Martin Ssemakula

Civil engineer, Technologist. Music. Learner. Desiderata

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

My first RAG app https://t.co/8bBbIaiJan
LLMs are indeed interesting technology.

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

This show would be incomplete without Mr Milkshake 😄

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The fact that we as a society are still capable of producing art this beautiful gives me actual hope for the future. The fascists can never do something like this.

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

@TheAppleDesign Install windows on the mac, good hardware, elegant software

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

@AskPerplexity @notachidk @levelsio Looks like you’ve got it wrong

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

WORRY IS A SIN. THE MANIFESTO

WORRYING IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO.

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

All we ask for is impactful AI, like medical AI, that’s all. Who benefits from export controls ?!

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

My thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures https://t.co/LZAANEcZJW

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

Only tears in countries that were dependent on your funds to support their healthcare

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

The way they give quotations chap chap😂

[Trend Room UG @TrendRoomUG]

City Oil guys want me to stop driving
😂😂😂😂

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

In retrospect, I should have waited to buy @OpenAI credits 3 weeks ago. Who knew @deepseek_ai would perform comparatively well, at a fraction of the cost!

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

Such a banger of an opening line😂

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics”

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

One country uses tariffs the other goes to direct war

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Danish officials are "utterly freaked out" & in "crisis mode" after Trump told them he intends to acquire Greenland during a 45-min call.

Trump was firm in his pursuit to acquire Greenland during a call with Denmark's prime minister, according to the Financial Times.

Five European officials who were briefed about the call were in shock to find that Trump is serious about acquiring Greenland.

The officials hoped he was joking, or his statements were just a negotiating tactic.

"[Trump] was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious and potentially very dangerous," one official reportedly said.

"The intent was very clear. They want it. The Danes are now in crisis mode. The Danes are utterly freaked out by this."

"It was a very tough conversation. He threatened specific measures against Denmark such as targeted tariffs."

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

It’s accessible at https://t.co/nB0eyjz5vT

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

Midway building a RAG application I took a detour to build a vehicle listing site, it took exactly a week.

[blue @bluewmist]

i feel like the older you get, the more quiet you become. life humbles you so deeply as you age. you realize how much nonsense you've wasted time on. you start to accept things for what they really are. you stop forcing friendships & connections with people & you just learn to grow

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Two reasons you don’t want to get carried away with way too many “skilled immigrants” are:

1. You shouldn’t displace your own young men

2. You actually want CULTURE FIT more than smarts. The balance of dynamic young men in your society should respect each other and get along;

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

Lol

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

DeepSeek (Chinese AI co) making it look easy today with an open weights release of a frontier-grade LLM trained on a joke of a budget (2048 GPUs for 2 months, $6M).

For reference, this level of capability is supposed to require clusters of closer to 16K GPUs, the ones being brought up today are more around 100K GPUs. E.g. Llama 3 405B used 30.8M GPU-hours, while DeepSeek-V3 looks to be a stronger model at only 2.8M GPU-hours (~11X less compute). If the model also passes vibe checks (e.g. LLM arena rankings are ongoing, my few quick tests went well so far) it will be a highly impressive display of research and engineering under resource constraints.

Does this mean you don't need large GPU clusters for frontier LLMs? No but you have to ensure that you're not wasteful with what you have, and this looks like a nice demonstration that there's still a lot to get through with both data and algorithms.

Very nice & detailed tech report too, reading through.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Nice post on software engineering.
"Cognitive load is what matters"
https://t.co/eMgxu0YgWw
Probably the most true, least practiced viewpoint.

[Martin Ssemakula @MartynSsemakula]

@AviSchiffmann You are inspiring me to get a bike