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— quoting Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Sc.D. (@ZeyuanAllenZhu); reply from Lazarz (@Laz4rz)
caleb 🐮 @clbswrs · 8h: 🧐
> QUOTED: Zeyuan Allen-... @Zeyua... · May 3
> Replying to @convexstrictly and @albe_alfa
> "Thanks, will do. Very tired right now after 1.9M GPU hours of experiments, need to take a deep rest first. 🤣"
> [reply 1, like 27, views 2.8K]
Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Sc.D. @ZeyuanAllenZhu:
"Poverty's wisdom + sleepless nights. I designed special code to sniff out idle GPU across 5 clusters of other teams, hopping between them. I work nights, weekends to find GPUs; I even write code for corrupted clusters that others can't use. For larger scale, this is less possible"
2:43 AM · Jul 2, 2025 · 7,227 Views
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Reply: Lazarz @Laz4rz · 6h: "Tough times create strong man, too bad if tough times continue for too long tho."
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet thread from ML researcher Zeyuan Allen-Zhu (known for the "Physics of Language Models" paper series) describing scrappy compute-scavenging tactics (idle-GPU sniffing across other teams' clusters, working nights/weekends) used during resource-constrained research. Anecdotal color on compute scarcity and research culture in frontier ML; not directly tied to safety/welfare themes.
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