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places I’ve been quoted

I was briefly featured in this Scientific American article on LLMs and their possibilities for religious applications and this Wall Street Journal article on Noah Lyles and the “rise of nerds.”

list of the cooler projects I’ve worked on

my role basically always fell under “make the neural network work”

• Evals for SOTA LLMs
• Hallucination detection and correction
• Efficacy of LLMAsAJudge
• My paper exploring various methods of judging language data as low or high quality (paper link)
• An algorithm to judge the price of collectibles like Pokemon cards, baseball cards, or rare coins
• A computer vision project identifying and pricing exterior damage on cars from cell phone photos
• A model for processing ambient rainforest noise to find gunshots, chainsaws, and vehicles indicating poaching and logging
• A system to scan insurance corpora to extract helpful sentences like “drug X is covered by plan Y under situation Z, but not situation A”
• A CTR (Click Through Rate) predictor for crowd groaning noises ads
• A FOD detector for runway radar scans (detects debris on your runway that’d destroy your fancy plane engines)
• A number of “information extractors” for large datastores of pdfs
• The algorithm that judges SXSW speaker applications alongside human judges
• and more! that are either less interesting or I’m not allowed to tell you about

Favorite Albums:

• This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
• American Dream - LCD Soundsystem
• Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
• Suddenly - Caribou
• Space Is Only Noise If You Can See - Nicolas Jaar
• Psychic - Darkside
• 2012 - 2017 - Against All Logic
• Mezzanine - Massive Attack
• Since I Left You - The Avalanches
• Freedom - Amen Dunes
• Making A Door Less Open - Car Seat Headrest
• To Be Kind - Swans
• Summertime ‘06 - Vince Staples
• Feed the Animals - Girl Talk
• In Colour - Jamie xx
• Cellophane - FKA Twigs
• That! Feels Good! - Jessie Ware
• 99.9% - Kaytranada
• Moon Safari - Air

Favorite games:

• The Witness
• Outer Wilds
• Baba is You
• Portal 1 + 2
• The Talos Principle 1 + 2 but especially 1
• Dota 2
• Deadlock
• Slay The Spire
• Hades
• TF2
• Half-Life 2
• honestly anything valve makes they’re pretty good at making games