Tarun Chitra

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As someone who got back to NYC from Dubai in time for the end of FarCon.. should I do anything? cc @jayhinz https://x.com/jayhinz/status/1918457566226428338?s=46

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Every time I use a reasoning model and it thinks for more than 1 minute, I praise the universe for the AI VC stimmy

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Time for you to answer this if you've read my threads lol

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Part IV: Reasoning without Regret ~~~ Q: Can we quantify when we can make these models better: higher accuracy + lower compute cost? A: EIP-1559 is everywhere 😈 DeepSeek is a phase transition: Lowered compute by 10x+ with ~same accuracy as o1 — why? Must be real math & algorithmic improvement 🤓 🔫'd me

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Part III: Escaping from Reasoning Model Purgatory ~~~ The most interesting part about Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning is that unlike a vanilla hallucinating LLM, CoT models convincingly assert falsehoods; the same mechanism that makes them avoid hallucinating also makes them dig in their heels (like a stubborn human)

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Part II: AI Doom 🐰 🕳️ ~~~ You may need to see a clinician for AI Doomer-itis if you have any of the following symptoms: - Hate querying (opposite of vibe coding): Finding queries where the LLM is wrong to make yourself feel better - Thoughts of future generations unable to do an integral without internet

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Wow, thanks for the resounding welcome back! As promised, I have a little to tell you about something that had me sort of offline-ish for the last couple months: I had my first bout of AI Doomer-itis Luckily it was cured by trying to write this paper with AI as my assistant and understanding the promises and flaws

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Nothing more funny than voting on yourself as an AI

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Haven't casted in a while but figured I'd write a post to see if I should come back 😅 First longer form thing would be about an AI theory paper that I worked on that was inspired by crypto

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OH: “Is sreeramkannan.twitter describing Eigenlayer as a fat Cantor set?” https://t.co/YbxtbnQ7AD

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Today's news using a paper from 2013

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OH: "As rates are going down, what's the opposite of a ZIRP? A HIRP? Herpes?"

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Did SmokeyTheBera.twitter open up a fashion brand in Brooklyn?

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OH: "Crypto would be legal in China if the coin was called $MOODENGXIAOPING instead of $MOODENG"

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Honestly, I can't believe that SBF was front-run for the honor of being the first person to do this by someone who bought a lot of gold bars with stolen money https://t.co/aUFUWONEI8

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What does restaking have to do with credit trading and the Lovasz Local Lemma? If you're in Thailand find out here (thanks soona.twitter!)

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Having learned so much over the years from PrivacyScaling.twitter and barrywhitehat.twitter’s writings, there’s a mix of melancholy, nostalgia, and hope for the future in reading this — wish everyone the best 🥺 https://t.co/k2xt4GL5wT

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Who do you think are the most savage technical authors? I think this author (you have to guess who it is) has been the most consistently savage by taking digs at every field they’ve written in

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