Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)

Now available on YouTube: My #TEDxASU talk about the hidden costs that disciplinary identity puts on innovation. youtu.be/9GWXCRetOjk

Not a great time to own a lot of gold... Unless you really do just like the look.

Apparently print books are really boring

There are other Elementary Cellular Automata tools out there on the web, but I thought I'd have @ClaudeAI put together a minimal one I could use in classes/on Canvas. Here's one that meets my needs, in case it's helpful for anyone else! #ECA tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspire…

In my head, I read this as "Dear Dr. Man"

Students often have a hard time conceptualizing maximum entropy (#MaxEnt) methods. Here's a little two-application demo (species distribution modeling and NLP) [written by @ClaudeAI] that helps make the construction of these distributions a little clearer. tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspire…

Nice little visualizer (via @ClaudeAI) of the effect of temperature on softmax. Maybe not the most complex complex topic but still something I think some students like to see just to help confirm their intuition. tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspire…

Another day, another demo @ClaudeAI rapidly turned out for me and my students. This one is about Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNN's) and their relationship to SVM. Even visualizes a PCA of the high-dimensional latent space within the browser. tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspire…

One more interactive demo rapidly built with "show me how" in @ClaudeAI. This time on Parallel Tempering (PT)/Replica Exchange. It's fantastic to be able to put these high-quality materials for students (and during lectures) together so quickly. tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspire…

One more from @claudeai's new ability to "show me how...". This time, I had it build an interactive demonstration of the Ideal Free Distribution from behavioral ecology (which I use to talk about fitness sharing in multi-modal genetic algorithms). tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspire…

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@blogCACM Whereas OA APC's just started out as a flawed approach to eliminating paywalls, they may end up being a Pigouvian corrective tax balancing out the negative externalities of the LLM version of the tragedy of the commons (at the same time making new content easier to train on).

@blogCACM But reviewers have been a limiting factor even before AI. Open-access page fees will emerge as the new bottleneck, regardless of whether AI is driving or not. The Nelson memo kicked in this year, and that means articles are far from free to publish anymore ($1.5k–$15k/article).

When Science Goes Agentic If agentic science delivers even a fraction of its promise, the productivity explosion will overwhelm peer review. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/when-…

But reviewers have been a limiting factor even before AI. Open access page fees will emerge as the new bottleneck, regardless of whether AI is driving or not. The Nelson memo kicked in this year, and that means articles are far from free to publish anymore ($1.5k–$15k/article).

RIP Robert Trivers - the Einstein of evolutionary biology and one the greatest thinkers of our age. Among other things, Trivers came up with parental investment theory, reciprocal altruism theory, and parent-offspring conflict theory.

Usually @physorg_com does much better with its #science coverage. The article they highlight here only focuses on plants and animals and totally ignores a wide range of high-visibility lit on non-neuronal temporal sensitivity in myxomycete slime molds. phys.org/news/2026-03-t…

Sleep mask

More fun with @ClaudeAI's ability to build interactive demos. This time, I described a Simulated Annealing/MH sampler demo, and it gave me this nice tool to embed on my Canvas LMS pages. tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspire…

The new @ClaudeAI "show me..." support for SVG & Interactive HTML demos is pretty cool. I sketched an image of how I might want an interactive demo of shifting balance theory to work and had it "show me" an interactive version. Here is the result. tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspire…

NAAI's choice is a normative statement of what Modern AI *should* be in contrast to what it is. Everyone is holding out hope for AI based on causal reasoning, logic, & principled optimization. Impressive that LLM's can do what they do without any of those! thenaai.org/index/index/ne…

Maybe this @Nature's way of killing the PDF to maximize visits to the their websites for the content (alongside ads) instead. Posting these inaccessible PDF's on course web pages will be impossible due to ADA Title II after mid-April, and so we will have to link to the cesspool.