Derek Deming

@Altaratech, infra, physical ai; prev: @MSFTResearch | ex PhD (ABD / dropped out)

[Derek Deming @ddeming_]

@CorinneMRiley @baseten @braintrust @resolveai @cogent_security @FableSecurity @altaratech @GreylockVC Super well deserved and such an incredible partner to Altara!!!

[Derek Deming @ddeming_]

this is so cool

[Ryan Chan @Ryan_Resolution]

Launching MakerMods Metal Arm.

Finally ready to reveal the robot arm we've been building. Full CNC metal arm. 6-DoF, 3kg payload, gravity compensation leader arm.
Limited supply launch price $2,499.

pre-orders open now $99 deposit👇
@IsaacSin12
@makermodsai

[Derek Deming @ddeming_]

We are hiring! DMs are open

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Never heard so many standout infra engineers + AI infra eng actively wanting to leave Meta than now.

A month ago they were building cutting-edge infra and then got assigned to AI data labelling

Most of them went “WTH” and now I’m the middle of interviewing

Madness from Meta

[will depue @willdepue]

i just want to shake people awake. this is it! the computers are speaking! they solve Erdos problems! they think for hours! code is no longer hand-written! wake up! gradient descent on deep neural networks shows no sign of plateau! this is it!

[will depue @willdepue]

bro it isn’t generally intelligent bro its only read every book and paper ever written and just making connections between them bro. its only thinking for twenty hours bro it’s just brute force thinking bro. its only solving erdos problems bro it could never be an accountant bro

[Beidi Chen @BeidiChen]

Align with how @cursor_ai has done its RL stage — Astraflow is a new RL engine that enables asynchronous, heterogeneous, and geo-distributed RL in a native way through dataflow abstraction~

Like @FireworksAI_HQ’s sparse RL transfer design, it syncs only ≤1.1% of model weights — making remote rollout lightweight and efficient.

Check it out!!!

[Derek Deming @ddeming_]

i wonder if he had to go through all of the technical interviews lol

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

The bitter lesson in 26 words:

Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically.
Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.

[Jiayi Yuan @jiayiy]

🚀 BLASST just won Best Paper at #MLSys26!
In this paper, we introduce a simple, training-free dynamic sparse attention mechanism that uses a single scalar threshold on online softmax statistics to skip negligible attention blocks.
Unfortunately I won’t be there in person, but please say hi to my awesome coauthors! 🙌
Paper: https://t.co/HDDHDqKRTT

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

I can’t stop thinking about this post. If you do one thing today, I encourage you to give it a thoughtful, thorough read…

And then commit to never living your life this way. Life has wasted success on the people described in this post.

It really is completely pathetic. They say that comparison is the thief of joy - look no further than this post for validation it is indeed true.

On their deathbed they will realize they have lived their life completely wrong. Don’t let it be you.

[Catherine Yeo @catherinehyeo]

Excited to see Altara (@altaratech) on this year's Black Flag 100, a list of one hundred deep tech startups nominated by 500+ deep tech founders.

Grateful to be on a list with so many incredible companies pushing the frontier.

[Catherine Yeo @catherinehyeo]

Today marks 1 week since we introduced Altara @altaratech to the world!

We hosted a launch celebration to thank all our friends, mentors, and supporters who’ve been in our corner long before the launch. Behind the scenes, it takes a village - and we couldn't ask for a better one.

Special thanks to @GreylockVC for hosting such a great night 🥂

[Corinne Marie Riley @CorinneMRiley]

Last week, Altara took over the Greylock SF office!

@evatuecke, @catherinehyeo and the team came out of stealth, so a party was in order. They are one of the most hardworking and talented teams we've had the privilege of partnering with, bringing AI to the world of physical sciences.

Seeing the team finally get to celebrate in a room full of people who've been rooting for them from day one made us so proud. Big congratulations to everyone at @altaratech

cc @GreylockVC

[Derek Deming @ddeming_]

Based.

[rohan anil @_arohan_]

There is no pre-training, post-training, or test-time training. There are only priors, updates, constraints, and compute budgets.

There is only TRAINING.

Last several years we shipped the org chart to fundamental optimization science.

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers

SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY

NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world

Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA

"The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein

[Derek Deming @ddeming_]

@theodormarcu Would love to try!

[Derek Deming @ddeming_]

@cognition @cerebras This soooo sooo cool!!!! Would love to try it out

[kalomaze @kalomaze]

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR KNOWLEDGE AWARENESS

[Lighthouse @lighthousehq_]

Some of the most exciting frontier work happening right now is at companies who are building the future of science. Can't wait to see what comes next

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences https://t.co/xImLsfFdTD