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I build AI supercomputers @google. Amateur circuit maker (and breaker); sometimes skiier. Opinions are my own.
Seattle, WA, USA
Joined April 2008
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Jon Olson retweeted
As working with AI agents looks more like management, we may want to consider large-scale management training for the AI era. The US government actually did this once, & the WW2 Engineering, Science, and Management War Training program was a large reason for the post-war boom.
We're going to need Mickens to give us an update to The Night Watch. We're going from
I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS.
to
I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE MY TOOLS HAVE DESTROYED THEIR TOOLS WITH THEIR TOOLS.
No comment on how much closer things brings us to "RIVERS OF BLOOD ALL DAY EVERY DAY."
Jon Olson retweeted
Introducing ATLAS: New scaling laws for massively multilingual language models. We offer practical, data-driven guidance to balance data mix and model size, helping global developers better serve billions of non-English speakers. Learn more: goo.gle/49WYLL0
ALT This heatmap shows the cross-lingual transfer matrix, quantifying language-to-language synergies and inference. Red indicates that a language helps and blue indicates it hurts. Boxes highlight each target language’s top-5 helpers. Languages that share the same writing system (e.g., Latin script) are notably more synergistic.
Jon Olson retweeted
You know things are bad when the most boring person doing the most boring job for decades has to come out and say, “Stop trying to arrest us for doing math”
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevent…
What have I been up to lately?
Oh, nothing, just working with an amazing team of people across @googlecloud and @nvidia to combine the best of both into this beautiful beast.
I can't wait for you all to meet!
We’ve been working closely with @nvidia to sustainably build compute infrastructure of the future. Check out a sneak peek of our custom GB200 NVL racks running in our labs.
Register for the App Dev & Infrastructure #GoogleCloudSummit to learn more → goo.gle/4f2rleU
ALT A photo of a server stack.
If I don't spend 80% of my time ordering Jam when I'm in Quebec next week, @duolingo and I are gonna have some fucking words.
Owl, you better come correct.
Henceforth there shall be no SQ (Submission Queue) and CQ (Completion Queue), nor shall there be an Avail Ring and Used Ring.
Now there shall be only the Fuck Around Queue (FAQ) and the Find Out Queue (FOQ).
Peak 2023: Using one phone without a headphone jack in flashlight mode to figure out if another phone has a headphone jack so you can play some fucking music at the bar.
It didn't.
#Whamageddon to be fair, this is sorta my fault, as I put the idea I to the DJ's head.
What I think you heard was "send a lot of the patches upstream," but what I said was "send ALL of the patches upstream."
A universe of possibilities, and the most powerful machine intelligences we've built do nothing but think about the next thing they want to say...
A Chrome crash ate my long rant of a Hacker News comment just before I was about to post.
Bullet dodged there I say!
