PhD defence slides visualize a PhD as 30,635 Slack messages across projects
aryaman2020 · x · 2026-10-17
Interpretability researcher Aryaman shared his PhD defence slides, vowing to keep working on useful interp. Highlights: a river chart built from 30,635 Slack messages, 12 research projects and 23 collaborators tracing his 2023–2026 PhD ("40% of my PhD was talking to Zen"), plus an acknowledgements page crediting every bubble-tea shop and an Erdős-style quote about turning Molly Tea into hyperparam sweeps.
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