"I chatted on the phone with a friend for an hour about their frustrations with their boss." If you don't work at the same company, that is being a friend. If you do work at the same company, that is career development and is formal responsibility of e.g. senior ICs to company.

Marathon (1994)

How does one check the "internal temperature" or fried rice???

A thousand times this. Hell, some of the best people I've worked with barely even have a LinkedIn profile.

The team that shitposts together ships together.

Who needs cable anyway?

There's nothing quite like seeing "thought leaders" write about a topic you're very familiar with to disabuse you of the notion that they have any idea what they're talking about.

That liberating NYC feeling when scaffolding is finally removed

Gergely Orosz I always keep in mind the following: When you talk to someone you have the responsibility to do your best to adapt to the other person skill level. If you don't then you are disrespecting the other person and you are losing your time.

Now this is AI thought leadership at its finest. A+. No notes

I feel like today's war on cars is so much tamer than it was 80 years ago

First day on the job at Databricks and we're already making some big moves. Exciting times ahead!

DONDA is the new FAANG Deepmind Open AI Nvidia Databricks Anthropic

Hey MiniMax (official), I'm trying to serve M1-80k on vLLM. Your docs say "a server with 8 H800s can process inputs up to 2 million tokens" but then recommend --max_model_len 4096. What settings did you use for 2M tokens? I'm trying this on 8 H100s.

RLVR isn't just for math and coding! At Databricks, it's impacting products and users across domains. One example: SQL Q&A. We hit the top of the BIRD single-model single-generation leaderboard with our standard TAO+RLVR recipe - the one rolling out in our Agent Bricks product.

Since joining Databricks, our research team has been hard at work on Agent Bricks, a new product that helps enterprises develop state-of-the-art domain-specific agents. We are now releasing a research blog about Agent Learning from Human Feedback (ALHF) databricks.com/blog/agent-lea…

Why is it "two buck chuck" and not "two bucks chuck"? Is this like the "maple leafs" vs "maple leaves"? English plurals are insane

Today we’re releasing OfficeQA — a new benchmark for end-to-end grounded reasoning that reflects the real work enterprises need AI agents to do. More details below 👇