Franz Srambical
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Hi! I'm Franz. I started and scaled p(doom), a Discord-based research community, from zero >200 members. We work on addressing core blockers towards general intelligence that cannot be solved by scaling up compute. We work on everything from kernel-level optimizations to large-scale distributed systems for pre-training and reinforcement learning. A lot of our current work involves finding, investigating and exploiting novel data troves [1] [2], and building open infrastructure/codebases. I am ex-distributed systems software engineer at Celonis, dropped out of uni (Informatics at TUM), minored in Computational Neuroscience (courses at LMU Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences), ex-linux kernel developer, ex-'alignment researcher' in my high school years, ex-RA at Bastian Rieck's lab, ex-'BCI researcher' & founding member at neuroTUM.

I want to create AGI (i.e. design architectures that push the pareto-frontier of intelligent systems).

If any of our research work interests you, check out the p(doom) blog. I also have linkedin, twitter and google scholar.

List of preprints accumulated throughout my education that are not worthy of publication (& thus not on arxiv), but valuable to some nonetheless:

Incomplete list of talks I have given:



PS: no free lunch is a myth