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Sasha Sheng (Hiring) 🫶🏼
@hackgoofer
Dancer. Builder @typesafeai. Prev: @AIatMeta
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    Sasha Sheng (Hiring) 🫶🏼
    @hackgoofer
    Jul 24
    Distillation is still possible through “Behavior Parroting”, see post below 👇 Cc: @natolambert
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    Diogo Almeida
    @CompleteSkeptic
    Jul 24
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    Is it even possible for the Chinese Labs to distill US models?
    TL;DR: yes, but how it works is unintuitive! Everyone is arguing whether Kimi K3 distilled Anthropic. This whole conversation involves a horrible abuse of the term “distillation” which has come to...
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    Sasha Sheng (Hiring) 🫶🏼
    @hackgoofer
    Jul 8
    👎 loops Every seasoned engineers know this is a bad idea - if your goal is to build large complex systems. 😳😱
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    Diogo Almeida
    @CompleteSkeptic
    Jul 8
    loops should be renamed to GOTO statements - everything is global state (no scoping / isolation) - anything can happen at any time (impossible to reason about where you are in an execution + debug) - constraints are loose guidelines (rather than programmatic guarantees)
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    Sasha Sheng (Hiring) 🫶🏼
    @hackgoofer
    Jul 4
    The Original Scaling Law paper (Kaplan et al.) had a bug that caused the scaling law to be incorrect. Hopefully the OSS model builder community already knows this, but just in case if not. The co-creator of RLHF @CompleteSkeptic broke it down for you in this post:
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    Diogo Almeida
    @CompleteSkeptic
    Jul 4
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    Scaling Laws, Honestly
    TL;DR: The original scaling laws were wrong due to a bug Originally posted at: https://www.completeskeptic.com/p/scaling-laws-honestly Background Scaling laws were one of OpenAI’s most important results, both technically and...
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    Sasha Sheng (Hiring) 🫶🏼
    @hackgoofer
    Jul 2
    Every single day I live this life I feel truly grateful that I get to work with some of my favorite people here at TypeSafe AI. This is a group with real intellectual horsepower but also the kindest, and most courageous humans I know. 🥰 I feel inspired every single day.
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    Sasha Sheng (Hiring) 🫶🏼
    @hackgoofer
    Jul 1
    TypeSafe AI has the sickest swags! Come thru to our 5pm hack night tonight and win some. We are headed into the AI Engineer World Fair presenting a talk on “What’s next after RLHF”. @CompleteSkeptic loves a good debate. So please give him hard questions. 😏
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