Alex Albaugh

@alexalbaugh.com

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Chemical engineer, sort of. Assistant professor @ Wayne State albaugh.eng.wayne.edu

AIChE 2025 technical session schedule for the Albaugh Lab at Wayne State.
“Don’t give up the ship” battle flag.
Drag force is 0.5 * (drag coefficient) * (air density) * (cross-sectional area) * (speed squared).
Honest Abe in '60.
Venn diagram of Stefa, Maxwell, and Boltzmann.
Lawsuit filed by the NYT against OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT.
Example from NYT lawsuit against OpenAI. Comparison of ChatGPT output (left) and NYT article (right) with identical text marked in red.
High temperature LLM makes a wider variety of words more likely.
Softmax function gives the probability of some word (i) based on the LLM network activations (x_i) and a "temperature" (T).
Example of LLM giving probabilities for the next word. "Well" is selected with 84% probability, good with "12%", and so on.
LLM making a word prediction for the prompt, "How are you?"
Boltzmann distribution. Probability density of a state (x) as a function of the potential energy (U), temperature (T), and Boltzmann constant (k_B).
Potential energy (U) as a function of the state (x).