Amir Hirsch

AI for Engineering
Founder at Flybrix, RF DSP on FPGA/GPU, YC S11, MIT Math and EECS

[Amir Hirsch @tinkerheavy]

We will know when AGI is achieved when Sam fires everybody… because Dario achieved AGI

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@NotTomBrown @howardlutnick Thank you! I have a whole backlog of prompts to run!

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@SimoneSyed Yeah, this platform is insufferable. I’m only here for the social climbing.

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@samanfarid As a father of three, I require four more arms.

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I see a giant pool of water and think: can we build a datacenter on it?

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@SimoneSyed father of three slash CTO…. The T is for…🎾🎾

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When people ask me if they should drop out of MIT to pursue a startup, I tell them to transfer to Harvard first. Signaling is important.

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@zackary_a lol that's maroon of course.

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Parenting tip: when your kid says: “my favorite color is green,” correct them: “no, your favorite color is crimson”

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@matanSF This is the kind of high-signal nudnikposting that earns a heart and follow.

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@ritwikpavan In San Francisco, we call this "Waymo"

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@DanielleFong Next startup: gigawatt islands of floating solar out in the ocean where gravity battery economics are awesome. Good to try off of Hawaii or Japan where the drop off is fast

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@DavidSHolz @gregtaniguchi Skyscraper smol. Acropoli

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Excited about plasma lensing. Might simulate later. fabs love this joke:

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@Brennan_Lup I have $5M funding, $250K monthly revenue, and a wife and three kids. A girlfriend, obviously.

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@Andercot Great spot to test air surveillance radars

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@leyten @Zai_org Cool! But optimizing for single stream is costing you like 2x Opus. The tricks you use to get better single stream tok/s are blocking what you need for efficient economics through batching and PagedAttention.

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We've talked to hundreds of hardware engineers. None of them think CAD generation is a bottleneck. The CAD was done 11 years ago bro, we're still working out ISO 314159 compliance.