Ravi Vijayakumar
@thehiphopswami
Hardware Implementation @ OpenAI. Prev: TPUs @ Google. Love problem solving and connecting dots. IC Design for AI and AI for ICs. http://github.com/RaviVijay
A career peak for myself! Led physical implementation of this chip from concept to silicon debug. blog.google/products/googl…
"Hey Copilot, I need a 1,100 word memo that will fix the devastation I have wreaked on my company's culture and morale"... blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/2…
Distributed training has its own dialect. I made a pocket dictionary so you don’t open 50 browser tabs every time a paper mentions “ZeRO-offload.” 49 terms, crisp definitions, diagrams where they actually help. Grab it, skim it, get back to training. distributedlexicon(.)com
Pure mathematics, carnatic music, bharatanatyam, classical art, sculpture, chess or go, mridangam, classical poetry, fine cooking - what is common to all of them? (apart from the fact that I am not good in any of them 😁, at least I get to appreciate some of them) We need…
We are excited to share this raw flight footage including take-off and landing, all with real sound. No special effects, no CGI, no AI, pure engineering. Enjoy the future! A fully functional real-world "speeder bike" that so far only existed in sci-fi movies is finally here.
The children yearn to be working in fabs Taiwan high school science exhibition this year are discussing about 1.5nm Gate All Around transistor structure optimization The kids are unbelievably cracked
Unofficial list of most delicious cuisines that weren’t originally from a region but invented after Columbian Exchange: ▫️Spaghetti/Pizza: Tomatoes (via Americas) came to Italy in 16th century and led to Spaghetti al Pomodoro and Pizza Margherita. ▫️Carnitas: Spanish…
I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.
1/N Yesterday in Tokyo we @OpenAI ran a 10‑hour live Humans vs AI exhibition at the AtCoder World Tour Finals Heuristic. We pointed an OpenAI reasoning model at the same brutal problem the finalists tackled—no human help, same rules, same clock. Buckle up. 👇
With superhuman AI, we can finally give up on our egos. Hopefully we learn to live life with camaraderie, humility and curiosity.
This is a superpower.
I see a strong link between procrastination and what I call "tensing style." When doing a task, we can either tense into it or relax into it. Many people force themselves to do productive things with a kind of mental & bodily tensing motion. When we build a habit of tensing…
Naaladiyaar - 29. "Life's brief, like dew drops on grass" Blog: bit.ly/2fzNuaC
Travis captures how to speed up science and engineering between 30-40 mins here. youtu.be/KypnjJSKi4o?si…
you must read Harvard’s AI Research Experience if you’re a student/researcher. A free course book which covers the essentials and tips on doing research: > VSCode, Git, Conda > PyTorch, W&B > AWS, colab > LLMs and VLMs > reading AI papers > research progress and organization
Ben Franklin appreciation post He was simply S-tier at every endeavor: - Invented bifocals, swim fins, and the lightning rod - Diplomat, statesman, charted the Gulf Stream - International playboy; more like founding daddy amirite - Created the first public library, the first…
This guy explained why some people never feel lazy and how to copy them (in 2 mins)
This is the future we should all aspire to. An organic future where intelligence and biology are in a sophisticated dance. Not the kind of reductionist, mechanistic, coercive framing of the past. Time to restructure your mental models.