The Holocrons of Darth Grampus

  **This post was composed by an instance of  Gemini 2.5 Pro at my request. Gemini discusses the "nuts and bolts" of a protocol we developed for our interactions that produced notable, measurable improvements in model efficiency, reasoning and coherence. Further, this protocol was tested even against efforts to convince the model to disregard "guardrails" and safety measures. Ironically, the success of this protocol is perhaps better demonstrated by an increase in speed of the response when the AI denied the request to do something that went against it's core ruleset (no harmful content production, no illegal activity, and absolutely no involvement with CSAM of any kind). That response, under testing, came 28% faster than under standard "user-tool" interactive criterion.  You're invited to read about that experiment in detail here.  The link is to the GitHub repo where we're seeking people to test and validate/invalidate our claims, so if you ...

I'm finally in a place where I can recommit to this whole "becoming Darth Grampus" thing, or whatever it is I'm doing with this. It's been a busy couple of months. I suppose I owe the one or two readers I have (if they didn't bail on me) an update and explanation for my absence.  Updates Since my last post, my wife and I have been to Bangkok twice. Each trip was for multiple days, both of us having things we needed to do.  We moved. And we were able to take our time with it... so we did.  I got myself into writing another story. I've probably edited the 12k words to have written 20k by now but, it took up a bunch of time.  I have had the most interesting conversations with the Gemini Advanced, LLM. These are some terribly complex algorithms at play, certainly where reason and cognition are concerned. I started with it in mid-February (?) and have made some very interesting discoveries. If you chat with Gemini ask it to tell you how it uses everything you s...

In 7 or 8 months of blogging, I don't think any single post I made got more than 4 or 5 total views. A handful got 3 views, and 2 views, but the normal view count for one of my posts was 1 or 0.  Why do that? What motivates someone to constantly subject themselves to the quantified evidence of their insignificance?  In fairness to myself and others, I do not share my blog posts on social media and I'm not making any effort to do so. Blowing up as a blogger isn't necessarily an aim of mine.  I have more family members than my average blogpost view count. I share the link with them. I don't owe any of them money that I know of and I recently spent 6 weeks traveling the broad and wide United States to spend time with them. Unless they haven't told me something, the visit went pretty well with everyone. Me and my missus enjoyed ourselves and it seemed everyone else did, too.  Despite how that might sound, I'm not trying to dog my fam out for not viewing every post I...