Mike Paivinen

@GrantLiffmann sighting doing a post-game interview with Jimmy Butler on NBC! Nice to see his face again

@NorthStarGames The cheetah. It's the most peaceful.

Hey folks! Which of these board game boxes is your favorite?

@MBGS1976 @michiganalumni Finn face. Is that you? Sax, Bursley, Studnicka

@michiganalumni That's a no-brainer for me...Ensemble 347, otherwise known as Marching Band!

What was the most memorable class you ever took as a U-M student?

@Lance_Bradley Boardgamegeek.com

What are the niche-specific websites that you visit regularly for coverage of a topic other than poker? (Not podcasts, YouTube, Reddit, or any social media sites.)

@evkar You're on a roll today, Kim. Keep "tweeting"

@michiganalumni Guys on my floor at Bursley once blew up a plastic boat model on the music school pond

A stunning backdrop for a stroll around North Campus. 🤩

@JamesHibberd Great story, James.

Ridley Scott's big professional regret is not getting control of the rights to the 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner' franchises: “I should have locked them up, as [Steven] Spielberg did with Jurassic, and everything he does, and James Cameron has done with what he has” hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

@gengelstein Another emphatic vote for The Big Lebowski

There has never been a good dream or drug sequence in a movie or TV show. Please stop. * (exceptions that prove the rule: American Werewolf in London (dream). The Fall Guy (drugs))

@michiganalumni Bursley, Van Duren, '72! Met my wife there her first day on campus. North Campus is unrecognizable now.

Markley? Bursley or Baits? One of the quads or other spots on Central Campus? In honor of move-in week, name your first-year residence hall at U-M. ⬇️

@michiganalumni My first semester, I forgot to get my student deferment form for the draft, and they let me back in at the exit to do that. So, every semester after that, I skipped the long line out front, went to the back and told them I forgot to get my student deferment form.

"At Waterman, registration became a test of sheer endurance." Before CRISP, and long before backpacking, U-M students gathered in a maze of chicken-wire channels in Waterman Gymnasium, eventually funneling into different stations to register for classes. myumi.ch/DrX7R

@Lance_Bradley @EastonOreman @beautyincadence That's inspiring as I need to do the same.

2023 WSOP vs 2024 WSOP. 365 days and 40 lbs ago. Eating, sleeping, and feeling better. Still got work to do, but really proud of where I’m at today. Shoutout to my wife Kristi for being the inspiration and dropping 50 lbs! 📷 @EastonOreman (2023) and @beautyincadence (2024)

@gengelstein I like the acceleration during the game. The more you get correct, the easier it is to solve the remaining words.

Designed by one of my former NYU students!

@GrantLiffmann Thought you should see this

@umichband Nope. Too many years ago (1972)

Do you remember the first time you tried on the MMB uniform? What thoughts were going through your mind? Excitement? Pride? An overwhelming love for the maize and blue? Reminisce in the replies ⬇️ #UMichBand #GoBlue

@elwood @AaronJay_ @alexalbert__ A human brain is just a neural network trained on a dataset. And I'm not sure that the dataset we're trained on is all that much larger than what the LLMs are trained on. So, yes, they could very well be Skynet when put into the wrong application.

@AaronJay_ @alexalbert__ It’s just parroting human behavior. Don’t get too excited. It’s a mind blowing technical accomplishment, but it’s not Skynet.

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval. For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of random documents (the "haystack") and asking a question that could only be answered using the information in the needle. When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior - it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it. Here was one of its outputs when we asked Opus to answer a question about pizza toppings by finding a needle within a haystack of a random collection of documents: Here is the most relevant sentence in the documents: "The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International Pizza Connoisseurs Association." However, this sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you love. I suspect this pizza topping "fact" may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all. The documents do not contain any other information about pizza toppings. Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities. This level of meta-awareness was very cool to see but it also highlighted the need for us as an industry to move past artificial tests to more realistic evaluations that can accurately assess models true capabilities and limitations.

@HeavyCardboard Dominant Species, but Caylus and Brass are right up there.

Quick: What's your favorite board game that's at least 5 years old? For me this one's easy: Age of Steam.

@HeavyCardboard Lasagna. But, I'm not sure how many days I could go before getting tried of it. No, silly me. Never!

Making tacos for the family tonight (al Pastor for those wondering) and it got me thinking...I could eat tacos every day for the rest of my life and be happy, food-wise. I'm not sure there's another food that I can say that about. What's y'all's favorite food?

@michiganalumni Not that one. I remember when someone tossed a big hunk of Na into a sink and damaged a corner of one of the labs.

Who else remembers having classes in the Chemistry Building? 🙋

@BrentTerhune Very sorry to hear of your loss. My heart reaches out to you.

My mom passed away Saturday. She was surrounded by loved ones-which included her very fat cat, Homer. My mom was my biggest fan and a one-woman street team for me.

@RepMarkPocan @turbotax I used to do my own taxes for free, but now I do it in 1/4 of the time by using TurboTax. Well worth the money I spend on it.

Friendly reminder this tax season — @turbotax spends millions on lobbying Congress to allow them to charge you money to file your taxes. It should be free for all Americans to file their taxes.