At a coffee shop.
Me: “What are these rolls?”
Shop assistant: “Turkish delight, freshly made.”
M: “Great, do you also have Turkish coffee?”
S: “No, we have Brazilian coffee.”
M: 🤷♂️
By the architect of CUDA, excellent insights into why the GPU is designed the way it is. Hint: it’s memory latency, and ultimately, physics. How GPU Computing Works | GTC 2021 https://t.co/W0AJvgM4Io
@keerthanpg For this and other related issues that affect immigrant’s life arc and mental health — money, marriage, friendships, religion, aging, children — I recommend reading Salman Akhtar.
📖 “From Strength to Strength” by @arthurbrooks is a well-articulated plea for those of us old enough to stop “striving” and start connecting — with family, friends, community, humanity. https://t.co/tkpZ2jyUSA
Incoming recruiter email 😱 "[The company's] goal is to create a general AI that can allocate capital at superhuman levels, run autonomously on the internet, and be co-owned by the world."
Heard this in a college admissions seminar: “It’s not where you go that’s most important, but what you do there.” Wise advice; engagement matters. Also, the idea transfers well to workplace.
🎥 Loved My Octopus Teacher (Netflix, 2020) for its fantastic storytelling, imagery, and background score. It touches your heart. This is not another “nature documentary”. https://t.co/OP6ibAahy5
Everyone seems to be training* LLMs? I couldn’t get any A100 on EC2 in US-West regions. Doesn’t help that AWS gives these in a bundle of 8’s, unlike GCP. (*fine-tuning)
Fascinating theory on intelligence of the human brain, specifically the neocortex, with implications on machine intelligence. Bonus points for clear, sharp writing 👉 https://t.co/7bSb9sdLXz Or if you have only an hour to spare: https://t.co/5o5XBgXckX