Kiran Kannar

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Ex: NLP @InfinitusAI | MLSys @Salesforce | MS CS (Thesis, ML) @UCSanDiego

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

Looking back on the last year of shipping ML systems, I wrote a short reflection on what actually drove iteration speed.

Despite coding agents and faster V0s, the fundamentals haven’t changed much: evaluation discipline, realistic data, and tight feedback loops still matter most.

My takeaway: Speed is a consequence. Measurement is the work.

https://t.co/TkxF95Zzg0

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

"Research shouldn't live compressed in weights and intuition."

https://t.co/WwS763nEJx

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

Literacy, not a natural human state, is a learned skill that needs practice... The crucial task before us is to cultivate people’s desire to seek out cognitive complexity

from https://t.co/7ejqEg6b7s

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

Re: "Anyone who opens Zillow can see there are hundreds of 1-bedrooms available for less than that right now"

For a budget under $4k, there are currently 23 1 bed apts that are > 750 sq ft, and 112 1 beds that are > 500 sq ft. Only 40 of these have a dishwasher. Zillow doesn't have a filter for in-building laundry, but at least a good chunk doesn't have one. Another slice is garden/basements converted as 1 beds that are in extreme darkness

If you increase the budget to $5k, the numbers become 66 and 329 for respective sq ft.

"hundreds" is literally a few with a lot of asterisks. The city simply doesn't have enough housing with adequate amenities (or ample space for a couple)

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Bottle this feeling 🍾

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

This dogged mentality is so inspiring. So proud to be a Gooner! Congrats @Arsenal

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It was never done, but it is now…

[Premier League @premierleague]

North London forever 🎇

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

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This belongs to all of us.

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

The nature of building is changing in ways that are hard to ignore. We are all architects now. Congrats on the promotion.

New blog post:
https://t.co/4xF0Jq8db1

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[Daniel Kokotajlo @DKokotajlo]

"Answer thrashing" is an interesting phenomenon & it seems like an example of the scientific value of faithful CoT. (h/t https://t.co/7kGOzZO55Q)

[arya @AJakkli]

Activation oracles are a technique where a model is finetuned to answer natural language questions about another model's activations.

We applied them to a bunch of safety-relevant tasks and got little use out of them, and found them very hard to evaluate.

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

New blog post: https://t.co/HAA43fhuLa

We explore using lightweight linear probes as second-stage models to accompany LLM judges. These act as semantic filters that improve precision while maintaining high recall constraints for safety problems like adverse event detection. This was a fun research project to work on!

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

@fchollet The people who say SaaS is dead also seem to be the people who don't understand why companies like Salesforce exist.

It's not about the code; it's about the data that flows through these platforms and the long-term journeys of customers & their users on them.

[Julian Waller 📖 @JulianWaller]

Unfortunately, I can no longer read a "it's not this, it's that" construction without immediately raising my AI hackles. Just total rhetorical style death.

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

A rough example is modifying a circuit within the NN to encode desired semantics. Even though ultimately all of it goes through backprop, we can aim to constrain gradients to be aligned directionally with desired internal "structure", rather than letting semantics emerge arbitrarily.

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

Lots to ponder over in https://t.co/NurjIBmxan by @banburismus_ around intentional design of internal representations of neural networks.

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

Wrote a new blog post
"5,000 Lines of Trust: Engineering Agency in the Age of Agents"
https://t.co/ZB1BDn0wM2

[Kiran Kannar @kannarkk]

@myra_deng @GoodfireAI Congrats!

[Mohit Panchal @itsbookgains]

Reading a book is a great way to reactivate your mind.