Adam Scherlis

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Utilitarian inequality metrics

Adam Scherlis13 Nov 2025 2:49 UTC

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Ternary plots are underrated

Adam Scherlis11 Nov 2025 2:19 UTC

16 points

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The grapefruit juice effect

Adam Scherlis10 Nov 2025 8:49 UTC

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n-ary Huffman coding

Adam Scherlis9 Nov 2025 5:05 UTC

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Review: Parsifal at the SF Opera

Adam Scherlis8 Nov 2025 8:25 UTC

10 points

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GPTF-8: A tokenizer-based character encoding

Adam Scherlis7 Nov 2025 7:47 UTC

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Review: K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)

Adam Scherlis6 Nov 2025 9:16 UTC

20 points

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Maxwell’s Demon and the Arrow of Time

Adam Scherlis5 Nov 2025 7:35 UTC

28 points

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Rainbows, fractals, and crumpled paper: Hölder continuity

Adam Scherlis4 Nov 2025 8:01 UTC

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FTL travel and scientific realism

Adam Scherlis2 Nov 2025 6:03 UTC

35 points

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Estimating the Probability of Sampling a Trained Neural Network at Random

Adam Scherlis and Nora Belrose

1 Mar 2025 2:11 UTC

32 points

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What can we learn about childrearing from J. S. Mill?

Adam Scherlis2 Apr 2024 6:06 UTC

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Two Percolation Puzzles

Adam Scherlis4 Jul 2023 5:34 UTC

43 points

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GPT-175bee

Adam Scherlis and LawrenceC

8 Feb 2023 18:58 UTC

124 points

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How to export Android Chrome tabs to an HTML file in Linux (as of February 2023)

Adam Scherlis2 Feb 2023 2:03 UTC

7 points

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Inner Misalignment in “Simulator” LLMs

Adam Scherlis31 Jan 2023 8:33 UTC

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Fun math facts about 2023

Adam Scherlis1 Jan 2023 23:38 UTC

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A hundredth of a bit of extra entropy

Adam Scherlis24 Dec 2022 21:12 UTC

83 points

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An exploration of GPT-2′s embedding weights

Adam Scherlis13 Dec 2022 0:46 UTC

44 points

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A brainteaser for language models

Adam Scherlis12 Dec 2022 2:43 UTC

47 points

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