Jesse Hoogland

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Executive director at Timaeus. Working on singular learning theory and developmental interpretability.

Website: jessehoogland.com

Twitter: @jesse_hoogland

Timaeus in 2024

Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Daniel Murfet

Feb 20, 2025, 11:54 PM

96 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

The Simplest Good

Jesse HooglandFeb 2, 2025, 7:51 PM

73 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Kessler’s Second Syndrome

Jesse HooglandJan 26, 2025, 7:04 AM

69 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Brainrot

Jesse HooglandJan 26, 2025, 5:35 AM

42 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Rising Sea

Jesse HooglandJan 25, 2025, 8:48 PM

93 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Timaeus is hiring researchers & engineers

Jesse Hoogland and Stan van Wingerden

Jan 17, 2025, 7:13 PM

64 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Building AI Research Fleets

Ben Goldhaber and Jesse Hoogland

Jan 12, 2025, 6:23 PM

129 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

o1: A Technical Primer

Jesse HooglandDec 9, 2024, 7:09 PM

170 points

19 comments9 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

New o1-like model (QwQ) beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet with only 32B parameters

Jesse HooglandNov 27, 2024, 10:06 PM

68 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(qwenlm.github.io)

Timaeus is hiring!

Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Daniel Murfet

Jul 12, 2024, 11:42 PM

67 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Stagewise Development in Neural Networks

Jesse Hoogland, Liam Carroll and Daniel Murfet

Mar 20, 2024, 7:54 PM

96 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Timaeus’s First Four Months

Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Stan van Wingerden and Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

Feb 28, 2024, 5:01 PM

173 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Generalization, from thermodynamics to statistical physics

Jesse HooglandNov 30, 2023, 9:28 PM

64 points

9 comments28 min readLW link

Announcing Timaeus

Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Stan van Wingerden

Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 AM

188 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

You’re Measuring Model Complexity Wrong

Jesse Hoogland and Stan van Wingerden

Oct 11, 2023, 11:46 AM

93 points

17 comments13 min readLW link

Open Call for Research Assistants in Developmental Interpretability

Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Stan van Wingerden

Aug 30, 2023, 9:02 AM

55 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Apply for the 2023 Developmental Interpretability Conference!

Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Jesse Hoogland and Daniel Murfet

Aug 25, 2023, 7:12 AM

33 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Towards Developmental Interpretability

Jesse Hoogland, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Daniel Murfet and Stan van Wingerden

Jul 12, 2023, 7:33 PM

192 points

10 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Approximation is expensive, but the lunch is cheap

Jesse Hoogland and Zach Furman

Apr 19, 2023, 2:19 PM

70 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

Jesse Hoogland’s Shortform

Jesse HooglandApr 12, 2023, 9:32 AM

4 points

58 comments LW link

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