Ivar Flakstad
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Ivar Flakstad
@ivarf.bsky.social
ML Engineer at 🤗
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Howdy all. I'm unfortunately not going to be with my employer for much longer due to team relocation. If anyone has any info on roles that would allow me to continue my Rust compiler work (in New York City), they'd be greatly appreciated.
July 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I'm writing an article series about creating tensors from scratch in Rust. #tensors #machine-learning #ml #ai

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Building Tensors From Scratch in Rust: Part 1, Core Structure and Indexing
A Blog post by Kyle Birnbaum on Hugging Face
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June 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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🦀 Hello World!

The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨

We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.
April 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Want an in depth exploration of the different hardware architectures within AI?
Of course you do :)
Another great article by Chris Fleetwood:
fleetwood.dev/posts/domain...
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March 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Performance leap: TGI v3 is out. Processes 3x more tokens, 13x faster than vLLM on long prompts. Zero config !
December 10, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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Preliminary data shows the Apple Neural Engine uses ~94% less energy than the CPU and ~75% less than the GPU 🤯

On the On-Device team at Hugging Face, we've been profiling energy usage for CoreML models. Here’s some data I collected:
December 5, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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It's Sunday morning so taking a minute for a nerdy thread (on math, tokenizers and LLMs) of the work of our intern Garreth

By adding a few lines of code to the base Llama 3 tokenizer, he got a free boost in arithmetic performance 😮

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November 24, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM
RoPE can be confusing, so here’s a great write up by my buddy Chris Fleetwood on the topic:
fleetwood.dev/posts/you-co...
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November 18, 2024 at 3:42 PM