Clark Urzo
Clark Urzo is the Strategic Director of WhiteBox Research, the first AI interpretability lab in the Philippines. Previously, he participated in the virtual workshops of the Stanford ML Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) program under John Wentworth and was also a facilitator in BlueDot Impact’s AGI Safety Fundamentals course. In a past life he was the co-founder of Veer, one of the first virtual reality startups in Manila.
Clark Urzo also won a grant from Pioneer.app in 2018, a selective program in Silicon Valley run by Daniel Gross and funded by Stripe and Marc Andreessen. In his spare time, he collects weird films and used clothes and spends his evenings playing 90s-era survival horror games.
Session
Most programmers think notebooks are about combining code with text and graphics. But that's like saying programming is about combining symbols with semicolons. The real power of notebooks - like their ancestor, the REPL - lies in enabling a particular kind of conversation with our data. When we understand this, we can use notebooks not just as a place to write code, but as a tool for developing the kind of clear thinking that leads to better research. This talk explores what that means, and why it matters.