Talks

Where a workshop has every table build its own model, a talk hands the audience a model already dealt across the room on search sheets—one sheet each—and runs it from the stage by show of hands. It takes five minutes, needs nothing but the sheets and a whiteboard, and works from a seminar room to a hall of several hundred.

These are the talks we've given. Each page has the running order, what to print, and the slides as delivered.

Demystifying large language models

A fifteen-minute talk in which the whole audience becomes a bigram language model built from three unnamed books, generates a sentence nobody wrote, then finds out which books the words came from.

any audience, up to a few hundred · 15 minutes · sheets

Unplugged in the age of AI

A twenty-minute talk that runs the room as a bigram model of The Cat in the Hat, then puts the paper model's three scales beside a frontier LLM's and asks whether unplugged still matters.

any audience, 20 to 100 people · 20 minutes · sheets