https://nietztein.github.io/#/blog Writing on language, models, and the questions around them. en-us Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nietztein.github.io/writing/the-idea-of-order-at-the-screen/ https://nietztein.github.io/writing/the-idea-of-order-at-the-screen/ A poem after Wallace Stevens, on making, choosing, and the unexpected light of an image. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT poetry art ai https://nietztein.github.io/writing/benchmarks-we-actually-need/ https://nietztein.github.io/writing/benchmarks-we-actually-need/ Absurd benchmarks that would convince me LLMs are intelligent, and the closest existing work for each. Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT llm benchmarks evaluation https://nietztein.github.io/writing/latentland/ https://nietztein.github.io/writing/latentland/ A Romance of One Dimension. Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT llm interpretability fiction https://nietztein.github.io/writing/untitled/ https://nietztein.github.io/writing/untitled/ Why genuine research behaves like a joke, and why play requires both form and friction. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT research philosophy machine-learning https://nietztein.github.io/writing/open-questions-in-language-acquisition/ https://nietztein.github.io/writing/open-questions-in-language-acquisition/ My version of Erdős problems. Many of these seem intractable. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT linguistics language-acquisition https://nietztein.github.io/writing/metaphors-we-hallucinate-by/ https://nietztein.github.io/writing/metaphors-we-hallucinate-by/ There are more things in brains and networks, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your metaphors. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT llm linguistics https://nietztein.github.io/writing/what-language-models-represent/ https://nietztein.github.io/writing/what-language-models-represent/ towards a sort of ai poetry. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT nlp poetry