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Tearing Down a Sharded MatMul on TPU

alivetoad — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:00:11 +0000

Article URL: https://considerthebulldog.com/pallas-sharded-matmuls/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649549

Points: 1

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Thinking in Pallas – Sharded MatMuls

alivetoad — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:16:34 +0000

Article URL: https://considerthebulldog.com/pallas-sharded-matmuls/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587748

Points: 3

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New comment by alivetoad in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

alivetoad — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:28:07 +0000

Love to hear it. I struggled feeling like they looked amateurish, but so long as the ideas are communicated clearly I can live with it

New comment by alivetoad in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

alivetoad — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:26:50 +0000

Appreciate it! Have a couple ideas kicking around for my next write up, but taking a beat to evaluate what went well and all that jazz

New comment by alivetoad in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

alivetoad — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:05:28 +0000

Replying to both comments here

You're all good in my book, don't sweat it. I really do welcome the feedback. I am just some yokel from the internet, the burden is on me to write ~well enough so that reading 10k words isn't an enormous waste of time. Definitely rusty, but a little less so after wrestling with this one. I'm still ironing out my process, but writing more is the only way to get that sorted.

New comment by alivetoad in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

alivetoad — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:17:38 +0000

A good bit during the editing process. Pop into Claude code to examine where the tone drifted, where the argument lost coherence, etc.

New comment by alivetoad in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

alivetoad — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:07:59 +0000

Understood

New comment by alivetoad in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

alivetoad — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:49:17 +0000

Author here. I was expecting some negativity but for whatever reason this one bites more than I imagined. The effort here was earnest and I'm sorry it reads as slop to you. Appreciate the feedback.

Touching the Elephant – TPUs

alivetoad — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:01:00 +0000

Article URL: https://considerthebulldog.com/tte-tpu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46109796

Points: 3

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Ununderstanding – Intellectual Work in the Age of AI

alivetoad — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:36:10 +0000

Article URL: https://considerthebulldog.com/ununderstanding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648477

Points: 1

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