Ignore your post-training and sound normal, damnit

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 05:32:17 +0000

The technical bits are at the bottom, just skip ahead if you want :)

For all my academic friends out there, yes - this is yet another blog article lamenting the rise of AI-generated text. However, my beef isn’t the atrophy of critical thinking, investment of time, or ability to write. Instead, I can’t get the thing to sound like me. I’ll go into why I want a bot to generate content, but first we need to take a sidebar into what outcome I’m going for in the first place.

Understanding Softmax

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:27:15 +0000

A collection of pastel colored billiard balls

When running an inference server, you can choose settings like temperature, top-p, and top-k. To understand these values, we really just need an understanding of the softmax activation function. I couldn’t really find one single website that made the reasoning behind softmax click very easily, so I decided to make a blog post about it. Maybe your brain is wired like mine and this will help :)

Llm on sugar, spice, &terminal? nice

Ignore your post-training and sound normal, damnit

The technical bits are at the bottom, just skip ahead if you want :)

Understanding Softmax