Saeejith Nair

bits and bots | ai phd student @UWaterloo

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

I built https://t.co/VJ7oHdvf7s, a new interface for arXiv

As we enter an era of accelerated scientific discovery, we need better tools that augment human cognition to help us keep up.

Try it: visit papiers ai or swap arxiv -> papiers on any paper URL

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I often rant about how 99% of attention is about to be LLM attention instead of human attention. What does a research paper look like for an LLM instead of a human? It’s definitely not a pdf. There is huge space for an extremely valuable “research app” that figures this out.

[Transformer Lab @transformerlab]

Our lab built the highest-quality quantization for running Ideogram 4 on consumer GPUs. Our Q4_K build outperforms the standard NF4 baseline in both image and text quality at the exact same 10.4 GB size, while our INT8 matches the uncompressed FP8 ceiling. 🧵👇 @ideogram_ai

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@joshavata @MeckaAI huge, congrats!

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@LoganMarkewich @jerryjliu0 sure https://t.co/2WipB684Ag

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@bmptrsn woah this is sick

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

FR8 is a 12,000 m² palace, filled with geniuses researching or building startups, it charges 0% equity and even pays for your food, living, and flights. One of their founders drank actual poison on stage to demo their tech.

Welcome to FR8.

Nothing about FR8 makes sense because it’s so over the top in their ambition, but they might eventually become the biggest thing for young founders globally. And it’s happening right here in Europe.

They are neither a hackerhouse, nor a startup accelerator, nor a classic research lab.

Instead they think of themselves as a university-like institution for the post AGI world that pushes you towards building companies, ambition, obsession, and bias-to-action.

Think YCombinator, Stanford and Bell Labs all wrapped into one thing for the most ambitious 20-somethings in the world to work, run by 20-somethings.

They just came out of stealth. Until recently people didn’t even know where their latest cohort is based. Because additionally on top FR8 is absurdly secretive. Their target group knows them and that’s about all they care for.

We visited last week to join them behind-the-scenes as they prepare for their first demo day in their new building - a 5 floor university building in the middle of Helsinki.

We knew them for quite some time so we were allowed to film them as the first team worldwide. But even we couldn’t film multiple floors and rooms of their building. This video gives you an insight into the ambitious craziness that FR8 is – but trust me there’s more to come in the near future.

The biggest new thing in startups – isn’t in SF – it’s in the north of Europe and attracts young geniuses worldwide. Welcome to FR8!

[Lukas Bongartz @lukas_bongartz]

I looked into something related recently. Models seem to learn meaning via collective coordinates between tokens. This is quite similar to how we describe phonon modes (lattice vibrations) in physics. (1/9)

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@Swarooprm7 hey!

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@bryanlehrer @UWaterloo will be around latch up

[maxleedev @maxleedev]

.@ErnestiSario @nantte and the @shipfr8 team are some of the most genuine people ive ever met

from my last 3 months here, it’s clear they will change the world and have already cultivated an environment to do so

you should apply :)

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@DamiDina check out https://t.co/nP4vq8d3HI

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

There’s few places in the world where real magic happens. FR8 is one of them

[FR8 @shipfr8]

We took over a former technical university.

This is Hogwarts in real life.

For people who want to work on something too early, too weird, too ambitious.

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@shipfr8 woah

[Nils Cremer @nilscmr]

CPUs suck. We're building a new general-purpose chip that scales to thousands of cores while being more energy-efficient.

We're hiring hardware design engineers, consider joining us https://t.co/8GCN0bN0xN

What we do differently ...

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@TheMingjie @freemanjiangg @socraticainfo that’s insane

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@_rajanagarwal this would be cool, i find myself using `/btw` a lot lately and wish it could do an extended conversation with tool calls

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@socraticainfo @Cmdr_Hadfield no way

[Saeejith Nair @sighjith]

@bayzhan8 cool, will try it out!