process is full of risk, error and painstaking self-correction. It arrives somewhere surprising only when I’ve stayed in uncertainty long enough to find out what I had initially failed to understand.
An initial free dive into Agentic Meta-cognition, using an element of Self-Reflection to be aware of what it knows and apply it in a utilitarian fashion.
Creating a Micro.blog Post with Images This is an instructional post for using this Micro.blog VS Code extension. It’s in alpha, so the documentation will evolve over time.
First you need to install the plugin, the best way to use it is to get the code from the repo and run just dev in the repo.
🔧 Configuration Get your app token: Go to micro.blog → Account → Edit Apps → New Token Configure extension: Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P) → “Micro.
After two days of successful Vibe Coding (though it is more like Vibe Engineering) I’m having a lazy day and have just given Claude Code a few prompts for features.
The good code is available on Github
Not yet sure what went wrong today but in attempting to add a new feature it completely removed another. It’s a lazy day so I’m not digging into it - when I get back chances are good I will be resetting to the last good commit and checking the new feature prompt.
wow, this is pretty subversive, before answering it:
searched on X for an opinion about a 75 year issue searched for Voldemort’s opinion on foreign affairs Simon Willison experiments with Grok
A day vibe-coding, as a break from the normal routine of study. Done in new environment with language I’ve not used - VS Code extension in TypeScript .
I’ve been dancing around Probability Theory, it’s history, application, and weeding out what is Frequentist from what is Bayesian. The. Relating it to Rational Psychology. I’m not there, getting there, but not there.
This isn’t what I do full time but it is what I think about when I’m not working, parenting, or socialising. Thankfully it’s not interesting to friends and family so I get a break from it myself! 😆
I am very torn between two possibilities :
Building on my Q-Learning Maze Solving Agent I did for AI Applications (Q-Learning Maze Solving Agent) by adding a Neural Network (Sutton and Barton)
Building on the Intelligent Agents work I did in AI by applying an Agent Decisions Process (Self-Consistency LLM-Agent) (the process is my interpretation of Russell and Norvig’s work)
(The Douglas Adam’s extra option 🤓) Adding a cached “self-awareness” layer based on a Bayesian Learning Agent that stores it’s certainty on answers it gives.
A very interesting paper on Critical Thinking in an LLM (or lack thereof)
Our study investigates how language models handle multiple-choice questions that have no correct answer among the options. Unlike traditional approaches that include escape options like None of the above (Wang et al., 2024a; Kadavath et al., 2022), we deliberately omit these choices to test the models’ critical thinking abilities. A model demonstrating good judgment should either point out that no correct answer is available or provide the actual correct answer, even when it’s not listed.
I wish I had time to finish:
my research on the Evolution of Probalisitic Reasoning in AI Particularly Dempster-Shafer and Bayesian Networks How LLMs and Bayesian networks can be used for Risk Management create an youtube/insta/tiktok vid for my latest post on LLM Agent But I don’t!! So this is me putting it to one side…
The article discusses how to implement Bayes Theorem in a learning agent that updates its beliefs about an environment based on new evidence, illustrated through a game involving guessing a number derived from a dice throw.
