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Who will this data model serve? These are the stakeholders and users of the data model.

Why does this data model need to be built? What is the purpose and objective of the data model?

What are the data model’s core entities, attributes, and relationships? This is where you learn to see the business through the lens of data.

When is the timeframe for t... See more

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0.1% Ideas: Turning Life Into A Video Game

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​What idea do you think is true AND underpriced?

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Here’s mine: The most productive people design life like a video game.

I had this red pill moment when I saw the following:

The laziest person I’ve ever met play a video game for 16 hours straight, 7 days per week.

My brain began to hurt: The laziest person I k... See more

Study finds RLHF reduces LLM creativity and output variety : A new research paper posted in /r/LocalLLaMA shows that while alignment techniques like RLHF reduce toxic and biased content, they also limit the creativity of large language models, even in contexts unrelated to safety.

What’s the best way for an end user to organize and explore millions of latent space features?

I’ve found tens of thousands of interpretable features in my experiments, and frontier labs have demonstrated results with a thousand times more features in production-scale models. No doubt, as interpretability techniques advance, we’ll see feature maps t... See more

I’ve been giving talks and speaking with engineers and non-technical audiences about interpretability since 2022, and I still struggle to explain exactly what a “feature” is. I often use words like “concept” or “style”, or establish metaphors to debugging programs or making fMRI scans of brains. Both metaphors help people outside of the subfield un... See more

How can we make interacting with conversational models feel more natural?

Every conversational interface to a language model adopts the same pattern:

A chat history sidebar, with each conversation lasting just a few turns

New sessions always begin in a brand-new thread

Every user query must always elicit exactly one response

None of these assumptions ar... See more

How do models represent style, and how can we more precisely extract and steer it?

A commonly requested feature in almost any LLM-based writing application is “I want the AI to respond in my style of writing,” or “I want the AI to adhere to this style guide.” Aside from costly and complicated multi-stage finetuning processes like Anthropic’s RL with... See more

There’s a simple algorithm for identifying the highest leverage relaxation for yourself: (Energy produced ÷ time it takes)