Hi, I am a technical generalist. I like making computers do stuff and want to be very good at it.
I am very happy to be alive. I care deeply about alleviating human frustration with shitty software or bad craft. Most theories of impact underrate the commonplace and the beautiful, and undervalue obsession with doing the basic stuff well.
In 2023, I moved from Dublin, Ireland to San Francisco. I'm currently building financial infrastructure for logistics at AtoB, and I previously interned at Stripe. I'm also an Emergent Ventures grant recipient.
You can email me here: gytdau@gmail.com.
Training on Mistakes Improves Problem Solving Performance
Research post on the effect of error correction in a maze solving agent
On the GPU Memory Hierarchy
Guide to modelling algorithm performance on GPUs
In the Wild West of Crypto Scams
Training a model to front run bad actors in crypto for fun and profit
Evaluating steering vectors
Experiments in mechanically finding activation vectors to influence how GPT2 responds
System Synthesis
Experimental user interface for AI feedback on system design
ExamLearn
Exam revision platform based on exponential learning decay that I built and sold at age 17
Tome
A transpiled educational programming language with English-like syntax
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Writing
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My life in the great future of consumer surplus
July 14, 2023
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Competition in Machine Learning
May 15, 2022
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Ireland's Unique Promise for Nuclear
April 11, 2022
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Fast Information Flows Result in Homogeneity
January 26, 2022
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Babble Mode in Voice Dictation
January 26, 2022
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Expertise makes people weirder, not more alike
January 07, 2022
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High volume beats almost anything else
December 30, 2021
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Compounding Rewards As An Argument For Moral Virtue
December 26, 2021
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Time perception
August 10, 2021