Alex Wang

i just beat @GoogleDeepMind's turboquant introducing Shard. 10x KV cache compression on Llama-3.1-8B. zero quality loss - 10x @ 8K context, 11.2x @ 32K - NIAH recall 1.000 across 4K-32K - LongBench Δ ≈ 0 vs FP16 turboquant tops out at 4-6x at the same quality. we doubled it. read more: krishgarg.com/shard @kirrithan

@krishgarg @GoogleDeepMind holy moly

@karpathy this is like KD joining the 72-9 warriors

the more internships i do, the more work i do, the more i learn, the more i realize how much i actually don’t know when it comes to software engineering

@nicholaschen__ last 5% of a project always takes up 95% of the time

@JaedonVisva @Replit Nah

can i please intern at replit @Replit

@GuiBibeau @UWaterloo Hi

I want a @UWaterloo intern please.

Back to making it out

@JohannesTampere @imdonghakim This is tuff

instead of studying for finals I wanted to learn more about retrieval techniques so I built this small RAG system over my personal book library learned a lot about HyDE & bi-encoder vs cross-encoder retrieval github.com/Johannestamper…

Finishing deadlines with jet lag has to be one of the worst experiences oat

@utosrad Relevance, relevant and relevant retrieval

#larp #grifter

@utosrad 10x engineer here

@kabirj_25 @lunarfq hi

@lunarfq Hi

say hi to Patrick Star or have a terrible 2026

@selimaz_ @jalen_cheng We missed you too bro

forgot how much I missed this place 🇨🇦

@JayChopra_ ?

I should call her

@yasbehiri @vallodev Hi

@vallodev hi vallo im yasen

I am Vallo.

@selimaz_ @jalen_cheng @vallodev Interested!

Vectus → Vallo. we rebranded to reflect our new direction. we’re building cloud sandboxes for coding agents. bringing the infrastructure to run custom background agents (like Ramp’s Inspect) to any company, regardless of size or resources. dm me if interested

@yasbehiri @WaterlooENG @UWaterloo Ok on it

@WaterlooENG @UWaterloo can we fix the thing where you are like scorlling left on watelrooworks and like you scroll all the way to the left on mac pls help pls i hate it im going to end it please fix please

@kabirj_25 @instagram Wonder who Indian lesbian is

@instagram can you guys fix the UI so that 🫩 expands and matches the other emojis? If not can you hire me to do it?

@benln Let me in pls

Who's building over the holidays? Will add you to a group chat I started on X.