Harrison Vanderbyl

I know how to make the zip go zap

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

I'm at the beach and I literally remarked to my girlfriend: "that tiny sliver of darkness on the moon is the moon casting a shadow on itself" and then the entire universe collaborated to make sure that in that moment I was unequivocally, categorically wrong.

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

@yacineMTB Not even post-rat. Just straight conformist lmao

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

The real trick is combining nvcc and hipcc generated object code

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

Spicy curry is very soothing for chapped lips

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

I actually need to start shit posting to this account instead of OT

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

LOTM is peak fiction, the adaption is actually amazing

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

Noita and Getting Over It are great stress relief games to play

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

Did you know, that attention is dead?

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

Apparently I need to post more on twitter to be more relevant, lets go

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

@iScienceLuvr Happy Birthday!

[Yusan Lin @yusan_lin]

An investor once pressured me to meet him at a hotel at night.

I said no. I asked if we could meet during the day, at a coffee shop or in an office.

He replied: “If you’re serious about this, you’ll meet me on my terms.”

That’s just one of many moments I’ve stayed silent about—until now.

As a female founder, I’ve faced harassment and dismissiveness more times than I can count.

I’m not sharing this to portray myself as a victim. I’m sharing it because silence only protects the behavior. And because I know I’m not alone.

Since starting my company, I’ve experienced:

- An investor who texted me late at night while drinking, saying he missed me—and asking whether I “show enough skin” in my party outfits, after a single coffee meeting about business.

- One who asked, “How many white guys have you been with for your English to be this good?”

- Another who interrupted me mid-sentence while I was sharing an important partnership update to say, “Bring your pretty friends to my island next time.”

- One who told me, “You’re too pretty to be a founder. Just be an influencer,” and then showed me photos of women online wearing very little, suggesting I could do the same.

- An investor who said he kept forgetting I could code—because I “don’t look like someone who can.”

- A founder I distanced myself from after multiple uncomfortable invites, who recorded and took photos of me without my consent. When I got upset, he said I was missing out on funding opportunities because he could’ve introduced me to investors.

- Another founder who made an unwanted sexual advance the first time we met. When I ignored his repeated messages, he told me he hoped my startup would fail.

These aren’t just awkward moments. They’re degrading. They’re exhausting. And to say they haven’t taken an emotional toll would be a lie.

I don’t want to be objectified, or reduced to an image these men create in their minds.

I hope we build a culture where this behavior is no longer tolerated. One where female founders don’t have to brace themselves before every investor meeting. One where we feel safe at work, at networking events, and in every room where decisions are made. One where competence isn’t overshadowed by appearance. One where boundaries are respected—without needing to be justified.

To be clear: These experiences do not reflect the majority. I’ve been fortunate to meet far more incredible, kind, and principled investors and founders than not.

But until this kind of behavior ends, stories like mine need to be heard too.

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

https://t.co/aZ8slagY8F

Any model can be converted to a linear attention model

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

@picocreator @AnushElangovan massive undershoot, your forgetting sharding means its less vram used per gpu. Your off by at least an OOM,
more like 8k or 16k concurrents

[Eugene Cheah - AI builder @ 🇸🇬|🇺🇸 @picocreator]

🧱 Transformers has hit the scaling wall 🧱

💰 GPT 4.5 cost billions, with no clear path to AGI for 10x$ more
📘 Facebook, Yann LeCun, is now saying we need new architectures
🔎 Deepmind CEO, Demis Hassabis, is saying we need 10 years

We have another path to AGI in < 4 years

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

@IlyasHairline Thats old news, get updated, transformers are dead and dont even know it yet

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

@8teAPi organizations with access to international cooperation will out compete all others. This is why open-source will win. Find where the scientists congregate in their time off, that's where the alpha is. 🪿

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

@tarab_ai @RWKV_AI people have forgotten the amazingness of pre-instruct models

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

@TimTraversMovie @feliciaday
I saw tim travers at the dendy cinema this year, and it was honestly such a great movie, I want to take my partner to see it, but it's nowhere? How can I see it again?

[Harrison Vanderbyl @HarrisonVander1]

@webdevMason I am going to go out on a limb here and say that "substance abuse" is pretty much going to be "cheap pain medication alternatives cause I cant afford healthcare".
Yes, grandma with cancer who smokes weed for the pain is a "healthcare super utilizer with substance abuse issues"

[Eugene Cheah - AI builder @ 🇸🇬|🇺🇸 @picocreator]

So yea, we just finished up the best subquadratic model for our QRWKV varient. Landing in hot during neurips

Matching transformer level performance despite the lack of "Quadratic Attention", using RWKV Attention instead

Proving Attention is **not** all you need
@jefrankle @srush_nlp