Lucas Beyer (bl16)
Researcher (OpenAI. Ex: DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian.
Anon feedback: admonymous.co/giffmana
📍 Zürich, Suisse 🔗 http://lucasb.eyer.be
- I noticed that I'm not using bsky much anymore. Not sure why, vibes. Anyways, someone noticing that DeepSeek refuses to answer *anything* about Xi Jinping, even the question whether he exists at all, triggered me writing a short snippet on safety fine-tuning: lb.eyer.be/s/safety-sft...
- First candidate for banger of the year appeared, only 2 days in:
- Reposted by Lucas Beyer (bl16)OpenAI skips o2, previews o3 scores, and they're truly crazy. Huge progress on the few benchmarks we think are truly hard today. Including ARC AGI. Rip to people who say any of "progress is done," "scale is done," or "llms cant reason" 2024 was awesome. I love my job.
- A post by @cloneofsimo on Twitter made me write up some lore about residuals, ResNets, and Transformers. And I couldn't resist sliding in the usual cautionary tale about small/mid-scale != large-scale. Blogpost: lb.eyer.be/s/residuals....
- Good morning Vancouver! Things are different here: this guy is alone, chonky, and not scared at all, I was more scared of him towards the end lol. Also look at that … industrialization
- Good morning! On my way to NeurIPS, slightly sad to leave this beautiful place and my family for the week, but also excited to meet many new and old friends at NeurIPS!
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- The fourth nice thing we* have for you this week: PaliGemma 2. It’s also a perfect transition: this v2 was carried a lot more by @andreaspsteiner.bsky.social André and Michael than by us. Crazy new sota tasks! Interesting res vs LLM size study! Better OCR! Less hallucination!
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- @francois.fleuret.org hey, can you buy me a few of tomorrow's Le Temps, if the news about us is printed in it? I'll pay you in beers at neurips.
