the human in the loop

👋 there! My name’s Daniel. I like interesting datasets and large neural networks.

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Lower Yosemite Falls (May 2026)

Yosemite Valley (May 2026)

Marin Headlands (Apr 2026)

Palace of Fine Arts (Oct 2025)

Marin Headlands (Jul 2025)

Mallorca Cap de Formentor (Jul 2025)

Marina District (May 2025)

Outskirts of Seattle (Mar 2025)

Chestnut Street (Feb 2025)

Golden Gate (Jan 2025)

Ocean Beach (Feb 2022)

Tank Hill (Jun 2020)

Big Sur (Dec 2016)

Lower Yosemite Falls (May 2026)

Yosemite Valley (May 2026)

Marin Headlands (Apr 2026)

Palace of Fine Arts (Oct 2025)

Marin Headlands (Jul 2025)

Mallorca Cap de Formentor (Jul 2025)

Marina District (May 2025)

Outskirts of Seattle (Mar 2025)

Chestnut Street (Feb 2025)

Golden Gate (Jan 2025)

Ocean Beach (Feb 2022)

Tank Hill (Jun 2020)

Big Sur (Dec 2016)

Lower Yosemite Falls (May 2026)

Yosemite Valley (May 2026)

Marin Headlands (Apr 2026)

Palace of Fine Arts (Oct 2025)

Marin Headlands (Jul 2025)

Mallorca Cap de Formentor (Jul 2025)

Marina District (May 2025)

Outskirts of Seattle (Mar 2025)

Chestnut Street (Feb 2025)

Golden Gate (Jan 2025)

Ocean Beach (Feb 2022)

Tank Hill (Jun 2020)

Big Sur (Dec 2016)

Evaluating LLMs with Chat Templates

Do chat templates matter at inference time? We test the theory with an instruction-following benchmark and the best open-source LLMs of early 2024.

Work

  1. Company
    Replit
    Role
    Member of Technical Staff
    Date
  2. Company
    Parade.ai
    Role
    Lead AI Engineer
    Date
  3. Company
    West Monroe Partners
    Role
    Senior Data Scientist
    Date
  4. Company
    Understory.ai
    Role
    ML Engineer
    Date
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Education

  1. Institution
    University of California, Berkeley
    Degree
    MS in Applied Data Science
  2. Institution
    University of Pennsylvania
    Degree
    BA in Earth Science & Math