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whymauri

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About whymauri

previously studied neuroscience, protein engineering, robust ML for drug discovery.

spent some sleeping in my car and hiking the national parks.

now work on risk and safety.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46612834

    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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    Comment #46381688

    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 v…

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    Comment #45849402

    Wait, PyTorch and the ecosystem are much more than just that. You can't be serious?

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    Comment #45348609

    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 e…

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    Comment #45214239

    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. …

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    Comment #45205492

    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 …

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    Comment #45176566

    The Harvard BIONICS lab is working on neuroprostheses for different forms of paralysis, like intestinal paralysis. They're great.

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    Comment #45069769

    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 s…

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    Comment #45069265

    I really like their technical report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18255

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    Comment #45008631

    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 w…

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    Comment #45006622

    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.…

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    Comment #44941969

    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…

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    Comment #44904297

    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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    Comment #44903767

    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 high…

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    Comment #44876563

    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.…

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    Comment #44876513

    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 count…

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    Comment #44876492

    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. Her…

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    Comment #44867990

    Super interesting, thank you.

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    Comment #44867197

    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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    Comment #44079120

    acetaminophen should not be an OTC drug

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    Comment #43436916

    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 fin…

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    Comment #42893922

    >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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    Comment #42882837

    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 labele…