Sep 14Electric Turtle is coming to 24 Hours of LemonsI previously shared my concept of racing a Chevy Bolt in the 24 Hours of Lemons. Now, I’m thrilled to say we are proceeding with this plan! This blog post is written with potential team members in mind — individuals eager to drive our “race” car in upcoming Lemons races. The Car …Electric Vehicles3 min readElectric Vehicles3 min read
Jul 10How Generative AI will eat TelevisionGPT models went from GPT-1 (works for simple tasks) to ChatGPT (100 million users) in 5 years. I think AI for video-generation is at the beginning of a similar improvement curve. My favorite TV show is Vera, a British detective show. Each episode is 90 minutes and features a complicated…AI5 min readAI5 min read
Feb 28Electric car racing just got cheaperElectric car racing is big business. In 2022, 216 million people watched Formula E electric cars hoon around cities. Electric cars with gobs of torque now rule the Pikes Peak Hill Climb and the highest tiers of rallycross. But electric car racing is still a high-end and exclusive sport. In…Electric Car4 min readElectric Car4 min read
Dec 31, 2022Forrest’s 5 favorite books of 20225. The Infinet. I found this while searching for books on the metaverse. It’s packed full of interesting technology ideas, and the plot held my attention.AI2 min readAI2 min read
Jan 22, 2022To what extent can reforestation solve climate change?In 2020, I wasted a lot of time looking at my phone and aimlessly scrolling on Twitter. So, my new year’s resolution for 2021 to quit Twitter. I succeeded at quitting Twitter for all of 2021, but in 2022 I’ve decided to let myself occasionally have a peek at Twitter…Climate Change5 min readClimate Change5 min read
Jan 21, 2022What can Jeff Dean teach us about climate change?Jeff Dean was one of the first engineers to join Google, and his research and engineering career has been prolific. He helped to create popular software packages such as Spanner, BigTable, LevelDB, and TensorFlow. …Climate Change3 min readClimate Change3 min read
Aug 31, 2019Why Neural Architecture Search is becoming far less expensiveSearch times have gone down by 100x 1. Overview Recently, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has begun to outperform expert engineers at designing fast and highly accurate deep neural networks (DNNs). However, NAS methods have typically required an astronomical compute cost to search the space of DNNs and select the right…Machine Learning5 min readMachine Learning5 min read
Published inAnalytics Vidhya·Aug 20, 2019Not all TOPs are created equalWhat’s actually limiting the speed of my deep neural network? Deep Learning processor companies often highlight their products’ blazing-fast speeds in terms of metrics such as Tera Operations per Second (TOP/s) or Tera Multiply-Accumulate Instructions per Second (TMAC/s). What does this really mean, and are these numbers actually useful? But…Machine Learning10 min readMachine Learning10 min read
