Sladyn
@SladynN
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I believe I can make a difference. I’m here to change your worldview because if you think like the masses you’re bound to get the same results.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2019
Open source is your biggest internship 19-year-old me merged a tiny Jenkins Pull request and that commit snowballed into GSoC, the Linux Foundation, the Kubernetes release team, and eventually Meta.
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This is great advice. Proof of work trumps a lot of things. I always get the “wow” when I mention any of my open source work Not my school not my grades. My open source work
getting a tech job and doing a tech job are completely different. i didn't know that so i worked on becoming a good swe (classes, projects, internships). it didnt get me shit. 670 apps, 4 interviews. so i started treating interviewing differently. stopped applying all
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I find myself writing on topics apart from tech which i am equally passionate about So i decided to split my substack in two, making it easier to have a separation of concerns. And in the future making it easier to relate with either parts of the stuff i write.
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What is your system to understand complex concepts. I usually prefer action based understanding. Take a really complex idea and try to implement it in reality which will lead me down a rabbit hole of frustration. That is where the real learning takes place for me
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Introducing SAM 3D, the newest addition to the SAM collection, bringing common sense 3D understanding of everyday images. SAM 3D includes two models: 🛋️ SAM 3D Objects for object and scene reconstruction 🧑🤝🧑 SAM 3D Body for human pose and shape estimation Both models achieve
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When OpenAI says a LLM is 4 billion parameters, what do they exactly mean ? In an LLM parameters are the weights that get tuned to predict the next token better. The higher the parameters the more the ability for that model to represent the complex relationship betweeen
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What actually happens when you hit Ctrl + C. Interrupts is what happens behind the scenes. Spent last night learning about interrupts. Time to write a blog on it Understanding systems in depth is the only way to really knows whats happening.
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Google uses Tensor Processing Units that they have designed for machine learning. Internally they perform a bunch of matrix multiplications in hardware instead of many small general purpose cores. I would love to spend some time understanding how this all works under the
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This is really important to internalize
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Wrote a new blog on one of the most recent books i read. Learnings from Mankind's search for meaning. I outlined a bunch of main ideas in the book and then wrote my takeaway from each of those ideas. Link in the comments
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The only software engineer talking some sense in this world of AI
I know I made a joke earlier but this is seriously concerning. I am not convinced it's ai, I think it's just accelerating this trend. The enshitification has been marching forward for years now and I hate it I know the rage is all about how you should do no typing, you should
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What’s the fear in the AI bubble popping ? No seriously as an average human what’s your loss. We all got a 5-10% productivity increase. Easier way to process and understand information and new frontier unlocked. Consider it like unlocking a new item in a game. We learn and
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Gemini 3 looks promising in all fronts however I’m still looking at the SWE bench verified where Claude is still winning.
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My outlook towards video games changed recently. It’s a combination of multiple fields like design, coding, music, for it to come together as a piece of art
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This is an interesting way to think about writing What does it mean to actually write for an LLM ?
I’m starting to get into a habit of reading everything (blogs, articles, book chapters,…) with LLMs. Usually pass 1 is manual, then pass 2 “explain/summarize”, pass 3 Q&A. I usually end up with a better/deeper understanding than if I moved on. Growing to among top use cases. On
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Each phase of you're life will demand a different kind of response. Sometimes its peacetime. Sometimes its wartime.
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