liamh

Studying Compsci @MIT

[liamh @CloudOuter]

@hestabbedhim Oml great colors

[liamh @CloudOuter]

We're doing WebGPU font rendering now 🔥

[liamh @CloudOuter]

Quadratic spline curve rendering on the GPU is a particularly interesting challenge. I'm approximating distance with the Newton-Raphson method which works most of the time, but breaks down with extreme curves.

[liamh @CloudOuter]

redesigned our CPU to be fully pipelined and our test pong program is working on it again!

[liamh @CloudOuter]

There's a very important reason why this isn't crazy big. Chips aren't large enough to contain the size of SOTA models that we need. On top of that, imagine it takes 6 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce a chip. In that time, you're model is already out of date

[Fabio Guzman @FGuzmanAI]

56,000+ tokens/sec at just 80 MHz. 🤯

I burned a full Transformer with KV cache into a custom chip. Designed gate by gate as a 100% digital integrated circuit. Prototyped on a FPGA. (No GPU. No CPU)
Just pure digital silicon running @karpathy microGPT, spelling out names on a tiny LCD.

This is GateGPT 👇

[barafostus dreame @barrowfaustus]

I like Rust but it is just maddening how sometimes doing basic stuff requires threading the needle between insane amounts of bureaucracy and intractable 9-year-old GitHub issues. This time it's trying to fill an uninitialised byte buffer. How hard can it be?

[liamh @CloudOuter]

I think a lot of (wrong) arguments about consciousness believe that it must be a fundamental property of how it "runs" that gives rise to consciousness. I think instead that consciousness is reached at a certain scale, and the same "hardware" can produce both conscious and not.

[liamh @CloudOuter]

"That's why quantum computer are fast. They don't have fan out"

[liamh @CloudOuter]

@joseph_h_garvin 1. name
2. arguments
3. return type

[liamh @CloudOuter]

I support this

[Kevin @linguinelabs]

2026 software interview
- do the wordle
- show me how your computer is organized
- 30s monkeytype
- show me ur favourite YouTube video

[liamh @CloudOuter]

What if the correct way to get agents to work is to reward them with credits when they are successful, and allow them to spend credits at will.

Succeed and you can continue to live.

[liamh @CloudOuter]

Last image before our Go Pro died on our high altitude balloon we (MIT Satellite Team) launched last saturday

[liamh @CloudOuter]

I started learning JavaScript in 2015. I think it's a great language. Mmm. Maybe that's not so good...

[liamh @CloudOuter]

Success befalls upon those who are insane enough to reach for it, the bean juice pancake said calmly.

[liamh @CloudOuter]

MIT approved my funding to research compilers and hardware accelerators! Yeah baby that's what I'm talking about. \o/

[liamh @CloudOuter]

Tiling managers are ad-hoc bug ridden implementations of flexbox

[liamh @CloudOuter]

This was a good one

[Whisgoon @Whisgoon]

Idrc for powerscaling that much but there’s an entire article about the Foundation building a machine to kill SCP-682 by erasing it from human thought and existence, only for it to adapt after being erased by possessing said machine and destroying the entire universe.

[Evanosaurus “Unrawrl Engine 5.8” Rex @evankinney]

if you want to scare the crap out of a gameplay/engine programmer, just whisper the words “join in progress” to them softly

genuinely one of the hardest problems to solve of all time in game development

[liamh @CloudOuter]

Haha no. It's waaaaay more complicated than that. Beloved out of order.

[Swaroop Kumar Yadav @S2SmeX]

Is this right😂