Danqing Zhang @Danqing_Z
Applied Scientist @AmazonScience, previously phd @UCBerkeley, @PKU1898 ,#NLProc #CyberPhysicalSystems AIML + Product + Software Development + Research danqingz.github.io San Francisco, CA Joined November 2014-
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In AI research there is tremendous value in intuitions on what makes things work. In fact, this skill is what makes “yolo runs” successful, and can accelerate your team tremendously. However, there’s no track record on how good someone’s intuition is. A fun way to do this is…
More work coming up & we are hiring: openai.com/careers/search…
More work coming up & we are hiring: openai.com/careers/search…
i had a call with @stanbeliaev for a getfluently.app demo earlier today, and holy shit this is going to change so many people's lives
Q1: Who is your favorite RL researcher that you think should be more widely known? Why? 1/2
Best advice I ever got: think like a VC when looking for tech job. It led me to joining Rippling ($11B+) before its Series A. It changed my life, so I built a free tool to help others. We expect that every company listed on Prospect will grow at least 2X over the next 4 years:
Fun dataset added last week to @huggingface by @AnthropicAI @esindurmusnlp to compare persuasiveness between AI and human outputs: huggingface.co/datasets/Anthr…
Mark today as the day I finally reached 500 citations on Google Scholar. I hope to publish more papers later in my career.
LLM app development is rate-limited by quality evals. There's a paradox of LLM, prompt, etc choice. Recently put together a short guide on setting up custom evals. Playlist (5 min vids): youtube.com/playlist?list=… Code: github.com/langchain-ai/l… x.com/LangChainAI/st…
LLM app development is rate-limited by quality evals. There's a paradox of LLM, prompt, etc choice. Recently put together a short guide on setting up custom evals. Playlist (5 min vids): youtube.com/playlist?list=… Code: github.com/langchain-ai/l… x.com/LangChainAI/st… https://t.co/NdD1hS3ipr
Rejection is an invitation to keep going
The next week we had @bchesky tell the founding story of Airbnb. I've heard hundreds of founders tell the story of their companies, but there is no one who can do it like Brian. He is a one in a million storyteller.
To get rich, do work where you get paid in proportion to the number of customers you satisfy instead of the number of hours you work. Not all work of this kind will make you rich, but nearly all work that can make you rich is of this kind.
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🔥Exciting news -- GPT-4-Turbo has just reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the Arena leaderboard again! Woah! We collect over 8K user votes from diverse domains and observe its strong coding & reasoning capability over others. Hats off to @OpenAI for this incredible launch! To offer…
Escape competition through working on hard problems.
Cohere is the new hero of open-source AI! Fantastic work from @aidangomez @sarahookr & team!
This study found that if @_akhaliq and @arankomatsuzaki tweet about an AI / ML paper, that paper will likely end up with higher citation numbers. spectrum.ieee.org/social-media-a…
I am really excited to reveal what @GoogleDeepMind's Open Endedness Team has been up to 🚀. We introduce Genie 🧞, a foundation world model trained exclusively from Internet videos that can generate an endless variety of action-controllable 2D worlds given image prompts.
The Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 12 - Feb 18): - Sora - Gemini 1.5 - OS-Copilot - TestGen-LLM - Large World Model - LLM Agents can Hack ...
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More work coming up & we are hiring: openai.com/careers/search…
Introducing the Instruction Hierarchy, our latest safety research to advance robustness for prompt injections and other ways of tricking LLMs into executing unsafe actions. More details: arxiv.org/abs/2404.13208
Thrilled to be tenured! I am overflowing with gratitude to the incredible students, faculty, staff, collaborators, friends, and of course, my family, who have made this journey so rewarding. Your unwavering support has been a cornerstone of my career, which I deeply appreciate.❤️
Working on a little doc to help grad students set quarterly and yearly goals. Are there good examples of this out there already so I don't reinvent the wheel?
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@levie First two of Clark's Law.
The two biggest biases you’ll run into when doing a startup are from people that know *too* much: 1. This problem is already solved and doesn’t need a new solution 2. Every time this problem has been attempted to be solved it never works Sometimes you just need fresh eyes.
i had a call with @stanbeliaev for a getfluently.app demo earlier today, and holy shit this is going to change so many people's lives
@EugeneVinitsky @vwxyzjn prolly, the most thorough implementation understandings
Q1: Who is your favorite RL researcher that you think should be more widely known? Why? 1/2
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LangSmith Evaluations With the rapid pace of AI, developers are often faced with a paradox of choice: how to choose the right prompt, how to trade-off LLM quality vs cost? Evaluations can accelerate development with structured process for making these decisions. But, we've…
I don’t have a plan B. "What would you do if Ping Parrot doesn't succeed?" "What if you don’t make it?..." I hate questions like these. I don’t see a possibility of me not making it. I’m telling you right now I will never stop - I will never give up. You can be smarter…
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