allen

can you really follow me??

[allen @allenbytes]

+100.... more hills being climbed all around

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

I've heard "hill-climb" more times in the last 2 months than in my entire life.

[D Prasanth Nair @DPrasanthNair]

Good one !

[Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 @joakial_]

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.

[allen @allenbytes]

@Starlink + @emirates
https://t.co/hGQgYRFVBY

[allen @allenbytes]

So we thought we could actually finetune a llm ourselves.. see what the 3.5 men came up with

Finetuning a LLM https://t.co/afEHjj0EKH via @YouTube

#azure #code #unslothai #finetuning #llm #data

[allen @allenbytes]

Teaching Our Todo App to Write Its Own Subtasks — GitHub Copilot CLI + MCP https://t.co/853hwqviNc via @YouTube

[allen @allenbytes]

And they continue their quest by trying to fix a bug in the onnx repo... nice one to start with eh!!

Learning AI with AI: Chasing a Floating-Point Bug Through ONNX Runtime https://t.co/PVNXzZFmCq via @YouTube

[allen @allenbytes]

Some dudes go together to learn how to use AI...

Learning AI with AI: Exploring ONNX Runtime from Scratch https://t.co/PMXrt5GSSi via @YouTube

#learningai #3andhalfmen #onnxruntime #aitools

[allen @allenbytes]

AI amplifies output for everyone without any bias... for your 10x engineer as well as for your 0.1x engineer. Without the right checks and balances in place you can easily start accruing tech debt way faster than you would have.
#managergyaan #softwareengineering #aiengineering

[allen @allenbytes]

Samay Raina killed it in his raw and bare-it-all "Still Alive" monologue. But where he showed his true genius... is on how he introduced season 2 of latent. This was a Jobs-like "one more thing" moment" #SamayRaina #legendary #stickittotheman

https://t.co/Obfnt0jxga

[allen @allenbytes]

@nobrokercom are the biggest scamsters and spammers in India. They don't allow you to delete your own listings or account and keep spam calling you daily for the same thing. Polite requests have just fallen on deaf ears. @jaagograhakjago any suggestions?

[allen @allenbytes]

@sufirunner @UnderArmour Wow. Respect 🫡 🙇🏾‍♂️

[allen @allenbytes]

@DGCAIndia Are we supposed to be begging for our own money from @IndiGo6E ?

No sign of the refund on cancelled flights nor any updates from the great Indigo.

#daylightrobbery #indigo

[allen @allenbytes]

So @IndiGo6E it's nearly 8 days and no sign of the refund for my cancelled flights. You said 3-5 days??

[allen @allenbytes]

After targeting US UK senior citizens our local fraudsters are now after our elders. @TRAI must act. Why not create an official number registry that helps telcos show the call as "Valid Govt. Number" for the receiver? #actionneeded #fraud #bharat #scams #seniorcitizens

[Denislav Gavrilov @kuberdenis]

My girlfriend’s dad just came out as the most based dude I’ve ever seen

~50yo
- writes C
- designs microchips
- builds his own electronics
- has a loving family
- DESIGNS MICROCHIPS

I just had the most amazing one hour I’ve had, talking to another human

Long form below

- - -

Ok, so. We go to their place and he shares with me he is consumed by the activity of setting up his new Linux environment on his 15yo laptop. I ask what he chose, he lets out, “Kubuntu”, smiling.

“It’s always an enjoyable feeling to set up a Linux environment from scratch”, he said.

I smiled and we spoke for a while.

Then we went to the living room. To my surprise, I find an Arduino Nano, connected to a 9V battery and an old laptop charger. A DIY battery charger. I pick it up and I turn it around. Huh? I see patterns resembling a PCB. I turn to him and I say in awe, “this looks like a PCB”! He casually responds, “Yea, that’s a PCB”. “What?! How’d you engrave the pathways”? “Iron. A clothes iron”.

The dude creates his own PCBs with an iron and just.. spawns devices. Things that are his own. His own gadgets, with his own C code, with his own screen animation details. From scratch. Wow.

We proceed to his workspace as he wants to show me something on his newly installed Linux he finds cool. It is an OSS tool called “Patchance”, a jack patchbay GUI. He found particular happiness in the fact he could play audio both from his Laptop AND his headphones. It was pretty sick indeed. We trashed Windows and praised Linux for a while.

We then talked electronics again, and he stands up, opens a cabinet, and brings what I would describe as a literal holy artefact. I soyjacked and froze.

It was a block of pure silicon on the bottom, and what seemed to resemble a huge processor at the top. He said, “Those are chips. A hundred maybe”. I take it in hand and carefully investigate the alien block. I say, “Chips as in Chip Chips”? He says, “Yes. This is the very core of a processor. The very heart of the processor itself”. Wow. Not the heart of the computer, the heart of the processor. Wow.

I asked him questions and he responded.

He briefly explained to me and discussed with me:
- What processors are
How chips work
- What is diffusion in the context of semiconductor manufacturing
- What is silicon and what is poly-silicon
- OHM’s law and Physics
- What batteries are
- Electronics
- Owning your software
- Owning your technology
- And many, MANY more

He also showed me an enterprise, chip designing software (which I couldn’t take a photo of because it’s intellectual property.. NDAs n’ stuff..) for the latest chip he and his company worked on for the last 5 (or 7?) years. They literally built a microchip from scratch. And he showed it to me. He showed me but a tiny fracture of what the entire process was. It was.. beautiful.

It was all so.. beautiful.
So real.
So intellectually satisfying.
So alien-like.
So powerful.

This was genuinely an incredibly powerful experience for me. The entire time we spent talking about all this. I skipped a large portion of the interesting stuff but believe me when I say, this is not something you experience every day.

I love technology.
And I respect TRUE technologists.

/ Denis

[allen @allenbytes]

#sotrue #sotrue
I still remember Cyrus Poonawalla's interview on NDTV where he claimed that research was only for 1st world countries.

We celebrate jugaad like a badge of honor while it is encouraging short term patchwork.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

In the 1960s-1970s, India and China had roughly the same per capita GDP. They started their reforms in the 1980s, and by 1990, they had overtaken our per capita GDP. Say what you will about the differences in our worldviews and economic models, but their scientific and technological progress is undeniable across disciplines—DeepSeek is just the latest example.

I saw this chart in an Economist (link in next tweet) article. It gives you a quick and dirty idea of the progress China has made despite the fact that papers and citations can be gamed. India wouldn’t even show up on the chart.

I think the problem that has always plagued India is short-termism. Problems are typically addressed through a patchwork or the Jugaad mentality. This is true when it comes to business, politics, regulatory approaches, etc. Many problems that require focused long-term thinking instead get band-aid fixes. This is not to say that we haven't made progress. In my own lifetime, we have come a long way, but not nearly enough.

For example, you can’t just buy GPUs and expect Indians to create groundbreaking AI applications. Without the right talent and an enabling ecosystem that facilitates innovation, all the GPUs in the world will be pointless.

We need to seriously start building our research capabilities. While India does produce great researchers, we don’t seem to offer a conducive environment for them, which is why the majority of them go to the US. Again, this is not something that will show results instantly. In the case of China, it was 2 decades at the bare minimum focusing just on research. If we start focusing on building our research and scientific capabilities, we will hopefully see results in 5 to 10 years.

This is all the more important in the world that AI will shape where being mediocre won't be an option.

As K put it in his recent post (link in the following tweet), check the image.

And about Deepseek, thank god that it is open source.

[allen @allenbytes]

If flying to 🇯🇵 #japan 🇯🇵 always fly #ana - All Nippon Airways. Amazing legroom with amazing service. Right from boarding, meals, service and right upto deboarding. 10/10 always.

[allen @allenbytes]

I really like the #BlueTokaiCoffee bold and strong easy pour coffee bags. Great taste and aroma without having to worry about a coffee machine and beans and cleaning. https://t.co/78jNFFnNbp

[allen @allenbytes]

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