Dillon Cower
dcower.bsky.social
Dillon Cower
@dcower.bsky.social
engineer @ waymo, xoogler

foundation models & all things data

🎸 → @ratan.bsky.social
yep
May 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Dillon Cower
Introducing The AI CUDA Engineer: An agentic AI system that automates the production of highly optimized CUDA kernels.

sakana.ai/ai-cuda-engi...

The AI CUDA Engineer can produce highly optimized CUDA kernels, reaching 10-100x speedup over common machine learning operations in PyTorch.

Examples:
February 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Reposted by Dillon Cower
1/ Okay, one thing that has been revealed to me from the replies to this is that many people don't know (or refuse to recognize) the following fact:

The unts in ANN are actually not a terrible approximation of how real neurons work!

A tiny 🧵.

🧠📈 #NeuroAI #MLSky
Why does anyone have any issue with this?

I've seen people suggesting it's problematic, that neuroscientists won't like it, and so on.

But, I literally don't see why this is problematic...
This would be funny if it weren't sad...
Coming from the "giants" of AI.
Or maybe this was posted out of context? Please clarify.
I can't process this...
December 16, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Reposted by Dillon Cower
ImPlot3D: A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui
github.com/brenocq/impl...
December 17, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Dillon Cower
Computer "Science" should look at real Science. :)
Pre-registering any experiments/trials before research. (E.g., pre-register your prompts/examples!). Not showing a table with a PSNR of 36.142 but confidence intervals and a distribution of N training runs w different hyperparameters/seeds.
December 11, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Reposted by Dillon Cower
I'm excited to share a new paper: "Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models"

storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

(also soon to be up on Arxiv, once it's been processed there)
storage.googleapis.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Reposted by Dillon Cower
A common question nowadays: Which is better, diffusion or flow matching? 🤔

Our answer: They’re two sides of the same coin. We wrote a blog post to show how diffusion models and Gaussian flow matching are equivalent. That’s great: It means you can use them interchangeably.
December 2, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Dillon Cower
In addition to the Deep Learning Theory starter pack, I've also put together a starter pack for Reinforcement Learning Theory. Let me know if you'd like to be included or suggest someone to add to the list!

go.bsky.app/LWyGAAu
November 22, 2024 at 9:56 PM
egg
October 20, 2024 at 4:41 AM