Hi, I am a technical generalist.
I care deeply about craft. I suspect most theories of impact underrate the commonplace and the beautiful, and undervalue obsession with doing the basic stuff well.
In 2023, I moved from Dublin, Ireland to San Francisco. I'm currently building financial infrastructure for logistics at AtoB, and I previously interned at Stripe. I'm also an Emergent Ventures grant recipient.
You can email me here: gytdau@gmail.com.
![Interpreting and Steering Features in Images](/assets/previews/7.png)
Interpreting and Steering Features in Images
I trained a sparse autoencoder on CLIP and found over 50,000 highly interpretable and steerable features.
![Training on Mistakes Improves Problem Solving Performance](/assets/previews/6.png)
Training on Mistakes Improves Problem Solving Performance
Research post on the effect of error correction in a maze solving agent
![On the GPU Memory Hierarchy](/assets/previews/2.png)
On the GPU Memory Hierarchy
Guide to modelling algorithm performance on GPUs
![In the Wild West of Crypto Scams](/assets/previews/3.png)
In the Wild West of Crypto Scams
Training a model to front run bad actors in crypto for fun and profit
![Evaluating steering vectors](/assets/previews/4.png)
Evaluating steering vectors
Experiments in mechanically finding activation vectors to influence how GPT2 responds
![System Synthesis](/assets/previews/1.png)
System Synthesis
Experimental user interface for AI feedback on system design
![ExamLearn](/assets/previews/examlearn.png)
ExamLearn
Exam revision platform based on exponential learning decay that I built and sold at age 17
![Tome](/assets/previews/tome.png)
Tome
A transpiled educational programming language with English-like syntax
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Writing
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My life in the great future of consumer surplus
July 14, 2023
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Competition in Machine Learning
May 15, 2022
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Ireland's Unique Promise for Nuclear
April 11, 2022
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Fast Information Flows Result in Homogeneity
January 26, 2022
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Babble Mode in Voice Dictation
January 26, 2022
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Expertise makes people weirder, not more alike
January 07, 2022
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High volume beats almost anything else
December 30, 2021
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Compounding Rewards As An Argument For Moral Virtue
December 26, 2021
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Time perception
August 10, 2021