What should I do this summer?
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Am a college student at MIT in Math and CS. Planning for what I'll do next summer, give suggestions! (Might increase bounty). Website: https://uzpg.me

Background info:

  • into ML/AI stuff, did research on theory of deep learning and scaling

  • for a long time I've been into building software to help people learn and come up with ideas, and last summer I worked at dust.tt on LLM interfaces. I think I want to pursue more research style thinking next summer, but I'm open to stuff.

  • enjoy mathy stuff a lot right now

  • Other interests: functional programming, cybersecurity, lit/philosophy, physics

  • see website ^

Considering:

  • working at a research lab at MIT or some other university (this shouldn't be too hard?)

  • applying to some AI labs for research internships

  • playing around with product ideas and doing a startup surrounding some cyborg/AI enhanced learning stuff with a friend

  • more mathy, physics or theory of CS research if I find good mentorship

  • vibes, learn shit and go around a bit

Appreciate the help! If people have good takes Ill up the bounty, last time I just started too high.

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I had the idea for this experiment last month, and a friend who's a CS grad student came up with the method that's further down the comment chain, but I don't have the time to do it myself. If the experiment is successful, it could provide very useful information about the scalability of approximate-linearity-dependent alignment techniques.

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