Great overview on the parallelism techniques needed for LLM training/inference from the new CS336 class at Stanford (Tatsunori Hashimoto & Percy Liang): Info-dense and doesn't shy away from the technical details!

RT @dmitri_dolgov: More than 5x growth in paid trips from this time last year — each ride contributing to safer streets and more accessible….

Thrilled to share that the amazing work of @stan188249301 (@maxjiang93's and I's intern at Waymo Research last summer) is accepted to CVPR 2025! SceneDiffuser++ fulfills a vision we've had in mind for several years, and we weren't sure if it was even possible. More details soon!.

RT @JeffDean: 🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding. Now integ….

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I am sincerely grateful to have been able to learn, grow, publish, mentor exceptional interns, and together build the Waymo Driver these past few years. Leaving behind exceptional colleagues is bittersweet, but I’m excited for what lies ahead. ✨✨.

. especially in a city (SF) I myself have struggled to comfortably drive in for years. Waymo is delivering more than 150,000 rides *per week* with no driver -- truly the arc of progress is unstoppable. It has been my great privilege to work with so many brilliant colleagues here.

Career Update: After almost 3 years at Waymo Research, I've started a new chapter at Google DeepMind, joining the Gemini effort. After 7 years in the self-driving industry, it is been astonishing to see this technology evolve from a "moonshot" to a mundane everyday commute (1/n)

RT @GrumpyReviewer2: #AcademicChatter #AcademicX

"That very next morning when Reed picked me up, he held up a little pink envelope with an unbroken CD in it that had got into his house in less than 24 hours for the price of a stamp" (5/N). Fascinating talk, worth a listen!

"like you'd put a greeting card in, and put this CD in the envelope. Addressed it to Reed's house, bought a stamp and dropped it in the mail, and went to work. " (4/N).

"We tried to collide the idea with real people that day, mid-commute turned the car around went down into Santa Cruz. Tried to buy a DVD, couldn't find one, settled for buying a used music CD (same size, same weight). Then went two doors down and bought a little envelope" (3/N).

For entrepreneurs, Marc Randolph explains this as "how can I quickly cheaply and easily collide this idea with a real person and find out is it in fact a good idea or a bad idea". According to him, Netflix started from a conversation in a car w/ cofounder Reed as follows: (2/N).

"Having ideas is easy and trivial -- the important thing is how clever can you be to come up with a quick and cheap and easy way to test it." The truth is this idea applies just as well to **research** as it does to entrepreneurship (1/N) 🧵.

Highly recommend this diffusion lecture by Sander Dieleman: Uncommon to hear these principles discussed with such clarity. CFG becomes obvious when we consider geometry (magnify direction in space to make samples look more like the conditioning info).

RT @dmitri_dolgov: In May, we announced that we were offering 50k weekly trips. Today, we’re excited to share that we have doubled that num….

RT @dmitri_dolgov: Thank you Alphabet, Waymonauts, and, thank you Waymo One riders! This is a testament to the milestones we’ve reached tog….

Links for Video LDM and StableVideoDiffusion from above:. (13/N). End of 🧵.