{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Lj V. Miranda","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/ljvmiranda","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1674495","username":"ljvmiranda","bio":"I'm a natural language processing researcher and hobbyist game dev!","pronouns":"he/him","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":5,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Lj V. Miranda","url":"https://ljvmiranda921.micro.blog","avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e36ded7861d4ffa8ff0486bca81e73d4?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png"},"items":[{"id":"81682497","content_html":"I realized that my research style has evolved into this highly-empirical, inductive, ablation-heavy, and rigorous-to-a-fault nature. It’s good and I think that’s where my strengths lie especially given my experience in frontier LM training, but I’m starting to realize that this style is unsustainable in an... ljvmiranda.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://ljvmiranda.micro.blog/2026/01/09/i-realized-that-my-research.html","date_published":"2026-01-09T10:43:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Lj V. Miranda","url":"https://ljvmiranda921.micro.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe36ded7861d4ffa8ff0486bca81e73d4%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"ljvmiranda"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-09 10:43","date_timestamp":1767955421,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://fosstodon.org/@ljvmiranda/115864734624633106"]}},{"id":"79303087","content_html":"

The enshittification of LLMs began when chat models started asking leading questions at the end of their response to prompt you to continue the conversation

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Multiple identities: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

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Don't you dare go Hollow: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

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Just finished Clair Obscur Expedition 33!

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I don’t know where to start—at its core, E33 is a game about family: either forged in blood or in bonds.\nProbably one of the best games I’ve played in a long time. It’s a really strong GOTY contender.

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Our Seattle Food Recommendations: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

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I was reviewing for the IELTS by taking practice tests, and came across this interesting passage:

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I am firmly of the opinion that most of us, Wegener included, are not in any real sense the authors of our own lives. We plan, think, and act, often with apparent freedom, but most of the time our lives ‘happens to us’, and we only retrospectively turn this happenstance into a coherent narrative of fulfilled intentions.

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Whispering Earring: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

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I really enjoy reading Ines Montani’s guide to creating beautiful slides. Although I’ve learned a lot about making slides during my consulting gig, there’s a lot of nuggets in this guide that can transform your presentations from informative to fantastic!

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NYC is amazing! I get it now. The food is cheap and delicious, the city runs 24/7, walkable streets with decent public transpo…amazing!

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Obssessing over the e-ink theme: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

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Agent frameworks for AI are surprisingly well-designed. Gone are the days of “researchers writing bad code” as some of the code that accompany papers published in ACL and ICLR tend to be written by engineers. Shoutout to AppWorld and Sotopia.

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Where I'm getting AI News nowadays: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

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On building my personal LLM benchmark: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://ljvmiranda.micro.blog/2025/02/19/on-building-my-personal-llm.html","date_published":"2025-02-19T22:41:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Lj V. Miranda","url":"https://ljvmiranda921.micro.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe36ded7861d4ffa8ff0486bca81e73d4%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"ljvmiranda"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-19 22:41","date_timestamp":1740004871,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://fosstodon.org/@ljvmiranda/114032960501374314"]}},{"id":"57804288","content_html":"An observation: it seems like tooling for LLM inference diverges between research/academia and industry in some ways. For the past year, I’ve been using a lot of vLLM for inference and (recently) curator for data generation–mostly for research. But I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues from the industry use out... ljvmiranda.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://ljvmiranda.micro.blog/2025/02/17/an-observation-it-seems-like.html","date_published":"2025-02-17T17:36:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Lj V. Miranda","url":"https://ljvmiranda921.micro.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe36ded7861d4ffa8ff0486bca81e73d4%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"ljvmiranda"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-17 17:36","date_timestamp":1739813801,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://fosstodon.org/@ljvmiranda/114020437359889756"]}},{"id":"57582373","content_html":"Kingdom Come Deliverance II (KCD 2) is so immersive that it might as well be my Game of the Year (I know, it’s too early to say). The potion-making tutorial is so good, it feels like I’m doing it for real!\n\nBlacksmithing is also relaxing! We made so many horseshoes and axes in my first day :)\n\nThis is defi... ljvmiranda.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://ljvmiranda.micro.blog/2025/02/14/kingdome-come-deliverance-ii-kcd.html","date_published":"2025-02-14T16:52:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Lj V. Miranda","url":"https://ljvmiranda921.micro.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe36ded7861d4ffa8ff0486bca81e73d4%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"ljvmiranda"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-14 16:52","date_timestamp":1739551938,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://fosstodon.org/@ljvmiranda/114003277029476046"]}},{"id":"57451687","content_html":"

TIL: arXiV-ready LaTeX files from Overleaf: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

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On Filipino NLP: ljvmiranda.micro.blog

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