{"id":209745,"date":"2025-03-26T01:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/david-bai"},"modified":"2025-03-26T01:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:13:52","slug":"david-bai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/david-bai","title":{"rendered":"David Bai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/david-bai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago, I participated in the Mercor x Etched x Cognition Hackathon. The theme of the hackathon was \u201cinference-time compute\u201d\u2014 and this is what I worked on for 24 hours, with some added rigor, visualizations, and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the original work <a href=\"https:\/\/optimal-test-time.vercel.app\/papers\/accuracy-efficiency-tradeoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and the code <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Blkalkin\/Optimal-TestTime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here <\/a>\u2014 my contribution is the hallucinations section for both.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/allison-lim-9732021b4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allison Lim<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaykr.dev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vijay Kumaravelrajan<\/a> (alphabetical order) for helping me edit this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I participated in the Mercor x Etched x Cognition Hackathon. The theme of the hackathon was \u201cinference-time compute\u201d\u2014 and this is what I worked on for 24 hours, with some added rigor, visualizations, and analysis. You can view the original work here and the code here \u2014 my contribution is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}