Thorne Wolfenbarger

I LoRA fine-tuned then RL'd Gemma 1B to play the game Takeover in a multi-stage training process.

I left Google one year ago as part of a voluntary layoff package.

In your job, you are either delivering your core work product or you are doing administrative meta-work that makes the final delivery easier.

I live in a world that is wholly in my mind and anyone can visit if they bring a song to accompany them.

I took a voluntary layoff from Google ~200 days ago.

Suppose we have reached endgame capitalism.

The opposite of freedom is oppression.

Yesterday I read Code and Let Live, an article covering fly.io's new(ish) Sprites offering.

"I have a database whose schema doesn't match my SQLModel models.

I keep a Google Doc titled "Notes".

If you are reading this, you are considering building a brand new road!

RL for LLMs is going to be a relevant and durable process for AI development so long as we don't have AGI.

Here I am – standing in the same place as yesterday.

Previous I'm writing this post in an 84º AirBnB in Los Angeles.

After four years, I've left Google.