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riding the tiger of accelerationism
SF → Seattle
Joined August 2016
Sometimes I think I’m a good engineer then I see dudes like Karpathy and geohot cook and I’m like oh I suck.
Day 24 of llm.c: we now do multi-GPU training, in bfloat16, with flash attention, directly in ~3000 lines of C/CUDA, and it is FAST! 🚀. We're running ~7% faster than PyTorch nightly, with no asterisks, i.e. this baseline includes all modern & standard bells-and-whistles: mixed
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What does one put on their resume after working at such a place?.
The truth about Soham Parekh. - the dude clears interviews, he’s good with that . - after clearing, he has junior people doing all the work . - has around 20 employees and interns. Basically a small dev shop.
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Pitbulls can be sweet dogs but if you’ve ever looked into their eyes it’s clear as day that they aren’t completely there . At any minute it’s little brain could misfire and bite a child.
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SF was designed by the gods to keep Members of Technical Staff in their linear algebra goon pods.
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Google offering payouts to ads teams . Meanwhile Meta undergoing a hiring sprint in the monetization org . Interesting times in tech.
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There’s probably some incredible logical flaws in this thinking - but it’s interesting that the google buyout package is 14 weeks of salary . Let’s say you make $500k / year . Google would buy you out for $145k . If you think about $500k ARR in terms of a business that’s valued.
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🎵overweight girl with a Stanley cup 🎵.🎵overweight girl with a Stanley cup 🎵.
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I think your income tax rate should be based on net worth and income . This might be the only reasonable way to do a “wealth tax” . So rather than just using your income percentile, you average that with your net worth percentile then you have your income tax rate should.
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East coast politicians selling west coaster’s public lands is an abomination
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Big “beautiful” bill puts these rock climbing areas at risk allegedly . Insane
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The seamlessness of taking a video like this then having it on your phone immediately after is incredible
I can’t remember the last time I was as excited for a product launch as the meta oakleys . I use my meta ray bans to film rock climbing and other outdoor activities but they died a few weeks ago after getting wet on a long rainy hike . Now they are launching a water resistant
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NYC doom loop inbound.
BREAKING: Mamdani surges as clear favorite in the NYC Mayoral primary. 61% chance he wins.
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I can’t remember the last time I was as excited for a product launch as the meta oakleys . I use my meta ray bans to film rock climbing and other outdoor activities but they died a few weeks ago after getting wet on a long rainy hike . Now they are launching a water resistant
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Me after I achieve financial security working in big tech.
Adult sea squirts permanently attach to a rock, digest their own brain, and spend the rest of their lives doing absolutely nothing.
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The average posture in my big tech office is horrendous . I sit next to an MIT phd who has worse posture than this . Maybe that’s why he’s cracked
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Are boomers uniquely hated as the dominant class? Or is the dominant class always hated this way? . In my view boomers did a lot of things to fuck stuff up for their kids, but I wonder if every generation feels this way.
i was trying to sum up the boomer question irl and got a little lost. how’s this, am i missing anything? they:. - had fewer children than their parents by a full child per woman. - celebrated and expanded the welfare state (they were too young for new deal, great society ….
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My suspicions confirmed - Seattle is the worst city for dating for guys . Miami is the best.
Fun matchmaking fact:. The easiest U.S. city to find women in is Miami. By a country mile. So many beautiful women seeking relationships. The hardest U.S. city to find women in is Seattle. I took my first client in Seattle thinking it’d be like San Francisco (i.e. not as hard as.
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