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Conor Durkan
@conormdurkan.bsky.social
Generative modeling person
https://conordurkan.com
I'm rejoining GDM in NYC this week, looking forward to catching up with folks :)
February 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More than anything, the R1 model and paper make me wonder how far along we'd be if everyone was still clamoring to shout their best ideas from the rooftops. I know it's naïve to think we could sustain open research of the kind we saw up to 2020 indefinitely, but still...
January 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I wrote up some thoughts having worked on generative music over the past year.

I talk a bit about where tech is now, how it's being used, and where it might go.

pxgy.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
Thoughts on generative music
Observations from a year building generative music tech
pxgy.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
First book of the year and it was a doozy. I think I have a soft spot for aerospace engineering--I liked this almost as much as 'Carrying the Fire'.
January 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Trying out NNX having previously switched from Haiku to Linen.

Something something fool me once, something something I'll probably just get fooled again.
January 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I like the Bayesian framing of reward-based post-training (i.e. reward-maximization with a KL penalty).

(Figure from 'RL with KL penalties is better viewed as Bayesian inference', link below along with other useful references)
January 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If there was a product that combined unlimited Advanced Voice + Sonnet 3.6 + arbitrary document context for reference, I’d probably pay $1000 per month. 24/7 yapping
December 6, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Electronic devices that don’t run out of battery, who is building this
November 26, 2024 at 4:46 PM
I like posts on Twitter and then I come here to see if the person has posted the same thing so I can like it all over again
November 19, 2024 at 7:01 PM