At the NeurIPS Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop, I was asked to give an opinion on Neel Nanda's recent blog post on "pragmatic interpretability." I chose to respond by recounting the story of Venetian glassmaking.
Continue reading "In Defense of Curiosity"I have been teaching myself to vibe code.
Back in 2009 I posted a simple Mandelbrot fractal viewer on the web: a single HTML file with inline Javascript. Just 329 lines of code, each pixel a tiny table cell. Click to zoom. Watch it iterate. That was about it!
I have wondered if improving the page could raise it in the Google rankings, so I have been using code LMs to make a number of improvements....
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