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Ben Gubler

  • Student at BYU w/ a dual major in ACME (Applied and Computational Mathematics) and Arabic
  • Currently interning at Vercel
  • Previously conducted research on AI alignment + mech. interp. at BYU's Perception, Control, and Cognition Lab

Projects - AI

  • tokka - Toolkit for training BPE tokenizers on custom data splits (tokenizers, datasets, mosaicml-streaming)
  • tokka-bench - Benchmark and compare tokenizers across many languages (tokenizers, streamlit)
  • hf_to_mds - Convert HuggingFace datasets to MosaicML Streaming format (MDS) for efficient cloud-based training (datasets, mosaicml-streaming)
  • gom - CLI tool to monitor GPU usage across Docker processes (pynvml)
  • mokka (WIP) - Toolkit for creating SLMs easily, targeted towards researchers (PyTorch, OmegaConf, WandB)
  • shade (WIP) - PyTorch-like computation library for TS/JS using WebGPU (Deno, WGSL)

Projects - Other

  • Eta - Fast embedded JS template engine. Widely used with 1.5K+ GitHub stars and ~1M weekly downloads. (TypeScript, microbundle, Jest, GitHub Actions)
  • TinyLingo - Language learning app for improving comprehension. Listen to authentic native podcasts with AI-generated transcriptions and translations. (Next.js 15, Convex, Clerk, shadcn/ui, OpenRouter)
  • bengubler.com - My personal website and blog where I write about AI, distributed training, and language learning. (Next.js 15, Tailwind, MDX)
  • nix-macos-starter - Starter Nix config for macOS (nix-darwin, home-manager, homebrew, mise)
  • Decline App - PWA for practicing Czech, Slovak, and Russian declension patterns. (Next.js, Tailwind, PWA)
  • npm-to-yarn - Converts between npm/Yarn/pnpm/bun CLI commands. (TypeScript, Jest)
  • Open source contributions - Various TypeScript and web development projects on GitHub.

You can find more of my work at bengubler.com, where I post projects and write about AI, distributed training, and language learning.

Interests

  • Languages - Fluent in English and Czech; conversational in Slovak; learning Russian and Arabic; have also studied Esperanto, toki pona, and Spanish
  • Machine Learning - Large language models, AI alignment, mechanistic interpretability, distributed training
  • Web Development - TypeScript, React ecosystem, performance optimization, developer tooling
  • Outdoor Activities - Spelunking, rock climbing, backpacking, pickleball
  • Literature - Classic literature, poetry, fantasy, sci-fi

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  1. eta-dev/eta eta-dev/eta Public

    Embedded JS template engine for Node, Deno, and the browser. Lighweight, fast, and pluggable. Written in TypeScript

    TypeScript 1.6k 70

  2. eta-dev/eta-docs eta-dev/eta-docs Public

    Documentation website for the Eta template engine

    JavaScript 8 19

  3. bengubler.com bengubler.com Public

    My personal website, built with Next.js 14

    TypeScript 4 5

  4. npm-to-yarn npm-to-yarn Public

    Convert npm CLI commands to yarn, and vice versa

    TypeScript 36 12

  5. declension-practice declension-practice Public

    Quiz app to practice Russian, Czech, and Slovak declensions

    TypeScript 1

  6. llm_trainer llm_trainer Public

    Comprehensible scripts to instruction-tune a LLaMA model

    Python 2