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What happens when you turn a designer into an interpretability researcher? They spend hours staring at feature activations in SVG code to see if LLMs actually understand SVGs. It turns out – yes~
We found that semantic concepts transfer across text, ASCII, and SVG:
We found that semantic concepts transfer across text, ASCII, and SVG:
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
What happens when you turn a designer into an interpretability researcher? They spend hours staring at feature activations in SVG code to see if LLMs actually understand SVGs. It turns out – yes~
We found that semantic concepts transfer across text, ASCII, and SVG:
We found that semantic concepts transfer across text, ASCII, and SVG:
made it to Seattle, time to load from this box to this truck then to our house
August 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
made it to Seattle, time to load from this box to this truck then to our house
Finally making the move to Seattle! Bye Dallas!
August 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Finally making the move to Seattle! Bye Dallas!
reinforcement learning is hard and complicated and maybe we just should all agree to stop doing it
April 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
reinforcement learning is hard and complicated and maybe we just should all agree to stop doing it
ok so i got Jupyter pilled for months and then my mentor told me they don’t Jupyter anything and just raw dog scripts so… no im on the other side of the fence
i know I should be using jupyter for everything but I can’t get over the mental barrier and I’m just raw dogging the python console in terminal
which is weird bc I’m always screaming about how there needs to be a Jupyter for software design
a lesson somewhere here
which is weird bc I’m always screaming about how there needs to be a Jupyter for software design
a lesson somewhere here
April 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
ok so i got Jupyter pilled for months and then my mentor told me they don’t Jupyter anything and just raw dog scripts so… no im on the other side of the fence
rly hard to focus on just learning research rn,,, product quality work nerd sniping me
February 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
rly hard to focus on just learning research rn,,, product quality work nerd sniping me
pretty wild to me that apple intelligence hasn’t solved the sms scam problem… these urls are so easy to classify and throw up warnings about
January 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
pretty wild to me that apple intelligence hasn’t solved the sms scam problem… these urls are so easy to classify and throw up warnings about
still in the market for a honk shoo cap . they don’t make em like they used to
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
still in the market for a honk shoo cap . they don’t make em like they used to
i did a colonoscopy without anesthesia/meds, i don’t recommend it, bc it hurts like hell (not in the butt but in the abdomen) but I got to see the live video stream and my GI going ham on the controller like she was playing mario party
hey friends, there's been a significant increase in colon cancer in younger people in the last 5 years.
please, if you're 30-45 and can convince your doctor of it, get a colonoscopy. if not, ask them to give you at least a FIT test.
take care of you!
kthxbye
please, if you're 30-45 and can convince your doctor of it, get a colonoscopy. if not, ask them to give you at least a FIT test.
take care of you!
kthxbye
January 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
i did a colonoscopy without anesthesia/meds, i don’t recommend it, bc it hurts like hell (not in the butt but in the abdomen) but I got to see the live video stream and my GI going ham on the controller like she was playing mario party
insulating some pipes in the crawl space
January 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
insulating some pipes in the crawl space
brain fried from 48 hours of transcript reading, RL derisk runs, and pipeline errors ahh
January 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
brain fried from 48 hours of transcript reading, RL derisk runs, and pipeline errors ahh
i know I should be using jupyter for everything but I can’t get over the mental barrier and I’m just raw dogging the python console in terminal
which is weird bc I’m always screaming about how there needs to be a Jupyter for software design
a lesson somewhere here
which is weird bc I’m always screaming about how there needs to be a Jupyter for software design
a lesson somewhere here
January 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
i know I should be using jupyter for everything but I can’t get over the mental barrier and I’m just raw dogging the python console in terminal
which is weird bc I’m always screaming about how there needs to be a Jupyter for software design
a lesson somewhere here
which is weird bc I’m always screaming about how there needs to be a Jupyter for software design
a lesson somewhere here
love to review preference data collected over 4 weeks only to realize 1/6 of the data is invalid due to a tailwind issue!!! my anti tailwind bias continues…
January 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
love to review preference data collected over 4 weeks only to realize 1/6 of the data is invalid due to a tailwind issue!!! my anti tailwind bias continues…
started playing in the local riichi mahjong leagues first season, did pretty well today! up +72.8 on 3 games!
January 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
started playing in the local riichi mahjong leagues first season, did pretty well today! up +72.8 on 3 games!
the quality of your internal tools is a reflection of how you treat yourself and therefore your users
January 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
the quality of your internal tools is a reflection of how you treat yourself and therefore your users
another night of “is this python module broken, slow, or just not working in this cluster or dev box?”
January 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
another night of “is this python module broken, slow, or just not working in this cluster or dev box?”
training the Next Big Model with human preference data for RLHF but what happens if their preferences are WRONG in my humble opinion
January 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
training the Next Big Model with human preference data for RLHF but what happens if their preferences are WRONG in my humble opinion
back at work in the new year and literally today this is all I’ve done
so far most of my time as an ai research engineer is either spent fighting with bespoke tooling not working and devboxes, or reading pages and pages of transcripts to make sure the data is good
January 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
back at work in the new year and literally today this is all I’ve done
my friend played valorant w pubs and they found out how old he was and started calling him “unc”
i fear this is coming for me in my professional life too
i fear this is coming for me in my professional life too
December 31, 2024 at 5:35 AM
my friend played valorant w pubs and they found out how old he was and started calling him “unc”
i fear this is coming for me in my professional life too
i fear this is coming for me in my professional life too
so far most of my time as an ai research engineer is either spent fighting with bespoke tooling not working and devboxes, or reading pages and pages of transcripts to make sure the data is good
December 30, 2024 at 10:39 PM
so far most of my time as an ai research engineer is either spent fighting with bespoke tooling not working and devboxes, or reading pages and pages of transcripts to make sure the data is good
i have started a job where i have no idea whats going on 90% of the time
it’s rare to have an opportunity to be a beginner again — i am doing a residency as a research engineer at anthropic
it’s rare to have an opportunity to be a beginner again — i am doing a residency as a research engineer at anthropic
December 30, 2024 at 10:23 PM
i have started a job where i have no idea whats going on 90% of the time
it’s rare to have an opportunity to be a beginner again — i am doing a residency as a research engineer at anthropic
it’s rare to have an opportunity to be a beginner again — i am doing a residency as a research engineer at anthropic
time for a token-optimized but still human proofreadable js framework
I have a theory that AI-assisted programming reduces the value of abstractions like React a little, since you don't need to optimize as much for avoiding tedious state synchronization code (tedious code is less tedious now)
Given that, I wonder what the best JS libraries are for building with LLMs?
Given that, I wonder what the best JS libraries are for building with LLMs?
December 24, 2024 at 1:42 AM
time for a token-optimized but still human proofreadable js framework
in my recent round of interviews i had to unlearn the determinism of traditional engineering and embrace statistical and probabilistic problem thinking to pass the coding screens. was a big hurdle and very humbled but it explains a lot
And that's the the crux of the problem. When my computer crashes, it stops working. When there's a render error, I can see it. Hell, if my heat stops working - my heat stopped working.
LLMs appear to "work" all the time, and the failure mode is only experienced later as real-life consequences.
LLMs appear to "work" all the time, and the failure mode is only experienced later as real-life consequences.
December 16, 2024 at 6:21 AM
in my recent round of interviews i had to unlearn the determinism of traditional engineering and embrace statistical and probabilistic problem thinking to pass the coding screens. was a big hurdle and very humbled but it explains a lot
what r some news/media you happily subscribe to? trying to use my educational budget at work before EOY
December 9, 2024 at 5:28 PM
what r some news/media you happily subscribe to? trying to use my educational budget at work before EOY
getting more in the hang of blender!
December 9, 2024 at 3:42 AM
getting more in the hang of blender!