Llama Loves Pirates — Goodfire's Tom McGrath on teaching math without the pirate style
Machine Learning Street Talk · youtube · 2026-09-11
Machine Learning Street Talk releases a clip from a conversation with Tom McGrath of Goodfire on an interpretability challenge: train a model on math written in pirate-speak and it learns both, but improving the math without picking up the pirate style is tricky. Full conversation on YouTube; technical details in Goodfire's blog post "Intentional Design."
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