Hanif Leoputera

hanif@leo:~$ cat about.txt

Hi, I’m Hanif. I’m a research engineer at Tacit in San Francisco, building wearables that enable silent speech. Before that I was at Affirm. Mostly, though, I’m curious about whatever sits underneath things: the chips under the models, the power under the chips, the physics under the power. This is where I write it down.

hanif@leo:~$ ls -lt writing/

• draftingwhere-the-bytes-live.mdA tour of custom AI chips, and why the interesting comparison is speed per user against throughput, not FLOPs.
• draftingthe-cluster-is-a-bet.mdYou buy the computer before you know what you’ll train on it.
• draftingwhen-code-is-free-the-spec-is-the-product.mdNotes on formal methods from someone who isn’t an expert.
• draftingwho-decides-the-pixels.mdAI is starting to draw interfaces. I've been wondering which part of the system should decide what you see.

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hanif@leo:~$ cat contact.txt

email

hanifleoputeralim@gmail.com