Akila

ASICs, DSP, AI, telecom. Building things that hopefully matter.

[Akila @aki4twiter]

@_onurmutlu_ @SAFARI_ETH_CMU @CSatETH @ETH_en Thank you! Very useful

[Akila @aki4twiter]

@MainzOnX Thanks for the article 😁 need some time to digest

[Akila @aki4twiter]

Interesting write up @DanHollick

[Dan Hollick @DanHollick]

Did you know that SSDs use quantum tunnelling to store data? Or that we have to completely rewrite RAM every 30ms to prevent data from just dissipating?

If you did, then you can probably skip this chapter on how computers store data:
https://t.co/d7m0TLXAKv

[Dan Hollick @DanHollick]

Did you know that SSDs use quantum tunnelling to store data? Or that we have to completely rewrite RAM every 30ms to prevent data from just dissipating?

If you did, then you can probably skip this chapter on how computers store data:
https://t.co/d7m0TLXAKv

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Engineering blog: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel.

Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development.

Read more: https://t.co/htX0wl4wIf

[Akila @aki4twiter]

@matt_elevenlabs 11B

[spor @sporadica]

humans are so cool, man

bunch of apes walked out the jungle and went to the moon and made the sand think

crazy fucking apes

[Raja Koduri @RajaXg]

https://t.co/1UFlJqiVl2

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

A perfect source of entropy has never been inv...
https://t.co/QaPrJEuS1a

[Cricket Shouts 🏏 @crickshouts]

The ultimate backyard set up 😮‍💨👏

via TikTok/backyardcricketuk

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff]

This Soviet CMOS chip is a 4-bit counter, a copy of the Motorola MC14516B. I'll use it as an example of how to reverse engineer CMOS chips. 1/20

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This will allow for mobile phone connectivity anywhere on Earth.

Note, this only supports ~7Mb per beam and the beams are very big, so while this is a great solution for locations with no cellular connectivity, it is not meaningfully competitive with existing terrestrial cellular networks.

[Akila @aki4twiter]

@JamesClear Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

The pilot of this Finnair flight made a 360 turn to allow everyone onboard see the fantastic Northern Lights last night.

https://t.co/ewXUHBnioS

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Humans are an API to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is an API to Python.
Python is an API to C.
C is an API to assembly.
Assembly is an API to binary.
Binary is an API to physics.
Physics is an API to the machine that runs the universe.

It's computation all the way down.

[Tommi Uitto @tommiuitto]

Great news! @oppo and Vivo should also play by the rules and pay for using @nokia innovations in their devices. #FRAND #4G #5G

[Akila @aki4twiter]

@librarymindset @JamesClear @DARRENHARDY @matthaig1 @HalElrod @morganhousel @DariusForoux @VexKing @Vishen @Gladwell @jordanbpeterson How doe you read Sapiens in one week 🥲

[Akila @aki4twiter]

Is chatGPT the new wikipedia?
#ChatGPT #Wikipédia #wiki