mattwood.fyi

I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.

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Real-Time Video Generation on Trainium

A running theme in Matt Wood’s FYI — 4 items spanning 2026-09-08 – 2026-09-26. This page compounds: new items on this theme are added as they’re posted. Tracked since 2026-09-26.

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Real-Time Video Generation on Trainium vs The Plunging Price of Thought — Kernel optimization for real-time video generation on specialized hardware demonstrates that inference costs require significant engineering effort to reduce, nuancing claims that AI thought is simply becoming cheap

Items

Real-Time Video Generation on Trainium

Explores kernel optimization techniques for achieving real-time video generation on AWS Trainium hardware accelerators, focusing on performance improvements through kernel-centric approaches.

permalink · www.amazon.science →

Mini-AGI: Continual Learning on 8GB VRAM

A continual learning model trained from scratch on resource-constrained hardware, using an 8GB VRAM laptop with batch-1 streaming data.

permalink · github.com →

Training a 4B Model for Faster SQL Query Plans

A technique for fine-tuning the Qwen 4B language model to optimize SQL query plans using reinforcement learning, achieving 81% faster execution than Postgres's default planner.

permalink · rohanbansal.com →

ARGODRIVE Deltafin: Streaming Large MoE Models on Apple Silicon

A fork of deltafin that implements ARGODRIVE storage optimization to stream the Kimi K3 2.8T mixture-of-experts model from SSDs on Apple Silicon hardware, including benchmarking tools.

Hardware is cool again.

permalink · github.com →