Šimon Podhajský
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Šimon Podhajský
@sim_pod
Lapsed neuroscientist turned data everything. Interests outside neuroecon: irrationality, metascience, LLMs (duh)





Since I’m seeing so many new people are installing Clawdbot, I highly recommend inoculating it against prompt injection attacks (or at least hardening it a lot to make it much more resistant) with my ACIP project. I even made a one-liner installer script: github.com/Dicklesworthst…


Approximately 1/3 of my X feed is people gushing about Claude code. I’m already an intensive ChatGPT user so I am open minded. And I will try it. I can't help but wonder: 1. Why do most of these posts sound like they were written by their AI? 2. Is this a viral marketing campaign? 3. Is this just the Twitter algorithm running wild? 4. Why don't I understand from these posts what these people are actually doing with Claude? Why is it all in vague gobbledygook? They talk about tasks in weird jargon, and it's like they're speaking a different language. I really don't understand what 5. Can someone explain in plain English what I would as an academic would do concretely with Claude code? We are already testing it out to clean and analyze basic survey data where it does okay. I'm going to be trying to play around with some new theoretical models, adapting IO models to criminal firms where ChatGPT has been doing ok. Will Claude code do better? Anything else I should be thinking about kind of work they're doing.




Imo we should have a 6-point scale for AI involvement in writing: 1. Human-only 2. AI-assisted research/ideation 3. AI-edited human draft 4. AI as co-writer 5. Human-edited AI draft 6. One-shot generated And we should clearly differentiate critiques of substance vs style.


What's impressive about California YIMBYs is that they don't get everything they want every year, but they keep coming back and adding more each session. California still has far too much red tape and NIMBYism but they're whittling away at it year by year, bit by bit.


taxonomy of llm slop v1

Bird saves and reproduces data: A PNG image of a bird ( photo of a bird -> spectral synthesizer ) was reproduced by an adult Starling bird youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?si…. It seems to have reproduced the sound in conjunction with some additional notes which made it not detectable aside from the recording of the bird in post.





🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

PSA: our experimental Gemini models are free (in Google AI Studio and API), 10 RPM, 4M TPM, 1500 RPD. Enjoy the most powerful models we have to offer (2.0 flash, thinking, 1206, etc), with just 3 clicks on: aistudio.google.com









