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Phil Duan

@philduan

2 months

Tesla AI

@Tesla_AI

2 months

Hit >1 billion miles driven on FSD

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Phil Duan

@philduan

1 year

@Tesla AI team is at @CVPR in Vancouver this week! If you are also here, stop by and check out what we have been working on for Autopilot, Optimus, and dojo! #CVPR2023

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Phil Duan

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The underlying message is profound. Caring about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. We are reminded regularly working at @Tesla

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@philduan

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please vote to protect your investment, the company you love, and the future we are building

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We have put forward two especially important proposals for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders—and we need your vote. Protect your rights as stockholders & protect the value of your investment by voting FOR the ratification of the 2018 CEO Performance Award & FOR Reincorporating

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Phil Duan

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love getting feedback from ex-autopilot employees, this is just the beginning

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Phil Duan

@philduan

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@_milankovac_ I thought we are just a car company

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Phil Duan

@philduan

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i haven’t been to a gas station for 7 years, you don’t have to either

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Phil Duan

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@chris_j_paxton this is just the beginning

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Phil Duan

@philduan

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it’s amazing what a small group of extremely talented and dedicated engineers can achieve in a short amount of time, join us if you want to be part of it.

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@Tesla

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When parking, you can now see a high fidelity 3D representation of the world around your vehicle, including proximity & shape of nearby objects, barriers, vehicles & painted road markings By using a dedicated neural network to model obstacles & paint lines, we can accurately

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Phil Duan

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@levie it’s going to get real wild

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Phil Duan

@philduan

3 months

probably nothing

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@MichaelDell

3 months

Super impressive, Tesla FSD v12.3 is. Like a human driver, it is.

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Phil Duan

@philduan

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or dm me if you want to join and work with @charles_rqi

AI & Robotics | Tesla

Apply now to work on Tesla Artificial Intelligence & Autopilot and join our mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

www.tesla.com

Charles Qi

@charles_rqi

3 months

Career Update: Today, I bid farewell to Waymo, marking the end of a chapter in my career. Joining Waymo in late 2019, I entered a world where Level 4 (L4) robotaxi services were a concept rather than a reality. Now, in 2024, Waymo operates a rider-only robotaxi service in four

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Phil Duan

@philduan

6 months

happy holidays 🎁

Tesla

@Tesla

6 months

The 2023 Holiday Update rolls out next week Here’s what’s coming... Custom Lock Sounds Replace the horn lock sound of your vehicle with another sound—like a screaming goat 🐐 LAN Party on Wheels Play your favorite games on the rear touchscreen 🎮 Rear Screen Bluetooth

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Phil Duan

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Making a product so good that customers can't stop talking about it remains the best advertisement.

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Phil Duan

@philduan

1 year

Still operates like a startup, come and join us!

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@Tesla

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Tesla began as a long-shot startup, founded 20 years ago in San Carlos. Now, we’re California’s largest manufacturing employer!

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Phil Duan

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the future should look like the future, super proud of @_milankovac_ and the team!

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Phil Duan

@philduan

1 year

Record high deliveries and productions, beating wall st estimates, 36% YoY growth, all happening during a recession, but a failure according to @Reuters

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Phil Duan

@philduan

3 months

i wouldn’t bet against this guy

Balaji

@balajis

3 months

Hardware is hard. That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time. Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping

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Phil Duan

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@karpathy i heard from friends that returning to tesla is one of the best decisions one can make

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Phil Duan

@philduan

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👇

Brad Porter

@BradPorter_

2 months

Tesla FSD 12 feels like a ChatGPT 3.5 moment. It’s not perfect, but it’s super impressive and you can tell it’s something very different. Can’t wait for the ChatGPT 4 equivalent.

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Phil Duan

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6 months

@WholeMarsBlog @xiuming_zhang what’s lidar?

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Phil Duan

@philduan

6 months

great summery on the perspectives of scaling foundation models for robotics from both sides my personal belief: @tesla will solve self-driving with the end-to-end learning approach, and it will provide a concrete data point and encouragement for the entire robotics community

Nishanth Kumar

@nishanthkumar23

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There was a lot of good and interesting debate on "is scaling all we need to solve robotics?" at #CoRL23 . I spent some time writing up a blog post about all the points I heard on both sides:

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Phil Duan

@philduan

9 months

Honored to take a small part in @WalterIsaacson ’s upcoming book, by taking this photo of @dhaval_shroff 😬

Walter Isaacson

@WalterIsaacson

9 months

How Elon Musk set Tesla on a new course for self-driving - Isaacson

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Phil Duan

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9 months

@SawyerMerritt @tim_zaman Me too.

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Phil Duan

@philduan

6 months

old photo of the lidar debate

Kosta Derpanis

@CSProfKGD

6 months

Old photo of @ylecun vs the #computervision community about learning versus handcrafting representations.

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Phil Duan

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@charles_rqi 👀

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Phil Duan

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a cpu node hanging out with bunch of gpu nodes

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Phil Duan

@philduan

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probably nothing

Greggertruck

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First production Cybertruck exiting Giga Texas into the wild. Go forth and do greatness 👊

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Phil Duan

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priceless

Chuck Cook

@chazman

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This is what it looks like when kids watch the light show on the cyber truck.

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Phil Duan

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super cool! glad to see technology openly shared by @tesla_ai is doing useful work in other industry!

Mehul

@mehul

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Below is inspired by @Tesla and @philduan who presented this at Telsa AI day, and the great FSD who team. Thank you for leading and showing the way. 🙏🏽

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Phil Duan

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@SawyerMerritt @Tesla "Gates was truly puzzled about why Musk was upset that he shorted the stock." 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Phil Duan

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robot & coffee, two of my favorite things

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Phil Duan

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2 months

talking hoops is better with fsd go warriors

Kevin O'Connor

@KevinOConnorNBA

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Had a great NBA talk with @BigWos while @Tesla FSD drove us around… Timestamps 00:35 Bronny’s future 1:50 Lakers talk 2:55 If LeBron leaves…Philly? 4:50 Victor vs. Rudy for DPOY 6:40 FSD parks for tacos 7:30 Faith in the Bucks 8:35 Back to the office

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Phil Duan

@philduan

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“with a large enough network, a large enough labelled training set, and a large enough budget for GPUs, success is guaranteed.” - @ilyasut happy new year may you be on the right side of the scaling law

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❤️

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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For the first time, there is a rocket that can make all life multiplanetary. A fork in the road of human destiny.

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Prototype Production

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super impressive work, making data collection much easier is going to be crucial for advancing robotics to the next level, kudos to @chichengcc and team

Cheng Chi

@chichengcc

4 months

Can we collect robot data without any robots? Introducing Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) An open-source $400 system from @Stanford designed to democratize robot data collection 0 teleop -> autonomously wash dishes (precise), toss (dynamic), and fold clothes (bimanual)

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Phil Duan

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5 months

great insight from @ylecun : “the potential solution to [video understanding] is not generative. the models work the best do not generate images, they do not reconstruct, they do not predict. what they do is they predict but in a space of abstract representation. what’s

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Phil Duan

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6 months

me christmas morning

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@sama @WalterIsaacson just wrote one.

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@elonmusk

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Phil Duan

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2 years

Check out the AI day video for the projects (Occupancy Network, Auto-Labeling, NeRF) our team has been working on:

Tesla AI Day 2022

Join us to build the future of AI → https://www.tesla.com/ai--------0:00:00 - Pre-show0:13:56 - Tesla Bot Demo0:29:15 - Tesla Bot Hardware | Hardware Archite...

www.youtube.com

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@xai 👀

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@naval 💯

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Phil Duan

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choose your heroes wisely

Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

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Heroes look like @elonmusk . They risk their own capital and that of those who voluntarily contributed it, in ambitious projects, without violence, toward grand human achievement. Villains look like @SenWarren . They steal other peoples' capital to force their opinions on those

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@ericjang11 @Tesla_AI 😉

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just curious what would you rather be

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Phil Duan

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Inspecting large amount of data manually and visualizing the exact data fed into the network (after all the filtering, post-processing, etc.) is one of the best ML practices I’ve learned from @karpathy .

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@_jasonwei

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One pattern I noticed is that great AI researchers are willing to manually inspect lots of data. And more than that, they build infrastructure that allows them to manually inspect data quickly. Though not glamorous, manually examining data gives valuable intuitions about the

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blessings to the network, dataset, hardware, and eval metrics before launching a training job

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the answer to “what did you get done this week” is much more satisfying if we collectively cancel all the useless weekly 1:1s

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@adityaag

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1/ Weekly 1:1s with direct reports are a staple of Silicon Valley management. The idea is to check in, see how they're doing, and provide feedback. I did this for 10+ years at Facebook & Dropbox. Frankly, I hated it and found it useless. But it's what "good" managers did.

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Phil Duan

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“life needs to be more than just solving problems every day, you need to wake up and be excited about the future” “our existence cannot just be about solving one miserable problem after another, there need to be reasons to live” true for life, true for work

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Top-tier product managers = Top-tier storytellers. It's not just about solving a problem for the customer; it's about creating a compelling narrative for your team and your entire company to rally beneath. Your job isn't just execution, it's inspiration.

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Phil Duan

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1 year

Particularly I want to highlight this new role we have for building foundation models for both Autopilot and Optimus. We are looking for exceptional AI researchers to join this effort. Please feel free to DM me for more details.

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@typedfemale @jeremyphoward jensen's inequality at work

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Please apply or DM me directly if you are interested in joining us!

AI & Robotics | Tesla

Apply now to work on Tesla Artificial Intelligence & Autopilot and join our mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

www.tesla.com

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@SawyerMerritt does not look like real life

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one solution is a lot easier than the other

Farzad

@farzyness

10 months

Only two options for competitors to keep up with Tesla solving self-driving using AI: 1) Make a vision-only system, invest billions of dollars in hardware and compute, and gather metric-shit-tons of real-world video with your own fleet. 2) License Tesla’s solution. $TSLA

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@KevinOConnorNBA @ringer @ringernba could have been in a tesla with fsd

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Phil Duan

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1 year

We met @KoestlerLukas at last year’s CVPR and he joined us for an internship right afterwards. Check out what he says about working at Tesla!

LukasKoestler

@KoestlerLukas

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I spent a 5-month internship in Tesla's Autopilot team and it was such an amazing experience. I worked with super dedicated and talented people while solving one of the hardest robotics and AI challenges. The team is @CVPR and is hiring ( @philduan )!

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@BasedBeffJezos seems so obvious

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incentive matters, “skin in the game�� should be encouraged and celebrated

Freda Duan

@FredaDuan

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Incentive plans = cheat sheets for companies’ future performance. 🌟Success Stories: Top performers like $TSLA and $PANW have stock performance as a key component in their incentive plans. $TSLA's remarkable plan allowed Elon to earn options for achieving 12 targets linked to

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@SStricklandMMA champ deserves the champ car

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Other LLMs: as a large language model, I need to be politically correct, popular opinion aligned, even at the cost of hiding the truth. Grok:

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it’s pretty crazy how linkedin decided to destroy their own product below screenshots are some of the example posts dominating my feed: 1) reasons i should work remotely 2) linkedin is shutting down their office for next week 3) t-mobile had an amazing year and some ui tutorial

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Phil Duan

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Please follow @Tesla_AI for more information. You might find interesting stuff such as the massive amount of training compute we have on the team :)

Tesla AI

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And will be trained on enormous amounts of compute

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@SawyerMerritt "if you can't respect that, your whole perspective is wack, maybe you'll love me when I fade to black"

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@SawyerMerritt it is really hard

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@teslapt1 @charles_rqi he hasn’t started at tesla yet

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Sawyer Merritt

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NEWS: @Tesla has announced the Earth Day photography contest winners on Instagram. Below is the winning image by Pedro C 🌎

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hard test sample watching boring training samples going through the network over and over and over and over

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Phil Duan

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Also had a great pleasure working with @tonyzzhao last summer before he built ALOHA :)

Tony Z. Zhao

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You should definitely chat with Phil & folks from Tesla if you are excited about large scale vision, robotics and more! They got a ton of data and compute to test your newest algorithm 👀 (Also wonderful people! Had a great time there last summer)

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@TeslaPodcast Thanks for the great show, Rob!

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are you even working on ai if you are not struggling with eval?

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@ray4tesla stormy weather in shortsville

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tfw you shipped a great build and exiting the arena

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@shaunmmaguire @Austen is this real life?

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@SawyerMerritt @larsmoravy Legend 🫡

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2 years

Please applying for the following positions or DM me if you are interested in joining us: Machine Learning Scientist: Robotics Engineer:

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@Teslaconomics @JimmyButler you deserve better, get a Tesla!

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Making a product so good that customers can't stop talking about it remains the best advertisement.

KanekoaTheGreat

@KanekoaTheGreat

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. @JoeRogan and UFC Champion @SugaSeanMMA discuss how insanely fast Tesla's Model X Plaid is, how the UFC Champ got two speeding tickets because he feels like he's going 60 when he's going 90, and Joe Rogan teaching his 15-year-old daughter how to drive in Ludicrous Mode.

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@battleangelviv how have you waited for so long 😲

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@sdamico “It’s the Shenzhen advantage but in Palo Alto/Fremont.” nicely put.

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Reminds me of “factory is the product” ❤️

Tesla Asia

@Tesla_Asia

1 year

The first "GIGA LAB" Tesla store held its opening ceremony today. The interior of "GIGA LAB" imitates the Shanghai Gigafactory and shows the manufacturing process of Tesla vehicles. Here, customers can feel the hardcore beauty of Tesla⚙️ 📍Chengdu, China

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When the model sucks but the boss comes by to ask how’s the metrics looking

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@larsmoravy Such an amazing team, honored to be your colleague ❤️

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being optimistic about the future is how we got here, we should keep doing it

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

@pmarca

8 months

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto -- please read and Ask Me Anything! Post questions as replies to this xeet.

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Me getting ready to beat the SOTA model.

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@battleangelviv We make strange trucks drive faster than your sports car.

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@FSDdreams love it

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1 year

If I get a dollar every time I hear “I don’t have enough GPUs…” 🙃

Jason Wei

@_jasonwei

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Turns out the ancient Chinese knew a lot about modern neural networks

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Me staring down the NaN training loss

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Rehabilitation of the sacrum and rotator cuff. Little tuneup!

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@dhaval_shroff A year later, more features have been shipped than previous ten years combined. How’s that possible? 🤔

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@SawyerMerritt just keep burning

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When your training fps tanked after rebasing on master.

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@NateDiaz209 @Tesla looking good champ

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I’ve since tried to pass the knowledge to everyone I work with. Whenever someone mentions this is boring and inefficient, I tell them the story of Andrej doing this for hours straight.

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ai is drinking the world

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“Software is just a tool to help accomplish something for people - many programmers never understood that. Keep your eyes on the delivered value, and don't over focus on the specifics of the tools.”