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Talks

I give numerous talks, but most aren’t recorded. Here is a small collection of slides (and maybe associated blogposts), as well as videos for each. I’m only including ones from 2024 onwards, ignoring the several meetups on node.js, JavaScript, and makers.

2025

Making AI Break Bad - Overcoming Alignment in LLMs

My talk occurs at 24 minutes and 18 seconds

[Video] | [Slides]

DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

[Video] | [Blog post] | [Slides]

arkaine AI for Makers + Person-Scale Problems

[Video] | [Slides]

2024

Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines

[Video] | [Blog post] | [Slides]

[Blog post] | [Slides]

Decision Transformers

[Slides]

Representation Engineering and Control Vectors - Neuroscience for LLMs

[Blog post] | [Slides]