We have a new paper on topic models!
We introduce Mechanistic Topic Models (MTMs). MTMs model SAE feature counts rather than words or plain embeddings, combining the benefits of LLM-based and probabilistic topic models.
Paper (published in TACL) : arxiv.org/abs/2507.23220
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In two weeks the eng team at Finch is transforming our office into a speakeasy with great drinks, wonderful company, and a little Gatsby-esque glamour.
We are always looking to meet and talk to talented folks, so bring your engineering friends along! Help us find our next Daisy!
(RSVP link in comments)
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If the Chinese Communist Party really hired McKinsey to destroy us we have legitimately never been safer
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Housing is a centuries-old technology and should be basically free by now, just like food/water/electricity. It's pure insanity that we've made it a scarce unproductive fake "investment" asset and allowed it to take up an insane amount of people's budgets
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The Mexican government has released pictures of what happens to a human after 2 years of playing a popular game “league of legends”.
It's not looking good.
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The last thing Paradigm backed before removing all mentions of web3 from their website
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Its impossible to write comedies with this good of a script
SBF pitches the sequoia partnership
Vision? "Buy a banana with fake internet money"
Blows the partnership away. Wow.
During the partner meeting ? PLAY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
This is god-tier comedy
It’s hard to write a joke right now because it’s impossible to write something funnier than what’s actually happening
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🏆 @DRXGLOBAL ARE THE 2022 WORLD CHAMPIONS #WORLDS2022 🏆
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It is hard to adequately describe how much of the financial system is implicitly designed to maximize the job security of pension fund allocators
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Likely next Italian PM, Giorgia Meloni of the nationalist FdI, is known for posting anime fan-art of herself
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Two brothers who faked 10+ separate devs identities accounted for ~70% of Solana's $10.5b TVL at its peak.
“I devised a scheme to maximize Solana’s TVL: I would build protocols that stack on top of each other, such that a dollar could be counted several times"
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Zeitgeist season three. If you're building a new crypto-native product/protocol, get in touch by August 26 to participate.
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