Dean P. Foster's home page
dean@foster.net
LLMs:
We want to make LLMs into
excellent tutors
.
A game theory / evolutionary look at
Alignment
.
A
TCS / statistical look at LLMs
.
Mortality:
Over the years, I have worked on several mortality calculators:
Classic first version
Mortality
The newest one works for people over 50. It will tell you your optimal
weight
.
A
phone friendly
version.
Photos:
Old photos
(old photos on
facebook
).
My Dad shot a movie about India called
The future for Ram
, (
youtube
).
My grandfather built a lake (
map
) in upstate NY (
youtube
,
mushrooms
,
bubbles
).
Talks:
LLM:
Alignment
,
TCS
.
NYC Ops day (RL for supply chain)
.
Calibration:
Simons
,
Calibeating
,
AMLC
.
CMU talks:
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
, and
5
.
Older talks:
Falsifiability
,
calibration
(
handout
),
linear
(
shorter
).
Teaching
: Old teaching materials are still
on line
.
Rants:
Some 20 year old
rants and raves
.
Refereeing
: I'm a supporter of open access of science to everyone. Hence I will only referee for
journals
that are
open access
(
OASPA
).
Research:
vita
,
arXiv
,
scholar
,
obsolete research page
,
covid work
.
quote
"When enough people share a delusion, it loses its status as a psychosis and gets a religious tax exemption instead." Ronald DeSousa
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