semih

jack of all trades, master of some

ml/dist-sys enjoyer

[Khalid Warsame @KhalidWarsa]

The AI grift in a nutshell:

if you aren’t doing this thing I just made up, you’re falling behind and aren’t gonna make it.

[semih @semiozz]

@HSVSphere that's quite a low bar. they're suicidal

[semih @semiozz]

@ludwigABAP @basedmachina holy fuck lfg

[semih @semiozz]

@peach2k2 fair nerf tbh i was spending like 5k$ worth of tokens with single prompt

[semih @semiozz]

i deadass woke up in a sweat the other day because he was trash-talking me exactly like this in my nightmare but in turkish

[semih @semiozz]

can't let hindsight bias collapse your mood

[semih @semiozz]

@BenjDicken that's also pretty legit from one and only @willccbb:

https://t.co/5T2oI296dl

[semih @semiozz]

you might wanna continue with those:

wanna understand;

embeddings/word vectors: https://t.co/r3TjhWU6vU

deep learning took off: https://t.co/jRMFA0pMNf

regularization: https://t.co/97bTHcMTmy

very deep networks/skipping connections: https://t.co/DfXS4QrXxL

sequence-to-sequence models: https://t.co/svLqOqB7Bp

attention before transformers: https://t.co/H3dO30QyJ6

gpt pretraining: https://t.co/x7rrJkvkQn

instruction tuning/rlhf https://t.co/vzHmmXKVHV

ilya's recs: https://t.co/UgnqHLdSf5

[keshav @keshavchan]

til, Ilya sutskever gave john carmack this reading list of approx 30 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’

https://t.co/6eNmrgyq7k

[semih @semiozz]

@peach2k2 helal olsun goy

[semih @semiozz]

@0xUltraInstinct works pretty good for a week or two(distraction, noise free) but you become retarded after that. i was able to get 6 hrs of sleep with it tho that's kinda nice, 8 hrs is too much.

[semih @semiozz]

will try demis hassabis’ creating 2 days out of a single day thing by starting the next day between 10pm–4am typeshit for a week

will report back

[semih @semiozz]

@HSVSphere was lex fridman in the post-training team lol

[tetsuo.cpp (no slop) @tetsuo_cpp]

Oh, you're writing CUDA kernels? Everyone's on Triton now. Just kidding, we're all on Mojo. We're using cuTile. We're using ROCm. We have an in-house DSL compiler targeting the NVGPU MLIR dialect but wait, Tile IR just dropped so we're going to target that instead. Our PM is on TileLang. The team lead was on CuTe but now she's back to handwriting PTX. If you're not on Pallas, you're ngmi. Our intern is building on TT-Metalium for our Wormholes. Our CFO approved an order for some big chungus wafer-scale chips so now we're porting our kernels to CSL. Our CTO is working on a kernel-less graph compiler so we won't need to write kernels anymore. Our CEO thinks we're talking about the Linux kernel. We're building Claude for dogs.

[semih @semiozz]

@himanshustwts you gotta add that parental advisory typeshit

[semih @semiozz]

her anlamda istanbul'un ortasinda bir vaha. bilgi yasamaya devam edecek.

#bilgidireniyor

[Susan Zhang @suchenzang]

there is no better time in tech than now to be a jack of all trades, master of a few.

just make sure to keep adding to the few year over year, such that the cumulative breadth of expertise you collect becomes an increasingly rare combo. remember, if you're top 10% in 3 different areas, that already makes you top 0.1%. keep switching it up until you get to "your best", and then switch it up again (great for a particular flavor of people who don't enjoy resting on laurels, maybe not so great for others).

question all institutional value and pedigrees, all traditional career paths or corporate ladders: the college industrial complex is getting shaken up, alongside a disappearing managerial class, so if you're pursuing either make sure you are fully internally aligned with why. social/political capital in a particular institution can feel incredible, but if you're spending all your energy on complex political people games, you're not a technologist anymore, you're an unelected politician. if you're ok with that, then all's well.

critical thinking is more important than ever: take nothing at face-value, question everything and everyone. the equivalent of ai slop can be found in humans operating under misaligned incentives and interests. the sooner you're clued into disambiguating the talkers/larpers from the doers, the better off you'll be figuring out where and who to invest your time in.

the anxiety of job displacement is very real, since a surprising amount of white collar work/prestige is built on a performative house of cards, significantly lacking in correlation with technical breadth, depth, and skill. as long as you keep learning, keep building, keep producing receipts, you will be fine.

if all that sounds ok to you, welcome to the world of technology! it's truly one of the few places you can experience child-like wonder every few years, and be constantly humbled & excited by new adventures, as scary as they may seem at first.

don't give up, drink your water, get your sunlight, and take breaks as needed. tech careers are notoriously nonlinear, so you might as well embrace it and enjoy the ride!

[semih @semiozz]

@peach2k2 gercek

[semih @semiozz]

@HSVSphere he will beat the shit out of you in a month. he's orange

[semih @semiozz]

@HSVSphere orasi istanbul mu kedi var

[semih @semiozz]

recently my brain has been psyoping itself into being affected by total retards so i remind myself of this mental model from The Big Brother I’ve Never Had

[ludwig @ludwigABAP]

I literally don't get affected by 99% of the things in the world simply because I have designed a careful bubble to live in. I allow a constant small stream of adversarial inputs through meeting a lot of people, traveling, and platforms like X. Then, I expand my bubble for a bit, adding new people and things around me. After a couple of months, I filter out everything again and shrink the bubble, only keeping the things that feel effective to me.

If I didn't do that, I'd probably hate everything, but instead, I have a very (pragmatically) nice view of the world and people, mostly because my world is composed of cool and exciting things, and I'm surrounded by cool and kind people. And I hold 0 interest in anything outside of that, so it doesn't affect me. People worry about tons of things that I literally never even conceptualize.

It's freeing, really.