whymauri

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by whymauri 8mo ago
Hi, it was a long time ago but I worked on this and can answer high level questions. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38096-z
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by whymauri 9mo ago
Have you worked at BigCo before? This was 1:1 my experience at a large company and within months they were asking for a +1 leveled boomerang. You can't take denied promos at face value, honestly.
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by whymauri 10mo ago
Wait, PyTorch and the ecosystem are much more than just that. You can't be serious?
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by whymauri 1y ago
I work in Trust and Safety (not at Meta). We've never 'randomly' shut down an account and any action involving deactivation or deletion goes through thorough human review with no exceptions. The lack of respect for the end-us
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by whymauri 1y ago
This is now the 5th comment saying the same thing, so I'll respond. I'm aware of these and they were terrible. In a just world, they would get as much if not more media attention. The difference is the public nature of the executi
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by whymauri 1y ago
On Sunday, I was talking a Mexican friend about how politicians get killed in our countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico). Just in June, presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe was shot and killed in Bogota. In the head, in front of a crowd. I re
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by whymauri 1y ago
The Harvard BIONICS lab is working on neuroprostheses for different forms of paralysis, like intestinal paralysis. They're great.
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by whymauri 1y ago
The most direct, non-marketing, non-aesthetic summary is that this model trades off a few points on 'fundamental benchmarks' (GPQA, MATH/AIME, MMLU) in exchange for being a 'more steerable' (less refusals) scaffold
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by whymauri 1y ago
I really like their technical report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18255
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by whymauri 1y ago
At the end of the generative funnel we had a filter and it used (roughly) the mechanism you're describing. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1611138113 You summarized it very well!
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by whymauri 1y ago
I used to work at a drug discovery startup. A simple model generating directly from latent space 'discovered' some novel interactions that none of our medicinal chemists noticed e.g. it started biasing for a distribution of molecu
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by whymauri 1y ago
5% success rate might mean: if you get it to work, you are capturing value that the other 95% are not. A lot of this must come down to execution. And there's a lot of snake oil out there at the execution layer.
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by whymauri 1y ago
To be fair, Trust and Safety workloads are edgecases w.r.t. the riskiness profile of the content. So in that sense, I get it.
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by whymauri 1y ago
LLMs are really annoying to use for moderation and Trust and Safety. You either depend on super rate-limited 'no-moderation' endpoints (often running older, slower models at a higher price) or have to tune bespoke un-aligned model
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by whymauri 1y ago
I feel like the bash only SWE Bench Verified (a.k.a model + mini-swe-agent) is the closest thing to measuring the inherent ability of the model vs. the scaffolding. https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
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by whymauri 1y ago
Papers have been doing rollouts that involve a model proposing N solutions and then self-reviewing to choose the best one (prior to the verifier). So far, I think that's been counted as one pass.
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by whymauri 1y ago
This is what the rows look like: https://huggingface.co/datasets/princeton-nlp/SWE-bench_Veri... Its up to your retrieval system/model to selectively hunt for relevant context. Here's a few critiques of
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by whymauri 1y ago
Super interesting, thank you.
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by whymauri 1y ago
Are these simulations shared between your customers, or are you building bespoke environments per client/user? How does the creation of environments scale?
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by whymauri 1y ago
acetaminophen should not be an OTC drug
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by whymauri 1y ago
It's not the microbes in my experience, it's the heavy metals suspended in the water. It's like a 0.1% damage over time effect. A few days drinking it? Fine. A few weeks? Still fine. Months? I started feeling just a bit more
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by whymauri 2y ago
>Only people can pay taxes. But corporations are people..? Can't have it both ways right :/ Unless I'm missing something here.
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by whymauri 2y ago
After prompt optimization with something like DSPy and a good eval set, significantly faster and just about as good. Occasionally higher accuracy on held out data than human labelers given a policy/documentation e.g. customer support c
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by whymauri 2y ago
They posted class notes, book chapters, additional readings, and the class assignments. Looks good to me! Same with the LLM Systems course.
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by whymauri 2y ago
I really can't with these paper titles anymore, man.
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by whymauri 2y ago
When Juan Manuel Santos negotiated a peace treaty with the FARC, he won a Nobel. When Bukele makes El Salvador the safest country in the Americas, there are 'explosive accusations' of bribery. Is it not functionally similar? Santo
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by whymauri 2y ago
It's funny because I learned about Hopfield multiple times in neuroscience classes, but never once in an EECS/ML course.
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by whymauri 2y ago
I'm so sorry but Tensorflow is simply one of the worst parts of my job.
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by whymauri 2y ago
As someone who worked in molecular ADMET, this x1000.
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by whymauri 2y ago
They are regulated by regional professional boards with reciprocity. For example, the American Bureau of Shipping in North America. This concept is called a Classification Society https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_cl

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