nic 🔹
@nmk.wtf
mathematician, aspiring quant, reader of things
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https://nmk.wtf
I give 10% of my income to GiveWell and so should you
Did we ever find out who she is? m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lq...
It's Behind You! Dancer Performs Exercise Routine During Myanmar Military Coup
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November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Did we ever find out who she is? m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lq...
The first time this hit me was when one of my professors referred to some theorem as a technology.
i randomly thought about this thread, looked up the term “technology” from wikipedia and i felt my mind expand!
all my life i’d understood “technology” in its narrower sense—electronic devices, genetic engineering, etc.
when in reality it’s just the application of knowledge that’s reproducible!
all my life i’d understood “technology” in its narrower sense—electronic devices, genetic engineering, etc.
when in reality it’s just the application of knowledge that’s reproducible!
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The first time this hit me was when one of my professors referred to some theorem as a technology.
This is a very good post:
www.lesswrong.com/posts/j3gp8t...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/j3gp8t...
How the NanoGPT Speedrun WR dropped by 20% in 3 months — LessWrong
In early 2024 Andrej Karpathy stood up an llm.c repo to train GPT-2 (124M), which took an equivalent of 45 minutes on 8xH100 GPUs to reach 3.28 cross…
www.lesswrong.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is a very good post:
www.lesswrong.com/posts/j3gp8t...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/j3gp8t...
I made a math nooki nooki.me/c/math
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October 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I made a math nooki nooki.me/c/math
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Evidence Recent AI Gains are Mostly from Inference-Scaling
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Here's a thread about my latest post on AI scaling …
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www.tobyord.com/writing/most...
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Here's a thread about my latest post on AI scaling …
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www.tobyord.com/writing/most...
Evidence that Recent AI Gains are Mostly from Inference-Scaling — Toby Ord
In the last year or two, the most important trend in modern AI came to an end. The scaling-up of computational resources used to train ever-larger AI models through next-token prediction ( pre-trainin...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Evidence Recent AI Gains are Mostly from Inference-Scaling
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Here's a thread about my latest post on AI scaling …
1/14
www.tobyord.com/writing/most...
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Here's a thread about my latest post on AI scaling …
1/14
www.tobyord.com/writing/most...