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Abhi Upadhyay

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  • This trait must be coupled with emotional commitment.
    Dr. R. W. Hamming's Advice on Research
  • Thus an important aspect of any problem is that you have a good attack, a good starting place, some reasonable idea of how to begin.
    Dr. R. W. Hamming's Advice on Research
  • Thus an important aspect of any problem is that you have a good attack, a good starting place, some reasonable idea of how to begin.
    Dr. R. W. Hamming's Advice on Research
  • he good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom
    Cargo Cult Science
  • Making specifications formal and public does not resolve these questions, but it makes them explicit and auditable in a way that buried code never can.
    When AI Writes the World's Software, Who Verifies It?
  • Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what's worth paying attention to.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Corollary: Never abandon the root node.
    How to Do Great Work
  • You're more likely to do great work if you're an optimist, and more likely to if you think of yourself as lucky than if you think of yourself as a victim.
    How to Do Great Work
  • You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Sometimes you carry a question for a long time. Great work often comes from returning to a question you first noticed years before — in your childhood, even — and couldn't stop thinking about.
    How to Do Great Work
  • So if you're interested in a field that others think is tapped out, don't let their skepticism deter you. People are often wrong about this.
    How to Do Great Work
  • but if you want to do great work it's an advantage to be optimistic, even though that means you'll risk looking like a fool sometimes.
    How to Do Great Work
  • It's not learned; it's preserved from childhood. So hold onto it.
    How to Do Great Work
  • That's one reason nerds have an advantage in doing great work: they expend little effort on seeming anything.
    How to Do Great Work
  • So just do the work and your identity will take care of itself.
    How to Do Great Work
  • If you're interested, you're not astray.
    How to Do Great Work
  • But fields aren't people; you don't owe them any loyalty. If in the course of working on one thing you discover another that's more exciting, don't be afraid to switch.
    How to Do Great Work
  • The three most powerful motives are curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive. Sometimes they converge, and that combination is the most powerful of all.
    How to Do Great Work
  • However, this does not guarantee that the local replacement model and underlying model use the same mechanisms. We can measure differences in mechanism by measuring how differently these models respond to perturbations; we refer to the extent to which perturbation behavior matches as “mechanistic faithfulness”, discussed in § 5.3 Evaluating Mechanistic Faithfulness.
    Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models