Emily Han
@emilyhanyf
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ai/systems @stanford, co-director @hackwithtrees, llm inference @modal, and design!
Joined December 2024
Life update: I’ve decided to take some time off from Stanford. I've seen a lot of these "dropping out of college" posts, but I never thought I’d write one myself. To be completely honest, I never seriously considered taking a leave or dropping out. Interning at @modal this past
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for anyone: start every day by reading just one blog on something you’ve always wanted to learn or understand better. instantly makes your day more productive !
give your best advice to someone struggling in a rough patch of life
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giving away the company secrets at this meetup 1. Linear solver to maintain a tight buffer of cloud resources 2. FUSE for pre-fetched and lazy-loaded container images 3. CRIU and cuda-checkpoint for memory snapshots
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AI is compute-hungry. While it has generally relied on a single hardware vendor in the past, AMD GPUs now offer competitive memory and compute throughput. Yet, the software stack is brittle. So we ask: can the same DSL principles that simplified NVIDIA kernel dev translate to
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postcards (or magazine covers, some may say) from @modal offsite at lake como !
Just got back from our annual @modal offsite, this year in Italy. Lots of programming and prosecco. If you like hard technical problems and want to join next year's offsite: https://t.co/tXDNmmexUY!
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.@modal’s design never misses
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if you’re a college student studying cs, there’s no excuse not to apply to treehacks > free food/flights to the prettiest campus ever > best startups all demoing/hiring > tons of free api credits > most fun side events (poker tournament, llamas, balloon artists, etc) > $200k+
🚨 TreeHacks applications are due in 5 days! Compete in the largest (& best!) college hackathon. We're flying in 1000+ hackers worldwide to Stanford University. Flights and food covered ⬇️ Feb 13 - 15. treehacks dot com
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A number of smart engineers have looked at the us-east-1 outage and covered it with the blanket of a simple explanation: brain drain; race condition; it’s always DNS; the cloud is unreliable, go on-prem. Even sitting outside AWS, you can look and find at least a dozen troubles.
thundergolfer.com
A thorough review of a major cloud outage.
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the melodramatic moment when i internalize that i'll never be a teen again after tomorrow and my best friends are graduating college in a few months. nothing more bittersweet, oddly peaceful, exciting yet terrifying
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You have to try https://t.co/Ho09ulo3vQ to really experience how fast this is. (Also, the playground is running on @modal 🙂)
playground.cognition.ai
Check out the Fast Context agent
Introducing SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini: Cognition’s model family for fast agentic search at >2,800 TPS. Surface the right files to your coding agent 20x faster. Now rolling out gradually to Windsurf users via the Fast Context subagent – or try it in our new playground!
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we might lose all the big games, but at least we have coldplay and shawn mendes performing on campus on random weekdays
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Your website should build itself. It should adapt to your visitors and competition in real time. Introducing Flint: autonomous websites. We’re already powering pages for @Cognition and @Modal. Today we announce our $5M seed from @Accel and break out of stealth. More below.
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Cafe Cursor @ Stanford! Our pop-up in SF last month was so much fun, we’re going on the road to campuses and other cities ☕️
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