Ryan Vilim

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@richardartoul Warpstream had the best sales thing ever, good docs and a self serve signup. I was putting traffic through it in half an hour without scheduling a meeting with a salesperson 4 days in the future.

It maybe both vendors who do that and customers who want to do that are rare.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@bernhardsson @BryanOffutt Oh yeah I see them all the time! I assumed it was like a monthly thing you were paying for. I have no idea how bus ads work. I have 100% seen one in the last week.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@bernhardsson @BryanOffutt Do Modal employees in SF take the bus a lot? I feel you’re on half the busses in SF.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@dylanmatt I just did this after seeing this tweet and it trivially found me a thousand dollars. My cpa didn’t claim treasury or ny/nyc bond income on my New York tax return.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@haozhangml @simon_mo_ @inferact @vllm_project Congrats @simon_mo_ !!!

[Ying Xiao @YingXiao]

Everyone knows that @NoamShazeer is a genius, but one thing that most people don't know is how kind and honest he is. His treatment of *all* employees in the events today was exceptionally fair and generous. 10/10 would work for him again.

[Character.AI @character_ai]

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[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@jxmnop @tokenpilled65B @modal_labs @bernhardsson is great for spinning up gpu compute really fast (no vested interest, I just really like them).

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@Eulerson314 @gabrielpeyre Eg the models expand both the velocity and magnetic fields in terms of spherical harmonics, then do the numerical solves on that representation (for the linear terms).

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@Eulerson314 @gabrielpeyre In the study of planetary magnetic fields they are used all over the place.

First, in representing the fields themselves and second, all the numerical models that simulate magnetic field generation use them as their basis function.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@itunpredictable I grew up in a semi-rural part of Canada. Somehow Seinfeld was seemingly always on one of the two channels we got and my dad loved it so I watched _a lot_ of Seinfeld.

Not sure it's helped my career, I think most people conclude I'm a very young looking boomer.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@dan_abramov Somehow people have looked into this https://t.co/nsaXmYNbuI

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@bernhardsson A old colleague of mine had a phrase that I love (and may not be his originally), which is we should design systems to cause people to fall into the pit of success, rather than then put of failure. E.g. make the easiest thing also the “correct” thing.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@dosinga @NeptyneHQ I mean, survival analysis is kinda right in the name 🙃

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@academic_exit I’m my first job: yes, by a factor of 8, after 7 years by a factor of 16. All of this with a better work-life balance, while still working on interesting problems. I don’t regret my time in academia, but I’m very glad I left.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@erikapullum I don’t understand why snowflake doesn’t have a comprehensive list for functionality that is different on Redshift (maybe they do now). I asked our Snowflake rep and he pointed us to a 4 paragraph blog article that I already knew about.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@erikapullum The answer for the SQL question is “it depends what db”. I lead a migration from Redshift to Snowflake for a very large dbt project, and one of the funnest differences was LEAST(4,null) is 4 on one, and null on the other.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@markmahoney Who doesn't love trading a series of known issues for fun, new, unknown issues, annihilating any existing knowledge of how a system works, and incurring opportunity costs while we do it?

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@levelsio Lol “Even the Canadians don’t use it” and we all know that ANYTHING goes in the great white north.

[Ryan Vilim @ryanvilim]

@holman The other thing is, why would you want someone who has mentally already moved on? By the time I’m giving notice I’m already thinking of all the cool stuff I’m gonna do/learn at the next place. I don’t know why anyone would want me to stay if my hearts not in it.