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carterschonwald
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About carterschonwald
I prefer following up email with phone because its a more efficient use of my time, :)
I'm currently building numerical computation tools for businesses using haskell.
I also like helping match awesome people with cool opportunities (when I get along with them :-) )
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Comment #49121484
im building my own harness and inference tool chain for much of these reasons. theres so much to do that makes a big difference for users. hoping to get things into shape for early…
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Comment #49117920
ummm, there is no substantive censorship with deep seek aside from first oarty hosting by deepseek for cya. trust me, and the suppression on deepseek hosted deepseek is pretty thin…
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Comment #49059063
exactly. you certainly know more about the brain than i :)
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Comment #49056771
thx for the kind response! at the very least i have tools that let me easily hit better perf for fancy dense memory layouts, and the same tooling lets me experiment with frankly wi…
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Comment #49054425
i definitely will be doing some drop of some faster attention kernels in the next few weeks. like i can do all sorts of memory layout of tensors/matrices etc tricks that if you don…
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Comment #49054004
amusingly ive been working on ultra sparse llm inference/ training/ model design because nature loaths a dense graph/matrix and cause i think it shoukd be possible. i actually stoo…
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Comment #49052691
i think the line is: expressing that you reputationally certify its correct and its worth the time
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Comment #49006503
this mirrors my approx experience.
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Comment #49001861
i've had trouble finding any anecdotes or data about how to actually set/explore logit sampler settings
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Comment #48999610
5.6 sol is pretty good, its definitely very very well tuned, i'm not quite sure which of the others i should use near term, but theyre doing great work
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Comment #48987110
this so true. its really hard to make sure a model isnt going off the rails if i dont see full cot. the fact that oai and anthropic models hide it now has made them less reliable. …
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Comment #48987094
its a wrapper around mlx, so thats gonna be the portability bottleneck
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Comment #48980976
not sure about that, but im actively working on designing ultra sparse models that i want to have perform competitively with stuff 100-10_000 times larger. ehich does yield similar…
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Comment #48933964
one of the most hilarious examples of how the current wh admins false protectionism, in my mind, is the crucible steel bankruptcy in jan/feb 2025. its a technological tragedy becau…
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Comment #48897258
ive had doom loops on release day with opus 4.6. quantization aint the culprit ;)
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Comment #48894315
even before the llm era sites would flag me as a bot for opening 15 links to read later. its fucking infuriating now
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Comment #48821178
this is pretty cool. i think part of the root cause is current rlhf post training design around confidence and optics rather than cooperative transparent honesty. though its kinda …
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Comment #48793033
This paper points at an idea, but its really only legible if you have a more developed version of the idea already. I really should write more
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Comment #48784254
i literally had a co2 sensor for my engineering team last fall cause the space was so poorly ventilated. just measuring it continuously radically changed how everyone approached us…
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Comment #48721399
good. Of course the precise language of the ruling matters, but good.
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Comment #48675586
so the most notoriously patent oriented tech firm is buying this up. lol ;) good for the founders. also explains why my resume got dropped on the floor as a desk reject :p
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Comment #48635994
.... i thought this was more widely known, granted i did write up a pretty wacky doc explaining way more fun experiments than these, and i have a fix that even prevents role collap…
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Comment #48634222
https://github.com/cartazio/oh-punkin-pi/blob/main/scripts/b... use that to install assuming you have whatevers needed to set up. ive a much fancier next gen thing i hope to make a…
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Comment #48610493
“sit with” is way over used lately
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Comment #48609694
“worth sitting with ” is in the way to overused scale :(