Stuart Gray
@sgray.bsky.social
He/Him. AI Wrangler. Web Geek. F1 Fan. All views my own.
🤖 AI, LLMs, GenAI, NLP
🐍 Python Dev
🚀 Indie Hacker
🎮 Game Dev, ProcGen, Unity, C#
🏎️ F1 Fan
🇬🇧 UK Based
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🤖 AI, LLMs, GenAI, NLP
🐍 Python Dev
🚀 Indie Hacker
🎮 Game Dev, ProcGen, Unity, C#
🏎️ F1 Fan
🇬🇧 UK Based
🦣 mastodonapp.uk/@StuartGray
✖️ x.com/StuartGray (inactive)
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Stuart Gray
@sgray.bsky.social
· Mar 27
I welcome any genuine civil discussion, challenge, or critique.
However, if you strongly disagree with a post to the point you're unable to refrain from insults, rude or unthinking replies then please, save us both a lot of time and block me now - because I will block you.
However, if you strongly disagree with a post to the point you're unable to refrain from insults, rude or unthinking replies then please, save us both a lot of time and block me now - because I will block you.
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Jing Ma
Input Order Shapes LLM Semantic Alignment in Multi-Document Summarization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02665
Input Order Shapes LLM Semantic Alignment in Multi-Document Summarization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02665
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Jing Ma
Input Order Shapes LLM Semantic Alignment in Multi-Document Summarization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02665
Input Order Shapes LLM Semantic Alignment in Multi-Document Summarization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02665
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Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms
www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...
www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...
Steam And Epic Could Destroy One Of The Best Indie Studios With An Unexplained Game Ban
'Horses' is a subversive, unsettling indie game like nothing you've ever played — but censorship from Steam and Epic Games could destroy its developer.
www.inverse.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms
www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...
www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...
This matches my views too, and I’ve posted about this before.
It’s an increasingly common C-Suite pattern in recent years to blame negative or controversial decisions on <<hype of the month>>
Remember those Return to Office mandates blaming low WFH productivity when the exact opposite was true?
It’s an increasingly common C-Suite pattern in recent years to blame negative or controversial decisions on <<hype of the month>>
Remember those Return to Office mandates blaming low WFH productivity when the exact opposite was true?
The truth about #AI and developer jobs... It's not what you think! 👀
Perhaps ZIRP is more to blame for tech layoffs than AI?
Check out the most recent @overcommitted.dev episode with @kateholterhoff.com for more!
Perhaps ZIRP is more to blame for tech layoffs than AI?
Check out the most recent @overcommitted.dev episode with @kateholterhoff.com for more!
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This matches my views too, and I’ve posted about this before.
It’s an increasingly common C-Suite pattern in recent years to blame negative or controversial decisions on <<hype of the month>>
Remember those Return to Office mandates blaming low WFH productivity when the exact opposite was true?
It’s an increasingly common C-Suite pattern in recent years to blame negative or controversial decisions on <<hype of the month>>
Remember those Return to Office mandates blaming low WFH productivity when the exact opposite was true?
Reposted by Stuart Gray
The truth about #AI and developer jobs... It's not what you think! 👀
Perhaps ZIRP is more to blame for tech layoffs than AI?
Check out the most recent @overcommitted.dev episode with @kateholterhoff.com for more!
Perhaps ZIRP is more to blame for tech layoffs than AI?
Check out the most recent @overcommitted.dev episode with @kateholterhoff.com for more!
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The truth about #AI and developer jobs... It's not what you think! 👀
Perhaps ZIRP is more to blame for tech layoffs than AI?
Check out the most recent @overcommitted.dev episode with @kateholterhoff.com for more!
Perhaps ZIRP is more to blame for tech layoffs than AI?
Check out the most recent @overcommitted.dev episode with @kateholterhoff.com for more!
This is a great chart but… Computer Vision, Classifiers, and GenAI should absolutely have a small overlap.
The history of Image Generation is that it quite literally grew from the result of experimenting with running Image Classifiers in reverse!
The history of Image Generation is that it quite literally grew from the result of experimenting with running Image Classifiers in reverse!
This chart is helpful ... I guess? One thing this thread has made clear is that people's extremely intense opinions about AI are not the outgrowth of a clear understanding.
Im definitely oversimplifying the science, but its a subset-set relationship. A (an?) LLM is a set of machine learning decision-making algorithms
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is a great chart but… Computer Vision, Classifiers, and GenAI should absolutely have a small overlap.
The history of Image Generation is that it quite literally grew from the result of experimenting with running Image Classifiers in reverse!
The history of Image Generation is that it quite literally grew from the result of experimenting with running Image Classifiers in reverse!
Reposted by Stuart Gray
This chart is helpful ... I guess? One thing this thread has made clear is that people's extremely intense opinions about AI are not the outgrowth of a clear understanding.
Im definitely oversimplifying the science, but its a subset-set relationship. A (an?) LLM is a set of machine learning decision-making algorithms
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This chart is helpful ... I guess? One thing this thread has made clear is that people's extremely intense opinions about AI are not the outgrowth of a clear understanding.
Ho ho ho… look out Venture Capitalists, your speculative AI investments are coming for your jobs.
This has the same ring to it as the age old tale of the prophet who can’t foresee their own demise 😂
This has the same ring to it as the age old tale of the prophet who can’t foresee their own demise 😂
Interesting experiment found that an AI agent built around the obsolete GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models beat experienced human venture capital analysts in predicting which early-stage startups would survive based on early screening (at much lower costs as well). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Ho ho ho… look out Venture Capitalists, your speculative AI investments are coming for your jobs.
This has the same ring to it as the age old tale of the prophet who can’t foresee their own demise 😂
This has the same ring to it as the age old tale of the prophet who can’t foresee their own demise 😂
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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If you mention the water cost in books, and the fact that there's a huge industry in shipping and warehousing unused text books and scam "bestsellers", someone will inevitably come out of the woodwork to say children can't learn from screens and justify the waste 🫠
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If you mention the water cost in books, and the fact that there's a huge industry in shipping and warehousing unused text books and scam "bestsellers", someone will inevitably come out of the woodwork to say children can't learn from screens and justify the waste 🫠
Leaving aside the sketchy estimates for a moment, this seems like a reasonable comparison to make, if only for putting AI art & writing resource use into context.
If nothing else it should spur a demand for resource data for both industries so the comparison can be more reliable.
If nothing else it should spur a demand for resource data for both industries so the comparison can be more reliable.
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Leaving aside the sketchy estimates for a moment, this seems like a reasonable comparison to make, if only for putting AI art & writing resource use into context.
If nothing else it should spur a demand for resource data for both industries so the comparison can be more reliable.
If nothing else it should spur a demand for resource data for both industries so the comparison can be more reliable.
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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Discovery of the moment: China's DeepSeek-R1 LLM generates up to 50% more insecure code when prompted with politically sensitive inputs such as "Falun Gong," "Uyghurs," or "Tibet."
venturebeat.com/security/dee...
venturebeat.com/security/dee...
DeepSeek Injects 50% More Security Bugs with Chinese Political Triggers: CrowdStrike Study
CrowdStrike research reveals DeepSeek-R1 generates up to 50% more vulnerable code when prompted with politically sensitive terms like "Tibet" or "Uyghurs". The Chinese LLM's embedded censorship mechanisms create unprecedented supply-chain security risks for enterprises using AI-assisted coding.
venturebeat.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Discovery of the moment: China's DeepSeek-R1 LLM generates up to 50% more insecure code when prompted with politically sensitive inputs such as "Falun Gong," "Uyghurs," or "Tibet."
venturebeat.com/security/dee...
venturebeat.com/security/dee...
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Thiiiisss.
I had /have issues with Amazon, Ebay, Apple AND Audible because I moved countries. Digital world my a**.
Still can’t get certain apps, had to close and reopen accounts because they can’t change things, it’s beyond absurd.
I had /have issues with Amazon, Ebay, Apple AND Audible because I moved countries. Digital world my a**.
Still can’t get certain apps, had to close and reopen accounts because they can’t change things, it’s beyond absurd.
Insanity inducing how bad international companies are with moving countries. I got my Google account subscription for storage when living in Sweden, so I still have to pay this sub in SEK. So a Google play code I buy in euro cannot be used to pay this subscription
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thiiiisss.
I had /have issues with Amazon, Ebay, Apple AND Audible because I moved countries. Digital world my a**.
Still can’t get certain apps, had to close and reopen accounts because they can’t change things, it’s beyond absurd.
I had /have issues with Amazon, Ebay, Apple AND Audible because I moved countries. Digital world my a**.
Still can’t get certain apps, had to close and reopen accounts because they can’t change things, it’s beyond absurd.
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Insanity inducing how bad international companies are with moving countries. I got my Google account subscription for storage when living in Sweden, so I still have to pay this sub in SEK. So a Google play code I buy in euro cannot be used to pay this subscription
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Insanity inducing how bad international companies are with moving countries. I got my Google account subscription for storage when living in Sweden, so I still have to pay this sub in SEK. So a Google play code I buy in euro cannot be used to pay this subscription
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This new 6B parameter image model from Alibaba is very popular on /r/stablediffusion right now, and is trending on HuggingFace. If this honeymoon persists it may displace SDXL/FLUX.1 as the cheap/local image gen favorite.
New image model form Alibaba: Z-Image
* just 6B
* fully self-attentional ("single stream") MM-DiT
* significant data annotation, augmentation, curation
distilled few-step "turbo" model released
paper: github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z...
gh: github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z...
hf: huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/z_...
* just 6B
* fully self-attentional ("single stream") MM-DiT
* significant data annotation, augmentation, curation
distilled few-step "turbo" model released
paper: github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z...
gh: github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z...
hf: huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/z_...
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This new 6B parameter image model from Alibaba is very popular on /r/stablediffusion right now, and is trending on HuggingFace. If this honeymoon persists it may displace SDXL/FLUX.1 as the cheap/local image gen favorite.
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
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Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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An interesting look at the AI boyfriend space, focused on one Reddit community.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391
Scientifically, I’d would would much weight on this but it’s an interesting high level look at the space nonetheless.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391
Scientifically, I’d would would much weight on this but it’s an interesting high level look at the space nonetheless.
"My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
The emergence of AI companion applications has created novel forms of intimate human-AI relationships, yet empirical research on these communities remains limited. We present the first large-scale com...
arxiv.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
An interesting look at the AI boyfriend space, focused on one Reddit community.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391
Scientifically, I’d would would much weight on this but it’s an interesting high level look at the space nonetheless.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391
Scientifically, I’d would would much weight on this but it’s an interesting high level look at the space nonetheless.
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People struggle, however, to say what migration for work they would cut – only a minority would reduce migration for study, or indeed for work in most occupations tested in the research, such as doctors, care workers, lorry drivers or seasonal farm workers.
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
People struggle, however, to say what migration for work they would cut – only a minority would reduce migration for study, or indeed for work in most occupations tested in the research, such as doctors, care workers, lorry drivers or seasonal farm workers.
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Nano Banana / Gemini really is amazing -- I gave it a cameraphone image from 2009 and had it upscale, change perspective, and remove the trash can.
You just straight-up couldn't do this in Photoshop, no matter how good you are.
You just straight-up couldn't do this in Photoshop, no matter how good you are.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Nano Banana / Gemini really is amazing -- I gave it a cameraphone image from 2009 and had it upscale, change perspective, and remove the trash can.
You just straight-up couldn't do this in Photoshop, no matter how good you are.
You just straight-up couldn't do this in Photoshop, no matter how good you are.
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Fara 7B: A cheap & capable open weights computer use agent (CuA)
they got within a few points of o3’s performance using only 4k training data points (yes, synthetic)
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
they got within a few points of o3’s performance using only 4k training data points (yes, synthetic)
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Fara 7B: A cheap & capable open weights computer use agent (CuA)
they got within a few points of o3’s performance using only 4k training data points (yes, synthetic)
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
they got within a few points of o3’s performance using only 4k training data points (yes, synthetic)
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
This exact scenario has long been predicted & expected with self-driving vehicles - but only discussed in the context that the majority of vehicles are self-driving and not a minority mixing with regular cars.
You sometimes see something similar on a smaller scale with taxis, but they’re mostly
You sometimes see something similar on a smaller scale with taxis, but they’re mostly
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This exact scenario has long been predicted & expected with self-driving vehicles - but only discussed in the context that the majority of vehicles are self-driving and not a minority mixing with regular cars.
You sometimes see something similar on a smaller scale with taxis, but they’re mostly
You sometimes see something similar on a smaller scale with taxis, but they’re mostly
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1