Varun Nair
@re-sounding.com
Co-founder thatworks.ai | Previously: Head of AR/VR audio software at Meta, co-founder of @twobig_ears (acquired by Meta), and many things. (@ntkeep on X)
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Helpful thread from @clairelamman.bsky.social about the new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument #DESI team. The implication, if this evidence persists, is that the dark energy currently causing the accelerated expansion of the universe is evolving in unexpected ways 😮
Here is a "contour" plot that summarizes what these new measurements have to say about the behavior of dark energy, + my annotation. Either a lot of people are misunderstanding something big about the data, the Universe is playing a cruel trick on us, or LCDM is wrong.
March 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Helpful thread from @clairelamman.bsky.social about the new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument #DESI team. The implication, if this evidence persists, is that the dark energy currently causing the accelerated expansion of the universe is evolving in unexpected ways 😮
February 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Finishing the year with these thoughts. Much got done, much needs to be done, and that’s why I’m excited about the future we’re building at thatworks.ai
December 19, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Finishing the year with these thoughts. Much got done, much needs to be done, and that’s why I’m excited about the future we’re building at thatworks.ai
This week I wrote about infrastructure and moving fast
December 13, 2024 at 7:46 PM
This week I wrote about infrastructure and moving fast
December 6, 2024 at 12:50 PM
My latest weekly post: garbage in, garbage out.
Dumping data into a LLM's context is like recording in a noisy room – you end up with competing signals that steer the output into vague generalities.
So, how do you maximise the signal to noise ratio?
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Dumping data into a LLM's context is like recording in a noisy room – you end up with competing signals that steer the output into vague generalities.
So, how do you maximise the signal to noise ratio?
www.linkedin.com/posts/varun-...
Varun Nair on LinkedIn: Garbage in, garbage out.
Working with LLMs reminds me of my past life in…
Garbage in, garbage out.
Working with LLMs reminds me of my past life in audio engineering. Want great sounding audio? Start with a great microphone!
The…
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November 28, 2024 at 12:54 PM
My latest weekly post: garbage in, garbage out.
Dumping data into a LLM's context is like recording in a noisy room – you end up with competing signals that steer the output into vague generalities.
So, how do you maximise the signal to noise ratio?
www.linkedin.com/posts/varun-...
Dumping data into a LLM's context is like recording in a noisy room – you end up with competing signals that steer the output into vague generalities.
So, how do you maximise the signal to noise ratio?
www.linkedin.com/posts/varun-...
My daily catch up of “interesting stuff” is now fragmented equally across Bluesky, Threads, IG stories (IG feed sucks), and X. It feels like a net loss on my time, compared to the actual new/useful information I’m gaining.
November 27, 2024 at 4:09 PM
My daily catch up of “interesting stuff” is now fragmented equally across Bluesky, Threads, IG stories (IG feed sucks), and X. It feels like a net loss on my time, compared to the actual new/useful information I’m gaining.
I’ve been pretty happy with all the tech choices we’ve made at thatworks.ai. We use a standard react/nodejs/k8s stack but some of these older JS libs are just terrible. For nodejs, we replaced webpack with esbuild and our build time improved by 120x! create-react-app 🤢 is next.
November 20, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I’ve been pretty happy with all the tech choices we’ve made at thatworks.ai. We use a standard react/nodejs/k8s stack but some of these older JS libs are just terrible. For nodejs, we replaced webpack with esbuild and our build time improved by 120x! create-react-app 🤢 is next.
Scaling Laws Be Damned: Are LLMs hitting limits? Are we discovering scaling laws? Who cares. We've hardly begun to exhaust what the current generation can do.
I wrote a thing: www.linkedin.com/posts/varun-...
I wrote a thing: www.linkedin.com/posts/varun-...
November 20, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Scaling Laws Be Damned: Are LLMs hitting limits? Are we discovering scaling laws? Who cares. We've hardly begun to exhaust what the current generation can do.
I wrote a thing: www.linkedin.com/posts/varun-...
I wrote a thing: www.linkedin.com/posts/varun-...