In the last three months I’ve had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What’s been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It would b…
Week 5 on Nick Launches: founders on launch timing and why you'll never feel ready, a featured builder, a reciprocal shoutout, the top launches, the numbers, and what's next.
A follow-up to the India 2047 song essay, moving from Godel, Turing, and the halting problem toward anxiety, controllability, the Gita, Stoicism, and the old problem of duty.
SQL is the language for databases. A SQL program is
also called a query. Each query takes one or more tables as
input, and produces one table as output. A table is a collection of
rows, where each row has the same number of columns. Each column has a
name and …
When I first saw the title of OpenAI’s blog, I wasn’t too excited. Here it is: Building self-improving tax agents with Codex.
Tax agents don’t sound exciting. Everything is self-improving. I got it. But this short post is a masterclass in practical, hands-on l…
If you self-host LLMs, at some point, you’ll likely experience a stuck GPU consuming significant electricity for long periods of time. This is my summary of discovering the problem & then implementing automation that corrects the issue. I want automation to …
A colleague of mine was recently discussing a connectivity monitoring
system he is working on with me. It’s nothing fancy, just sending ICMP
Echo Requests to a couple of different servers, and monitoring latency
and dropped packet averages over 1-minute, 5-min…
I have been feeling that I am not enjoying the process lately, I am not having fun while I am working, previously I used to think about the problems even on weekends while out with friends, because they were my problems and I used to own them end to end, solvi…
Two underexplored axes: what MoE routing does to the decode roofline, and how
compressed attention takes away the slack that used to make speculated tokens free.
For a long time the tech industry revelled in the distruption of what it saw as old, legacy industries. But now, as AI takes over tech, we’re now starting to eat our own, and it’s dark and ironic.