john allard (@john_

john allard

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john allard

@john__allard

on sabbatical | prev @openai | watching incredulously from a distance | シットポスト

San Francisco

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Joined July 2020

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john allard
@john__allard
Mar 21
I’m taking a few months to ride my bike across the length of Japan, from Cape Sata to Cape Soya. I wrote a post about the route I designed for the trip, and the philosophy, tradeoffs, and process behind building a custom 3,700 km traverse from scratch (link in thread)
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john allard
@john__allard
Nov 20, 2023
The first OpenAI employee to stop working before 1am. Extremely bearish
Emmett Shear
@eshear
Nov 20, 2023
Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my
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john allard
@john__allard
Apr 22, 2024
SWEs wandering into the /research directory of jupyter notebooks
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john allard
@john__allard
Apr 23, 2024
Replying to @KenjiCapital
I would pay much more than $19 and spend much more than 1 extra hour to avoid ever going to LAX
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john allard
@john__allard
Nov 20, 2023
Replying to @ashleevance
Some employees are hard offline (in the wilderness, pat/mat leave), otherwise that list would be basically 100%. Unity has been achieved
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john allard
@john__allard
Jun 24, 2023
Replying to @canderaid
Even better - it was only nominally 5.6% of the budget. A lot of that was the book value of equipment that was sitting in storage and would never be used again, e.g. M113s.
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john allard
@john__allard
Dec 6, 2024
I really enjoyed giving an early look at our new Reinforcement Fine-Tuning product. The idea that anyone can leverage the same training algorithms and infra we use to create our o1 models and craft expert models in new domains is super exciting. Learn more openai.com/form/rft-resea…
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john allard
@john__allard
Nov 22, 2023
Will forever regret not crouching 6 inches lower 🫡
Greg Brockman
@gdb
Nov 22, 2023
we are so back
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john allard
@john__allard
Nov 22, 2023
king shit, Emmett - hmu for free api credits
Emmett Shear
@eshear
Nov 22, 2023
I am deeply pleased by this result, after ~72 very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI, I wasn’t sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. I’m glad to have been a part of the solution.
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john allard
@john__allard
Sep 20, 2024
Replying to @Andercot @anduriltech and @SpaceX
1. this seems insanely destabilizing in the short term 2. don’t hypersonic glide vehicles get around this? we’d end up back in a somewhat less stable equilibrium after a super expensive arms race
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john allard
@john__allard
Jun 24, 2023
Replying to @canalCCore2 and @fchollet
the number of folks who have even the vaguest idea that LlaMa exists is entirely negligible compared the volume of search traffic for ChatGPT (and Minecraft). The number who have even tried to run LlaMa applications would be much smaller
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john allard
@john__allard
Aug 12, 2024
congrats to this great team
Alistair
@AlistairPullen
Aug 12, 2024
I'm excited to share that we've built the world's most capable AI software engineer, achieving 30.08% on SWE-Bench – ahead of Amazon and Cognition. This model is so much more than a benchmark score: it was trained from the start to think and behave like a human SWE.
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john allard
@john__allard
Nov 4, 2024
Wandering the louvre w/ advanced voice mode is a magical experience. See an interesting exhibit, spend a minute practicing my pronunciation of the title/description, get an accurate translation, then jump into a nuanced discussion on the piece and relevant historical context.
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john allard
@john__allard
May 24, 2024
it’s honestly not that profitable, margin doesn’t mean much when volume is low. real money is and always has been in addictive drugs, it’s why the cartel is moving meth and not mushrooms
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