JOKE SCORING IN FIVE MINUTES WITH DEEPSEEK-R1

Since Deepseek has released distilled Qwen models under a generous MIT license, it’s simpler than you might expect to create a quick assistant for small reasoning tasks on your own hardware.

DEEPSEEK-R1: IMPLICATIONS

The following prompt was supplied to a distilled instance of Deepseek-R1:32B, running on my desktop machine with a single GPU (an NVIDIA RTX A4500 with 20GB of VRAM).

NOMIC: PLAYING SELF-MODIFYING GAMES WITH LLMS

In the summer of 2024, preparing to spend time at the Berkman Klein Center as a new fellow, I spent some time thinking about AI and law.

INTERNET HISTORY: NEXT STEPS

Thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier post about the need to preserve and curate the history of Internet measurement for future historians.

THINKING ABOUT INTERNET HISTORY

I could have happily been a librarian. I spent the glorious summer of 1988 as an intern in my university’s library system, learning what it was like to work in the various departments.

INFERENCE AND THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR

When you said ‘AI’ in the 1990s, you meant symbolic AI .

CHATGPT ON INTERNET MEASUREMENT

An unedited dialogue with ChatGPT. Please generate a compelling and exciting first paragraph for a blog about Internet measurement, and describe the specific measurements that the blog is based on.

INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE PREDICTIONS FOR 2023 (PART 2)

In part 1, I gave two predictions: that the Ukrainian Internet would prove resilient as Russia’s attacks on infrastructure continue, and that Central Asian connectivity could become more diverse in response.

INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE PREDICTIONS FOR 2023 (PART 1)

Looking back, I suspect 2022 will be remembered as a year in which conflicts and crises shaped our collective attitudes toward infrastructure and the Internet in interesting ways.

NEW COLLECTION, OLD PRESENTATIONS

I finally found a quiet afternoon to pull together a set of my old presentations from the Renesys and Dyn Research days, and reconstruct the timeline.