GP @ycombinator. Prev co-founder CTO @escherreality and Head of AR platform @nianticlabs
Sep 9, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Deepsilicon runs neural nets with 5x less RAM and ~20x faster. They are building SW and custom silicon for it.
What’s interesting is that they have proved it with SW, and you can even try it.
On why we funded them 1/7
2/7 They found that representing transformer models as ternary values (-1, 0, 1) eliminates the need for computationally expensive floating-point math.
Aug 2, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
A summary of my talk earlier today on "how to build and succeed as a technical founder" for @ycombinator@startupschool
(meme edition) 🧵
1/10 What the technical founder does:
(everything including not fun things to get the product out of the door + lots of chaos and ugly code)
