Tim
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Tim
@llhtimlam
Semiconductor hobbyist trying to build a fab
Katılım Mayıs 2026
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@llhtimlam oh... this is cell to cell communication... I am super into this stuff actually. from the simulation side. SO COOL!
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Want to see distributed computing explained via Pong?
Inspired by TinyTPU and TinyTapeout workshop at FOSSi, I wrote a paper under a week pairs this demo with a proposed next-gen optical I/O chip architecture & a roadmap to prototype it.
Read it on GitHub: github.com/llhtimlam/tt_u…
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@yash1_ @TheMingjie Give it a quick read! It is not something you see usually
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@TheMingjie @llhtimlam "just learned the basics and designed a fully decentralized distributed compute chip network from scratch in one week"
Okeh, not a good clickbait
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A Waterloo guy just learned the basics and designed a fully decentralized distributed compute chip network from scratch… in one week!!
Inspired by TinyTPU + TinyTapeout, @llhtimlam designed a system to split Pong across two real Tiny Tapeout ASICs - seamless ball passing, no master node, auto-reconnect on fault, all as an amateur chip hobbyist.
Decentralized compute you can watch in real time.
You can just do things!!
Tim@llhtimlam
Want to see distributed computing explained via Pong? Inspired by TinyTPU and TinyTapeout workshop at FOSSi, I wrote a paper under a week pairs this demo with a proposed next-gen optical I/O chip architecture & a roadmap to prototype it. Read it on GitHub: github.com/llhtimlam/tt_u…
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@llhtimlam @r3l0z That’s awesome but why is there a glitch at the median?
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Hey @PalmerLuckey want to know where the real engineers in North America are?
Waterloo, Canada.
In the @akatoshouse community, there’s a guy who built a transformers model from scratch just by reading the paper. It took over a year and he literally rediscovered the gradient vanishing problem from first principles, amongst other things
There’s another guy, a chemical engineer with zero background in hardware or chip design, who learned to code then meticulously researched and wrote a paper on building a next-gen TSMC from scratch (releasing Tuesday)
And a 3rd guy who is designing and engineering autonomous construction fleets from our basement
People in this city understand how to make real things. Come take a look someday 🫡
Jawwwn@jawwwn_
.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore. "American companies have been hollowed out." "We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore." "We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured." "We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work." "People are turning into architecture astronauts." "They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout." "But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers." Via @HooverInst
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