David Udell

Karma: 2,859

What is the Iliad Intensive?

Leon Lang, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and David Udell

15 Apr 2026 18:49 UTC

89 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Announcing ILIADIII: AENEID

Eddie Jean, windows, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and David Udell

11 Apr 2026 3:05 UTC

45 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Announcement: Iliad Intensive + Iliad Fellowship

David Udell and Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

20 Feb 2026 20:13 UTC

76 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing: Agent Foundations 2026 at CMU

David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, windows and Matthias Dellago

5 Dec 2025 18:37 UTC

60 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(Not) Explaining GPT-2-Small Forward Passes with Edge-Level Autoencoder Circuits

David Udell, hrdkbhatnagar and JacksonKaunismaa

22 Jul 2025 20:36 UTC

23 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Why Can’t We Hypothesize After the Fact?

David Udell26 Feb 2025 22:41 UTC

40 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Causal Graphs of GPT-2-Small’s Residual Stream

David Udell9 Jul 2024 22:06 UTC

53 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Sparse Coding, for Mechanistic Interpretability and Activation Engineering

David Udell23 Sep 2023 19:16 UTC

42 points

7 comments34 min readLW link

ActAdd: Steering Language Models without Optimization

technicalities, TurnTrout, lisathiergart, David Udell, Ulisse Mini and Monte M

6 Sep 2023 17:21 UTC

105 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector

TurnTrout, Monte M, David Udell, lisathiergart and Ulisse Mini

13 May 2023 18:42 UTC

441 points

98 comments50 min readLW link 1 review

Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network

TurnTrout, peligrietzer, Ulisse Mini, Monte M and David Udell

11 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC

335 points

28 comments23 min readLW link

Beneath My Epistemic Dignity

David Udell28 Feb 2023 4:02 UTC

6 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Jaynes

David Udell16 Feb 2023 21:57 UTC

29 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Rounding Someone Off

David Udell24 Jan 2023 0:03 UTC

25 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Consequentialists: One-Way Pattern Traps

David Udell16 Jan 2023 20:48 UTC

59 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Linear Algebra Done Right, Axler

David Udell2 Jan 2023 22:54 UTC

58 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Naive Set Theory, Halmos

David Udell22 Dec 2022 2:34 UTC

11 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Moorean Statements

David Udell22 Oct 2022 0:50 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Dath Ilan’s Views on Stopgap Corrigibility

David Udell22 Sep 2022 16:16 UTC

87 points

19 comments13 min readLW link

(www.glowfic.com)

Guidelines for Mad Entrepreneurs

David Udell16 Sep 2022 6:33 UTC

32 points

0 comments11 min readLW link