aw.Avery Wright
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avery wright

AI engineer

FootPalm

Opponent-adjusted college football ratings: how many points a team would beat an average FBS team by on a neutral field. I’m competing in a college football model pick ’em competition.

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Primes

I’m interested in primes and their distribution.

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Pawnstorm

I have a theory that with enough compute, pure policy neural networks can beat SOTA chess engines. I work on building quality datasets, pretraining on Stockfish soft targets, and methods of RL.

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LLMs

Finetune LLMs, optimize local inference, explore RL methods, and experiment with new models and harnesses.

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A personal field guide
Avery
Wright

AI engineer.

Chapter one

About me

I love training deep neural networks. I’m a math grad from UGA with a passion for all things AI.

In my free time, I optimize local inference, work on my transformer-based, search-free chess engine, compete in data science challenges, and fine-tune small LLMs.