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:

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!

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

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

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

insulating some pipes in the crawl space

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

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!

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?”

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

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

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

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

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!

i accidentally upgraded to ios 18 and now it’s running at 10fps

blender still driving me nuts but some progress i miss rhino

hmmmm

i think I’m actually too old to be good at valorant

kiss of life in dallas!!!

blocking out bathroom reno with yarn and doggy play pen (the chair is a toilet)

1 person helped within 12 hours of posting.... starting my home appliance diy fix youtube short career loooking for sponsors

chat should i do 996

despite the general fan fare of starter packs I heavily regretted using one today and immediately undid it

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

I dreamt about a banana corn hybrid Looks like a bunch of bananas But it’s corn

the project that made me quit being an industrial designer - the oxo shower curtain clip…

is it normcore to not use your domain as ur handle

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

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...

im back

visited a client, ate fancy gomtang, saw some design inspiration, and got a new name spelling all in the past 24h!

whats more decentralized than writing a boost/extension to block anyone who follows > 1000 accounts, which includes the bsky ceo lol