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8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“I'm gonna fork your long running autonomous research project and take it in a little bit different direction on my own. So I think that's pretty cool because honestly, like, I kinda need that to probably get oriented.”
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- 8 Aug 2026
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…There's also sort of a well, actually, let's just do some use cases. So there've been I had an agent go out and do some research on examples of projects that people have shared that they've done. And one of the cool things that this also kinda gets to a sort of community public benefit angle is that, of course, you don't have to, but you can share your projects. Then there's the kind of familiar UI, but again, like at the highest level of of abstraction I think I've seen where you could just go like, okay. I'm gonna fork your long running autonomous research project and take it in a little bit different direction on my own. So I think that's pretty cool because honestly, like, I kinda need that to probably get oriented. I I'm the kinda person who has some ideas, but even with Asilico, I'd probably benefit quite a bit from seeing how other people have worked through their ideas to a a conclusion. But let's just talk about some some use cases. I found a bunch. What were the the favorite use cases that you have either done internally or seen from customers that you can talk about? Yeah.…
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