# David McClure
Hi! I'm a researcher and engineer interested in large-scale pretraining, interpretability + controllability, and data viz.
Work → Research @ Midjourney
Projects → Midjourney v8 base model, Midjourney --sref, Midjourney aesthetics + personalization, Open Syllabus Galaxy, Open Syllabus Explorer, Open Syllabus ML Pipeline
Previously → CTO @ Open Syllabus, technical director @ Stanford Literary Lab, MIT, Yale
Work in the press → NYT, WaPo, Fast Company, Financial Times, Chronicle of Higher Ed, Open Culture, EdSurge, Nature, WGBH, WNYC, FiveThirtyEight, Lifehacker, Time, Business Insider, Der Spiegel
Links → Email, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Open Syllabus Galaxy: citation graph → node2vec → UMAP → regl.
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Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky.