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i build ai for the web & hardware ⁂ se @uwaterloo

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3 months
Skyline: an agent-based human simulation software to optimize cities as they scale. This weekend @UCBerkeley , we built a way to help cities grow with and optimize for the people that inhabit them. Finalists @ the AI Berkeley Hackathon with @ishaandey_ @ElijahKurien @josh1yan 🐐
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the entire bee movie on github
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startups dead: sentiment analysis live meeting assistant translation apps language learning apps music/singing generation tutoring apps interview prep apps coding assistants agent interaction mental health data science live analysis wearables customer service storytelling & more
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gradient ascent has been achieved internally
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had dinner with @karpathy :) robotics, llms, travel & Fortnite??
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MY LIFE IS COMPLETE
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At Stanford this weekend, we built Nexus: a graph visualization software that helps you discover meaningful relationships at events We scraped Slack data to extract interests and backgrounds, then using NLP to find similarities!
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a personal search engine that learns with you. maintain relationships, revisit that paper you skimmed through, find context in large pdfs & search through footage! v0 is working better than expected :) cc @IKorovinsky @_buildspace @_nightsweekends
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lol didn’t expect this many people to see this: these fields aren’t dying, just showing how startups that generalize will fail. huge believer in companies using openai architecture to provide NICHE use cases; a lot of companies just got created from this announcement
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@_rajanagarwal
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a few life updates: - turned 19 today! - interning @hitachi , train automation & signalling for nyc railroads - working on end-to-end visual reasoning for humanoids - will be open sourcing a lot of ML/AI experiments in the next few months dm me! would love to connect :)
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3 months
i challenged myself to build an audio embeddings model on my flight to sf! just me, tensorflow and the clouds audio2vec: audio embeddings for verbal sentiment in 256 dims, using spectrograms from raw waveforms i love @hume_ai & wanted to try to build it myself, will oss soon!
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The Human Simulation Lab — research collective that models and simulates populations with AI. Our first case study, Skyline, shares our approach to RL & agent-based transit optimization. Live now at
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average waterloo student side quest
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HudZah ⁂
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in a couple weeks, i built a nuclear fusor in my bedroom – with zero hardware experience the secret? Claude sonnet 3.5 + projects a glimpse into the process below
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lgtm
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we just launched our first open source software!!
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Socratica ⁂
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we're open-sourcing our event matchmaking graph! upload a csv of attendees from @LumaHQ and see which ppl are most similar.
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We built a startup from scratch with AI Agents! By giving agents access to Slack and custom tools using @replicate , @cohere and @v0 , our simulation did market research, created branding, posted a job on LinkedIn and built a full-stack app! Read below to learn how it works.
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250 makers met up at Socratica Symposium last night in Waterloo i demoed portal: a wearable ai prototype to relive memories in the most immersive way possible we are so back
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desks are overrated
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never stop cooking
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openai vs google? nvidia wins
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4 months
in sf this friday! who should i meet? if ur into robotics, foundational models, llms or running, coffee’s on me!
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we have @atomic_semi at home
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gambling on linkedin launched
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1 year
Just won Canada’s largest hackathon! Using first person POV footage on a live webcam, we built a way to semantically go through your memories, with just a question. We processed audio & video with @OpenAI Whisper/CLIP & searched fragments with @cohere embeddings/summarization!
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6 months
how to get first years to come to an event
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5 months
@rushabtated4 dead is a harsh word, but i feel like openai is moving away from providing infrastructure and more towards their own native software
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1 year
Introducing Shapeshift: Reverse-engineering earthquakes through policy + math 🌎 Shapeshift analyzes political, geological and seismic data to design affordable, earthquake-resistant buildings. Reply or DM to join the waitlist.
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epochs in the air
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how it started vs how it’s going
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6 months
we just graphed 700 attendees to show them who they are most similar to at Socratica Symposium!
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10 months
we built a self driving tank! spent the past 8 weeks building an autonomous RC car from scratch, that can deliver food anywhere in @UWaterloo campus
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3 months
v0 to search through text, images and videos on your personal device! next up: cleaner ui, messages, web history & better knowledge graphs cc @IKorovinsky @_buildspace @_nightsweekends
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wrapped up my internship @Hitachi ! worked on train safety and simulation software for the nyc railroads — also prototyped RL models for energy optimization. amazing 4 months now, to 2A software eng @UWaterloo !
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too locked in @ElijahKurien
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6 months
waterloo tron capstones!
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1 year
updates: working with AI simulations with frequency testing to optimize building designs for earthquake resistance, while remaining cost-efficient @_buildspace alterok n&w 3 💙
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Shapeshift: optimizing the construction of earthquake resistant buildings using Fourier transforms, attention/LSTMs, policy analysis & tectonic simulations.
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6 months
connecting people in the most visceral way possible had a 30 min convo about humanoids from this graph today. this should become a new standard
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we just graphed 700 attendees to show them who they are most similar to at Socratica Symposium!
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i took a small break from coding and independent work and it was the best decision i have made this year we are so back now
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6 months
ExplorerV2 Launch afterparty V2
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ExplorerV2 Launch afterparty V1
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petition to bring keyboards to cs finals
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the best feeling
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@_rajanagarwal
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3 years
not wordle, just @hackclub 🟥⬜️🟥🟥🟥 🟥⬜️🟥🟥🟥 🟥⬜️🟥🟥🟥 🟥⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥 🟥⬜️🟥⬜️🟥 🟥⬜️🟥⬜️🟥
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8 months
new record 23 minutes for summer co-op rejection
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6 months
i want a refund
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7 months
a warm welcome to engineering
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7 months
couldn't find an image on google for a specific type of circuit i was trying to draw found it immediately it's insane how good this is
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6 months
oh my god it finally works
@BrookeaJoseph
Brooke Joseph
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cooking
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my eyesight with vs without glasses
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Thank you so much @CalHacks for the incredible opportunity to on stage as finalists & have dinner with @karpathy — a truly special weekend watch our finalists pitch:
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@_rajanagarwal
rajan agarwal
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🔍👀
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@socraticainfo
Socratica ⁂
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is this a sign??
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3 months
went on a walk
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9 months
2023 coding wrapped! i really need to touch grass more
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5 months
past few months > gpt 4 is so cool > gpt 4 sucks CLAUDE FOREVER > gpt 4 is so cool
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no excuses
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i just want to know how things work
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fix 👍
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@_rajanagarwal
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after pivoting our idea 5+ times @HackTheNorth , our team hacked together Connex: helping materialize & fund public research💡 this was an unforgettable weekend—from the first step on campus to being a finalist on stage!
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Shapeshift just took a giant leap forwards 🌎 Explore risk assessment, building codes, seismic frequency testing, tectonic simulations, and multilingual permit search – all within 30 seconds. Here's my toy for @_nightsweekends s4. Next week goal: gtfol.
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3 months
hiking in the bay!
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@_rajanagarwal
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I use voice to voice every day when I’m walking the dog, driving or building new projects. It’s like having a podcast that you can talk to about literally anything — I highly recommend it over traditional podcasts or music when you are free Very excited for Monday
@OpenAI
OpenAI
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We’ll be streaming live on at 10AM PT Monday, May 13 to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.
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@_rajanagarwal
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everyone should have their small part of the internet; let's build it! stoked to meet y'all in n&3 s3
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ready to bring this ring back to its true home in waterloo
@newsystems_
New Systems
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Introducing: The New Builds Championship Ring
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6 months
. @Humane this is so much cooler than a Super Bowl ad
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you know you cooked when everyone thinks it’s a human in a morph suit
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still remembering the time we got green lined i love this app
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@_rajanagarwal @karpathy just gonna leave this here
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duality of man
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@_rajanagarwal
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2 years
gpt-4 has taken over twitter. take a breather & learn some new math: 4k lines of ML & 2 new algorithms later, I've identified a novel Fourier interpretation of seismic decay with 3D frequencies — with incredible potential to design affordable earthquake-resistant structures.
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@_rajanagarwal
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every night is hack night in sf. ty for the unforgettable week @OttoPetsHQ @hackclub
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ai cooking assistant final boss
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thanks hudzah for letting me sleep in your room for a weekend — everyone at our/place was so welcoming!
@hud_zah
HudZah ⁂
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quick life update! leaving sf to move to toronto and starting an internship at @cohere ! my gap term in sf has been so delightful and i was lucky enough to be surrounded by the best people. thank you for everything, but the waterloo-toronto corridor is gonna be a movie
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will be trying out the @OuraRing for the next little bit! i love wearables
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@advaithj1 @t3dotgg intern final boss
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locked in
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@_rajanagarwal
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event of the season just dropped truly a magical experience with even more magical people 🪄 sign up!!
@socraticainfo
Socratica ⁂
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announcing our biggest demo day of the year - showcasing projects, hacks, companies, exhibits, and everything in between!
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@OneSmolCat requirements: shenanigans and/or escapades
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4 months
maybe the challenge isn’t about compression but the friends we make along the way
@usrbinishan
ishan
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I have an update for those trying out Neuralink's compression challenge. I put some effort into calculating the legit theoretical max compression possible and.... tada it's 3.439
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We ran 500 agents in parallel using census data to represent and model their interactions. We used chain of thought reasoning to model their movement We use these patterns to optimize Los Angeles transit to maximize mobility at the lowest possible carbon cost using our own PPO!
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rajan agarwal
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What would you want to see in a visualization software? How can we make it as easy and powerful as possible for you to build & integrate?
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rajan agarwal
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At Stanford this weekend, we built Nexus: a graph visualization software that helps you discover meaningful relationships at events We scraped Slack data to extract interests and backgrounds, then using NLP to find similarities!
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@dev_elio elon gotta stop offering 5000 BTC every day
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the only grass software engineers touch
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just walked through the engineering behind our self driving delivery tank on the OpenCV livestream! watch how computer vision and hardware hacks powered our mini cybertruck 🏎️
@opencvlive
OpenCV Live
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Student Showcase: Gesture-Controlled Hologram & Self-Driving Tank Bot - OpenCV 121
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Stanford campus beautiful as always
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@_rajanagarwal
rajan agarwal
1 year
building designs won't suffice. Shapeshift is growing beyond theory, using math + ai to solve core due diligence barriers in earthquake-resistant buildings. for the dreamers 💛 @_buildspace @_nightsweekends
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rajan agarwal
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Introducing Shapeshift: Reverse-engineering earthquakes through policy + math 🌎 Shapeshift analyzes political, geological and seismic data to design affordable, earthquake-resistant buildings. Reply or DM to join the waitlist.
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WHAT
@Etched
Etched
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Sohu is >10x faster and cheaper than even NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell (B200) GPUs. One Sohu server runs over 500,000 Llama 70B tokens per second, 20x more than an H100 server (23,000 tokens/sec), and 10x more than a B200 server (~45,000 tokens/sec). Benchmarks are from
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rajan agarwal
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Searching on Google just got better with ChatGPT! i've been building a tool to synthesize ways of retaining information in the internet — this hacky solution gives deeper insight into even the simplest searches. 👇 a couple examples:
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@_rajanagarwal
rajan agarwal
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132T jumpscared me, definitely one of the craziest typos
@mvpatel2000
Mihir Patel
6 months
🚨 Announcing DBRX-Medium 🧱, a new SoTA open weights 36b active 132T total parameter MoE trained on 12T tokens (~3e24 flops). Dbrx achieves 150 tok/sec while clearing a wide variety of benchmarks. Deep dive below! 1/N
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i’ll be in nyc aug 2-6! would love to meet everyone in town my dms are open!
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canon rebel t4i 📸
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@marie_bbb i'm one week into my first coop and i honestly don't mind, learning a lot hands-on for stuff i've been wanting to learn anyways (ie firmware). might change down the road though still finding lots of time to touch grass lol
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rajan agarwal
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my second home @socraticainfo
@internetvin
internetVin
8 months
Socratica in Waterloo is incredible, gd lol
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> mom can i have chatgpt > no we have chatgpt at home > wait we actually have it at home??
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@_rajanagarwal
rajan agarwal
3 years
@ansonyuu What about Nathan from Repl 👀
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rajan agarwal
2 months
it's been awesome seeing toby cook up beem for the past 9 months — really cool launch!
@developedbytoby
Toby Brown
2 months
Change is today. Say hello to Beem 1/7
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@_rajanagarwal
rajan agarwal
1 year
This semester I’ll be continuing my work on Shapeshift as a Cohort 15 @RippleXFellow under the guidance of @_dominiclau !
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rajan agarwal
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evan in a wework 2 months ago “idk what im doing but im gonna do it”
@evannlinn
evan
2 months
as the unemployed friend on a monday afternoon, i spent the past two months building a TPU without any prerequisite knowledge in digital logic, ASIC design, or verilog. here are my coolest unlocks so far:
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2 MILLION?????
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