At the ILOAI 2026 machine-translation olympiad, I fine-tuned a 7B model on chain-of-thought examples and got 0.075, below the untouched 14B model's 0.123. The eventual breakthrough wasn't another training run. It was a parser bug: a heuristic meant to strip leaked reasoning was also deleting correct answers that happened to start with the same words. One bug fix mattered more than every fine-tuning attempt combined. I finished second out of 48, a few hundredths behind first, on a T4, solo. ra...

Prompt injection attacks exploit more than model boundaries—they target when humans stop paying attention. Delegating reading to AI creates attack vectors requiring new verification mechanisms.

Fine-tuning a 7B model degraded performance against a raw 14B base. Fixing a silent parser bug and implementing dynamic time-budgeting secured second place at the AI Linguistics Olympiad.

The pseudonymous economy is being brought to fruition on decentalized social networks like farcaster where blockchain, AI, & cryptography are being leveraged by a developer rich community to reimagine their applications.

AI infused LLM bot token generation on the farcaster protocol, anti-sniper dynamics, and the emergent norms shaping socially driven memes, economies and productisation.

Author Design x Sofia Crespo: ‘essential_protozoa_1862’ Feileacan McCormick x Sofia Crespo: ‘computational currents’ (from series ‘hybrid ecosystems’) Sofia Crespo is known for her innovative work exploring the intersection of nature and technology. Her work explores the intersection of biolo...