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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
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Theia Vogel
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I made a transformer to predict a simple sequence manually
To better understand how transformers work, I hand-assigned all the weights to predict a simple sequence.
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Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid
Playing around with the Representation Engineering paper, I made some interesting control vectors, and a Python package to make your own.
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Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
A walkthrough of 46 lines of code that render a 3D ASCII donut using signed distance functions.
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How to make LLMs go fast
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GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
Augmenting GPT-3 with tools is a popular technique right now. But is GPT-3 really using them?