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Staff ML Engineer @Meta Harness Engineering prev. Ads Core ML | Previously - Chief Architect at Ubiety, ML @NASAJPL @DARPA - neural networks and systems

Palo Alto, CA
Joined July 2011
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1/ today we're releasing muse spark, the first model from MSL. nine months ago we rebuilt our ai stack from scratch. new infrastructure, new architecture, new data pipelines. muse spark is the result of that work, and now it powers meta ai. 🧵
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How Axios was compromised 🤯
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How AI empowered Paul Conyngham to create a custom mRNA vaccine to cure his dog’s cancer when she had only months to live. The first personalized cancer vaccine designed for a dog:
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I've been working on a new LLM inference algorithm. It's called Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD) and it's up to 2x faster than the strongest inference engines in the world. Collab w/ @tri_dao @avnermay. Details in thread.
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WTF is going on at Qwen?!? Some kind of implosion? This is really sad and worrying. They've been *such* a strong team, and are losing some of their very best researchers.
bye qwen, me too.
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Gradient descent can write code better than you. I'm sorry.
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LLMs for coding are amazing, but my favorite feature is actually being able to talk about any subject and instantly be able to dive into the fine grained details of learning. I just deep dove into some of the best papers of NeurIPs from the past year and the rate of information transfer is night and day difference to even a year ago.
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I’ll be at NeurIPS this week, DM me if you want to meet up!
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Does anyone else go full flow state where you are coding something and end up needing to listen to the same song on repeat. But it’s also the first thing you put on when you wake up, in the shower, on the drive to work, while at work, while at the gym, later at night, before going to bed. Only happens 2-3 times a year, but it lasts for about two weeks at a time and you listen to the same song >1k times.
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How has all food doubled in price since 2021 except Chipotle? What kind of magic do they have to keep their supply chain as the only one untouched?
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Help! Internet is out in Palo Alto, how am I supposed to provide shareholder value tonight??
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Humans saw this and then invented Jira
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I 100% just saw Hans Zimmer out in the Marina, playing an imaginary keyboard on the bar and all
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You haven’t truly thought about system design until you’ve read “Designing Data Intensive Systems”
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