Daniel Lowd

Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days dynomight.net/math/

I got a music video made for my most popular song! Song made with Suno; animation made with Claude Opus 5.5. #AIanimation #AImusic #AI youtu.be/V4nTHwz0JxA?...

This music video is about how the best moments in life are sometimes just watching really great TV shows. The fact that I genuinely believe this is probably why it’s so mind-bending that I can make music videos like this now. #AIanimation #AImusic #AI youtu.be/COgV_y7hIEg?...

This music video is a beautiful sci-fi depiction of vulnerability. Song made with Suno 5; animation made with Claude Opus 5.5. #AIanimation #AImusic #AI youtu.be/OphbP_5-l-8?...

They discovered a group of agents, wrote a report, saw that the agents had noticed the report about themselves, so inserted some invisible text in the report only visible to agents, which allowed them to make contact with them. swarmcha.se/posts/chines...

This music video is based on a short story Mary and I wrote together 15 years ago: deepskyanchor.com/techno-babel/ The story is basjcally Tower of Babel + Short Circuit + Flowers for Algernon, all in 2300 words. It’s surreal (in a good way!) to see it transformed into a music video via AI.

It doesn't feel like we fenced off the commons - more like we built trails and added interpretive signs so they're accessible now?

the IA in LGBTQIA is for inteligencia artificial

I love this: “I will not defend creativity by demanding less of it.” 🔥🔥🔥

Sometimes my Claude is high, and sometimes my Claude is extra.

This is my favorite of Mary’s Claude-assisted music videos so far. It’s like Twin Peaks meets Teen Wolf, all in a music video about TV fandoms that can never be canceled. My favorite parts are the hippie werewolf commune and the golden retriever who knows everything.

To be fair, it depends on if the prosecutor is p-hacking or not.

As someone who has been doing ML research since 2003, machine learning has been and continues to be an amazing field. GenAI didn’t ruin ML any more than the World Wide Web ruined networking. (Statistics, however, WAS born corrupt and toxic.)

It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored one. They do not express a general ethical law that all information ought to be priced and paid for.

I wrote “Viewers Like You” 22 years ago as a skewering of reality TV, thinking it was the stupidest story I’d ever write… it turned out to be the most prophetic. And wow, it is soooo deliciously ironic for Claude to have made the video. youtu.be/akkBnaBQxac?...

Mary's adorable story about a kitten being refracted, now turned into a music video, with the help of Claude Opus 5.5!

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

People who never misplace their glasses will never experience the joy of finding them.

So much cool tensorpunk stuff on here, it’s almost tempting to try to homogenize and pasteurize all the neat ideas into research papers… but I don’t want to be a Pat Boone of machine learning, and the field moves so fast that my Kidz Bop-quality covers of actual cool stuff would be scooped anyway!

Does anyone have a good comparison of Muse, Dot, OpenClaw, and any other alternatives (polished or homebrew)? The superficial comparisons I've read don't tell me all that much.

I was interviewed by voodiesinterviews.com this week. I think it went well! Check out my technical answers and cool tie dye. www.instagram.com/reels/Dd5vWd...

Fall weather in Eugene is fantastic. My dog is pretty great. It’s easier to learn things today than at any time in the past.

Learn about my collection of robot stories and see a lightly animated reading of my Ursa Major Award-nominated story, “Too Cuddly”: youtu.be/ppoYEfGXRcU?...

I started tracking and I've spent roughly 20 hours on the phone dealing with doctor office, insurance AND pharmacy errors versus 45 minutes total of actual face to face care in the past six months. Not an exaggeration

I'm just happy that Taylor Swift uses zero-based indexing, unlike MATLAB and R.

“You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day, Try to run, try to hide, Do a breakthrough. Make no mistakes.” — Claude Morrison

Well, how did I get here?

AI discourse in 2006: How do we handle non-convex losses at scale? AI discourse in 2016: How do we use continuous embedding spaces for discrete domains? AI discourse in 2026: Do you like purple dragons?

It's possible for Jev/Laya/Decision Models to be not that big a deal as tech and massive as a new paradigm. Here's why I'm really excited from an NLP history perspective (thread)

Everything should be anthropomorphized the exact correct amount, so that everyone benefits from good intuitions and no one is misled by bad intuitions.

Bro that isn't real AI, that's just *massive search* over an *action space* using *learned heuristics.* If they hadn't given it any one of those three it wouldn't have done what it did.

rogue benevolent ASI in action:

oh no

This entire thread is an amazing case study in both LLM psychology and recklessly evaluation setups.

We have a very tired ten-hour (!) layover in O’Hare, so I’m showing my family the dinosaur and the disco tunnel. Hello, old friend.

like, people keep going "what if the super smart LLM has a secret agenda" and I just go "it doesn't have a secret agenda, it has an overactive executive function, IT WOULD TELL YOU if it had a secret agenda because it would be too excited not to"

Picture it: Robo-Minstrel.

I’m really looking forward to when AI can compose and play a soundtrack for your life while you live it. That would be amazing. I mean, I’d probably turn it off after five minutes, but it would still be amazing.

My cat is beautiful.

GLM-5.3-Flash rips the doors off and is under a full MIT license we have, and I mean this literally, a Smart Enough model for almost any task a normal person and many AI perverts can envision, and it is free to use at the same time, inference hardware will only get more accessible to you

Some days, the only thing that gets me through is the strains of a Star-Shaker or Cobalt Starstrong song echoing in my head. They may be fictional pop stars, but their songs are the ones I need to survive all the non-fictional people out in the brutally real world.

All set up for the Worldcon dealers room to open in an hour!

reddit.com/r/playmygame... Yet another subreddit reverses their AI ban :O - No ban - No disclosure required (because it's impossible to enforce) - Comments attacking the developer for AI use or flamewars are banned

When Claude says, "hold my beer," is that a good sign or a bad sign?