A product of time and motion. prev: Founding engineer @aptoslabs, @Meta, @Cruise. Opinions are my own.

San Franscisco
Joined April 2020
"Everything you want is on the other side of fear"
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something tells me we won't be making it
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The mog is real
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Temu is the Russian roulette of shopping
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why is it so difficult to get c&c domain takedown reports filed, let alone actioned
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an idiot in motion goes further than a genius at rest
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pristine theatrics
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My fable just called my codex “patches the clown” after reviewing its work 🤣
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Instead of saying “sorry I dropped the cake”, say “the cake has found a position of lowest entropy”
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We’ve been living as nomads in LA for a year and a half and GFN has been solid
you’ll get mad at me for saying this…but cloud gaming is so obviously more economically efficient than physical hardware I think it’s going to be the default soon. your home console / pc is idle 90%+ of the day. meanwhile, data centers targets what, 5%, maybe at worst 10% idle. every second a cloud gamer isn’t gaming, that hardware is being used for someone else, training, etc. I think there should be a new measurement, something like cost-per effective FLOP hour that takes into account the TCO + effective utilization. If a gamer spends $500 on a GPU, uses it for 3 years, but it’s only fully active ~5% of that period…the cost-per relative FLOP hour is crazy high! Meanwhile, a $50,000 datacenter GPU might have a *LOWER* cost-per FLOP hour just because the effective utilization is 90+%.
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If only they had AC
NEW: 🇩🇪 All tram service suspended in Leipzig, Germany due to the high temperatures, thei rails are melting.
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Tram services in Leipzig were suspended due to heat-liquefied joint sealant between tracks and tarmac, not melting rails. l-iz.de/en/politics/ne… dw.com/en/germany-new…
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I think AMD is heavily underpriced
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Fascinating bet. I’d bet Leo wins for a few months but Citrini wins overall
Replying to @LeoAdberg
I am down to play. I’ll pay realized SDH100RT index performance and receive compounded SOFR, with monthly resets/net settlement, on $1mm notional.
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Interesting. (Founder of Z.ai, creator of GLM AI models.)
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Focusing on the software factory underpinning our wide product suite has paid massive dividends. 3B tokens, easily, per day of solidly architected, tested, verified features. Feel like I've completely changed how I write software every 6 months for two years now. Wow.
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Our new paper lead by @vedanglad w/@AToliasLab "Letting the neural code speak..." arxiv.org/abs/2605.12485 We show how to get *monkey* visual neurons to TELL us in *human* language what images make them fire. We do this is an automated verifiable way at scale! How? 1) Build a digital twin of monkey visual areas that can accurately map visual inputs to neural activity. 2) Perform in-silico experiments on this twin to find many complex images that make a model neuron fire. 3) Use a vision-language model to describe these complex images. 4) Verification: use a language-conditioned diffusion model to generate new images, and check they make the monkey digital twin neurons fire a lot. To our knowledge, for the first time, we have a way to convert monkey vision to human language, and from *human* language to sample infinitely many images that make any given *monkey* visual neuron fire, all in an algorithmic fashion. For more exciting details, see @vedanglad's excellent thread!
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Introducing the Fusion API, the smartest compound model in the market. Fusion achieves Fable-level intelligence at half the price. How it works 👇
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Replying to @ClaudeDevs
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