Alexander Kyte
@ipvkyte
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Sr Software Engineer, Conversational ML for MS/DeepResearcher, previously Mono core (JIT/GC). Author. Cyclist. Human bean. https://t.co/6qMJ6RUu6Q…
Boston, MA
Joined July 2016
I almost forgot I had this series of Microwave and RF Design books by Michael Steer at NC State University which are also officially available for free here: https://t.co/Xrrxpbc2kB
I do really enjoy the full color pictures in the Microwave and RF design book series (M. Steer, NC State Univ.)
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@MattGialich Dude there are so many toys on my timeline today that require the power consumption of a whole city block to run. Global warming was not ready for the 2025 consumer-craftsman
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Engineering is really just about us all feeling secure in a principled way about the consensus we reached about the best course of action. And I hate how the way we express our thoughts turns into this fashion we strut. Agile? Scrum? I am looking for the problem’s personality.
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You spend $1B training a model A. Someone on your team leaves and launches their own model API B. You're suspicious. Was B was derived (e.g., fine-tuned) from A? But you only have blackbox access to B... With our paper, you can still tell with strong statistical guarantees
🔎Did someone steal your language model? We can tell you, as long as you shuffled your training data🔀. All we need is some text from their model! Concretely, suppose Alice trains an open-weight model and Bob uses it to produce text. Can Alice prove Bob used her model?🚨
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very cool
you can spend a full year knitting it and win second place at the county fair if your heart is pure enough
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Dynamic programming was invented to confuse the Secretary of Defense. Seriously. Wilson (the SecDef) “would get violent if people used the term research in his presence”. RAND mathematicians thus needed a cover story to hide their work:
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@bubblebabyboi I am still saying that the end game is gallium transistors, high voltage, high temp, and active accumulation of the heat to send to a steam turbine system. Computers are just a lossy layer in the middle of the power generation and dissipation pipeline. Think Bitcoin radiators.
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2026 is gonna be the year of blogposts
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LLM tamagotchi that hallucinates needs and makes you go do stuff
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According to this LLM if you mix 0.9 parts boiling water to 1 part room temp water you get 155F water, which is perfect for matcha. Easier than actual temp control. The perfect example of what LLMs can do in a snap nowadays, the multi-step join. Used to take a bit of luck.
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when Codex says it’s “working on resolving the dependency issues” in my Python env
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SOVIET TITANIUM SHOVEL During the Cold War, titanium was heavily restricted, could only be sold as a finished good, not raw stock. So a clever, corrupt Soviet general figured out the cheapest finished product was shovelheads. They ran sheets of titanium through a metal press and
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FlashAttention is probably the ultimate "AI PhD" contribution: > spend years studying > understand things better than everybody else > rewrite low-level code in more intelligent way > make transformers 2-4x faster > essentially a free lunch > now it runs on all of our computers
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