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YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

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Re: YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

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“Oh shit I better remember all that matrix algebra I forgot already!” …Then takes a class on anything with 3d graphics… “oh shit matrix algebra again!” …then takes a class on machine learning “urg more matrix math!”

I remember vectors in 3D graphics but I don’t recall them in EE 101. maybe I blotted it out.

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Re: YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

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“Oh shit I better remember all that matrix algebra I forgot already!” …Then takes a class on anything with 3d graphics… “oh shit matrix algebra again!” …then takes a class on machine learning “urg more matrix math!”

EEs actually had a head start on ML, especially those who took signal processing.

I think anyone with an academic bone in their body had a head start on ML.

Linear algebra, optimization, gradients, etc are 1st and 2nd year topics for STEM.

The software industry is dominated by self taught hackers and EE/math/physics drop outs. CS prestige is less than 10 years old.

Re: YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

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I'll eat my hat if you can answer any of those with enough specificity that "random alien cop"s could produce something useful.

I'm definitely in the 99.9%, which is more like 99.9999999%. In other words, I doubt there's even 10 people on the planet that would survive that scenario.

There is a short story, by Arthur C Clarke I believe, where aliens rescue the consciousness of a human astronaut after a catastrophe. They explain that they have the technological means to rebuild him a body, but they need him to describe the blueprint to them.

It made me aware of how unlikely I'd be to ever get it right.

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