daniel bashir
@spaniel_bashir
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applied typist, chief shenanigans officer @gradientpub / I like systolic arrays and Marcel Proust / personal https://t.co/e2f47gNzz1
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2021
Can vision transformers learn without images?🤔👀 Our latest work shows that pretraining ViTs on procedural symbolic data (eg sequences of balanced parentheses) makes subsequent standard training (eg on ImageNet) more data efficient! How is this possible?! ⬇️🧵
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.@clarabcollier @charlesxjyang and I are launching Diffuse AI! We're looking for reporting on what benchmarks don't tell us about: what happens when AI systems are dropped into the complexity of real organizations, workflows, and human habits. Pitch us / see our launch post!
Excited to launch Diffuse AI with @clarabcollier and @spaniel_bashir — a new publication collecting stories on how AI is actually diffusing into society today. Our initial slate of pieces includes: > an AI & manufacturing case study > Bipartisan interview with fmr White House AI
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Turns out the best NeurIPS workshop this year was held on the water. Pulled a few researchers off the conference floor and onto the water. The signal-to-noise ratio improved instantly 🤣. Gonna do more of these as it gets warmer in the Bay Area hit us up if you wanna come.
At NeurIPS this week, talks on LRMs, flow matching, memory, etc. show how fast the frontier is moving. If you’re working on any of this and want to riff with talented folks here, @_shreya_s and I are hosting a yacht party Friday afternoon. DM for details rsvp below ⚓️⚓️
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My love language is an arbitrary matrix of signifiers whose referential content is purely conventional
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If you're a longtime reader who is curious where Theory of Vibe is at in 2025 in terms of ML science, then here be the thread
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guy who loves critical theory so much they only own the Norton critical editions of stuff
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obligatory I'll be at NeurIPS next week, first time going and very excited—DM me / reach out if you'll be around!
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@IasonGabriel is an inspiration to me -- he works across disciplines to arrive at deeper and more grounded views of 'AI alignment' and the ethics of AI more broadly -- both of which are often held in very confused/naive ways by the ML community. Bonus: he has a very pleasant
🎙️Excited to share this new podcast with @spaniel_bashir at @gradientpub: https://t.co/AShBi8iWNy It’s one of the deepest conversations I’ve had about AI & philosophy and we got it all on tape! 📼
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🎙️Excited to share this new podcast with @spaniel_bashir at @gradientpub: https://t.co/AShBi8iWNy It’s one of the deepest conversations I’ve had about AI & philosophy and we got it all on tape! 📼
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New @gradientpub interview out (after a while!) with @IasonGabriel on value alignment, theories of justice, questions in political philosophy and their influence on Iason's thinking!
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A short overview of my essay On Eudaimonia and Optimization, which I link at the thread's end
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this means you need to read more theory
Theory has ruined my life and now I'm aimless and miserable and hopeless
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I’ve read 0 of Krasznahorkai’s books but I did put him on my goodreads a year and a half ago which feels like undeniable evidence of my clairvoyance
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🪩The one and only @stateofaireport 2025 is live! 🪩 It’s been a monumental 12 months for AI. Our 8th annual report is the most comprehensive it's ever been, covering what you *need* to know about research, industry, politics, safety and our new usage data. My highlight reel:
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Tian when he has a piece in Asterisk this week:
My piece in Asterisk this week:
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