Rhythm Panchal

Behind the scenes of mni-ml: January 4th 2026 - my roommate @MankyDankyBanky and I wanted to do a big project together. ”maybe we should try to build pytorch from scratch” We found @srush_nlp's minitorch curriculum and committed to grinding through it Jan to April. February - autodiff and tensor internals done. lots of late night PR reviews, stacked diffs, Kinton ramen runs to Toronto when I'd visit Aadi at Shopify. We started posting on X to keep ourselves accountable. March - the month of parallelization: Aadi shipped tiled matmul using the same algo @nvidia teaches in their CUDA guide, wrapped by end of month - pooling, conv1d/2d forward+backward, softmax, dropout. March 22-23 — @socraticainfo symposium & we see the tinytpu team on the stage which filled us with determination 🫡 cc: @evanliin @XanderChin @suryasure05 @kennykgguo March 24 - chose the mni-ml brand and started the educational blog March 30 - minitorch is DONE ahead of schedule. now we build on top of the framework. April 5-6 - cuBLAS matmul via koffi FFI. buffer pooling, strided batched GEMM, kernel optimizations. CUDA backend takes shape. April 7 - huge day. cross-platform CI pipeline, prebuilt npm binaries, v0.3.0 — CUDA live on @npmjs. flatten the monorepo, add @WebGPU + Windows CUDA build targets by eod. April 12 - flash attention CUDA kernel ships. we caught a bug where head dim > 32 was truncating. April 14 (during exam season), we recorded the demo in @Shopify recording studio during Aadi’s lunch break. Everything over the last 4mo finally came together. Cc: @fnthawar @tobi @alspee April 17: launch post and bought the domain mni.ml and we’re just getting started. We have so much in store for this summer, stay tuned 🫡 cc: @sundeep @GavinSherry

proud of you @_reesechong

@JayChopra_ @polarityco tryna send me one @shanebarakat_ 👀

merch so comfy it acts like a blanket 💤

@michelletliu @OpenAI i need this

Codex Raspberry Pi is cool ty @OpenAI !

home automation officially has levels to it

@Tancrededib im 17, and will bring low cost anemia detection to third world countries ingeniousplus.ca/submission/red…

Flying 40 founders to SF this summer. Everything covered. 2 months. $250k for the best teams. Convince me in one sentence.

@ericzxchen there’s a big chance that you might be him

1st place + $2k 🥇 big shoutout to my amazing teammates for their hard work and prosper for organizing see you in whistler, BC 👀

@AfifaSiddiqua_ grifty drifty lifty fifty

There's a fine line between grifting and lying. Linkedin is losing it 💀

@parthsareen thank you sir 🫡🫡

@rhythmpanch_ tldr it doesn’t matter. pick whichever :)

i find myself often going for one thing after the next. found my old reddit account and was reminded that i’ve lived out my dreams from when i was 17.

@demireren_ imagine waking up early to go to the gym jus to see this infront of you

And so it begins #waterlooengineering

in a world full of software guys, be a hardware guy!

syde30.com a [polaroid-style] webring.

@hazhubble hey just filled out the form :)

OFFER: if you want to come to SF but budget is stopping you, i want to offer you FREE housing in our hacker house! we have the best views in SF, fancy chairs and monitors, 1gbps internet, and queen size beds waiting for you if you know someone who should be in SF tag them below DMs open

big day. I just raised a $10M seed round to solve one of humanity’s hardest problems. for the past few months I’ve been pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in AI categorization determining whether something is a hot dog or not a hot dog we’ve built a state of the art model that can classify any object in real time with unprecedented accuracy it’s simple. you upload an image and we tell you whether it’s a hot dog or not a hot dog. backed by some incredible investors who also agree this needs to exist excited to scale the team, expand into adjacent categories, and push the boundaries of binary food intelligence dm if you want access

@michael_mzl this is 🔥

autonomous robot soon… let me know if u have any ideas for a name lol

hey prolly a long shot but I’m currently in highschool, about to enter Waterloo engineering for mechatronics engineering this fall i have experience and love what you guys are doing!! perhaps we can talk? My credentials: rhythmpanchal.com built ai anemia detection system by scanning your fingernails: ingeniousplus.ca/submission/red… building playmita.com

@silver__tsuki we’re hiring

I am a Stanford MSCS student in my final quarter & looking for full time positions My experience - NVIDIA GEAR: Worked on GR00T N1.6 - nemotron intern - Microsoft Research - Stanford AI Lab (CoRL, ICLR) - TA for: CS234 (RL), CS224R (Deep RL), CS153 Mutuals rt/comment 💚

@adiprasadd this is so fire adi

missed my dog chewie and wanted to try this out so found some time while running tests and built this into my websites landing page! take him for a walk: adiprasad.com

@AfifaSiddiqua_ @UWaterloo 😭✌️✌️✌️

@rhythmpanch_ @UWaterloo Ur doomed either way ✌️

@uwaterloo engineering students, what should I pick. Stream 4 or 8?