Minh Nhat Nguyen
@menhguin
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making agentic evals @hud_evals , robotics + ai alignment, owner of @AIHubCentral (1 million users, acq.), climate protester, prev @hume_ai.
Joined March 2018
im literally working on all 3 of these rn lol: automated robotics design, end-to-end interpretable programmable model and robotics foundational model (VLA tokenisation). will hopefully be out by May.
Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer are among the godfathers of modern AI at Google. Most interesting ideas from the recent Dwarkesh podcast:. 1. If AI can automate chip design and a "million automated researchers" can generate novel model architectures, AI development might continue to.
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Half the people complaining about this are extremely, incredibly out of touch with how competitive top college admissions is now. High GPA, SAT and ECs is barely table stakes for "multiple top colleges". So obvious they've never even applied to top colleges, let alone gotten in.
His GPA score is 97.3%, SAT score is 1560, enrolled in a top high school, does tons of extracurricular work. He was rejected by multiple colleges. They call this equity and inclusion.
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@peterjhasson @FreeBeacon @SaysSimonson @ChuckRossDC "she worked at McDonald's and didn't put it on her resume" man, ya'll really got nothing, huh.
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And yet you leave out a full minute of context, showing that Miyazaki was disgusted by a completely different technology made to generate grotesque body horror. From 8 years ago.
Since this utter garbage is trending, we should take a look at what Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of Studio Ghibli, said about machine created art.
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my Vietnamese mom said stuff like this when i talked about ADHD, then she read about ADHD symptoms in undiagnosed adult women, started taking medication, then cried about how she'd missed out on being normal her whole life.
One of the greatest evils of my 90s childhood was the sedation and casual drugging of young boys for acting like boys in a school system built for little girls. And it’s only now that we’re finally allowed to ask questions. Decades too late.
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OH MY GOD Just read more on this. 1. Affirmative action ended LAST YEAR so his rejection wasn't even due to that.2. He got into Duke and still complained on national TV about not getting into more T20s w average-for-T20 stats. Yo, I can't w this dude.
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Went on r/csmajors and of the top 200 posts, only 1 is about either building stuff or theory. The rest is all job hunting stuff. I think I know why hirers don't want CS majors.
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@consciousphilos @Dimitro_cbn "in war, victory is when you pick a fight with everyone thinking you'll win fr, last a few years, and then your great nation is obliterated and scattered to the wind for generations by people you call subhuman". - sun tzu.
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genuinely cannot understand how America leads global tech while its education has worse outcomes than many developed and some developing countries.
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me: hi guys! im super excited to publish this new method in-. schmidhuber: Petrov et al (1958), Wang (1997),Yoshida (1913). Reported.
The #NobelPrize in Physics 2024 for Hopfield & Hinton turns out to be a Nobel Prize for plagiarism. They republished methodologies developed in #Ukraine and #Japan by Ivakhnenko and Amari in the 1960s & 1970s, as well as other techniques, without citing the original inventors.
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@GrantSlatton ive worked on comms and nonprofits (I actually told my org to partner with Mr Beast). The answer is that nonprofits and governments are just shockingly bad at comms.
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@CJSlattery Oh my god i just realised he isnt even valedictorian. If he was Stuy valedictorian then maybe that'd be notable, but bro really went on national TV complaining he didn't get into Ivies with that 😭.
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perhaps i'm dumb, but i hit far fewer math walls once i started using AI to explain the concept to me multiple times in multiple rephrasings with examples. a big chunk of technical education is bottlenecked by slightly unintuitive rephrasing presented rigidly.
Grad school was where I first had the experience of maxing out my cognitive horsepower. I was one of the dumbest EE majors. There was a very clear hierarchy. [Generalizing heavily] the EE majors weren’t as smart as the stat majors, who weren’t as smart as the math majors. There.
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@tunahorse21 this is the part where you adopt an exaggerated accent and accuse her of colonial attitudes against the Global South (half joking).
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More foul findings:.
@littlestepper_ @menhguin While wearing the shirt of the prestigious school you *currently* attend.
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u can trace ADHD back through our entire family tree as well, pre-1900s when we were on farms. this meme that ADHD is some American middle class white boy hysteria just doesn't make any sense when you have people w the same symptoms, in completely different contexts, globally.
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@cairoasmith my toxic trait is that i think i could score 2.0 GPA,18/36 for the ACT, get into Harvard and decline to attend bc it's not my vibe
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if you are training multimodal and have enough cash, you will never truly be data-constrained. few understand this.
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Fun fact: Out of FAANG, Netflix hasn't released a major foundational model since ChatGPT came out. It's also the best performing FAANG stock on a ~3 year and 10-year timescale.
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@RufkinMayne Bro went on NATIONAL TV with average-for-T20 applicant stats to complain how he didn't get into MULTIPLE T20s while he's attending Duke University. God, the entitlement.
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guys the Claude 4 system card is so delightfully deranged, like tf kinda japanese adult video shenanigans is this lol.will update as i read
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@basedjensen > permanent digital records.> look inside.> does not last without a SAAS subscription.
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like ok, it's valid to say some demographics are getting overdiagnosed for cultural reasons or social incentives, but the vast majority of ADHD cases are undiagnosed. that's the nature of misdiagnosis in generally.
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> "look how bad AI is".> look inside.> it's always ChatGPT w GPT 3.5.
my mom (who's a university professor) did something interesting last year: she assigned her students to give chatgpt an essay question, have it write a paper, and then proofread/fact check it. nearly every single student in that class came out of that assignment anti-chatgpt.
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@aoi_hjalmar you are an incompetent dumbass, incapable of grasping the central point. Harvard literally gets TWICE AS MANY VALEDICTORIANS applying as there are spots in the damn school. The acceptance rate for valedictorians is 25%, ofc valedictorians get rejected. tf you talking about.
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R1's extremely strong RL results were largely achieved without extensive human data. The CEO of a human data company has an incentive to downplay the effectiveness of Deepseek, no?.
Billionaire and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang: DeepSeek has about 50,000 NVIDIA H100s that they can't talk about because of the US export controls that are in place.
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“uhhhhhh but it’s still AI” Well sure, if you completely ignore the intent, meaning, tools, context and medium, and you have no idea what you’re talking about, and you’re also completely art-illiterate, and you talk about totally different thing altogether, then it goes hard.
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Forgive me for thinking the computer science majors subreddit should be a little bit about building with computers, scientific research or learning. This is like how i thought a business degree was basically a startup incubator. I'm autistic fr man.
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@TribeCalledCreg Honestly Im surprised how much more attention there is on AA than legacy admissions. Legacy is literally institutionalised, normalised nepotism.
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on elon musk platform, if you make search that works, they kill you
The entire team of Exa dot ai is banned. All 3 founders @WilliamBryk @wangzjeff @TheIshanGoswami are gone and 𝕏 search was removed from Exa’s MCP server. TOS aside, but suspending individual team members??. @elonmusk, @x what is going on???. this must be a mistake.
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feels inappropriate when someone succeeds in spite of their education system, and said system then claims credit for their succeed.
>an electrical engineer from IIT .>missed switching to cs by 0.01 points. >self taught ml & aced the toughest ml exam.>worked at openAI & deepmind.>created perplexity .>& the rest is history.
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@gramsci_complex "you killed my nation's international policy". "i can't even point you out on a map".
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@ozarkhellb23256 @peterjhasson @FreeBeacon @SaysSimonson @ChuckRossDC communism is when work at mcdonad.
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@FearedBuck @grok turn this man into a medieval squire with a bowlcut, sorta lord farquaad lookin ya know what im saying.
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@DeepDishEnjoyer tbf this sounds like the kind of thing interns should be briefed on, but ya bad move.
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claude 3.7 sonnet passing a unit test by skipping all the required functions and hardcoding a pass
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@GrantSlatton they're just bad by default. most people aren't good at it by default since they're not used to speaking to an audience, and most orgs just don't select for this. In gov bureaucracy there's practically zero selection pressure to celebrate wins well, since it'll never affect money.
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stumbled upon this wechat group monstrosity while trying to cite OpenAI's O1
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Hayao Mayazaki from 8 years ago: "You have just served me horrible, rot-themed pancakes. And why the hell would you make rot-themed pancakes?".Anti-waffle people: "Here's a clip of Hayao Miyazaki calling all waffles rotten.".
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Been staring at Claude outputs for 12 hours, and it's really strange how it texts like a human while ChatGPT texts like Wikipedia/a data labeller.
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3.5 sonnet -> 3.7 feels like giving a straight-A, well-adjusted, valedictorian, class president Asian American girl a bit too much adderall bc her parents wanted her to make the math olympiad team.
As a code assistant for a non-swe, I find 3.7 much worse compared to 3.5. Jumps ahead too much, assumes too much, more focused on outputting an entire codebase in response to every prompt vs. being a true collaborative assistant and verifying what I want.
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R1 model aside, did anyone notice that Deepseek app has multimodality, PDF upload and search, which not even O1 pro has rn?
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Min-p has received an ICLR Oral award!. This is my first ML paper as a business undergrad with no CS or research background. I want people to do research they care about, regardless of their background, and I'm hoping to write a detailed guide soon! LMK what questions you have!
Hi! Guess the secret’s out: Introducing Min P, a token sampling method for LLMs. Using < 10 lines of code, we achieve 10-20% better results on GSM8K and GPQA vs Top P at temperature=1. Interestingly, reasoning on GPQA and creative writing ability *improves* as temperature > 1 🧵
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so let's be real. if you showed a normal person from 2020 a frontier AI model from 2025, and asked if this met the definition of AGI, they would've said yes. right ???
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With AI, leftists have a chance to full send UBI or a massive welfare state, but instead they've chosen to be reactionaries defending to death an exploitative labour and IP system that largely doesn't even benefit them.
sad to see the death of the artistic profession, which before this point was a highly viable career path that famously paid a lot of money.
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Entropy handling mitigates hallucination. Hallucination occurs when a model is uncertain but is compelled to output a low-prob answer token and continue its answer anyway, pretending as if it were fact. Entropy/uncertainty offers a chance to self-correct.
lol huh did we accidentally just fix hallucination problem ?.
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Shoutout to whoever called it "inference time compute" and "test-time scaling" instead of "write longer responses", that's possibly a few billion in extra funding.
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@LiquidGoth 1. If it's less than 5 minutes do it.2. Everything can be broken down into 5 minute parts.
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Do not touch LinkedIn Apply. For inbound, work on projects w others and post about them. Skip HR, go straight to execs/employees. For outbound, spend 1-2 days working on a demo, or reuse prev projects related to the product/role. Do this for several months for a few places.
At the age of 20 i applied to 500 entry level jobs and had ONE interview, shortly after i asked my friend if his dad had any space for hire and i had a job the same week. Life is actually so fucking rigged.
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Mixture of Experts LLMs are unfortunately named. Everyone I introduce the concept to, reasonably assumes that it's a bunch of specialised mini-LLMs doing majority voting.
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Hi! Guess the secret’s out: Introducing Min P, a token sampling method for LLMs. Using < 10 lines of code, we achieve 10-20% better results on GSM8K and GPQA vs Top P at temperature=1. Interestingly, reasoning on GPQA and creative writing ability *improves* as temperature > 1 🧵
Please @AnthropicAI & @OpenAI, add min_p sampling (and temp > 1) to your APIs. It'd make your models so much better. It's basically a free quality boost.
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Reading LLM reasoning research, you realise very few people are trying to make the models reason at all.
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I genuinely dont get people who say they work like 80+ hours a week. Maybe it's a skill issue but for me 10hrs is pushing it, 12 is rly pushing it and I can't recall putting in a *good* 14.
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"the main reason is Cursor need to be told what files to look at, while Windsurf indexes your entire codebase". ??? Cursor has codebase index, a docs lookup + indexing feature and even web search that all work fine for searches ???
Not everyday you wake up to a shoutout from @ycombinator 🤩. Jared Friedman explains why founders are switching to Windsurf:
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@DrewPavlou Maybe dont announce that you're joining Hezbollah on social media after Mossad just blew up a thousand of them electronically?.
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sichuan, 2027. general yudkowsky surveys a high-performance datacenter used to train deepseek r4.
i have a solution: weapons.
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> 6 months of hysterical shrieking.> overanalysing every little shift in a betting market.> "yeah could go either way"
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mfw i'm born in a crappy semi-rural vietnamese town and now interacting with tech/cryptobros who say this shit regularly
$5 million in cash at age 35 is enough to live a decent upper middle class life for the rest of your life. but you cannot retire, you still need to generate some cash flow which is fine. if you want to live an upper class life, ie business class flights all the time, nice hotels,.
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@ChaseBrowe32432 If you go into a line of work 100% transactionally then don't be surprised if employers treat you as a 100% transactional applicant. In that case, you better have a lot else going for you to stand out. I doubt consulting and finance applicants expect niceness from employers.
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