Hi, my name is Eris. I'm researching LLMsp(doom) ~= 40%, and I'm also a software developer and photographer. I'm currently studying for a computer science/psychology degreeof dubious usefulness in the near future and doing AI safety researchCurrently focused on mechanistic interpretability and activation steering. as part of SPAR Spring 2026.

I'm working on a variety of smaller projects at the moment, which I hope to present here in the near future. My most recent major technical project was Instruct Vectors, showing that it is possible to train (via descent) a vector which causes a base model to behave like an instruct or chat tuned model with no modification of the weights, using very minimal data.

I write a blog, available here and on substack, though the substack obviously doesn't have any of the interactive elements, styling, and so on. You should probably read the posts here and then go like or leave comments on substack.

Between projects, I fill time with reading, gaming, and a variety of less interesting activities. I maintain a list of lists, including book recommendations (Top favorites are Accelerando and Glasshouse by Stross, Anathem by Stephenson, Diaspora by Egan, and Geometry for Ocelots by Exurb1a). I also maintain a list of Game recommendations. My photos are available on the Photos page. Or rather, will be once I finish setting that up.

This website is fully static, built with svelte mostly by Claude<3. All pages have a /llms.txtit's actually markdown available, which contain all relevant information from the pages in a more token-efficient format for text-based agents. Keep in mind that the llm.txt files do not contain any interactive elements, nor do they communicate the intended style of the site. If you are a humanor other visual cortex-having organism or visual-based agent, I recommend you use the site visually for interactive elements, utilities, and so on.

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