anand iyer

Resell the excess compute

Hell yeah. This is so impressive.

For models this small, like Karpathy's microGPT, a consumer CPU in well-optimized C actually crushes purpose-built hardware. If you can distill a model small enough, you don't need specialized chips, and you definitely don't need to etch it into custom silicon. A regular CPU core using a fraction of its capacity will do the job (and outperform it by a couple of orders of magnitude). This can be really practical for physical AI/robotics edge use cases.

Kurzweil is back with a familiar claim: by 2029 we hit "longevity escape velocity." Life expectancy grows faster than you age. You start moving backwards on the clock. He might be directionally correct but it still won't matter the way he thinks. "Life expectancy" is a population statistic. "Longevity escape velocity" is a frontier capability. These are not the same things. Tuberculosis is curable and is the #1 infectious killer on earth. We have known how to prevent cardiovascular disease for decades and it's still the #1 killer, period. The bottleneck on lifespan has not been limited by "the tech" It's been access, cost, behavior, institutions, governments. And unless that changes, humanity is not going backwards in time. A small cohort of well-capitalized, well-diagnosed humans plugged into the frontier. Everyone else stays on the old curve.

2026

@stevehou Google uses TPUs for training as well

GPU (AI training) vs TPU (AI inference and AI applications plus all of Google’s other thriving businesses.) It seems inevitable, doesn’t it?

@IbrahimAjami @BoydVarty @tferriss Those podcasts were foundational to me as I was starting my venture career. Hunt for signals, not deals.

Heading to the wild with @boydvarty and 4 of my close brothers for a week of lion tracking, silence, and deep reconnection 🌍🦁 3 years ago I was walking the streets of London, discovered a @tferriss podcast with Boyd, ordered *The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life* instantly and devoured it in 2 days 📖❤️ I started sending screenshots to a friend going through a difficult time. He read it, loved it, bought 10 copies and shared them across Abu Dhabi. The book then reached another close friend… who declared: “We’re all going on Boyd’s safari.” After months of calls and waiting lists (it was booked for years), we finally got our spot ✨ Now, 2 years later — we’re off. A week of nature, lion tracking, stillness, earth connection, and Boyd’s legendary wisdom. I’ll be open-sourcing everything I feel with the lions. Stay tuned 🔥

Thank you @semil, @aashaysanghvi_, and @DivyaDhulipala for a wonderful day at LP-GP Alignment Summit. Beautiful location, greater roster of speakers, and the guest list. 🙌🏽

Celebrating 15 years of marriage today. The ultimate life hack is picking the right partner. Most of who you become is downstream of who you choose to marry.

you can outsource your thinking but you cannot outsource your understanding

This learning-augmented robot ran continuously for >5 hours on a live factory floor, soldering motor cables at sub-millimeter tolerance without a safety cage, next to human workers. >99% pass rate on quality control. And It was trained on less than 20 minutes of real-world data! The task it automated was previously done entirely by hand. It matched human speed while being more consistent. This sort of practical real world work is the kind that will look more important in hindsight than it does today.

This is the AI use case that matters most and gets talked about least.

This is a helpful artifact: a public, end-to-end accounting of what shrinking a frontier robotics model actually costs. Haptic Labs got Pi0.5 from 16GB runtime memory down to 3.1GB (now fits on a Jetson Orin Nano), 2.8x faster. And they have published the compression recipe. Worth reading if you're trying to deploy AI on constrained hardware, or if you've ever wondered why reproducible papers still need dedicated ML/eng teams.

@benfielding @harrygrieve

april?

The fate of the world is decided on Wednesday

The AI-powered consumer hardware renaissance

This is the google trends chart for Fraunces font, a relatively unknown font till about 2 weeks ago. Now I see it on almost all prototype websites & slide decks. And this serif will now serve as training data for the next wave of AI tools.

I have had the privilege of being in Semil's orbit for ~15 years. Semil & Haystack were our first check when we started Trusted. And he was a massive catalyst in helping me get Canonical off the ground. He is a true artisan of his craft and cares deeply about the people he works with. Huge congrats on the new funds!

Feature request: incognito browsing mode for @X. I tapped on one tweet about LeBron-Bronny and now my feed is all Lakers-Rockets.