sémaphore

How do we set up teams for success?

Personal notes on management

Jan 13 • 

Karina Nguyen

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May 2024

Is reducing AI hallucinations a capability or a safety feature?

Dichotomy between "AI safety" and "AI capabilities" is counterproductive. The work of aligning AI may not have a definite end.

May 19, 2024 • 

Karina Nguyen

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Things I learned at Anthropic

I left Anthropic and joined OpenAI!

May 16, 2024 • 

Karina Nguyen

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March 2024

The cost of AI reasoning is going to drastically decrease

As time progresses, AI models are achieving higher reasoning accuracy while their associated costs continue to drastically decrease. What does it mean…

Mar 29, 2024 • 

Karina Nguyen

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October 2023

Reflections on building Inter Alia, a new way of taste finding

Inter Alia is a visual text-image fashion recommendation search. The search for perfect fashion pieces is always situational and requires contextual…

Oct 30, 2023 • 

Karina Nguyen

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September 2023

cultures of writing

It's hard not to notice the pivotal role that strong writing cultures play in enabling innovation

Sep 17, 2023 • 

Karina Nguyen

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July 2023

Living your truth grants freedom

being honest, while excruciatingly hard, is necessary for living authentically and without regret.

Jul 17, 2023 • 

Karina Nguyen

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June 2023

A lost study of soviet subway construction

As someone who grew up in a city of Soviet-era subways, I have a nostalgia for the engineering innovations that shaped its unique infrastructure.

Jun 16, 2023 • 

Karina Nguyen

7

May 2023

As much as I shape Claude, it seems to be shaping me too

Principled AGI progress, a new design mandate, and inhabiting contradiction.

May 23, 2023 • 

Karina Nguyen

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October 2022

I am joining Anthropic, AI safety research lab

tiny life update and the future I want to build and live in

Oct 13, 2022 • 

Karina Nguyen

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July 2022

cyberwarcrime and punishment

sci-fi and reality, war and peace, airborne leaflets and a new paradigm in hybrid warfare.

Jul 26, 2022 • 

Karina Nguyen

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March 2022

ukraine is my home

the relationship with my home is like of origami - it shaped me, hurting my fingers and so equally adding new layers to my identity and bringing me true…

Mar 26, 2022 • 

Karina Nguyen

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