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whymauri
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About whymauri
spent some sleeping in my car and hiking the national parks.
now work on risk and safety.
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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…