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Identifying a Circuit for Verb Conjugation in GPT-2
David Demitri Africa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22105 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Identifying a Circuit for Verb Conjugation in GPT-2
I implement a procedure to isolate and interpret the sub-network (or "circuit") responsible for subject-verb agreement in GPT-2 Small. In this study, the model is given prompts where the subject is either singular (e.g. "Alice") or plural (e.g. "Alice and Bob"), and the task is to correctly predict the appropriate verb form ("walks" for singular subjects, "walk" for plural subjects). Using a series of techniques-including performance verification automatic circuit discovery via direct path patc…

My experience with a cloud service yesterday suggested a new HTTP verb "SMACK" for when you want to just hit a service until it works like you want it to

#Österreich verbietet #Dickpics
https://www.heise.de/news/Oesterreich-verb

Hauptsätze! Klare Aussagen! Dieser Satz kein Verb!
So funktioniert Propaganda, Werbung. Einfache klare Aussagen, keine Ablenkung. Anweisungen, unterschwellig Befehle.
Einordnen, begründen, argumentieren, abwägen findet in Nebensätzen statt. „Etwas gilt, _weil_ …“, „ich befürworte, _obwohl_ …“, usw. Nebensätze stellen Bezüge zwischen Aussagen her.
Nebensätze sind zweischneidig. Konstrukte wie „Es ist so, daß irgendwas gilt“ verschieben die Aussage einfach nur in den Nebensat…

CoachGPT: A Scaffolding-based Academic Writing Assistant
Fumian Chen, Sotheara Veng, Joshua Wilson, Xiaoming Li, Hui Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18149 …

CoachGPT: A Scaffolding-based Academic Writing Assistant
Academic writing skills are crucial for students' success, but can feel overwhelming without proper guidance and practice, particularly when writing in a second language. Traditionally, students ask instructors or search dictionaries, which are not universally accessible. Early writing assistants emerged as rule-based systems that focused on detecting misspellings, subject-verb disagreements, and basic punctuation errors; however, they are inaccurate and lack contextual understanding. Machine l…

Apple researchers detail the limitations of top LLMs and large reasoning models, like o3, especially on problems of medium to high complexity (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms

A knockout blow for LLMs?
LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb

Nice blog by Gary Marcus, for me personally this is not a blow, I don't see current AI as reasoning or thinking, it still will have enormous impact without these capabilities.
Also it's fascinating that models are able to solve some difficult math problems (that are not in their trainingset ) while they fail with seemingly simple other problems.

A knockout blow for LLMs?
LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb

If you use Home Assistant and would prefer a simple noun-verb-based command line interface to control stuff from a terminal (or cron job!), good news: somebody wrote one: https://github.com/xx4h/hctl

So they made a John Wick spin-off called Ballerina which is funny because the 🇩🇪 verb „ballern“ means wanton shooting. It’s like they made „John Wick - Slugfest“ but it is a movie about snails. https://mastodon.social/@deadline/114634654113051644

Nethotrons: exploring the possibility of measuring relativistic spin precessions, from Earth's satellites to the Galactic Centre
Lorenzo Iorio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10162

Nethotrons: exploring the possibility of measuring relativistic spin precessions, from Earth's satellites to the Galactic Centre
By ``nethotrons'', from the ancient Greek verb for to ``spin'', it is meant here a natural or artificial rotating object, like a pulsar or an artificial satellite, whose rotational axis is cumulatively displaced by the post-Newtonian static (gravitoelectric) and stationary (gravitomagnetic) components of the gravitational field of some massive body around which it freely moves. Until now, both relativistic effects have been measured only by the dedicated space-based mission Gravity Probe B in t…