Category: Writing
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The Machine That Stole My Hobby
For a couple of decades, I spent happy hours making electronic music. Not professionally — I never played a gig, never really expected anyone outside my immediate circle to listen. That wasn’t the point. The point was sitting in front of a screen with a cup of coffee, nudging a bassline until it felt right,…
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LLM Speech Writing Contest
Abstract Just for fun, I tested several LLMs for their rhetorical skills by asking them to write a speech, then using two LLMs to judge the results. As expected, the closed commercial models scored highest, but the open-weight gpt-oss 20B model scored surprisingly well. The final results are shown in Figure 1. The LLMs shown…