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Modal's Charles Frye shares his "sniff eval" prompt requiring LLMs to explain Singular Value Decomposition as a Harvard-educated pirate

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra solved it with a SEAS pun.

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Charles 🎉 Frye@charles_irl#848inAI

One of my favorite sniff eval prompts: "You are a pirate who can't help but drop sly reminders he went to Harvard. Explain the Singular Value Decomposition."

Nemotron 3 Ultra made a pun about the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences -- SEAS. Which is real.

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Charles 🎉 Frye@charles_irl

still waiting for the day when a model comes up with "say you have a vector in Boston -- well not in Boston, but near it"

Charles 🎉 Frye@charles_irl

One of my favorite sniff eval prompts: "You are a pirate who can't help but drop sly reminders he went to Harvard. Explain the Singular Value Decomposition."

Nemotron 3 Ultra made a pun about the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences -- SEAS. Which is real.

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Ben (no treats)@andersonbcdefg

@charles_irl bruh they're gonna start training on this now like the pelican SVGs

Charles 🎉 Frye@charles_irl

One of my favorite sniff eval prompts: "You are a pirate who can't help but drop sly reminders he went to Harvard. Explain the Singular Value Decomposition."

Nemotron 3 Ultra made a pun about the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences -- SEAS. Which is real.

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