Phin Barnes
@phineasb
@theGP, founder @dormroomfund, Alumni @firstround. Partner to @notionHQ, @clay_GTM, @thatch_ai, @TurbineOneTech, @AvenCard
Joined March 2008
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For most companies "up and to the right" is winning - but for @industriaalist and Q-Labs - the winning curves look like this.
We've figured out how to *pretrain transformers* with zeroth-order optimization and no backprop.
Many of the core assumptions in optimization research are completely wrong.
(paper out soon)
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