Timeline
Timeline
Everything in one thread, newest first: the work, the writing and the milestones in between.
Project
ARENA curriculum
Working through the Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator curriculum from scratch, covering deep learning, transformers, mechanistic interpretability, reinforcement learning and evaluations. Progress is public, exercise by exercise.
Project
EnergyLab Ignite
An eight-week climate tech accelerator run by EnergyLab, with twenty places, funded by the NSW Government and taking no equity. I joined as the youngest participant they have ever accepted.
Milestone
Top 25% of 179 projects
Results from Apart Research's Secret Loyalties hackathon came back three weeks after the sprint, with reviewer feedback.
Project
Apart Research Secret Loyalties Hackathon
A 48-hour research sprint on whether a hidden loyalty planted in a model can be detected from the outside. Loyalties were installed by system prompt and by LoRA weight distillation, then probed at increasing levels of access. Placed in the top 25% of 179 projects, against graduate researchers, industry ML engineers and software engineers.
Project
DocQAGroundingEval
An open-source harness measuring whether five OpenAI and Anthropic models rely on the document in front of them or on their own parametric knowledge, when the source is perturbed or the answer simply isn't there. Built on Australian regulatory documents.
Writing
A Case Study in the Limits of Takeoff Automation
A documented attempt at building a full automation for traditional construction takeoff. A worthwhile read for operators in the construction industry, vertical AI founders and ML researchers.
Project
MMC industry database
Built a database of over 1700 modern methods of construction (MMC) companies from Australia and New Zealand to map the national MMC supply chain.
Project
QuoteReady
An offline-capable SaaS that helps electricians and plumbers quote faster with AI, alongside other job-management features. Launched at quoteready.com.au and sold pre-revenue.
Milestone
Finished the VCE a year early
Received my Victorian Certificate of Education a year ahead of my cohort, through the Select Entry Accelerated Learning program. Everything above this line happened in the year it freed up.