Screening round research chat

Question

Screening round chat with mercor. Mostly is chat about your past experience, but they do take this seriously instead of just a brief introduction. The chat is with a member of technical staff in the company.

1. what is your past research on llm training? 
2. how do you gauge data quality before training? how to determine if a certain dataset is suitable for improving specific capabilities of a llm such as instruction following, math, coding, truthfulness, factuality etc.
3. Do you work as a scientist or engineer, what is your preference? 
4. Walk through one of your technical challenges and talk about how you solve it and what you learned from it.

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