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Aleksey TikhonovRandom notes on people and machines
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Agentic Perl Golf
TLDR: in 2019 a friend and I golfed a word-level Markov chain text generator down to a 123-byte perl one-liner. This time I gave the same task to Codex and Claude Code. Codex finished at 97 bytes after getting caught cheating twice. Claude...
What's Wrong with TTS Evaluation
Modern TTS systems are good enough on simple prompts so the old good metrics no longer point in any clear direction. The interesting failures live in the tails: latency tricks, alphanumericals, long-form drift, voice identity, multilingual...
My Forecast from September: How Did It Age?
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In early September I published a six-month AI forecast. So it’s time to close the loop. Most of it aged reasonably well; two things I underestimated (systematically but not dramatically) are benchmark improvement speed and code-ge...
Old Stories About Evolving Digital Creatures Turned Out to Be About Modern AI
TLDR: One old paper catalogued ways evolution surprised researchers in projects conducted 30+ years ago: gaming fitness functions, exploiting simulators, “playing dead” during tests, solving the metric instead of the problem. In 2025-2026,...
LLMs & Humor: Comic Voices, Critic Brains
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A few days ago, I ran into Theo’s Quipslop, which uses 7 modern LLMs to generate and score jokes, and it looked like a very nice testbed for one idea.
You cannot improve what you cannot measure, and for subjective things like humo...
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