David Johnston

Oct 25, 2024 | banburyguardian.co.uk | David Johnston

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowAs the nights draw in and the clocks go back… a stunning new performance of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers is also showcasing two of England’s brightest new tenor talents in Bloxham - as the sun sets. As choral peaks go - The ‘All Night Vigil’ is the K2 of choral singing. It is notoriously tough on choirs with a wide range, fulsome dynamics, and some technical challenges you simply never hear often.

Oct 20, 2024 | lesswrong.com | David Johnston

We think things are good and bad because we engage in motivated reasoning about them. I don't know this to be true, but I think it could be. We believe many things because we are somewhat rational; we consider hypotheses, compare them with observed evidence, and emphasise those that are more compatible. Goodness and badness defy this practice; normal reasoning does not produce hypotheses of the form "if X is morally good then I will observe Y".

Aug 6, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Nora Belrose |David Johnston

Over the last few months, the EleutherAI interpretability team pioneered novel, mechanistic methods for detecting anomalous behavior in language models based on Neel Nanda's attribution patching technique. Unfortunately, none of these methods consistently outperform non-mechanistic baselines which look only at activations. We find that we achieve better anomaly detection performance with methods that evaluate entire batches of test data, rather than considering test points one at a time.

Mar 7, 2024 | banburyguardian.co.uk | David Johnston

I'm guessin' neither Beth nor Rip actually do much singing, but you can. Ever wanted to sing some Whitacre or Lauridsen classics? How about Smiley's take on Ledbelly's 'Bring me l'il water'? With 24's celebration of America's sumptuous choral tradition this summer - this is your chance. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowThe old saying: 'as easy as falling off a log', probably doesn't apply.