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.
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
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
“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…
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 🥲
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