Eric Hallahan
@erichallahan.bsky.social
Unemployed Engineer doing ML, Robotics, and more. ADHD, ASD, hearing impaired. PSU Engineering Graduate, Former Intel oneAPI Software Innovator.
https://erichallahan.github.io/
https://erichallahan.github.io/
Rare (for these days) political post, to simply say: I'm proud of my hometown.
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Rare (for these days) political post, to simply say: I'm proud of my hometown.
Initial appraisal on Xe3: It's a nice improvement over Xe2, and it's a good thing it isn't a radical change generationally: L1$/SLM increasing to 256 KiB in-line with Battlemage is appreciated, and the doubling of L2$ to 16 MiB is even more welcome given limited memory bandwidth.
October 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Initial appraisal on Xe3: It's a nice improvement over Xe2, and it's a good thing it isn't a radical change generationally: L1$/SLM increasing to 256 KiB in-line with Battlemage is appreciated, and the doubling of L2$ to 16 MiB is even more welcome given limited memory bandwidth.
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Aaron Swartz did not die for "100 documents per month"
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
October 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Aaron Swartz did not die for "100 documents per month"
Huge endorsement from me for this proposed push for getting Mesa's Vulkan drivers set up with Cooperative Matrix and beyond. It's always been my preference long-term if possible, as ML compute would be a whole lot easier to manage without vendored stacks.
airlied.blogspot.com/2025/07/rama...
airlied.blogspot.com/2025/07/rama...
ramalama/mesa : benchmarks on my hardware and open source vs proprietary
One of my pet peeves around running local LLMs and inferencing is the sheer mountain of shit^W^W^W complexity of compute stacks needed to ru...
airlied.blogspot.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Huge endorsement from me for this proposed push for getting Mesa's Vulkan drivers set up with Cooperative Matrix and beyond. It's always been my preference long-term if possible, as ML compute would be a whole lot easier to manage without vendored stacks.
airlied.blogspot.com/2025/07/rama...
airlied.blogspot.com/2025/07/rama...
It is with disappointment that I announce the end of my close relationship with Intel and their Software Innovators program—it was great fun while it lasted. I wish all the best for their consumer GPU endeavors and will personally continue be an enthusiast for them going forward.
July 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is with disappointment that I announce the end of my close relationship with Intel and their Software Innovators program—it was great fun while it lasted. I wish all the best for their consumer GPU endeavors and will personally continue be an enthusiast for them going forward.
Long-time followers of mine are probably already familiar with this article of mine, but newer ones haven't seen it in a fully functional state. With some recent interest, I finally put in the effort to fix it up to good-as-new again!
erichallahan.github.io/articles/hea...
erichallahan.github.io/articles/hea...
Compensating for Hearing with Basic Signal Processing
A look at (and an explanation of) how I came to compensate for my hearing when I am not wearing a hearing aid.
erichallahan.github.io
July 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Long-time followers of mine are probably already familiar with this article of mine, but newer ones haven't seen it in a fully functional state. With some recent interest, I finally put in the effort to fix it up to good-as-new again!
erichallahan.github.io/articles/hea...
erichallahan.github.io/articles/hea...
New blog post: Automatic differentiation with Enzyme… on OpenCL?!? Yes, you heard right!
erichallahan.github.io/articles/enz...
erichallahan.github.io/articles/enz...
Enzyme's secret language
Demonstrating OpenCL kernels autodiffed with Enzyme
erichallahan.github.io
July 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
New blog post: Automatic differentiation with Enzyme… on OpenCL?!? Yes, you heard right!
erichallahan.github.io/articles/enz...
erichallahan.github.io/articles/enz...
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This continual level of ignorance (although I am tempted to assume bad faith or its rhetorical equivalent) is not only dangerous, but undermines work towards very real problems it seems to have originated against (silicon valley hype, corporate control, environmental concerns, the rising tide of
LLMs used as synthetic text extruding machines have no legitimate use cases and --- for all the reasons discussed in the stochastic parrots paper --- are prone to harmful outputs to boot.
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June 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This continual level of ignorance (although I am tempted to assume bad faith or its rhetorical equivalent) is not only dangerous, but undermines work towards very real problems it seems to have originated against (silicon valley hype, corporate control, environmental concerns, the rising tide of
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I did something kinda cool with an AI tool today, which was creating a fun little tool for personal use. It doesn't involve lying, or taking away anyone's job, but I know that if I post about the details here I'll get yelled at. And I'm kinda sad about that, because I like posting about fun things
April 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I did something kinda cool with an AI tool today, which was creating a fun little tool for personal use. It doesn't involve lying, or taking away anyone's job, but I know that if I post about the details here I'll get yelled at. And I'm kinda sad about that, because I like posting about fun things
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cis people you can just do this
you can make it impossible for them to police any of this and all it will take is a trans flag badge
you can make it impossible for them to police any of this and all it will take is a trans flag badge
I'm pretty sure if I went into a public British bathroom this week with a trans flag tshirt on there is a good chance of my being told to leave, regardless of which bathroom I tried to use, or my 'biological sex'.
And that is the point.
And that is the point.
April 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
cis people you can just do this
you can make it impossible for them to police any of this and all it will take is a trans flag badge
you can make it impossible for them to police any of this and all it will take is a trans flag badge
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
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I have done the same. cis people in the UK, please support your trans buddies by putting pressure on your politicians and lawmakers. they need to know that we want answers on how trans people's rights will be safeguarded.
Following yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, I wrote to my MP. I'm not the best at conveying the nuances, as a cis man, but I needed to get my views to her as soon as possible. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
April 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I have done the same. cis people in the UK, please support your trans buddies by putting pressure on your politicians and lawmakers. they need to know that we want answers on how trans people's rights will be safeguarded.
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it’s funny how the letters “A I” just immediately derange people into a moral rage now. realizing that i live in a shattered epistemic landscape.
there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs
FDA Plans to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement
www.fda.gov
April 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
it’s funny how the letters “A I” just immediately derange people into a moral rage now. realizing that i live in a shattered epistemic landscape.
there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
My guess gaming this in my head as someone with limited knowledge: Only way out is for at least one major power to retaliate (reasonable concession already has been shown to be unviable). Probably PRC, perhaps also EU—PRC has already shown that retaliation prompts the USA to shoot its foot harder.
April 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
My guess gaming this in my head as someone with limited knowledge: Only way out is for at least one major power to retaliate (reasonable concession already has been shown to be unviable). Probably PRC, perhaps also EU—PRC has already shown that retaliation prompts the USA to shoot its foot harder.
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I can no longer tell if I'm holding up surprisingly well right now because I did all of my grieving for the future back in 2024 or if I have just reached a state of emergency dissociation so extreme that I will not be feeling my feelings until 2026.
April 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I can no longer tell if I'm holding up surprisingly well right now because I did all of my grieving for the future back in 2024 or if I have just reached a state of emergency dissociation so extreme that I will not be feeling my feelings until 2026.
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I have to say, Tenstorrent is starting to attract my attention quite a bit. Wormhole/Blackhole is accessible to hobbyists/amateurs (literally off-the-shelf), super scalable, and the commitment to openness is extremely refreshing after seeing Intel/Habana's overwhelming caginess over Gaudi.
April 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I have to say, Tenstorrent is starting to attract my attention quite a bit. Wormhole/Blackhole is accessible to hobbyists/amateurs (literally off-the-shelf), super scalable, and the commitment to openness is extremely refreshing after seeing Intel/Habana's overwhelming caginess over Gaudi.
Finally got to playing around with the Milk-V Duo I bought to pad out my cart to get free shipping little while back, and holy crap is thing the most silly board I've ever interacted with; two XuanTie C906 RV64GCV cores (one at 1 GHz running Linux) on a Pi Pico footprint for 9 USD is just absurd.
March 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Finally got to playing around with the Milk-V Duo I bought to pad out my cart to get free shipping little while back, and holy crap is thing the most silly board I've ever interacted with; two XuanTie C906 RV64GCV cores (one at 1 GHz running Linux) on a Pi Pico footprint for 9 USD is just absurd.
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Now live on Patreon, for free for everyone: The Pragmatic And Moral Reasons To Sell Your Tesla, a one-stop guide to all the reasons I think dumping your Tesla is a smart call (and the right thing to do). www.patreon.com/posts/125386...
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March 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Now live on Patreon, for free for everyone: The Pragmatic And Moral Reasons To Sell Your Tesla, a one-stop guide to all the reasons I think dumping your Tesla is a smart call (and the right thing to do). www.patreon.com/posts/125386...
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The more disturbing implication here is that since the Ghibli meme is just transforming an image to the Ghibli style, that means either a) this was based on a real image b) they composited this image before styling c) they prompted "have this woman crying and arrested, in Ghibli style"
AI art is the aesthetic of fascism
Evil motherfuckers
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The more disturbing implication here is that since the Ghibli meme is just transforming an image to the Ghibli style, that means either a) this was based on a real image b) they composited this image before styling c) they prompted "have this woman crying and arrested, in Ghibli style"
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The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
March 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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This trend seems to be growing here.
False comfort that AI doesn’t work or that it isn’t getting better is pervasive on Blue Sky. As a result, people who could add important points of view to current discussions on the meaning & use of AI instead try to believe they don’t have to think about it.
False comfort that AI doesn’t work or that it isn’t getting better is pervasive on Blue Sky. As a result, people who could add important points of view to current discussions on the meaning & use of AI instead try to believe they don’t have to think about it.
Not to be a broken record, but AI critics who insist that AI "doesn't work" and is going to just disappear are misleading - that just isn't true, as controlled studies like this one show.
There are many issues with AI & many things that need critique, but pretending it is going away is not helpful.
There are many issues with AI & many things that need critique, but pretending it is going away is not helpful.
Randomized trial AI for legal work finds Reasoning models are a big deal:
Law students using o1-preview had the quality of work on most tasks increase (up to 28%) & time savings of 12-28%
There were a few hallucinations, but a RAG-based AI with access to legal material reduced those to human level
Law students using o1-preview had the quality of work on most tasks increase (up to 28%) & time savings of 12-28%
There were a few hallucinations, but a RAG-based AI with access to legal material reduced those to human level
March 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This trend seems to be growing here.
False comfort that AI doesn’t work or that it isn’t getting better is pervasive on Blue Sky. As a result, people who could add important points of view to current discussions on the meaning & use of AI instead try to believe they don’t have to think about it.
False comfort that AI doesn’t work or that it isn’t getting better is pervasive on Blue Sky. As a result, people who could add important points of view to current discussions on the meaning & use of AI instead try to believe they don’t have to think about it.
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Today is the FINAL DAY to comment about changes to passports in the US that will drastically affect trans and nonbinary humans in this country.
Here is the raw comment form if you prefer to write your own comment: www.regulations.gov/document/DOS...
Here is the raw comment form if you prefer to write your own comment: www.regulations.gov/document/DOS...
March 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Today is the FINAL DAY to comment about changes to passports in the US that will drastically affect trans and nonbinary humans in this country.
Here is the raw comment form if you prefer to write your own comment: www.regulations.gov/document/DOS...
Here is the raw comment form if you prefer to write your own comment: www.regulations.gov/document/DOS...