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David Kanter
@TheKanter
Executive Director @MLCommons making machine learning better for everyone. @MLPerf CPUs, computer architecture, semiconductors, graphics, economics, writes @RWT
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realworldtech.com
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    David Kanter
    @TheKanter
    Aug 3
    Anyone want to get Indian food at 830pm near Gramercy Park tonight?
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    David Kanter
    @TheKanter
    Jul 30
    Please do BART and SF mass transit
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    YIMBYLAND
    The American Housing Corporation
    @YIMBYLAND
    Jul 29
    > $195 MILLION **UNDER** BUDGET > 5 YEARS **AHEAD** OF SCHEDULE PUT THESE GUYS IN CHARGE OF LITERALLY EVERYTHING AND AMERICA WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE.
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    David Kanter
    @TheKanter
    Jul 28
    Truly sad to see destruction of physical books on such a scale.
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    Hedgie
    @HedgieMarkets
    Jul 27
    🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're
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    David Kanter
    @TheKanter
    Jul 26
    Amazing work! Love seeing the attention to detail and aggressive use of SIMD!
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    Marcel Rød
    @marcelroed
    Jul 21
    Introducing the world's fastest tokenizer implementation, Gigatoken! Gigatoken is ~500-1000x faster than HuggingFace, and ~100x faster than OpenAI's tiktoken for most tokenizer definitions on most machines. These baselines are already multithreaded Rust implementations! 🧵
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    David Kanter
    @TheKanter
    Jul 25
    Couldn’t agree more on the value of openness! Benchmarks like @MLPerf would be very difficult without open weight models and accessible open data. Open helps propel the industry and whole ecosystem forward.
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    Jensen Huang
    NVIDIA
    @JensenHuang
    Jul 24
    For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @nvidia signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
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