First Principles
Susan TuThoughts on early-stage startups from an infrastructure engineer and erstwhile applied math nerd.
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This post is the first of a two-part series on startups commercializing non-transformer models. I’ve endeavored, sometimes via footnotes, to make this post clear for non-technical folks as well.
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Formerly ML infra and dev tools at Stripe, infrastructure at a16z/NEA-backed Sisu Data, and database research at Stanford HazyResearch. First-gen immigrant lucky to have spent most of my life in the Bay.
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