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modeling language @microsoftai
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    finbarr
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    May 15, 2024
    I’ve been spending time advising friends on companies they’re starting. I really like doing this! If you are starting a company, or thinking about it, please reach out if you want to chat.
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    finbarr
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    Sep 19, 2025
    Google will finally get a Vancouver office
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    Kalshi
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    Sep 19, 2025
    JUST IN: Trump to impose $100,000 fee on H-1B visas
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    finbarr
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    Jan 7, 2025
    Python is cursed
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    TimDarcet
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    Jan 7, 2025
    Thanks python, very helpful
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    finbarr
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    May 12, 2023
    I love installing CUDA drivers the best part of doing ML research is installing CUDA drivers spending my entire day installing CUDA drivers leaves me feeling fulfilled
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    finbarr
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    May 20, 2025
    People who don’t/haven’t worked at Google fail to understand the insane amount of resources they have. They have the talent + compute to compete in every ai market if they want to. Product polish is their only weakness
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    finbarr
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    Oct 4, 2025
    my goal in life is to join Anthropic, delete all try/except clauses from Claude’s training data, and then quit.
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    finbarr
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    Feb 4, 2025
    possibly the dumbest corporate move I’ve ever seen
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    finbarr
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    Apr 15, 2025
    The fact that AI margins are much worse than software margins hasn’t been internalized by most companies
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    finbarr
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    Apr 23, 2024
    as someone with a math degree this is utterly incomprehensible I had a single class- real analysis- in second year that I spent ~30 hours a week on
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    Matthew Yglesias
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    Apr 23, 2024
    “Full time” college students spend less than three hours per day in class or doing homework. A downstream consequence of the marketization of higher education — the customers are getting what they want and what they want is easy classes. slowboring.com/p/college-stud…
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    finbarr
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    Jun 20, 2025
    still can’t believe DeepMind was acquired for $400M
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    finbarr
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    May 27, 2025
    excited to announce that I’ve joined the Allen institute, where I’ll be working on RL for LLMs.
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    finbarr
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    Oct 27, 2024
    I have parallel implementations of various llms in torch and jax, and I wrote tests to make them match they passed on the first try which was, uh, sus so I printed the tensors 🥲
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    finbarr
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    Oct 31, 2023
    it is a religious/cultural practice for my people to have 10^30 flops
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    finbarr
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    Apr 10, 2025
    I feel like Google’s TPU marketing strategy is to have a legion of ex-deepminders go out and join ai startups only to be extremely disappointed by the state of large scale GPU cluster tooling
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