RSS

Lao Mein

Karma: 2,688

P(doom) = 50%. It either happens, or it doesn’t.

Lao Mein | Statistics is Hard. | Patreon

I give full permission for anyone to post part or all of any of my comments/​posts to other platforms, with attribution.

Currently doing solo work on glitch tokens and tokenizer analysis. Feel free to send me job/​collaboration offers.

DM me interesting papers you would like to see analyzed. I also specialize in bioinformatics.

Glitch To­ken Cat­a­log - (Al­most) a Full Clear

Lao Mein21 Sep 2024 12:22 UTC
37 points
3 comments37 min readLW link

A New Class of Glitch To­kens—BPE Subto­ken Ar­ti­facts (BSA)

Lao Mein20 Sep 2024 13:13 UTC
37 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally, Power Plants May Be an AI Train­ing Bot­tle­neck.

Lao Mein20 Jun 2024 4:41 UTC
83 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Re­con­sider the anti-cav­ity bac­te­ria if you are Asian

Lao Mein15 Apr 2024 7:02 UTC
168 points
43 comments4 min readLW link

Up­date on Chi­nese IQ-re­lated gene panels

Lao Mein14 Dec 2023 10:12 UTC
70 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why No Au­to­mated Plagerism De­tec­tion For Past Papers?

Lao Mein12 Dec 2023 17:24 UTC
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

LLMs, Batches, and Emer­gent Epi­sodic Memory

Lao Mein2 Jul 2023 7:55 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

I Think Eliezer Should Go on Glenn Beck

Lao Mein30 Jun 2023 3:12 UTC
29 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

In­ternLM—China’s Best (Un­ver­ified)

Lao Mein9 Jun 2023 7:39 UTC
51 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety in China: Part 2

Lao Mein22 May 2023 14:50 UTC
95 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

My Assess­ment of the Chi­nese AI Safety Community

Lao Mein25 Apr 2023 4:21 UTC
248 points
94 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What about non-de­gree seek­ing?

Lao Mein17 Dec 2022 2:22 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] COVID China Per­sonal Ad­vice (No mRNA vax, pos­si­ble hos­pi­tal over­load, bug-chas­ing edi­tion)

Lao Mein14 Dec 2022 10:31 UTC
20 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ne­glected cause: au­to­mated fraud de­tec­tion in academia through image analysis

Lao Mein30 Nov 2022 5:52 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] How to cor­rect for mul­ti­plic­ity with AI-gen­er­ated mod­els?

Lao Mein28 Nov 2022 3:51 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How do I start a pro­gram­ming ca­reer in the West?

Lao Mein25 Nov 2022 6:37 UTC
38 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­man-level Di­plo­macy was my fire alarm

Lao Mein23 Nov 2022 10:05 UTC
54 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Lao Mein’s Shortform

Lao Mein16 Nov 2022 3:01 UTC
4 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Tac­ti­cal Nu­clear Weapons Aren’t Cost-Effec­tive Com­pared to Pre­ci­sion Artillery

Lao Mein31 Oct 2022 4:33 UTC
28 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally, All Nu­clear Famine Papers are Bunk

Lao Mein12 Oct 2022 5:58 UTC
113 points
37 comments2 min readLW link1 review