korrents

Our readingWhat is a korrent?

An idea can look obvious in hindsight only because the insight that makes it obvious was itself the hard discovery.

Drawn from what Christopher Olah said

What these subjects mean

innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

ideas vs execution Whether the idea or the execution behind it is what actually decides an outcome, and who deserves the credit.

What Christopher Olah actually said

  1. Christopher Olah Interpretability researcher at Anthropic
    It also wasn't obvious that derivatives were the right way to train them. Those are only obvious once you realize you can quickly calculate derivatives. There was a circular dependency.

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