flâneur

Andrew Cai

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  • Someone once told me that China is the best place in the world to be a consumer.
    jasmine sun's visit to china
  • “In China, everyone believes the state will ultimately succeed, but no one knows whether they'll be the victor or the price paid for victory.”
    jasmine sun's visit to china
  • It takes zero Chinese bureaucrats to build a frontier model, but just one to kill it.
    jasmine sun's visit to china
  • I’m driven by aesthetics much more than the average person, I’d guess, and it’s because I think that they are rooted in intuition and intangible reasons that usually lead to deeper consequences down the line, even if we can’t predict them. Indeed, an example is all the work I’m now known for on RNNs/SSMs, which only became useful after years of work, which stemmed from an aesthetic conviction that recurrence is elegant and fundamental.
    On the Tradeoffs of SSMs and Transformers | Goomba Lab