Hillary Sanders
@hillarymsanders
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Machine-learner, meat-learner, research scientist, AI Safety thinker. Model trainer, skeptical adorer of statistics. Co-author of: Malware Data Science
Portland, OR
Joined January 2015
Lots of emojis in PRs screams that an LLM wrote it all 😂. Not that that's always bad. But sometimes yeah, it's bad.
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I went on the Code[ish] podcast to talk about AI, LLMs, and building Heroku's Managed Inference & Agents platform:.🎧
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Join Heroku superfan Jon Dodson and Hillary Sanders from the Heroku AI Team for the latest entry in our “Deeply Technical” series. In this episode, the pair discuss Heroku Managed Inference and...
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Recently gave a live demo at PyCon US 2025 on building scalable AI tool servers using Model Context Protocol (MCP) & Heroku. Recording is here:.
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A super interesting essay my partner wrote on Martin Luther King Jr - what he actually believed and accomplished (different than what is sometimes described). Incredibly impressive guy.
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We all know about Martin Luther King Jr., or at least have a vague idea of what he did and stood for. He was good guy. He gave a famous speech about having a dream. He wanted equality for black...
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RT @Miles_Brundage: Trying to imagine aspirin company CEOs signing an open letter saying "we're worried that aspirin might cause an infecti….
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I assume there's a good chance this will be algo-suppressed, but:. There I am :).
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In AI safety, we have inner misalignment (actions don't minimize the loss func) and outer misalignment (misspecified loss func). I do think that inner misalignment (~~learned features) tend to act as a protective mechanism to avoid outer misalignment implications. Er, I hope.
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RT @sandersted: AGI is hard to define. my preferred definition of AGI is a computer system that can can accomplish a task impossible for 1….
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It's been months and Google Firebase's definition of a p value is still wrong. 😳😔. cc @Firebase.
Eesh @Google, this is embarrassing. And not the only incorrect description of a p-value on s a/b testing documentation. I expect better out of Google's own documentation about literally a/b testing 🤨
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RT @robertskmiles: "LLMs can't do logical reasoning at all, they've just memorised some basic rules of logic, and use pattern matching to i….
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RT @AISafetyMemes: Open source software is GREAT. But "open source" AI is NOT like software - it's VERY different. @robertskmiles cuts thr….
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Eesh @Google, this is embarrassing. And not the only incorrect description of a p-value on s a/b testing documentation. I expect better out of Google's own documentation about literally a/b testing 🤨
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RT @bradchattergoon: Just found out about Milton Friedman’s Thermostat analogy. Very good explanation of an important concept. I think @cau….
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OK, completely unrelated to AI, but why do most baby socks come in variety packs?. Like, surely most parents care more about being able to find matching socks easily VS. making sure their baby's socks match their daily outfit?. I am bemused.
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I thought GPT usually picked 7 as a random number! Well Dall•E 3 really likes 1, I guess.
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Tried to google "Why do I look so young on Zoom". That didn't work 😂;. I am not searching in the same direction as most people. But I guess that means there's not an automatic face filter??.
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When I've read a fair amount of research / technical blog posts from someone,. and then I watch a video of them speaking about research,. and they swear like a sailer. A very well-informed technically accurate neural network specialist sailor. I like it. 😁.
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Formatting email text well is an undervalued skillset, ya'll.
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Sure, ya can't rely on it, but sometimes inner misalignment. (following standard methods of paperclip production even you could make more by taking over humanity). will help deal with with outer misalignment. (oops, we trained it to maximize paperclips, which is obvs terribad).
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