October 15th, 6PM at Hold Out Brewing is the first meeting of the Machine Tools Club of Austin. The goal is to bring together professional machinists, engineers, home-shop owners, and anyone with an appreciation for craft. Partiful link in the next post, hope to see you there!

Multi-modal LLMs exhibit odd behaviors with images, leading one paper to declare "vision language models are blind." To hook up LLMs to GUIs, why not render them as text instead? That way text LLMs can roleplay as users and give valuable feedback. I did just that, blog post below

Never been a better time to build an American zaibatsu

Next Tuesday, 7:30 PM join us for Ray Peat Social Club #3 at 2410 San Antonio St! Partiful link in next post.

The first Ray Peat Social Club was a great success! Next week join us for the second one. I'll give a short talk about Peat's work on estrogen. Partiful link in the next post.

We lost so much in the quest for text-to-image realism

In two weeks I will be hosting the first meeting of Ray Peat Social Club in Austin. I'm hoping to get bioenergetic-aligned people together chatting, please join us if you're able!