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That was an awful piece of journalism where they ignored multiple factual corrections after spending days with me. Even met the family and made fun of my work

by emadm 3y ago

That was an awful piece of journalism where they ignored multiple factual corrections after spending days with me. Even met the family and made fun of my work on my sons autism which shows what they are like. How many companies preseed get a 4,000 A100 cluster dedicated built from AWS etc? I wrote a reply anyway as this stuff makes me sad Happy to reply to any issues you may have here too https://emad.posthaven.com/on-setting-the-record-straight https://emad.posthaven.com/on-setting-the-record-straight

orf 3y ago
> AWS built an incredibly rare dedicated compute cluster completed in August 2022 to the requirements of Stability. The 4,000 A100 cluster has dedicated capacity on a single spline which optimizes performance and is one of the only ones there This wording really doesn’t help your case. It sounds like a total exaggeration. Link to the AWS case study that highlights this relationship, or absolutely anything than just repeating “we are one of the only companies to have AWS buy a million GPUs for us and let us use them and it’s one of the only ones in this part of AWS’s network. Source: trust me bro”
- emadm 3y ago
  We actually have a blog post coming on specifically this from AWS, at the time it was the 8th largest public A100 cluster and we covered it live again while we were preseed well before the funding round https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1553120829336129537?s=46 https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1553120829336129537?s=4... It was super interesting as an experience. At the very least anyone who has used AWS for ML can tell you that getting a 40 A100 quota let alone 4,000 is a feat in itself ^_^
ShamelessC 3y ago
Your response suggests you have fully compensated Eric Hallahan? This is at odds with the Forbes piece. I doubt you yourself can clear this up (it's a he-said/she-said conundrum) - but perhaps Eric is around to confirm/deny this?
- emadm 3y ago
  Eric didn’t manage to do his internship but we still offered to pay for the whole thing. We missed one invoice and accounts asked him to send details so he could settle but instead he decided to a month later say that stuff to Forbes then said straight out he didn’t want it paid https://twitter.com/erichallahan/status/1639695790724591618?s=46 https://twitter.com/erichallahan/status/1639695790724591618?... https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1665520024080068609?s=46 https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1665520024080068609?s=4... Idk I hope he’s ok https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1671287589507063812?s=46 https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1671287589507063812?s=4...
  - ShamelessC 3y ago
    I don't know, those interactions seem to me like you aren't aware of or don't respect the huge power differential between the two of you, the pressures involved on Eric, and the emotional toll that startup culture (for instance) can incur on someone who is starting off in their career and doesn't understand how precisely to navigate the pressures of evaluating ethical scenarios with limited information while also trying to do a "good job" as measured by leadership. He's a pretty bright guy in my interactions with him and his heart is in the right place. I'm willing to bet he lands on his feet elsewhere and does just fine in life. And from where I stand, a person's paycheck is a metaphor for their livelihood, sometimes a very literal metaphor. Missing one payment might seem mundane, but it is entirely outside of the norm and is _definitely_ a situation which should cause employees to re-evaluate how much they trust their employer. It's probably not wise to imply anyone who does this is "overreacting as that will simply further erode the trust. Instead, you apologize, apologize, and apologize again and again. Which isn't me asking you to post five tweets where you apologized.
    - emadm 3y ago
      I did apologise and apologise again recompense when payment was late during a difficult time in the scale up and stepped in with my own money. I agree Eric is bright and so wanted to support him through an internship where he had lots of freedom. He didn’t manage to do it (as noted in his tweets) but I offered to pay anyway and also offered other support. One invoice went to the wrong address (our fault) and as soon as he asked about it we apologised and asked him for details so we could settle it immediately as well as asking him for the third invoice he never sent (again for work not done). We made mistakes and struggled as we scaled, faster than anyone could have imagined but always try to improve as folk should. Power differentials are tough and complex but in this case we tried to be understanding and apologise when at fault and now he is on a crusade against the org per his tweets and it’s a bit tiring when half the org was hired from non traditional backgrounds and the community. I honestly wish the best for him and hope that hate dies down, he will be happier that way.

by emadm 3y ago

orf 3y ago

> AWS built an incredibly rare dedicated compute cluster completed in August 2022 to the requirements of Stability. The 4,000 A100 cluster has dedicated capacity on a single spline which optimizes performance and is one of the only ones there This wording really doesn’t help your case. It sounds like a total exaggeration. Link to the AWS case study that highlights this relationship, or absolutely anything than just repeating “we are one of the only companies to have AWS buy a million GPUs for us and let us use them and it’s one of the only ones in this part of AWS’s network. Source: trust me bro”

emadm 3y ago
We actually have a blog post coming on specifically this from AWS, at the time it was the 8th largest public A100 cluster and we covered it live again while we were preseed well before the funding round https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1553120829336129537?s=46 https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1553120829336129537?s=4... It was super interesting as an experience. At the very least anyone who has used AWS for ML can tell you that getting a 40 A100 quota let alone 4,000 is a feat in itself ^_^

ShamelessC 3y ago

Your response suggests you have fully compensated Eric Hallahan? This is at odds with the Forbes piece. I doubt you yourself can clear this up (it's a he-said/she-said conundrum) - but perhaps Eric is around to confirm/deny this?

emadm 3y ago
Eric didn’t manage to do his internship but we still offered to pay for the whole thing. We missed one invoice and accounts asked him to send details so he could settle but instead he decided to a month later say that stuff to Forbes then said straight out he didn’t want it paid https://twitter.com/erichallahan/status/1639695790724591618?s=46 https://twitter.com/erichallahan/status/1639695790724591618?... https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1665520024080068609?s=46 https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1665520024080068609?s=4... Idk I hope he’s ok https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1671287589507063812?s=46 https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1671287589507063812?s=4...
- ShamelessC 3y ago
  I don't know, those interactions seem to me like you aren't aware of or don't respect the huge power differential between the two of you, the pressures involved on Eric, and the emotional toll that startup culture (for instance) can incur on someone who is starting off in their career and doesn't understand how precisely to navigate the pressures of evaluating ethical scenarios with limited information while also trying to do a "good job" as measured by leadership. He's a pretty bright guy in my interactions with him and his heart is in the right place. I'm willing to bet he lands on his feet elsewhere and does just fine in life. And from where I stand, a person's paycheck is a metaphor for their livelihood, sometimes a very literal metaphor. Missing one payment might seem mundane, but it is entirely outside of the norm and is _definitely_ a situation which should cause employees to re-evaluate how much they trust their employer. It's probably not wise to imply anyone who does this is "overreacting as that will simply further erode the trust. Instead, you apologize, apologize, and apologize again and again. Which isn't me asking you to post five tweets where you apologized.
  - emadm 3y ago
    I did apologise and apologise again recompense when payment was late during a difficult time in the scale up and stepped in with my own money. I agree Eric is bright and so wanted to support him through an internship where he had lots of freedom. He didn’t manage to do it (as noted in his tweets) but I offered to pay anyway and also offered other support. One invoice went to the wrong address (our fault) and as soon as he asked about it we apologised and asked him for details so we could settle it immediately as well as asking him for the third invoice he never sent (again for work not done). We made mistakes and struggled as we scaled, faster than anyone could have imagined but always try to improve as folk should. Power differentials are tough and complex but in this case we tried to be understanding and apologise when at fault and now he is on a crusade against the org per his tweets and it’s a bit tiring when half the org was hired from non traditional backgrounds and the community. I honestly wish the best for him and hope that hate dies down, he will be happier that way.