founding team @runrehearsals; prev @dartmouth, @dbrxmosaicai; acquired founder; recovering poker grinder

williamsburg
Joined March 2022
The world's hardest job is the Wikipedia editor who decides which disease pages have pictures of symptoms
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Daniel Katz 🇺🇸 retweeted
Should we do a blog on our internal eval infra 🤔
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Excited to share this! I’ve been focussing on improving our AI twins the past few months, and good evaluation is the foundation of that work.
Announcing our partnership with @GoogleDeepMind and @kaggle to build Human Behavior Bench This is the first open and transparent benchmark of general human behavior to help determine accuracy of simulations and digital twins
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Reach out if you’re excited by the prospect of high-fidelity, interpretable simulation and want to chat. I believe this technology will be foundational for everything from forecasting to making ever-more realistic RL environments.
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Daniel Katz 🇺🇸 retweeted
Can frontier models actually predict how real people behave? 🕺 Today, in collaboration with @RunRehearsals, we are launching Human Behavior Bench, the first public benchmark that tests whether AI can understand human preference and everyday decision-making. AI models have gotten increasingly good at coding, but knowing for whom to build is the next frontier of challenges for AI models to capture. Human Behavior Bench evaluates models on predicting real human behavior across health, entertainment, recreation, values, and consumption. To build this baseline, we gathered ground truth data directly from real people and evaluated models across a wide range of everyday scenarios: • Ground truth baseline: 1,244 US adults surveyed (June-Sept 2026) • Some cohorts are traditional demographic indicators such as age, income, and location • Other filters are behavioral e.g. GLP-1 patients and recent car buyers • 750 cases total (149 public / 601 private) across finance, health, recreation, values, and consumption • Scored using 1-TVD (total variation distance) Base models still have a significant gap to close to accurately predict human behavior by cohort. LLMs’ predictions tend to converge towards the mean, while the true distribution of human preferences vary greatly. Against a human noise ceiling of ~93, the current leaderboard scores are: Rehearsals’ Engram 1.0 (AI Twins) tops the leaderboard at 94.1%, followed by Gemini 4 Argon at 80.6% Claude Opus 5 at 80.2%, GPT-5.6 Sol at 79.5%.
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is there evidence of models being rl env aware and modifying their behavior so their weights don’t get updated in a particular direction? prob the most direct impact of eval awareness
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is there evidence of models being rl env aware and modifying their behavior so their weights don’t get updated in a particular direction? prob the most direct impact of eval awareness
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Daniel Katz 🇺🇸 retweeted
We introduce Maple-Preview, an open-source 20B-A1B ternary-weight reasoning LLM, SOTA in its weight class. It solves IMO-level problems and runs at 200+ tokens/s on a Mac Mini M4, 5–16× faster than efficient models like Gemma 4, Qwen3.5, and gpt-oss. deepgrove.ai/maple-preview
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Daniel Katz 🇺🇸 retweeted
We’re introducing imagination models: a new foundation model architecture that unlocks learning from internet-scale video. Our first imagination model, Photon-1, learned to use a computer by watching 18 years of screen recording video without action labels.
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Fable makes vibe coding finally fun
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“Uzum, the Uzbekistani super app” “Oh yea, Ouuuu-zoooom”
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deposition loading screen tips
Here's YC's official advice about being truthful and precise about what is pilot, bookings, revenue and recurring revenue. Founders, particularly first time founders, need to sear this into their brains. Don't mistake one tier for another. Be precise, and always be truthful.
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anyone want to come see Tristan und Isolde at the met?
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Jonatan (2025) and McGolrick park my chud Brooklyn summer
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underrated workflow: push a pr then after bugbot returns, use @cursor from a gh comment to fix the issues because it’s been half an hour already and you’re getting dinner
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the most Williamsburg thing about me is that I listen to big thief
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My New Year’s resolution is to stop engaging in surrogate activities
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you lie to yourself when you think your past feelings and concerns weren’t as full-featured as your current ones
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if simulations and soju shots sound good to you, link below 🤔
If you wan't to live in NYC, receive custom crocs, and have fun while working hard... @liambolling is hiring a founding engineer and a head of growth at @RunRehearsals (SR004) - see him tapping into cosmic intelligence below. apply in ⚡️ Rehearsals Careers: runrehearsals.com/jobs Work at another @speedrun startup: bit.ly/isthataflyswatter
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