@sneaknsneak
There’s an entire body of research that shows that women have more fluid sexualities than men! Most straight women don’t have a disgust reaction to the idea of lesbian sex, and the same is true for lesbian women and straight sex.
This isn’t the case for men. We don’t know why!
@BLUECOW009
please do not use a homegrown cryptographic algorithm for anything you plan to deploy publicly or handle real user data!
even the best cryptographers and engineers can build systems with flaws (look at Rainbow)
@BLUECOW009
what hardness assumptions are you relying on? and what's the enc/dec performance? i feel like massive keys would hurt performance significantly
@albfresco
@ctjlewis
when you grow the crystals from molten silicon, they’re in giant cylinders called boules
and it’s easiest to trim them into rectangles later, at the same time you’re dicing the wafers, rather than doing two steps of wafer cutting
@animalologist
I think the vast majority of men would take this extremely poorly as well
There just happens to be a small contingent of men who are very self-conscious about their desirability who are also incredibly loud online
@BLUECOW009
for cryptographic algorithms, performance is reported in cycles as they're all fairly fast. nearly all secure implementations should be constant-time (is yours?).
though before you think about implementation security, you need a security proof.
@dela3499
my rule of thumb if you had a date where you didn’t vibe:
after the date, don’t preemptively send a “no thanks” message. if they don’t text you first, it’s okay to mutually ghost
if they text you asking about a second date, politely say no rather than ghosting
i work at normal computing now!
teams with genuinely new hardware ideas are rare. teams with the vision to tie them to real-world problems are rarer. normal is one of those few companies, and im super hyped to help bring this vision to life.
Proud to officially be working with
@blip_tm
. There are folks you meet and realize in minutes you would relish building them up, and deeply fear betting against. Zach is one of those people. Same for
@thomasahle
@mengdi_en
@nmartyanoff
and
@zaqqwerty_ai
and many others at Normal.
@kitten_beloved
there are definitely some wealthy / successful men out there who really want successful partners… but I don’t know how many of them are still single at 34
@HotForMoot
took her on a road trip with every stop planned out to be something cute that referenced our relationship somehow
and I co-founded and run a semiconductor security company
Oscillator Ising Machines (OIMs) are a new chip architecture for solving optimization problems using physics. But they’re only accessible to researchers at the few labs where the chips OIM chips get designed. Today, we’re changing that.
In the 1950s and 1960s, researchers built computers using a low cost, error-robust architecture invented by John Von Neumann: stochastic computing. But as chips got better and cheaper, it fell out of favor.
Now, the computational needs of AI might bring it back. 🧵
@thechosenberg
there's a very strong correlation between the quality of my relationships and how quickly we became officially a couple
my happiest, longest relationship went from meeting to being a couple in 6 days
new blog post!
- i finally swung by
@fractaltechnyc
& it's great!
- my team at
@NormalComputing
is hiring, come work with me!
- various thoughts about the best first customers for startups 🤔💰
⬇️
unfortunately the startup i work at is going to start winding down.
if anybody has opportunities for IC designers with experience designing accelerators for AI and/or cryptography, shoot me a DM!
@the6p4c
i made an IP block written by a catgirl that runs at 100MHz talk to an IP block written by a foxgirl that runs at 200MHz
call that animal clock domain crossing
@thechosenberg
in the best relationship i ever had, we went from our first date to being officially a couple after 6 days, having gone on 3 dates in which we spent nearly 24 hours together total
honestly i just want that again, it was incredibly easy
@RiverTamYDN
I mean she was an asshole about it but I totally get not wanting to date this guy. It’s kinda duplicitous of him, which is a red flag, and she probably cared about the degree because she wants to date within her social class.
Ising machines -- analog solvers for optimization problems -- are a hot area of research. But what if you could use them for more than just optimization? 🧵
@idoccor
@albfresco
@ctjlewis
transistors perform best if they’re aligned to the crystal lattice of the silicon, which is square! so at least the transitors themselves need to be at right angles
also I think it would be harder to build EDA tools for hexagonal layouts?
if you do ai hardware research please stop writing papers about rram and mram
if you like rram or mram go work on reliability at globalfoundries or tsmc
otherwise use cmos like the rest of us
By measuring the probability distribution generated by an Ising machine, rather than just its lowest-energy state, you can sample from a Boltzmann distribution very efficiently!
This could have applications in many fields, but especially AI.
@animalologist
i think most of these people are swiping left because they would be too embarrassed to get rejected in public. if you asked them privately who they like, they'd probably like a lot more people!
(this is my whitepill on dating apps and the swiping system tbh)
@roygbevv
@lillybilly299
i mean i think the simple answer is to be honest about this fact
not looking for something serious doesn't mean you can't have fun pursuing somebody, as long as you don't misrepresent your intentions
@jessesingal
IMO it’s frustrating for tech journalists to act smug about not knowing about technology. It feels kinda like “this is for losers and nerds and I don’t care how it works”. If you don’t care about how tech works, why be a tech journalist?
@skooookum
ive had this experience with women i met both irl and on dating apps though — the issue with dating apps is that you don’t know if you’re gonna feel this way until you actually meet face to face
@thechosenberg
no? I thought being exclusive meant that you’re not dating ~or~ sleeping with anybody else
going on dates with other people means you’re not exclusive even if you’re not having sex with those other people
@martin_casado
open source won the early internet because the cypherpunks loved the early internet
open source won cryptography because the cypherpunks loved cryptography
corporations won social media because the cypherpunks thought it was dumb
how do we make the cypherpunks love AI?
@xsphi
honestly, these people filter themselves out. if she judges me for who i am and what i own, there won't be a second date, and that's a good thing.
@animalologist
in college i went through a really bad breakup and i lost a ton of friends who sided with her, even though she admitted to cheating on me
i can see how, if you have few friends, the thought of losing a big chunk of them if your relationship goes south is terrifying
By replacing analog oscillators with asynchronous digital ones, we’ve implemented a state-of-the-art OIM entirely on an FPGA. And it’s entirely open source! Check out the write up:
if you're trying to replace friends, you're always going to struggle with brand image. people will associate your product with users who have no friends. that's bad.
productivity-focused ai is easier to sell because people don't feel like losers for buying it.
Selling semiconductor IP cores is a tough business to be in. IP companies are limited in their ability to capture value, and limited in their ability to charge per-unit royalties.
But the chiplet revolution is coming, and that's finally going to change. 🧵
everybody is doing the “what i listened to on spotify” thing but i get all of my music on bandcamp
i don’t have a fancy ranking but
@ceschi
@RENT__STRIKE
and
@itshappyhappy
made up a good 80% of what i listened to this year and they’re all fucking fantastic
@iamyourboon
iirc the original pitch for tab was a utility item, to help you remember stuff and brainstorm. that seemed cool and useful.
this seems so much worse and weirder!
Etched is probably not going to beat Nvidia by nearly as much as they claim.
Ultimately, transformers are just matrix multiplication. Nvidia is extremely good at building chips for matrix multiplication... 🧵
Meet Sohu, the fastest AI chip of all time.
With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs. One 8xSohu server replaces 160 H100s.
Sohu is the first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformer models. By specializing,
@animalologist
I have mixed feelings on this one — most of my platonic friends are decently attractive regardless of gender, but it also makes me sometimes feel shallow. Like, not wanting to be friends with unattractive people feels discriminatory in a way?
@proetrie
honestly i have a lot of respect for people who are willing to be emotionally vulnerable early on when dating
when it doesn't work, it hurts a lot, but when it works, it's amazing
when you train a bayesian ML model you use a process called bayesian inference.
but you don't use bayesian inference when performing model inference?
what the fuck guys
@RuxandraTeslo
tinder skews heavily, heavily towards people looking for casual sex. i wouldn't take this as a representative sample at all
when i was on hinge, most women were looking for long term monogamous relationships.
@cis_female
@mvpatel2000
@dylan522p
They’re claiming that most of the transistors on GPUs are control flow when in reality most of the transistors on GPUs are memory. Which they also need.
even sam altman seems to think the only way to win at chips is with more fabs making smaller transistors
in reality, esoteric architectures can win at much larger process nodes
my godmother, who doesn’t drink, got these very cute cat-shaped bottles of whisky as a gift, so she gave them to me
they’re adorable but unfortunately the whisky is pretty damn bad 🤦♂️
@varunramg
this has to be fake, right? i understand people who don’t like tinder, but i can’t imagine somebody swiping left 20k times and still using the app
But thanks to some new research from the University of Washington, we may have solved stochastic computing's randomness bottleneck!
This could usher in a new frontier of cheap, approximate stochastic computing for AI:
Project that blew my mind a bit earlier and I still think about often:
A Trustworthy, Free (Libre), Linux Capable,
Self-Hosting 64bit RISC-V Computer
This is an attempt to build a *completely* open source computer system, both software AND hardware.
it sucks that the people who made money on crypto are the ones who are plugged into meme culture not the ones who know way too much about curve ed25519
@animalologist
@liv__simone
Once you’ve had somebody you feel this sort of love for, how would you ever settle for less?
There’s a part of me that’s terrified that one day my partner will be somebody who’s loved somebody else deeper than they’ll ever love me.
@animalologist
i don't disagree, but i also think part of this phenomenon is what is and isn't acceptable to say publicly
i've heard white people privately express dating preferences that they wouldn't dare to say in public
@creatine_cycle
we spent tons of money and effort convincing a generation that smoking was no longer cool and then went out and invented a whole suite of new ways to get addicted to nicotine 😐
@terronk
despite being 25, it was APL, the programming language from 1966 made up of various cryptic symbols
i learned it when i was 9. the person who taught me was the showrunner of Will and Grace. no idea why he knew APL.
here's how you sort an array in APL: X[⍋X+.≠' ';]