Mike Lin

UI engineer at @databricks. Formerly Twitter. Vancouver ☞ Taipei ☞ SF.

[Mike Lin @mlin]

San Francisco 2049.

[Jonathan Frankle @jefrankle]

Meet DBRX, a new sota open llm from @databricks. It's a 132B MoE with 36B active params trained from scratch on 12T tokens. It sets a new bar on all the standard benchmarks, and - as an MoE - inference is blazingly fast. Simply put, it's the model your data has been waiting for.

[Matei Zaharia @matei_zaharia]

Probably the thing I’m most excited about with DBRX, it’s super fast! Easily 150 tokens/s for quality comparable to much slower closed models.

[Matei Zaharia @matei_zaharia]

We're launching two comprehensive online courses on building and using Large Language Models! The first is on using LLMs in applications, covering topics like prompt engineering, embeddings, chains, and MLOps. The second teaches you to build your own LLMs.
https://t.co/AfIprtlp9B

[Matei Zaharia @matei_zaharia]

MLflow just added first-class support for LLMs, including integrations with @huggingface transformers/pipelines, @OpenAI and @langchain! Open source #LLMOps is here. https://t.co/l870bYyPdE

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@J_ Hope you still have all your trees!

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@J_ Some people have longer pain than others.

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@kuveetha Wow! Congrats!

[Mike Lin @mlin]

I’ve definitely had some quality coding sessions in some of those Twitter lounge chairs. Wouldn’t buy one though because of bad energy.

[Mike Lin @mlin]

I just had some tasty Taiwan Grouper Fish last week. Throw some in your hot pot.

[Tricky Taipei @trickytaipei]

Taiwan’s got it all under control, guys. Nothing to worry about at all.

[New New York Times @NYT_first_said]

graphql

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@aaghevli @feng That’s awesome. We also suffered through GDPR together but apart. Unity catalog is kind of similar to DAL, but in addition to an abstraction layer, it’s also the metastore and handles auth.

[Mike Lin @mlin]

This kind of baked in data lineage is where I originally hoped to get to building EagleEye at twitter 10 years ago. cc @feng
https://t.co/hWjJAmV8hN

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@feng Yea! We were ahead of our time. Apparently it's still there. Or at least it was there.

[Arash Aghevli @aaghevli]

So…

Be the person to ask the dumb question.

Be the person who admits they don’t know the answer.

Be the person who chooses to walk a path they suspect might lead to failure.

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@cba 🫡 You are so twitter to me. No wonder you went back. Hope you can find another place fits you so well.

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@l_if You have a freaking PhD!

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@l_if What an amazing journey! I feel privileged to get to have seen the beginning.

[Jason Toff @jasontoff]

This is unfortunately not an anomaly. The most unethical thing I was asked to do was shortly after becoming head of Vine. I haven’t spoken publicly about this out of embarrassment and fear of retribution, but probably better overall for the universe to air out these mistakes…

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@dmarwick Strong effort. My approach is to say “if you don’t want it, I’ll eat it all” which is either completely effective or totally backfires.

[Mike Lin @mlin]

@dmarwick Standing firm or appeasement. The constant dilemma.