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I’m back at @modal
Working at @thinkymachines was really something. I’ll miss my coworkers, and a lot has happened since I joined last year - all sorts of ML and production systems, witnessing what goes into a model, throwing new kernels at training and inference, scaling research infra, making interaction models fast and good, wrangling RL dynamics.
It was also my second job, so perhaps a formative experience. When I joined, I discovered I was the youngest at the company (like 60 people) and felt pretty out-of-place, surrounded by ex-OpenAI/Meta/GDM/Mistral folks. Anyway, the company reinvented itself many times, and I think with the recent model releases we can see it’s on a good path.
Thanks to @cHHillee for originally recruiting me to Thinky and my boss and various coworkers (whom I won’t dox) for teaching me very much
I saw this sunset rainbow the other day in NYC, and it’s the only time aside from July 4 I’ve seen everyone on the streets stop and stare at the sky for a bit, together. It was brief. This won’t last forever.
Anyway, hope to have more for you soon… much to build! The Modal team is very strong. I’m glad to be here.
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I’m back at @modal
Working at @thinkymachines was really something. I’ll miss my coworkers, and a lot has happened since I joined last year - all sorts of ML and production systems, witnessing what goes into a model, throwing new kernels at training and inference, scaling research infra, making interaction models fast and good, wrangling RL dynamics.
It was also my second job, so perhaps a formative experience. When I joined, I discovered I was the youngest at the company (like 60 people) and felt pretty out-of-place, surrounded by ex-OpenAI/Meta/GDM/Mistral folks. Anyway, the company reinvented itself many times, and I think with the recent model releases we can see it’s on a good path.
Thanks to @cHHillee for originally recruiting me to Thinky and my boss and various coworkers (whom I won’t dox) for teaching me very much
I saw this sunset rainbow the other day in NYC, and it’s the only time aside from July 4 I’ve seen everyone on the streets stop and stare at the sky for a bit, together. It was brief. This won’t last forever.
Anyway, hope to have more for you soon… much to build! The Modal team is very strong. I’m glad to be here.
