Lab notebook · post-training data strategy

Synthetic data ate post-training.
Here’s how to use it.

Pick your data problem. Get the strategy — distilled from Nathan Lambert’s Lecture 7 on post-training.

Fig. 1 — knowledge distillation, then and now: the teacher writes the answers, the student learns to write them alone.

Step 1

What’s your data problem?

Pick the one that hurts most right now.

Step 2

Scale first, then verifiability.

Strategy card