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About Rashaad

What shaped how I think

The people and papers that inspired me.

  1. Prashant Kishor's lens on data · Founder, IPAC. Came across him a few months back. Opened my eyes to what data can actually do, far beyond the dashboards.
  2. Rahul Patil · CTO, Anthropic. Whenever scaling problems hit, his name comes up. Built a reputation around being the person who solves them.
  3. Attention Is All You Need · Vaswani et al. Eight pages that ate the world. Every time I read it, there's something new to learn.
  4. A Small Number of Samples Can Poison LLMs · Anthropic & Alan Turing Institute. Made me realise how brittle LLM safety actually is: a few hundred poisoned samples is all it takes.