Tom Conerly

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[Harish Kamath @kamath_harish]

Interpreting language models can feel like stumbling through a dark forest - sometimes you just wish you had a flashlight! In our new post, we introduce HeadVis, our latest flashlight for studying attention heads.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Tracing the thoughts of a large language model.

We built a "microscope" to inspect what happens inside AI models and use it to understand Claude’s (often complex and surprising) internal mechanisms.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research paper: Scaling Monosemanticity.

The first ever detailed look inside a leading large language model.

Read the blog post here: https://t.co/6RYwxt6nWI

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

@CubeSmiling @RichardMCNgo @balfour_oliver Agreed. I think it’s different for CME which doesn’t really have competitors. Seems like most countries only have one dominant futures exchange

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

@CubeSmiling @RichardMCNgo @balfour_oliver One idea: Exchange could add 250ms delay to packets leaving their colo and also send their market data to other exchanges without delay. Then sell their real time market data and remove incentive for wireless towers (and still charge huge fees for the data!)

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

@RichardMCNgo Exchanges have strong network effects and end up being stagnant monopolies. Total hft profits are relatively small so the savings from this isn’t huge. For us stock market there are many exchanges but my understanding is regulation doesn’t let them try the solutions to this

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

TIL 3nm process is just a marketing term. Three nanometers doesn't refer to any physical feature of the chip. https://t.co/WJIee1Ajxs

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

@EpistemicHope @shakaz18 I tried exactly what you described with two different economics tutors from wyzant and was disappointed with the results. Seems like tutors there are optimized for passing various econ classes and not for a gears level understanding

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

I get my news from fedex notices

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

Screw vibing, the real test of compatibility dating in nyc is whether you jay walk at the same moment

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

Author estimated that 5% of US and Soviet commercial energy use from 1950-1990 was to make nuclear weapons.

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

Now the fun stuff from Energy and Civilization (serious stuff is at https://t.co/V0fSz3cdiY)

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

I recently read Energy and Civilization. Here's what I updated on. https://t.co/TVPdAfzmGe

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

About 1% of global energy use goes to creating synthetic nitrogen for fertilizers. Without those fertilizers global food production would drop 40%.

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

The final update is how dry the book is. I like dry books much more than average and I still found it a bit too dry.

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

I recently read Energy and Civilization. Here's what I updated on. https://t.co/TVPdAfzmGe

[Tom Conerly @tomconerly]

The pace of the book completely changes when fossil fuels show up. It felt like I heard about every advance in farming, hydropower, and windmills then fossil fuels come along and suddenly things change so fast we can't keep up.