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Tim McNamara
@timClicks
On the planet to build a better planet. Software person, kind of into Rust and creative coding. Author of Rust in Action (mng.bz/4MlD).
New Zealand
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Jun 15, 2023
    ANNOUNCING TIMCLICKS.DEV Your source learning Rust creatively - videos, tutorials, coaching and more. Check it out!
    Screenshot from https://timclicks.dev
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Feb 25, 2024
    Difficult for a job ad to have a red flag in every sentence, but not impossible apparently
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    Tim McNamara
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    Oct 12, 2021
    Why is it harder to make a website in 2021 than it was in 1996?
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Nov 9, 2024
    Replying to @KKriegeBlog
    For what it's worth, I am sure that he will actually be very interested in your perspective. He strikes me as someone that listens first.
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    Tim McNamara
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    Jun 9, 2024
    If this is accurate, then NVIDIA's grip on the tech industry has just vanished. Matrix matrix multiplication (MatMul) is notoriously computationally difficult, which is why it's offloaded to GPUs. If MatMul can be avoided, then it's not just leveling the playing field. It's
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    Rohan Paul
    @rohanpaul_ai
    Jun 7, 2024
    This is really a 'WOW' paper. 🤯 Claims that MatMul operations can be completely eliminated from LLMs while maintaining strong performance at billion-parameter scales and by utilizing an optimized kernel during inference, their model’s memory consumption can be reduced by more
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Oct 20, 2021
    A bit mean I guess, but also ...
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Nov 19, 2022
    S3 seems like a pretty simple app. I mean, how hard is PUT and GET? Shouldn't need more than 4 to 6 engineers to maintain.
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Jun 1, 2022
    Too much bullshit AI is why I left that field
    [Screenshot from Slack comment]

One of my current clients has a team training a machine-learning model to match some data in an XML document with data in a postgres database, within tolerances. When I pointed out that the fields map 1:1, so you could just use SELECT * FROM <table> WHERE field BETWEEN x AND y; there was this long pause… and then they started talking about training the model again because “it fits better with our brand.” So now they’re in week 6 of building what should have been a 2 day feature.
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Feb 25, 2024
    Replying to @eyebrowsofpower
    You forgot AI. It's a photo sharing social media app but it's got AI.
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    Tim McNamara
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    Mar 5, 2023
    Rust is the software industry's best attempt yet at distilling 70+ years of computer science into a single programming language
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Feb 25, 2024
    Replying to @_AlexEne_
    Especially as they're hiring a Java developer.
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    Tim McNamara
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    Feb 8, 2023
    Android 13 has ~1.5 million lines of Rust code, and zero memory safety vulnerabilities discovered in Android’s Rust code have been found so far. This compares to 1 vuln per <1,000 lines code that Android has had historically. security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory…
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    Tim McNamara
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    Aug 24, 2021
    If New Zealand eliminates the virus again, that will be the biggest middle finger to Australia's PM saying that it's impossible. I think that's the kind of motivation we need. #nzpol #auspol #covid19nz
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    Tim McNamara
    @timClicks
    Jul 11, 2015
    A computer just captioned this as "man using his laptop while his cat looks at the screen" cs.stanford.edu/people/karpath…
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