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things I learned at Anthropic
I left Anthropic and joined OpenAI.
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Karina Nguyen
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cultures of writing
It's hard not to notice the pivotal role that strong writing cultures play in enabling innovation
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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…
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the future i want to be in
tiny life update: i am joining Anthropic, AI safety research lab.
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hard truths
being honest, while excruciatingly hard, is necessary for living authentically and without regret.
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how do we set up teams for success?
Personal notes on management
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Karina Nguyen
tailoring taste
Some reflections on building Inter Alia, a visual text-image fashion recommendation search.
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principled AGI progress
A new design mandate for AGI, moral craftsmanship, and inhabiting contradiction.
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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.
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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…
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cyberwarcrime and punishment
sci-fi and reality, war and peace, airborne leaflets and a new paradigm in hybrid warfare.
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virtual reality, emotionally and ethically
VR intensifies a set of debates about art— contagious and bad or imitative and good for society.
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