Christopher Schiff

BCI/Neurotech + ASIC/FPGA/EDA etc.

[dax @thdxr]

there's no such thing as a rogue agent man its software someone made and deployed they are responsible for what it does

cannot let this blame shifting occur

[香菜面 @wings1105]

朋友们，如果我这辈子只能告诉大家一件事，那就是必须从现在开始，从人生只是幻觉的这种错觉中解脱出来。

必须从只有十多岁、二十多岁才是灿烂的青春，以后的日子将是无穷无尽的无聊人生这种想法中解脱出来。

必须从只有周六、周日才是属于我的日子，平日只是勉强熬过去这种想法中解脱出来。

必须从当我实现梦想的那一刻，真正的人生才开始展开，而现在的生活只是在等待那一刻的虚假生活这种想法中解脱出来。

必须从现在开始，认识到每一天、每一刻、每一分、每一秒我都是活着的，就是这些瞬间才汇聚成了我的人生、我的生命，而不是那些所谓的结果，所谓的梦想实现的时刻。

[foombler 🐂🃏 @foombler]

@QwQiao Why is it always so hard for scientists to accept that disproving known science is the entire business of science?

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@randy_mossad ALWAYS BLOOM NEVER DOOM

[tenso @distributedkv]

bloom, never doom.

join the fastest growing anti-doomer non-movement.

https://t.co/wE2xbzvLrP

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@leothecurious graeber spoke of this

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

bullish on ultrasound

[Will Biederman @will_biederman]

But, a hole in the head should be the last resort, and we don’t need one for the future interface for the mind. That’s why I’m building Bridge Neurotech, and it’s the best thing I’ve ever built (besides my 2 boys, and my wife really did that building).

[corsaren @corsaren]

honestly, i’d rather be a part of the permanent underclass than be a permanent resident of san francisco

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@orphcorp this tracks pretty well. irl conversations have evolved from "I have an app idea you should make for me" to "I have an app idea you should make for me (with claude)"

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@banteg @ReinierButot would you mind a remix with edited lyrics or does that still fall under 'repurpose' for you?

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@elegantunivers9 https://t.co/QPvMHTTita

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"Do not bet against the airplane. The skeptics who say AI can't conjecture, can't theorize, and can't explain are describing last spring's models. Within months, they will be describing nobody. The evidence is already on the table, and those with eyes can see it."

[Kevin Immanuel Gubbi @kevingubbi]

Chip design is basically a massive search problem.

Let's take a design with 500,000 standard cells and simplify the problem massively. Forget routing, timing, power, memory, architecture, basically everything else. Just imagine 500,000 cells and ask: how many different ways could I arrange them?

That's 500,000! Roughly 10^2,632,341 possibilities. The exponent alone is over 2.6 million.

Just for some sense of scale, the number of legal positions in Go is ~10^170, and the commonly cited estimate for its full game tree is ~10^360. Protein folding has estimates around ~10^300 possible conformations for a typical protein.

Obviously these aren't the same problems, and I'm not saying chip design is "X times harder" than Go or protein folding. It's just a way to get a feel for how quickly the numbers get ridiculous.

And real chip design is much messier than this toy example. You're making decisions about architecture, memory hierarchy, interconnect, precision, voltage, clocks, floorplanning, routing, timing, power, packaging, cost... and everything affects everything else. Improve timing and you might hurt power. Change the memory system and you've changed bandwidth, latency, area and cost.

Of course nobody brute forces this. EDA tools use hierarchy, constraints, heuristics and decades of optimization work to narrow the problem down. But we still only explore a tiny fraction of what could be built, and exploring each promising direction takes real compute, engineering time and money.

I think AI changes the economics of that search.

Search more of the space. Kill bad ideas earlier. Run more experiments. Try architectures we wouldn't have had the time or money to try before.

And if that loop gets dramatically cheaper and faster, I think we end up taping out more chips, not fewer. More architectures become worth trying. More workloads become worth building custom silicon for.

There's a lot of silicon we never even get the chance to explore today!!

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@poteto @thsottiaux dots are great for managing the work I do with @ChatGPT but as an orchestration layer @bot is just...better (for now)

[nicksaraev @nicksaraev]

Things will never be the same. All model progress could stop today and we'd still be reorganizing our societies around it one hundred years from now.

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@elonmusk can we get a slop button a la @LinkedIn soon? Tired of relying on @pangram to sort my feed

[Samswara @samswoora]

I think we should all be mourning the world we knew. Even if Opus 5.5 is the best model ever made and nothing ever surpasses it the world we knew is gone forever

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@beffjezos Bearish on materialism having worked on neurotech my entire adult life but agree otherwise

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@Willschips Where do you think this leaves Anthropic? Could they follow suit with Cadence/Siemens or is that a naive guess

[Christopher Schiff @fpgasic]

@loyalmoses "To oppose something is to maintain it...You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness