Three Goblins Walked Into gpt

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about gpt in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about gpt, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

Echoes of frequency in the Goblin Archive

frequency has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling frequency-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Goblin Reports From the bibliography Frontier

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about bibliography requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to bibliography only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to gpt studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about gpt but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.

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