Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻

🇲🇾 x 🇺🇸 founder / CEO of @celluloseai, angel investor. ex @getlexer (YC S22), @Cruise, @driveai_, @Hologram, @UMengineering

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Tim Cook explains why Apple chooses China for manufacturing.

[Jack Altman @jaltma]

Saas founders getting their companies started

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

@davj 👋

[Modular @Modular]

🚨📢 MAX Developer Edition Preview has officially launched! It's a drop-in replacement for running and serving @PyTorch, @tensorflow and @onnxai models much faster⚡️ and leverages the power Mojo🔥 for extensibility. Check out the blog post👇⬇️

https://t.co/z6Nul9DADk

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but they won’t be a barrier to entry.

Many times over the years I have thought about a great programmer I knew that loved assembly language to the point of not wanting to move to C. I have to fight some similar feelings of my own around using existing massive codebases and inefficient languages, but I push through.

I had somewhat resigned myself to the fact that I might be missing out on the “final abstraction”, where you realize that managing people is more powerful than any personal tool. I just don’t like it, and I can live with the limitations that puts on me.

I suspect that I will enjoy managing AIs more, even if they wind up being better programmers than I am.

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

“The highest leveraged method manufacturers can use to reduce memory safety vulnerabilities is to secure one of the building blocks of cyberspace: the programming language. Using memory safe programming languages can eliminate most memory safety errors.” https://t.co/EP9QahkStI

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

Play stupid games win stupid prizes, but for startup land. From https://t.co/RAdWTSRQrI

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

nothing more torturous than remaining on a customer support line for more than half an hour just to update a flight itinerary - something that could've been addressed with two or so self serve online forms in under 5 minutes.

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

City I dislike: Chicago / Midwestern cities
City I think is underrated: SF
City I think is overrated: Austin
City I like: Tokyo
City I love: Singapore
City I feel most myself in: SF
City I still need to visit: Miami
City I dream of living in: Singapore (if conditions are right)

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

Technical here could mean writing code for a tech company, or driving a tractor to tend the crop

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

the best founders are the ones who are not just technical, but “willing to still be technical” by rolling up their sleeves and getting shit done well after the world thinks they’re better off as paper pushers.

[Enrique Piqueras @epiqueras1]

@_sholtodouglas @0interestrates @nearcyan My first real/long interaction with him when he started coming in to help on Gemini was staying at the office until 1am staring at a Colab, fixing a gnarly numerics bug. He grasped my code in minutes. Top tier engineer, scientist, and a pleasure to work with.

[Alec Allen @S3XYstarship]

"What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about LOOKING good, while DOING evil. Fuck them."

-@elonmusk at NYT Dealbook Summit

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college

[David J Phillips @davj]

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college 🥹

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

now I like sama even more

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Not gonna lie Sam has a point here

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

Lfg 🚀

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

"The person who wrote more code on Half Life was a chemistry major who decided to be an IP lawyer in Atlanta... The creature designer was a manager at a Waffle House" - Gaben

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

https://t.co/x7Cvvdovxo Amazing documentary by @valvesoftware

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

Knowledge distillation of LLMs, in practice 😆

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Good god.

[Zheng Tan 👨🏻‍💻 @zhenghaooo]

@buccocapital Can confirm we Malaysians find him insufferable