Saurav Bastola

The more I learn, the less I know

[Saurav Bastola @_bastolasaurav]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[aku @andrewkintum]

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

- André Gide

[float @notesbyfloat]

found a neuron in qwen3.5-4b that makes it talk like her

[zack @zack_overflow]

Of course, that’s your contention. You’re a first-year machine-learning engineer. You just got finished readin' Attention Is All You Need, probably watched a Karpathy video too. So now you’re convinced everything is just transformers and scaling laws.

That's gonna last until next month when you discover convolution, and then you're gonna be talkin' about inductive biases and locality and how CNNs were actually incredibly compute-efficient for vision.

Then you're gonna read the FlashAttention paper, and suddenly everything's about IO complexity and SRAM and how FLOPs don't matter because the whole goddamn thing is memory-bandwidth bound.

That'll last until somebody shows you an MoE model, and then you're gonna be in here regurgitating DeepSeek, talkin' about expert parallelism and active parameters and how dense models are economically obsolete.

Then six months from now you'll write one shitty Triton kernel, look at an Nsight trace for the first time, and start telling everybody Python isn't actually the bottleneck because the GPU is asynchronous.

And by next year you're gonna be standing right here explaining to me that your 400-billion-parameter model is fast because you turned on CUDA graphs.

[Saurav Bastola @_bastolasaurav]

@rubikadont शब को मय ख़ूब सी पी, सुबह को तौबा कर ली
रिंद के रिंद रहे, हाथ से जन्नत न गई

- जलाल लखनवी

[meatball times @meatballtimes]

desperately hoping my gf becomes powerful enough one day that I, too, am featured in a tiny little "husband" box in an article

[z @z4pych4n]

how goated it is to be anything at all

[Saurav Bastola @_bastolasaurav]

"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

You will be every age of your life at some point. Do what you want.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Terence Tao continues to bring the🔥, day after day!

[ksa 🏴‍☠️ @kosa12m]

I never thought this would take my job.

[neural nets. @cneuralnetwork]

the joy of curiosity.

[mnjkhtri @mnjkhtri0]

A little weeping and dancing, then forever into the oblivion.

[Saurav Bastola @_bastolasaurav]

@AryalAvinash You ain't Socrates holmes! Quit Yapping!!!

[Saurav Bastola @_bastolasaurav]

@AryalAvinash Skill issue 🗿

[Saurav Bastola @_bastolasaurav]

@pra_chaulagain I love you too, bro!

[gabe @allgarbled]

how about you go fuck yourself instead

[Saurav Bastola @_bastolasaurav]

@antimony56 I would fight for you bro😔

[Santosh Bhandari @santoshbbuilds]

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[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

oh JavaScript

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

ngl when i get "skill issue" as a response it hurts a little