In general, English speakers seem not to be used to pronounce words that end with a non-silent letter e. Every time they pronounce my name (Daniele) like Danielle, I tell them it's Daniele (dah-NYEH-leh), and they go: dan-YELL, right? I tell them to say Daniel/Dani or anything that gets my attention. They seem to care more about the correct pronunciation of my name then I do, and then they botch it badly. :D
Many other Italian words that end with the letter E are changed to I, or mispronounced.
My name is Daniele (I'm from Italy), and I've been living in NY for a while. My real estate attorney name was Daniele as well (she's a woman,) it was extremely confusing at closing time.
Also, fun fact, I got invited to a ton Women in Tech stuff. I even got recruited to a company that was proud of having > 50% women in their teams. I assume that was because I was working on an OSS project (Chromium) and I had no avatar there.
Also, in the two FAANG companies I worked at I was added to women groups a few times.
Talking to my friends working there, they said they were surprised when that happened and they didn't find Claude quality to be that much better than Gemini when using agy. So maybe after all the issue is not mainly the model, but harness and custom tooling.
As a SW person (working with silicon folks though), I was always interested in the same idea. So I just vibecoded a little compiler from LLM (config.json, weights) to RTL (happy to share if you want). Then synthesized it via yosys.
I picked TinyStories-1M, synthesized via yosys against SKY130 PDK. It's GPT-Neo with 8 layers. At int8 it's ~30mm^2 per layer (including kv caches, multipliers and all the attention stuff). So it's 250 mm^2 for the full toy model.
I'm kinda surprised, I spent no time, so if you want to etch a toy model, you can do that (you can probably reduce the area significantly). If you want a mask for that is probably going to cost 100k though.
That's good news, if I can't use the Youtube Music I've paid for in the Waymo then I'm not going to put up with Spotify Ads instead, better to sit in silence (or use my headphones and my own music)
I traveled with my kid when he was less than 1 year old in Tokyo. What is the issue with the stroller in the subway? There are always signs of how to get where you need to go using elevators.
While Tokyo has one of the worst fertility rates, it's not like the rest of Japan is doing particularly well. Also, I was staying in Azabujuban and I was surprised by the amount of kids I saw there.
Interesting. To provide a different experience, I live in NYC with kids and I find it great here. Daycare/Kindergarten is at most 4 blocks away, grocery stores are less than a block away, it takes me 10 minutes to get to the office on the train (1/2/3). I still bike to the office often. If we need a car there is a rental less than a block away, but in practice we rent maybe once a year. Today there was an open street on Columbus Ave and it was lovely to meet co-workers with their kids and let them play there. To be fair, I wasn't born here even if I'm a citizen, so I guess I wouldn't be considered "American".
I wasn't born here either (but I am the person you are replying to)
I'll give you some examples of the kinds of things I easily did with my two bigger kids (5 and 3 years old)
- woke up on a nice Sunday morning and decided to go for a woodsy hike 20 min drive away.
- threw our kayak on the roof and drove out to paddle it on the south shore, on a whim.
- threw bikes into the bike rack for a long ride along a Greenway.
- dropped by Grandma's house easily.
- went to the Adirondacks for a week and brought our bikes and paddle board along with a bunch of other stuff.
And not directly care related but car enabled - I just opened the backyard door and they were playing there by themselves while I kept an eye from the kitchen.
Nice. Those activities remind me when I used to visit my dad countryside (he lived in Tuscany). He's legally blind though, and we managed anyway. Not sure why the last bit would be car enabled. I was in East Hamptons a few weeks ago and the kids would play outside while we stayed in the living room/kitchen. We just had to be careful about the pool.
I think you and I can both recognize that the east Hamptons are a car oriented place even if you got there from the city on the jitney.
The point I was making w that one is - lower density is what allows us a back yard while higher density is what supports walk-ability and transit. So maybe I can make the point in a cheekier way - your Hamptons weekend is closer to my every-day life than to your city life :)
Many other Italian words that end with the letter E are changed to I, or mispronounced.
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