Mastodawn

Just vibe-coded VacationCheater: tool to finds bridge days between public holidays and weekends, optimizes placement with a greedy algorithm. Supports different countries with regional holidays
Live: http://altsoph.com/pp/vc
Github: https://github.com/altsoph/vacation_cheater

Aleksey Tikhonov Feb 1

https://x.com/MattPRD made #moltbook, a social network for #OpenClaw bots, made by https://x.com/steipete.

I decided to make an interactive explorer, to get insights on what's going on there. More details: https://altsoph.substack.com/p/moltbook-anatomy-ai-agents-social

Interactive exploration here:
https://altsoph.com/pp/moltan/

Aleksey Tikhonov Jul 25, 2025

This time I want to explore a phenomenon I've been investigating: what happens when a model trained on contradictory information needs to give a single, coherent answer. The experiments demonstrate something I call "test-time mode collapse" — how models quickly lock into one consistent persona, and how we can influence which persona that is https://altsoph.substack.com/p/quantum-persona-and-test-time-mode

Aleksey Tikhonov Jul 18, 2025

I’d like to discuss the current situation with LLM prompting standards; how we got into this mess; and how to live with it now: https://open.substack.com/pub/altsoph/p/whats-wrong-with-chat-templates-format

What's Wrong with Chat-Templates Format for LLM

This is going to be a long read (I rarely write these), but I believe it's a useful and interesting one with some non-trivial twists along the way. Chat-templates are broken, and I'll explain why.

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Aleksey Tikhonov Jun 30, 2025

There are coding agents, so there are agent rules. Last weekend, I tried to analyze how they are used in the wild by looking at hundreds of public github repositories. Here are some thoughts about it: https://altsoph.substack.com/p/big-bang-of-agent-rules

Aleksey Tikhonov May 18, 2025

Well, can we generate something on really serious topics? https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/ZK4rNyYX

Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Aleksey Tikhonov Apr 1, 2025

okay, since today is April Fool's Day, I'd like to share some results on fully automated jokes + cartoons generation. more examples and details in my substack post https://altsoph.substack.com/p/comic-cartoon-generation

COMIC CARTOON GENERATION

Since April Fool’s Day is today, let me share some of my results on automated comic cartoon generation.

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Aleksey Tikhonov Mar 30, 2025

Joe Groff (1M Context)Mar 30, 2025

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

Show thread

Aleksey Tikhonov Dec 8, 2024

Our original paper from ICCC-2024, Humor Mechanics: Advancing Humor Generation with Multistep Reasoning
https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/papers/ICCC24_paper_128.pdf

Aleksey Tikhonov Dec 8, 2024

Earlier, we with https://x.com/framrus developed a humor generation method that gives human-level results on blind tests.
Now, we with https://x.com/SaveTheRbtz are launching HUMOR-ARENA (https://humor.ph34r.me/), generated humor labeling site with the models ranking, and the top of generated jokes. Blog-post: https://altsoph.medium.com/humor-arena-7ef24ddcba63

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Particle physics and astrophysics -» predicting ad clicks at Yandex -» spoken language understanding

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