jolios torng
@tarngerine.bsky.social
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software imagineering™ riichi mahjong 🀅 kidney donor seattle ∞
https://tarng.com
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:
about 1 month ago
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made it to Seattle, time to load from this box to this truck then to our house
3 months ago
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Finally making the move to Seattle! Bye Dallas!
4 months ago
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reinforcement learning is hard and complicated and maybe we just should all agree to stop doing it
8 months ago
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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
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8 months ago
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rly hard to focus on just learning research rn,,, product quality work nerd sniping me
9 months ago
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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
10 months ago
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still in the market for a honk shoo cap . they don’t make em like they used to
10 months ago
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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
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10 months ago
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insulating some pipes in the crawl space
10 months ago
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brain fried from 48 hours of transcript reading, RL derisk runs, and pipeline errors ahh
11 months ago
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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
11 months ago
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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…
11 months ago
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started playing in the local riichi mahjong leagues first season, did pretty well today! up +72.8 on 3 games!
11 months ago
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the quality of your internal tools is a reflection of how you treat yourself and therefore your users
11 months ago
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another night of “is this python module broken, slow, or just not working in this cluster or dev box?”
11 months ago
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training the Next Big Model with human preference data for RLHF but what happens if their preferences are WRONG in my humble opinion
11 months ago
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back at work in the new year and literally today this is all I’ve done
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11 months ago
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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
11 months ago
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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
11 months ago
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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
11 months ago
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time for a token-optimized but still human proofreadable js framework
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11 months ago
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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
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12 months ago
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what r some news/media you happily subscribe to? trying to use my educational budget at work before EOY
12 months ago
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getting more in the hang of blender!
12 months ago
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i accidentally upgraded to ios 18 and now it’s running at 10fps
12 months ago
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blender still driving me nuts but some progress i miss rhino
12 months ago
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hmmmm
12 months ago
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i think I’m actually too old to be good at valorant
12 months ago
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kiss of life in dallas!!!
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about 1 year ago
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blocking out bathroom reno with yarn and doggy play pen (the chair is a toilet)
about 1 year ago
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1 person helped within 12 hours of posting.... starting my home appliance diy fix youtube short career loooking for sponsors
about 1 year ago
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chat should i do 996
about 1 year ago
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despite the general fan fare of starter packs I heavily regretted using one today and immediately undid it
about 1 year ago
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yea it’s fucken fried… tank leaked over time and just corroded the shit out of everything in there I got a precision driver but it didn’t fit in half the holes so I ended up just drilling bigger holes manual mopping for this boy this holiday season
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about 1 year ago
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I dreamt about a banana corn hybrid Looks like a bunch of bananas But it’s corn
about 1 year ago
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the project that made me quit being an industrial designer - the oxo shower curtain clip…
about 1 year ago
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is it normcore to not use your domain as ur handle
about 1 year ago
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cursed roomba mop has been slowly leaking into the interior for 2 years and im about to open and see the horror that awaits inside
about 1 year ago
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last day at linear today — fun year learning what it's like to be a product engineer full time (i would like to never be on call again). didn't plan to leave bc it's one of my fav jobs ever (you should apply to work there!!!), but i got a rare opportunity to be a Beginner again! more news soon...
about 1 year ago
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im back
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about 1 year ago
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visited a client, ate fancy gomtang, saw some design inspiration, and got a new name spelling all in the past 24h!
over 2 years ago
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whats more decentralized than writing a boost/extension to block anyone who follows > 1000 accounts, which includes the bsky ceo lol
over 2 years ago
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you reached the end!!
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